MOC: Ding Dong Alley, a western layout

[Captain Green Hair]

Howdy Folks!

For last years Brickmania Antwerp, me, Kabel, Captain Braunsfeld, Loves houses and Legostone teamed up to do a Wild West layout.

You might have visited and seen it, or saw pictures of it here in the forum (I can't seem to find pictures of the whole damn thing, so post 'm if ya got 'm).

Today I want to show you my contribution; Ding Dong Alley. Why is it called Ding Dong Alley? Just because it sounds cool.

My part of town attached directly to Kabels to the side street left to the saloon. The others where just, well, all over the place.

Let's start of with an overview:

And then the 4-4-0 locomotive, modelled after the Leviathan:http://locomotive.wikia.com/wiki/Central_Pacific_4-4-0_Leviathan

 

The first car is a cattle car:

The second one is a passenger coach, I am really happy how I dropped the 9 volt motors into the frame:

Then a transport wagon with 2 cavalry field cannons (same as behind the covered wagon):

And the last is ofcourse a caboose:

Along side the track is a small freight station:

And a water tower:

A friendly group of Indians has set up camp to the east (this part used to be bigger with rocks and all, but I needed the parts...):

The sherrifs are having a shootout wit some bad guys in the alle (in the whole thing we had about a hundred sherrifs I think haha):

A band of Union soldiers is riding through town:

The stage coach delivers mail and locked packages?

In the Saloon there is a bit of a brawl going on. Glass is flying through the windows and the owners swiftly kick out te troublemakers while the ladies that work there wave at men from the balcony.

In the alley next to the Saloon is the military contracting office:

On the other side of the Saloon is the Drug store. I was planning to make store signs, but it didn't happen,so:

And next to that is the General store:

And as last, the back of the Alley:

Well that's all folks!

 

[Legostone]

You must have forgotten that BMA 2017 wasn't the first time we've set up this layout; we already had it at BMA 2016 and both times it was great fun! More pictures of the more recent layout have been posted by @Captain Braunsfeld here. 

As for the build - It has always been great, but I had never noticed the broken window before, that has to be one of the finest details around it  Other noteworthy things certainly include the sand ontop of the Saloon, the curtains (closed on one side... wonder why ) and the creative use of the Captain America Shields around the balcony. The sand blue wagon with non-production red wheels was, off course, totally necessary 

[Captain Green Hair]

2 hours ago, Legostone said:

 @Captain Braunsfeld

 

2 hours ago, Legostone said:

You must have forgotten that BMA 2017 wasn't the first time we've set up this layout; we already had it at BMA 2016 and both times it was great fun! More pictures of the more recent layout have been posted by @Captain Braunsfeld here. 

Ah yes, time flies doesn't it?

As for the build - It has always been great, but I had never noticed the broken window before, that has to be one of the finest details around it 

How could you have missed that? It's so obvious.?

 Other noteworthy things certainly include the sand ontop of the Saloon, the curtains (closed on one side... wonder why )

Yeah, some shady business going down in there I guess. Nasty minifigs closing curtains and all. But that was the Wild West back in the day I guess.

and the creative use of the Captain America Shields around the balcony.

Thanks!

The sand blue wagon with non-production red wheels was, off course, totally necessary 

You got that right!

 

[Wout]

That looks very very good, the link to captain Braunsfeld is also very nice.

Well done!

[kabel]

Well Capt., it definetely a lot of fun to collaborate with you on such a big layout. What you forgot to mention is that we originally came up with this for BMA 2016 within something like two months or so. Anyway, I for my side will keep on exapanding my side of the layout as I promised my kids a fixed layout where we can run our trains!