The Dead Man's Hand Saloon

A fictional 1884 Old West saloon, built parametrically in Blender. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom.

Lighting the lanterns…

Keyboard: focus the model and use the arrow keys to orbit, plus and minus to zoom.

About the saloon

This is a study of one building. Every dimension lives in a single register, and one script builds the whole saloon from it: the timber frame, the false front, the balcony, the boardwalk and the swinging doors. The stills, the turntables and this viewer all come from that same model. Proportions follow period timber-frame practice. The showmanship (the sign, the green lanterns, the thin ground mist and the stars) is dramatized, and the register tags which is which.

The web view shows the model and its materials. Mist and stars exist only in the stills below, so the Dusk, Noon and Moon buttons change the light and the sky here, not the scene. A 2026 renovation of the same shell comes next.