Gold Rush Town - MDF Madness!

 For my Old West skirmish gaming, I've had a general preference to set the games in a more of a Northern climate, rather than the dusty, spaghetti-western inspired setting where the games more often end up.  Inspired by our Epic Arctic Adventure Epicness, I have decided to make sure that I can set up a northern table for gaming. One of the key elements will be to be able to set up a gold rush town.  A feature of gold rush towns is that they are built very quickly, so there will tend to be many tents, and many improvised or quickly built shelters.  So I placed an order with Sarissa Precision for their 'Tent Town', a set of 5 buildings.  I combined these with the saloon that was already in our collection, and a Sarissa Precision cabin that we picked up at Imperial Hobbies' recent customer appreciation sale. Here is the start to the gold rush town, new buildings up front and some older items of the collection (Renedra tents and cabins from 4Ground and Pegasus Hobbies) in the rear.

An image of front street.

Compare to a historic photo!  Check out more photos at this website:  https://westernmininghistory.com/gallery/538460/historical/towns/

Two MDF cabins, which are not complete dissimilar from the Robert Service and Jack London cabins we saw in Dawson.

Jack London cabin.

Robert Service cabin.  I'll have to source some 28mm moose antlers!

The roof of the cabin is currently corrugated iron, but I've seen older photos showing a verdant, green sod roof.  I chose to do neither!

All of the buildings have removable roofs to allow figures to be placed inside.

Here are the two smaller tent buildings - they are not actually small, compared to the rest of the buildings!  These have optional signposts to put in front of the tents but I left them off thinking that they could be homes, but I've reconsidered and I'll recast them as businesses.  The only difference between the two is the extra window space for the tent on the left.

This one is similar to the two above but with a leanto at the rear.  Signage is from a free PDF provided by Sarissa.

Rear view of the general store lean-to.

I added signage from the Sarissa old west signs PDF.

These are slightly larger tents, with an internal wall to break up the internal space.

Another find from the Imperial Hobbies sale was this set of walls from Xolk.  Xolk has sadly and suddenly stopped trading, which is a pity as I rather like their product!  

These walls fit in quite well with other walls in my collection, like the walls from 4Ground MDF and Italeri/Warlord Games.