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Photo Reference Resource including images of China
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About the Project
I've decided to change this project to a general photo reference resource for paining and modelling. I'll be including images I've taken of a wide variety of subjects which I think will useful as reference pics for painting and modelling. Recently I visited China for several weeks, and whilst there I visited several locations which included a permanent movie set of a town set in early 20th Century China. The movie set is just outside the city of Shenyang in Northern China. This is one of several permanent movie sets dotted around China. There is another just outside Shanghai, which is much bigger and cover several historical periods. Unfortunately just before I returned to the UK, the Shenyang movie town set caught fire and parts of it were destroyed. The aim of this project is to allow anyone use the images as a picture resource for building terrain for gaming in China between 1900-1949, which includes WW2 for all those Bolt Action players. I will also include some images of older buildings that would have been in use still in the Early part of the 20th Century, which will include temple buildings.
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Movie Town Part 3
More images from the movie set. The range of building styles is quite interesting, from wooden building which wouldn’t be out of place in the 19th Century through to brick/stone buildings. The roads varied from hard dirt tracks to cobblestone as well.
This building would probably work right upto the 1960's in a rural town. 
Archway, these were generally for back alleyways. 
Quick update
It’s going to take a while to get all the images into the project log as I’m having to resize them in Photoshop first.
Most of these buildings have disappeared in Modern China, sadly they’ve been bulldozed in the majority of towns and cities to make way for modern skyscrapers and tower flats, so it’s only places such as these movie/TV sets where you can still see reconstructed examples of ordinary period buildings.
My long term plan is to scratch build some copies of the building for future gaming set in Early 2oth Century China. I’ll create a separate project log once I start on that terrain.
I’ll continue on a regular basis to upload more images.
First Street
This is the first street as you enter the set, which takes you up towards a Shanghai style tram car.
Looking back at the entrance 
Tea House 
Advertisement on the side of the the tram car
