Hog Thief Bend

[Quendil]

Thanks, Quendil. At the moment the town is on a 6' by 3' table in my painting room. Eventually, I think I may transfer it to some 4' by 2' boards so I can store it. I also want to build a mine area on one board. The cards were created on MS Publisher, happy to e-mail you one if you use Publisher?

Thats great to know.  I don't use publisher and use a Mac.  Haven't tried doing anything like that yet so just wondering what packages people use.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Still working on the Blacksmiths, just working out where the forge etc. is going. Sheriff's office should be coming next.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

The first of my boo how doy. This is Fa Kin Su Pa, a hatchet-man from the I Po Ying Tong. The I Po Ying Tong are based in San Fransisco's Chinatown district. Fa Kin Su Pa and his fellow boo how doy have been sent on a mission by Wun Hung Lo, the Dragon Master of the I Po Ying Tong. They are looking to set up a laundry in a boomtown to act as a front for their nefarious activities. It looks like there may be the beginnings of a little Chinatown in Hog Thief Bend! This could mean big trouble!  

[marianas_gamer]

You can never have too many Chinese! Now if they raise pigs 
LB

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

The old Pork Chop Express?

Oddly enough, I believe Big Trouble in Little China was originally going to be a western set in the 1880s!

[Overlord]

Missed this project up until now.  Enjoying the various references...

Surely Fa Kin Su Pa should also be known as 'The Red Bladder' in that outfit. 
He will undoubtedly stop anyone trying to diddle the I Po Ying Tong.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Thanks, Overlord.

Surely Fa Kin Su Pa should also be known as 'The Red Bladder' in that outfit.

       

There is an official rank of "Red Pole" in the Tong, who was the Enforcer. However, I like your suggestion much better. Fa Kin Su Pa will henceforth have the nickname 'The Red Bladder'. 

He will undoubtedly stop anyone trying to diddle the I Po Ying Tong.

You are obviously cognisant of the secret code words of the Tong: Ying Tong, Ying Tong, Iddle Ipo.   

[Overlord]

There is an official rank of "Red Pole" in the Tong, who was the Enforcer. However, I like your suggestion much better. Fa Kin Su Pa will henceforth have the nickname 'The Red Bladder'. 
You are obviously cognisant of the secret code words of the Tong: Ying Tong, Ying Tong, Iddle Ipo.   

When fact and fiction collide! The Red Bladder was the arch enemy of Major Denis Bloodnok, coward and bar. 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

The Red Bladder was the arch enemy of Major Denis Bloodnok, coward and bar.

Ah, Major Bloodnok, late of the 3rd Disgusting Fusiliers, OBE! A pleasure to meet a fellow fan.


"As you were men. I assume you were men before you eh...well never mind about that. Now gentlemen, the Seefaris are up in arms and down in legs, under the leadership of the Red Bladder."

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Fu Kin Su Pa (aka The Red Bladder) is joined in the back passage by his colleague and fellow boo how doy, Chu Wing Fat. It looks like a Chinese Laundry is a serious proposition for Hog Thief Bend now!

[horridperson]

Definitely want a Chinese laundry; the folk in Weaverville might have laughed but "John John" got rich.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

It took me a while to track down your reference, horridperson, I'd not heard this story before.

But what a great story it is.............


Life for the Chinese was not easy during the California Gold Rush. In cities and towns throughout the west, discrimination was apparent.  Banned to the most menial jobs, Chinese immigrants often became launderers.  Here's a story from Weaverville's past:  "A tiny fellow with a scarred cheek and eager eyes, "John John," the Chinese laundry man, was the laughingstock of Weaverville, California. For months during [sic] he had been washing the Anglo miners' clothes and never had charged even a penny for his services.

 The Anglos thought he was stupid, and intentionally took advantage of him. But a year later, according to prospector John Hoffman, who followed gold and silver trails through the Sierras for nearly three decades, one of the white miners came across John John wearing fine clothes in Sacramento. The Chinese laundry man had washed enough gold dust out of pants cuffs and shirttails to set himself up for life!"

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

The Blacksmith's is now in place but not quite finished. The town is looking a bit more populated now.

[d phipps]

Wow! Looks great! 

[horridperson]

Yeah, that looks fantastic.  The buildings are every bit as colourful and characterful as your miniatures.

I dug up that Weaverville story googling any information I could find on Chinese immigrants in the Old West;  I was really taken by Wu watching Deadwood.  On that note I think those scumbags at Hearst's mining operation in season 2 were shaking down their miners and forcing them to take company showers at the end of shifts.  If I ever build a stamp mine I won't hook them up with showers; Greedy rich people rip off labourers quite enough already .