"Building Calamity; the Row House" Topic

Its been a while since I posted anything here about so here is a little background to refresh the memory. Calamity is my old west town that is currently under construction, a long slow construction. The concept is to create a display level gaming board that can travel to local conventions. That requirement has forced me to really think about how the board itself will be constructed but it also affects how the buildings are going to be mounted on it. Which brings us to the Row House. Now in old west parlance a row house is really just a small catalog house that exists right along similar (even mostly identical) houses. Typically used by miners and soiled doves (as their "crib"). This one could have been purchased right out of the Sears & Roebucks catalog and delivered to the building site, by freight wagon, with everything you need. The inspiration for this particular build came from a Grandt Line kit from their HO Scale Gold Series. I scaled it up to 1/56th scale and went from there. I didn't draw any plans per say just made sketches and notes and went from there. The Row House is being built more as a testbed of techniques and materials. It may or may not actually make it on to the game board itself as its actually larger than I anticipated but its a good, simple, practice piece. I envision two types of buildings for Calamity, Hero buildings and Support buildings. Hero buildings are those that I anticipate will see a lot of action, like the saloon, the land office, the sutler's store and perhaps the railroad station. These will get a lot of extra interior detail. Support buildings will be simpler in design and less likely to see action so they won't have the same level of detail as the Hero buildings on the inside.

Since this build is actually finished I include a link after the picture to my blog if you want more detail on that aspect.

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Very nice! I wish the pre-fab manufacturers (I'm looking at you, 4Ground) would make some buildings like this. Old West towns didn't end on Main Street! Where do all of those townfolk who frequent the businesses live?

Is the door meant to be 8' 8" tall?

Its probably only 8' 3" tall but that includes the transom window above the door itself. The physical door itself scales out to almost exactly 6' which is a bit short for a door actually.

Looks good!

Very nice. Are you going to add a porch or awning of some type?