Author Topic: Early West (1830's) - Picture heavy (Read 16592 times)

v_lazy_dragon · « **on:** February 10, 2010, 04:59:08 PM »

I've been working on some 'early' west (say 1820's-1850's) bits for quite a while on and off, but I've never really worked around to posting them up anywhere*. I thought I'd remedy that and post them up here. Most of the pictures have been taken in something of a rush, and are usually from before the figure was based... so my appologies for both of those. The Painting is 'good gaming' rather than display.
There are lots more figures to be added to the 'set', although the rate at which that happens will depend how much confederate stuff I need to churn out for Atlantis...
Figures by Foundry, CFM (now Blazeaway), Brigade, Conquest, Artizan, Dixons & Boothill

*Not strictly true - they've lurked in the corner of a subsection of the Post apocalyspe wargames forum...

James (A rich man's 'servent'), Cussin' Couzin Festus & John McGregor (All CFM)

Lachlan McIntyre (CFM)

John Autry (Artizan), Walks-in-the-hills (Blackfoot indian, Foundry) & Captain W. Manning (Artizan)

An Angry Grizzly (Foundry)

Erastus 'Deaf' Smith (Boothill)

Peter Langsdon (Artizan Jim Bowie)

Benjamin Tiley & Dolphin Floyd (both CFM)

One of Doc Henson's boys (Conquest), Jebbediah Bell (Artizan) & John, a freed slave who drifted into Texas looking for his Sister (CFM/BA)

Isaac Milsaps (CFM) & James Fairclough (Artizan)

v_lazy_dragon · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2010, 05:00:24 PM »

Dawgie & Ben Highsmith (CFM)

'Gentleman' Fredrick Gillard (CFM)

3 Artizan Figures & Preacher Cambell (CFM)

Assorted 'vanilla' plains indians (Foundry)

Sallu Highsmith - carryin' some spare rifles into the house fer her Pa (Conquest)

Boothill characters

Foundry indians, painted up before I realised that warpaint should be the same on both sides ofthe horse!

'Vanilla' Dixons warchief

Farmer & his 2 lads (Brigade & Conquest respectively) about to drive off any no good varmint that comes near his ranch!

bc99 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2010, 05:04:21 PM »

Wow, looks like you've got quite a lot of minis there and ready to go. I like the farmer and his sons, great figs, they look perfect.

v_lazy_dragon · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2010, 05:05:54 PM »

Dixons generic Indian, with Springfield carbine replaced with a flintlock musketoon...

Finished Conquest Settler Girl & Foundry Plains Apache

A Foundry Scalp hunter & A Brigade townsman with musket.

A townsperson & a comanche (Brigade & Conquest)

Foundry Mountain men

Plains Apache scout (Foundry)

2 mountain men, and a settler with shotgun... (Dixon, Foundry, Foundry)

All mountian men - from Dixon, Foundry & 1st corps

Blackfoot tribesman (foundy) - fair few more of these chaps to come. The musket looks bent in the picture, but it isn't really...

Settlers and townsfolk (Dixon, Foundry, Redoubt, Brigade, Ltd Ed North Star Davvy Crockett)

Calimero · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2010, 05:15:02 PM »

Quote from: v_lazy_dragon on February 10, 2010, 04:59:08 PM

"Benjy my man, I got to tell you… your hat smell funny"

Nice collection of figures. It’s nice to see that there isn't a great difference in size between the various manufacturers

Smokeyrone · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2010, 07:16:52 PM »

Nice work. You can do a lot with that era. Some Alamo/Texas revolution, Indians, War of 1812, lots.

v_lazy_dragon · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2010, 08:24:02 PM »

Thanks chaps!

Malamute · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2010, 08:32:41 AM »

Wow, thats quite a collection you have been amassing there Xander. A posititve plethora of different manufacturers!
It was fun trying to recognise all the different companies, great stuff.

v_lazy_dragon · « **Reply #8 on:** February 11, 2010, 11:26:04 AM »

Thanks Nick, and I must lay all the credit/blame for the project squarely at your door. Although it was something I had vaguely toyed with since I picked up Chris Peers' 'War on the Plains' cheaply at a bring-andbuy, the boothill releases finally catalysed me into action!

Christian · « **Reply #9 on:** February 11, 2010, 11:57:04 AM »

So that's what Dawgie looks like

A nice collection the Xander. I've got something similar planned for next year. I'll be looking back a this post for some inspiration!

(Edited for spelling.)

v_lazy_dragon · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2010, 07:27:05 PM »

Ta Christian! All this stuff (and some more musing) is also on the PA wargames forum; and if you want to have a chat about the period, you'realways welcome to PM!

commissarmoody · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2010, 03:32:06 AM »

Yep lots of fillabusters you got there, I thinkt its time to fallow Kit Carson and round the Bearflag republic. Or maby try and found your own empire out in the old west and dear with the Army when it shows.

commissarmoody · « **Reply #12 on:** February 17, 2010, 07:42:30 AM »

just had to come back an look at all of them agine they are vary nice

v_lazy_dragon · « **Reply #13 on:** February 17, 2010, 08:52:27 AM »

Thanks Commissarmoody

Well, I've done a bit more painting - so here are the latest additions....

Captain Mitchell (with Post-Independance Texian Standard, CFM)

Josiah Grant (Artizan)

3 blackfeet indians (Foundry, not terribly happy with these, but I couldn't seem to improve them - so I gave up trying!)

3 CFM figures... none of these figures seemed to really 'gel' as I painted them up, so they may get reworked. Having said that, they do look better in the flesh. From L to R they are: Gwyn Jones, Willis Moore & the figure that was called Mial Scurlock.... but as Boothill have also done a 'Mial scurlock; this figure will now be called John Bowden...

Charles Despallier, Son of a plantation owner from Louisiana looking for adventure in Texas. (Boothill)

commissarmoody · « **Reply #14 on:** February 19, 2010, 08:58:33 AM »

More fine examples of the earler west, read my reply to the cape rifles being used as texes cav in the Cape wars thread?

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