Historical or Hollywoodesque?

[Antonio J Carrasco]

Hi

After watching Godless and reading Cozzens' The Earth is Wheeping, I started giving some thoughts at collecting a few minis for some skirmish set in the Old West. There are a few good rulesets over there, so that flank is covered. However, what there is not is a good range of historically accurate, rather than Hollywoodesque, Cowboys, Indians and Cavalry types. I wonder if there is not a market over there for such endeavour, something akin at what Iron Duke Miniatures is doing for the Indian Mutiny.

But perhaps it is just me who desire such a thing, and most people are perfectly happy with Hollywood-type miniatures. What do you think? Would be viable a historically accurate range for the Old West and the Indian Wars?

[Harry Faversham]

The real Old Wild West was hard, dirty, smelly, savage and highly dangerous... so they invented Cowboy films to mend it!
Get Blondie, Tuco and Angel Eyes, then add a sprinkling of The Dook, Earps and Clanton type border trash... garnish with the good Baron's 'Fistful of Lead' rules and make yersen a gun toting leg-end!

Avoid this kind of sacrilege completely...

 

[Elbows]

Check out Knuckleduster Miniatures - an excellent line of Old West minis which covers all sorts of more "normal" minis as well as Hollywood figures. He has an excellent range of civilians, passers-by and less than competent looking Cowboys.  Ladies of ill-repute, etc.