MPC Western Buildings Recap

Let's take a look at all the MPC Western buildings posted here - just cuz. I need to figure out what I'm gonna post next :-) Enjoy! Opa Fritz

I do believe I have another fort variation out in The Cave. I got a couple of job lots in with fort pieces and need to look through them to make sure

"Fort Frontier" sign over gate

Blockhouse over gate

Fort Frontier casting

Streetfront in a mustard yellow and brown

The artwork for this brown streetfront varies from that of the yellow streetfront

Early style cabin superstructure using an Auburn style soft plastic resembling rubber

Early style cabin superstructure using a soft plastic similar to that used in the ringhand figures

Modern repo using hard styrene plastic. The repos are available in dark and gray also but do not come with any facades

Texas Rangers building

Fire House

Log Cabin v.1

Later style buildings using very thin plastic pieces

Log Cabin v.2

Jail using tab-&-slot construction

Jail using peg construction

Dodge City Express and Bank Building using peg construction

Teepee's

plastic frame with white/red vinyl cover - missing top piece

teepee with yellow/red cover complete with top piece

cardboard

MPC's Take On Western Towns - Pt 10 Cabin v.2 Dodge City Express and Bank with Peg Construction FINAL

Here's a building that combines an Express office for your MPC stagecoach as well as a bank for the robbers to keep themselves busy! This building also the peg construction mentioned in the previous MPC post and is BTW the very last MPC Western building for a while. I have to find my yellow streetfront and do a full photo work-up on that but honestly, I don't know how long that's gonna take. Until then - Enjoy! Opa Fritz

MPC's Take On Western Towns - Pt 9 Cabin v.2 Jail Brown SP With Peg Construction

You never know what you're gonna get when you buy job lots. So not too long ago I bought a job lot of MPC Western figures and buildings and stuff. The lot had two separate Jails in it but when going through the parts it was clear there were two variations of the same building. The first variation utilized the same tab-&-slot construction that I'm accustomed to with all the other buildings MPC made using these reed-thin walls and roof pieces. The second version I came across utilized a series of tabs. It's easier to look at the photos to see what I mean than it is to explain. With that in mind - Enjoy! Opa Fritz

The two facades are the same save for a slight difference in the shade of brown used

Notice the piece on the left has all those pegs sticking out. The piece on the right also has pegs but it too has the slots meant to accommodate tabbed walls.

Here's how the pegs are used when assembling the building. On my sample the pegs were so smooshed it was tricky getting everything to assemble correctly.

Notice the 'feet' at the bottom of the wall. When assembled, this looks better than the tab-&-slot version.