Wild West Town

[FierceKitty]

Dead Man's Knees is now painted; piccies in a day or two, when Lee returns from visiting family. A question for the creative ones here: how does one model convincing ladders?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

With difficulty.....

You might try plastrut stuff.

[FierceKitty]

Ta. I'll have a look.

[petercooman]

If you don,t mind spending a bit, you could use railroad fences.

Just turn them on their sides, and paint them brown!

I think kestrel do packs of fences.

[Ithoriel]

"Granny grating" aka plastic canvas is a mesh intended for needlecraft which comes in a variety of grid sizes and can be cut for ladders/ sci-fi basing/ weird looking armies and much more.

Looks like this

[jimduncanuk]

Warbases do ladders in 28mm in MDF.

[d_Guy]

Here are some Plasruct ladders that Ian mentioned. These are roughly HO scale:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000WS8ZM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I used them for a project unrelated to wargaming and they worked well.

[fsn]

https://www.kallistra.co.uk/?page=18#anchorha01

Kallistra. Bit oversized but OK.

[FierceKitty]

The peaceful town of Dead Man's Knees.

[FierceKitty]

A few landmarks. Hmmm, need a few hitching rails.

[FierceKitty]

More. I regret that my painting isn't altogether what Leven's buildings deserve. Notice too that the condemned is going to have to scramble up an 8' structure to get to the rope they use to hang him.

[FierceKitty]

We've still got Tara.

[Sunray]

Thanks for posting - its a very useful thread -  lots of good links/tips - and inspiring images.

Could not have come at a better time, as I need inspiration for my Bush War African town.  - Hope to have some images up next week.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice FK

[d_Guy]

I liked the pictures of the buildings, very much capture the era (my knowledge of which comes strictly from Hollywood).
It seems like you have all the building types that I see in all "Western" movies.
Is that a requirement of the rules you are using? What are the rules?
The last has probably been discussed but couldn't find it wth search feature.

I assume the buildings are wide spaced either for game play or proper photography?
It would be cool to see them tightly bunched surrounded with vast tracts of near nothing.
One of the starling things about much of the West is seeing a vague speck on the horizon and
a half hour later you are suddenly in a small settlement.