Towns and Courthouse growing

A few random photographs of 41 buildings that progressed today if only in a small way.

At the far left are 14 houses and then moving closer various industrial buildings and finally at the far right and nearest the camera is the courthouse.  Opposite the courthouse is the train station and to its left is the freight house.  To the left of the courthouse is what will be the Catholic church and then to its left two more smaller churches.

A view from the farther end.

 A closer view of the courthouse, there will be four columns under the overhang in the center and the same on the other side.

The train station had a bit of an oops when I glued on the roof - it is slightly askew so I'll have to work around that when finishing the building.

The buildings on the right might be some more houses.  Need lots of houses.  Or they might be small businesses.

These represent my scratch built - in process - peaked roof buildings.  There are quite a few flat roofed false fronts in a similar state: assembled and ready for detailing and painting and signs where appropriate.  

Some of the buildings have glued together box walls but most of them have solid wood under-stories as it were cut from either 2x3 or 2x4 dimensional lumber and run through a table saw to get them to correct height and width, also to square them up.  The challenge is doing 41 in a single day means a few minor issues arose such as a couple of roofs a little tweaked but, again, a little effort in further parts of the process should yield improved results.

I did pull out some of my resin buildings to guide size choices.  Quite a difference when placing the Peter Pig Old West saloon next to the Bluemoon Old West saloon - the latter completely dwarfs the former.  Also have quite a few Stone Mountain resin buildings and a few others of swap meet origin and some stone cast buildings of similar provenance.  All will find a place within my three towns:

Anachronism will be the cow town and and jumping off point where cattle are driven to be loaded on train cars to head east for slaughter and populous markets.  It will also be the last stop before wagon trains head west for Oregon Territory or supply trains head towards the southwest.

Lodgepole Creek will be the boom town and end of track invading the territory of the northern plains tribes.

And Alkali Wells will be the southwest town battling to survive within Apacheria.

I haven't done a careful tally but I can estimate there will be about 160 buildings, if not more, for the three towns.  I just might have at least 5 civilians for each building.  That's a lot of civilians!

Update

After losing access to most of my blogs for unknown reasons, seems to have gotten sorted out so I can post updates now.  Only 'big' news here is that all 120 buffalo are now painted as are all 36 pronghorn antelope.  However, they still await the texturing of the bases.  And no photos at the moment but I thought a little note will show this blog hasn't gone into a permanent dormant status.