Dustoff !

Nothing to do with evacuating casualties , but rather my last week's start on removing the dust and grime from my western collection. Using a bowl of soapy luke-warm water the results were much better than I'd ever expected. The limits of the bowl-size I was using and the size of several of the larger building proved to be a bit of a challenge and the ampunt of space I needed was beyond what I had in my now very overcrowded games room - but I'm getting there.
Here's the results of last week's efforts, with some before and after pictures.
Here's the results from the tray on the right:


Injuns and a lot more besides !

Lots of fencing (from Britains' farm series)

Canoes , various bits and an old "Atlantic" figure ;

How the Adobe Cantina originally looked...

...and after a deep clean !

Contents of the Cantina (obligatory slightly blurry photo) 

The Cantina's inhabitants

The Telegraph building (old Scalextric)

Cleaned up contents of the "Big Hotel"

Indians and a lot of other 'bits' from one of the larger boxes

Mostly Apaches - thought I had more !

Horses (bit obvious) found below the Injuns above

Clean log cabin...

...and livery stable (that still need repairing)



The inhabitants of the Diner

'Nice', 'clean' Diner.



Originally buried in dust, the scratch-built  and unpainted stove.

Another box 'before'...

... part of its contents after cleaning

...and more

...and even more.

A nicely cleaned up building.

Possibly this is the sign for it!

Nice and clean inside too 

The content of the above.

Upstairs of the "Silver Dollar"

Start of the 'vehicles'

At the bottom of the second large box - more wagons to clean 

With just another three or four buildings, another two bags and a box of figures to clean, I can then get on to repairing and restoring, the buildings to their original state of grandeur blandness and mediocrity.

That's it the for another week, hopefully you could find something of interest in one or two of these pics and as always your comments are both welcomed and appreciated.