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Offline Elbows

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Old West Town Roll Call!
« on: March 20, 2013, 08:08:23 PM »
I know we had a thread on "how to name your town..." but I'd like to see how many Old West towns we have sprung up here on LA.

Drake's Branch, New Mexico



*Inspired by a small town in Southern Virginia where we first played some Old West games...when trying to decide on the name of the town, it became a no-brainer. (New pics coming soon)

San Augustin, Mexico

New photo required!

LIST:
Drake's Branch, New Mexico
Hellish Wells
Schitte Creek
Bull's Deep
Malice (Flats)
Obsession, Colorado
New Paddock City
Jamestown
Dos Cruces
Rattlesnake, Colorado
Calamity, Colorado
San Antonio de Bejar, Texas
Hickory Flat
Serenity Flatts
Lesterville
Anachronism
Ashbury, Colorado
Leadwood
Purgatory, Arizona
Canyon Diablo (Devil's Canyon), Arizona
Upsheet Creek
Carefree, Arizona
Hopkirk's Crossing
New Silverton, NSW
Second Chance City
Cotton Gultch
Rose Creek
El Segundo, Mexico
Tinker's Creek
Zenda
"The Town with No Name"
Coyote Rock
Dead Mule Pass
Hog Thief Bend
Iron Creek
Beau Gus Junction
Redemption
Trinity
Sweetwater
East Clintwood
Appaloosa
McGinty's Crossing
« Last Edit: December 10, 2017, 01:48:29 PM by Elbows »
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Offline Johnno

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2013, 08:18:01 PM »
My town name is Jamestown.
 Named after my boy.
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Offline smokezombie

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2013, 08:38:43 PM »
Come on now chaps.. Let's have some pics to go with these towns now  ;)
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The sickle in the fruitful field;
The sword he sung a song of death,
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Offline Yankeepedlar01

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2013, 09:49:07 PM »
My second Old West town is New Paddock City. A recent game shot ~

A previous image~

It just keeps growing!
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Offline Legionnaire

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2013, 10:10:12 PM »
Well, I've got Ashbury, Colorado. But my set-up changes from game to game and it consists of papercraft buildings from Whitewash City. However, now that I've discovered MDF buildings I'm going to build a TOWN!!!!  lol
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Offline thebinmann

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2013, 10:13:50 PM »
My Town will be called Malice (of possibly Malice Flats) inspired by Paul Weller of course, and I promise to post pictures next time I play...

Offline Gutbukkit

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2013, 11:37:03 PM »
I have two names for my towns (which I can hardly call towns at the moment as they only consist of a few buildings). Schitte Creek and Bull's Deep, two rival towns in a story I'm writing. Here are the few buildings I have actually finished, more in the works.



Offline bandit86

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2013, 01:15:21 AM »
Mine is Hellish Wells
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Offline Brian Smaller

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2013, 01:41:06 AM »
I once looked up real genuinely odd Old West town names and came up with this list.

Gobbler’s Crossing
Bloody Springs
Beaverlick
Smut Eye
Blue Balls
Goobertown
Yeehaw Junction
Benevolence
Licking
Cumming
Climax
Conception
Beer Bottle Crossing
French Lick
Big Beaver Lick
Knob Lick
Spread Eagle
Aimwell
Hot Coffee
Knockemstiff
Idiotville
Windy Bottom
Ding Dong

The mind boggles at some of these.
« Last Edit: March 21, 2013, 01:45:21 AM by Brian Smaller »

Offline pocoloco

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2013, 06:06:13 AM »
^That lists looks similar to places we have (mostly) in Lapland (our own "wild" frontier).

I used to have a village called Hickville, not that far from Idiotville on your list :)

Now the new place is called Dos Cruces, no pics to show yet though  :'(

Offline Heisler

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2013, 02:39:32 PM »
My old west town is Calamity also located in Colorado, somewhere along the front range towards the southern border of the state. Here is a peak at what Calamity might look like when I get that far. Each model building represents a specific building that I already own, except for one that I'm designing and will be building from scratch. This is, currently, a mix of Battle Flag, Sarissa Precision, Knuckleduster/Tri-City Laser, Gamecraft Miniatures and Aetherworks kits.

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Offline Michi

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2013, 02:55:19 PM »
My old west town is located in Colorado, somewhere along the front range towards the southern border of the state.
 This is, currently, a mix of building from scratch, Sarissa Precision, Gamecraft Miniatures

If you reduce it to this it is pretty much my "Rattlesnake".

Offline romelll

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2013, 04:47:54 PM »
Sadly, I know where Drakes Branch is. Not much happening. :-[

Offline Malamute

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2013, 05:05:19 PM »
Ok, so its not clapboard and shingles and its named after a real historical town

San Antonio de Bejar in Texas.

Here is a small part on a 4ftx4ft



A couple showing some more (but not all) of the buildings on a 6ft x 4ft





In total it covers a 4ft x 10ft or 6ft x 8ft.
« Last Edit: March 21, 2013, 05:20:18 PM by Malamute »
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Offline Za Zjurman

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Re: Old West Town Roll Call!
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2013, 05:39:56 PM »
Hickory Flat

I needed a name so I googled "old west town names" and one of the first hits was a site with a name randomizer. Hickory Flat caught my eye. So here is in short the story of the birth of name of my town   :D



Regards,
Za
« Last Edit: March 21, 2013, 07:07:05 PM by Za Zjurman »

 

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