The Town of Poker Bluff

[CC2IC]

Good looking buildings!

[Digits]

Now this is just my kind of town.  I scratch all my own buildings so appreciate the thought and work.  It looks very cool and I would feel at home playing in it.  As Mason says, the China town reminds me I need to work on mine!   I love the use of the statues, I may have to look at that.

Keep it coming please.

[duivelindoosje]

love the Chinatown part of town

[BunkerMonkey]

Finally! An update! Finished the latest block of my town. Introducing Merchant's Square:

Merchant's Square front:


Merchant's Square rear:


And the denizens of Merchant's Square- Miss Millie, Apothecary Abrams and Postmaster Samuels:

[BunkerMonkey]

Miss Millie's Dress Shoppe:


Close up of Drugstore and Post Office:


Close up of Gunsmiths:


Gunsmiths Range:


Gunsmith rear including range:

[Malamute]

Lovely stuff, great to see some nice scratchbuilds in these MDF kit dominated times

[Digits]

Yup, great indeed.  I think a touch of humour is required.  Stick a dead cat by the firing range target! 

[Mason]

Brilliant additions, especially 'Miss Millies*'.
 


*There seem to be a few 'Ladies Specialist shops' with similar titles these days.
 

[Bugsda]

Brilliant town! Love the target in the gunsmith's yard, and excellent paintwork on the Old Glory figures  

[BunkerMonkey]

Thanks all! I really like the Blue Moon figures. Lots of character...although I think that's because Bob Naismith did most of the sculpts. I love his style. Although probably too 'cartooony' for most tastes, I'm a big sucker for that style.

Yup, great indeed.  I think a touch of humour is required.  Stick a dead cat by the firing range target!

I'm debating on what other 'targets' to add to the range. I was thinking of getting an image of whoever was current President at the time! Or maybe a pair of Wanted posters.

And a quick search informs me that there were three (!!!) presidents that year in 1881: Rutherford B Hayes, James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur! I guess folks weren't content with just shooting at paper targets...

[FifteensAway]

Resurrecting an older thread because I just found this but I don't think too many will mind.  Further updates out there some where?

As to Chinese architecture of the old west, I'd say it is mostly the same as other buildings and only the use and signage made it different.  Coloma has a few preserved Chinese buildings and that is all that makes them different.  Oh, for those who don't know, Coloma was the site of the gold discovery in California (January 1848) that set off the Forty-niners and, in a very real sense, started the "Old West".  Before that, it was pretty much Texas and the Mexican-AMerican War and, at least to my mind, that wasn't the Old West.

I, too, am working, slowly, on my own scratch built old west town but in 15 mm.

I'm off to google Coloma and see if they have photos of those Chinese shops - apothecaries, joss houses, bath houses, and the very familiar laundry being fairly common.  (Sorry, very few images - but they just show the signage as mentioned - and some colorfully painted door and window coverings but otherwise standard architecture.)

[BunkerMonkey]

That'd be great if you could find some photos of Coloma's Chinatown! I have lots of photos in my personal collection (I've visited a LOT of Ghost Towns in my travels) but nothing from the period that was genuine Chinatown.

[Deedles]

Wonderful stuff. Thanks for sharing

[archiduque]

Great!!