Hi all,
Back with another niche one today, and perhaps more historical fiction than historical per se. In the sim I'm playing there's a post-season all-star tournament that follows a barnstorming tour route, which has been the impetus for some of the more unusual parks I've made. For the tournament that closes the 1924 season the tour route will be leaving North America for the first time and heading to East Asia. That's what motivated building
Manila's Luneta Park, which will host the final. I've also been retrofitting a couple of Silvam's Japanese parks to look more like how (I think) they'd've been in the 20s, and I'll thank Flying Canuck for providing Korean and Taiwanese parks that I can do the same to. I'm happy to post my retrofits if there's interest.
In any case, I also figured that the teams would stop in Hong Kong and Shanghai. I'll post Shanghai next, though to be honest there's nothing particularly distinctive about it. Partly because of that, I figured I should try to make Hong Kong more obviously unique.
There was a game in Hong Kong on the famous Giants-White Sox 1914 World Tour but apparently it was kind of an ad hoc affair and I wanted my boys to have something better. So I modeled the Hong Kong Cricket Club grounds and slapped a field on it.
Google Drive Link to Hong Kong Cricket Club
There was ample material for what I needed--the grounds were right in the middle of things back then (and until the 70s) and there were plenty of maps and photos. The grounds were a pretty good size to house a baseball field, if a bit short along the right field line. The pavilion might have a bit of a later appearance than the mid-20s, but it might actually be correct. The surrounding buildings are right. The background is taken from various panoramas from the right time period, though I had to do some cutting and pasting to merge an older panorama with the distant landscape together with a colorized one from the 1920s with the newer buildings.
This was a fun one to make! I'm about to head off for some work travel, so won't be posting anything for a couple of weeks, but will be back! As usual, let me know if you have questions/issues.