Kilroy Ind.

Kilroy was on hiatus, but has reopened with a new selection of buildings. The prices are very good, and the buildings good-looking. (Several share a common plan so walls can be traded for more variety)

Arnica Montana Buildings

Here's a new range of Old West buildings, with mix-and-match capabilities, and with outhouses, balconies, and stairs available as separate items. Again, good prices, and Mike's a great guy to deal with....

Card Models

Many gamers seem to have a dislike for card models, while others love 'em. I'm in the middle ground: I started with card models, and soon found that my town grew to be too large by far: They are just too much fun to make, and too easy to modify.

They are especially useful to the new gamer, as they provide a quick, easy & inexpensive way to build a decent-looking town.

Even if you don't want to use card models, don't disregard them. They can also be used as templates/plans for scratch-built models. (after all, what is a card kit but a set of plans with tabs attached?) They are also useful to plan the final appearance of a building, (size, window placement, etc.) or for one-off buildings for a special scenario. You can always plank over a card model, transforming it from paper to wood/plastic!

Cut & Assemble a Western Frontier Town Edmond V. Gillon Jr. Dover Books 0486237362 This book, printed in full colour on light card contains 10 models based on actual Western buildings. They are in 1/87 scale, which makes them rather small for 25/28mm figures. Scale them up at about 133% and they'll fit far better. These are display rather than wargames models, so have a LOT of fiddly, delicate detail, and will take as long to build as a scratch-built model. Not for the absolute novice. This book is also sold through your local bookstore!

Vulture Gulch Downloadable building kit sets. The Basic Set includes a stagecoach, 2 wagons, fences, hitching posts, small store, bank, general store, barber shop, hotel, county jail, blacksmith`s shop, saloon, trapper`s cabin, old mine, telegraph office, livery stable local undertaker`s parlor.and many accessories.

Whitewash City Full Color Wild West PDF Models With Floor Plans. Whitewash City is a collection of historically accurate Wild West building models, circa 1875-1900AD, in PDF (Acrobattm) file format. The PDF files provided allows you to printout the models from your own computer/printer and are designed to fit onto both North American and European page sizes. You can choose from full color, grayscale or black line printouts at 30mm scale (1/60th scale), or you can choose to scale down the models to any other scale you may need.

Fiddler's Green Western Collection. There are about 20 full-colour buildings available as downloads. Each comes in 3 scales: HO, N, and Z. (all included) They have the advantage as being sold individually rather than in sets, so you can pick & choose which you want, and build your town at your own speed. You'll want to scale up the HO to about 133% for 25/28mm figures.
	Chip has been generous enough to provide a link to a FREE download: ~ Jake's Saloon ~ http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/buildings/western/jakes/jakes.htm Many thanks Chip!

Buffalo Chip Professionally printed cardstock models. Buffalo Chip is a collection of 20 or so buildings, available individually or as 'sets'. (Some 'individual' buildings are in fact blocks of buildings.) They are printed in full-colour, and require only assembly. An optional accessory kit is available for each building, with (up to 14) choices of sign and pre-printed acetate windows.

Thortrains.net There is a set of downloadable Western buildings at thortrains.net: Don't forget to download the roof tiles! From the site: "This file, and the graphic files contained herein are part of PC WhistleStop, and are offered for individual use only. These graphics files are in WMF format and require either Windows and a draw program or desktop publisher; they will not open in a Paint program or bitmap editior. Shareware and freeware draw programs can be found and downloaded from the Internet. If your application does not support Windows or the WMF format, you can find graphic converting software as freeware or shareware on the Internet.

Shadowolf’s Western Buildings Card Models for wargames From the site: "This page contains printable card models for use in various western games. They can be resized to any scale but were designed for 25-28mm scale." "Simply print them off on your favourite card. I print them as big as I can fit on an A4 sheet. With a little glue and time, you can make a whole town in a matter of hours."

eM-4 Miniatures Pre-painted Old West miniatures. eM-4 has taken a slightly different route: In Old West Heroes 2 - Shootout, they have included a mini CD with a set of rules, and building floorplans you can print on your computer. The set contains: 5 prepainted 28mm pewter miniatures, a complete Western skirmish game from Nick Lund, and a Western town plan for you to print out and play on. Miniatures included are: Buffalo Soldier; Mountain Man; Soiled Dove; Farmer; Sheriff. (Rules and town plan seen right are provided on a CD for immediate printout.)

Old West Heroes Set 1 Their first set contains 5 28mm miniatures, 5 slotted bases, and 5 D20's. The figures are hefty, but mix well with my other figures. Their paint looks a tad unsubtle in the photos, but is very effective on the tabletop. Just the thing for a pick-up game, or to lure new bugs into the world of Old West Gunfights, they are the perfect gift and lure combined. I'm serious, these will thrill my non-gaming pals. They love TRWNN, but don't collect or paint figures.

Thanks as always to Walt O'Hara for many useful links and suggestions!

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