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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: dinohunterpoa on September 11, 2007, 01:57:22 PM

Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: dinohunterpoa on September 11, 2007, 01:57:22 PM
Greetings!

A picture of an actual ghost town in Arizona.



 (http://personal.riverusers.com/~fw/AGT/Rare.htg/quintessential.jpg)
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: Neldoreth on September 11, 2007, 02:19:10 PM
That is very cool...  Not only for terrain building inspiration, but it would be so cool to play some paintball there!

n.
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on September 11, 2007, 02:21:10 PM
wow! looks like Witchtown  :mrgreen:
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: dinohunterpoa on September 11, 2007, 02:56:14 PM
Talking about Paintball... in this site there are some pictures of the actual Army training facility  where I usually play Paintball here in Southern Brazil... it's a real  Ghost Town and very big!

http://www.combatzonepaintball.com.br/galeria/category.php?cat=389&start=240  

(sorry, cannot upload the pictures, go to seen them in the website!)
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: cmsciulli on September 11, 2007, 05:27:06 PM
That's a very cool ghost town, nice shot.

I think it would be fun to ride into that town and explore a bit. . . then have a paintball gunfight at high noon!
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: Cory on September 11, 2007, 08:38:57 PM
Last week I took several days off and tooled around some of our local ghost towns here in Montana - in front of most the state park service had put up big "WARNING -RATTLESNAKES IN BUILDINGS" signs. Not only was it true, but it cuts down on vandalism and paintball.
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Post by: Neldoreth on September 11, 2007, 08:59:30 PM
Awesome DinoHunterPOA, that looks like a great spot! Too bad I am nowhere near there :/

I am only a few hours away from Montana...  but seriously, a rattlesnake bite would totally ruin a day of paintball...  not to mention a cool historical site! That being said, I think you guys just helped me identify a niche market in paintball! The wild west! And I bet it would be super realistic because I would imagine those old lead shot rifles and pistols would be about as accurate as a paintball marker as well!

Anyway, sorry for drawing the conversation off topic, but I gotta get out from behind my desk sometimes ;)

n.
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: mousy brown on September 11, 2007, 11:26:38 PM
Brilliant picture DinoHunterPOA,  very inspirational and informative.

What's the story here I wonder. what cause the town to die out ?


...cant blame the rattlers for making use of the facilities.


mousy
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: Evilcartoonist on September 12, 2007, 01:56:53 AM
Oh boy- a great photo inspiration for some of us builders :)   Thanks for the pic, Dinohunter!
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: Malamute on September 12, 2007, 08:25:17 AM
Great photo. :)  Looks perfect for inspiration to build a town.
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: TadPortly on September 12, 2007, 10:03:36 AM
Cool Ghost Town site for more inspiration:

http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: dinohunterpoa on September 12, 2007, 01:26:33 PM

Guys, sorry for this offtopic...  

Neldoreth, some of the guys that  I play Paintball with are already  into "WWP - Wild West Paintball". For tactical reasons, I am more oriented into military-simulation Paintball (MSP), but since I play with a pair of Tac 8 pistols, I feel myself very confortable to handle WWP as well, and itś very fun!  And itś easier and cheaper to get the gear and horses and carts than the gear and vehicles that simulate modern warfare!  I wonder how come WWP is not a fever in the US already!

BTW: I have very nice memories from a Warhammer Fantasy RPG game several years ago, in which a duel between two swashbuckler Player Characters was decided in "live-acrtion" using single-shot paintball pistols! (fortunately, both characters lived to keep on the adventure!)
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: SgtPerry on September 13, 2007, 02:57:28 PM
After a little bit of research yesterday, I found out that it was a very nice film set near  Mescal Ridge, not far from Tucson,AZ

http://www.oldtucson.com/film_office/mescal/mescal.htm


(http://www.oldtucson.com/Film_Office/Photos/streetscenes/Mescal_Street_1.jpg)

There are some very nice pics of inspiration

(http://www.oldtucson.com/Film_Office/Photos/saloonsbuildingsstores/Mescal_Interior_Mercantile_2.jpg)
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: bandit86 on September 17, 2007, 06:11:48 AM
What I like is that the biggest building in Old Mescal is the Brothel  :)
Title: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on September 17, 2007, 09:29:11 AM
Quote from: "bandit86"
What I like is that the biggest building in Old Mescal is the Brothel  :)


 Gotta get your priorities right :lol:

This is just how I'd like my western town to look. I'm using Whitewash City card buildings and although my modelling skills are poor, I can just about manage to make these without getting too much blood on them.  

Having the surrounding terrain in the photo is a great help to an English dude trying to get an authentic look.

Cheers,
Ian
Title: Re: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: BunkerMonkey on July 07, 2009, 04:29:17 PM
Yep. That is Mescal. It is the closed set for Old Tucson Studios although I think they just recently opened it for tours. Tombstone, The Quick and the Dead and tons of other movies have been shot there.

Sgt Perry posted the link above to OTS. Check it out. They have photographs of all of their buildings and it's an invaluable resource for scratch builders.
Title: Re: ACTUAL GHOST TOWN
Post by: Grimm on July 07, 2009, 04:46:53 PM
wow hell that is cool !

Thanks