And the Winners were . . ?

Good morning to you all Dear Reader's - wherever you are, and welcome again to Komata's 'Blog - an idiosyncratic ramble through a variety of subjects - all, hopefully RR related, with no particular end in sight - like Topsy, 'it just grows'.

So, we'll see where this one leads - so follow people, follow . . .

Two posts back, I was rabbitting-on about the sort of buildings that a small rural town in New Zealand's North Island might have, and debating which of those out of a randomly-complied  list I would be able to fit into a relatively small space.

One of you contributed his thoughts and for that dcuk I thank you.

But, what did I finally wind up with:

What would a small 1960's New Zealaand town, have on its Main Street (Pukeko Street, if anyone is interested - Pukeko being the Maori name for what is known in some parts of the world as a 'Swamp Hen' or 'Purple Gallinule")

A Hotel (the social center of the town - of course).

A Post Office

A Police Station

A Bakery/Takeaway

A General Store (wide fronted, verandah'd- every town should have one)

A Stock and Station Agency (not sure of the US equivalent here, but a store that deals with absolutely everything that a farmer would want - from tractor's to bailing twine, grain etc).

And because all of the above would be on Pukeko Street itself, and there would be a gap behind them, couple of buildings 'over the back' to fill in the spaces - and only because I had these lying around - ghosts from layouts long-gone.

So, Dear Reader's - how did those choices  agree with your lists?  Or perhaps, they didn't.  Ah well, thank you anyway.

Now although I had defined the basic 'essentials' that was not the end of the story.

Astute observers of the local scene will realise that, in almost every town (and even village) there are buildings from different eras co-existing together.  Depending on the country, these can be some from Medieval times, some from the 21st-century.  Like it or not, building-construction goes on continuously, irrespective of where we live and what is happening anywhere else.

So, this raised the next 'problem' for me, in my pursuit of prototypical-realism:what era would these as-yet inbuilt edifices (edifii?) be from?

Colonial? (1840-1900)?

International (1920's)

Art Deco (1930's)

1950's?

!960's?

And could they all live together and WOULD THEY LOOK RIGHT?

So many decisions, so many options, and all because i wanted realism - for a viewer to be able to say 'I know that place'.  Oh, woe, oh woe - was the dream going to end so soooon? Foundering on the rocks of architectural incompatibility?

And what about the residents of the town? (Residents?  What residents?).

What would 'the ladies that lunch' have to say? would they even have an opinion?  Would they indeed?

But, to find out, Dear Reader, you will have to return, to spend a further few minutes of your precious time perusing the absolute inanities that constitute 'Komata's Blog.

But thankyou for calling, and reading, and . . .

Happy modelling to you all

Komata

"TVR - serving the Northern Taranaki . . . "