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Offline Elbows

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...tumbleweeds...
« on: May 29, 2013, 01:23:25 AM »
Such silence here...now I feel like maybe I was the only person posting here!  lol  Surely someone else is making buildings or painting cowboys!
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Offline Poiter50

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2013, 01:27:49 AM »
Purchased a Battle Flag Sheriff's office & a gallows yesterday, then a Sarissa Rairoad station, thinking of some outhouses as well but will likely buy them from Warlord as I want a FIW Watchtower as well.

Unfortunately i think the butterfly effect will drag me to Ronin when the Osprey rules are released but we might get some more games of Wild West in before that happens.
Cheers,
Poiter50

Offline Sinewgrab

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2013, 02:51:53 AM »
Dammit!  I thought you were going to show us how to make them!
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Offline beefcake

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2013, 04:25:58 AM »
So did I!
Belly button lint painted browny grey?


Offline Mason

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2013, 05:18:36 AM »
Dammit!  I thought you were going to show us how to make them!

 lol
And me!




Belly button lint painted browny grey?

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Offline Brian Smaller

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2013, 05:57:53 AM »
I have not painted a Western figure or built a piece of Western terrain all year. Done some cards for RWNN is all.  Been busy on Napoleonics.  I only have another fifty or so Western miniatures left to paint.

Offline Elbows

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2013, 06:21:46 AM »
Glad to see some life around here!  lol  48 hours was far too long!  :D

Offline Dr. The Viking

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2013, 06:22:39 AM »
I bought a load of figures last year and have been busy painting everything else.

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Offline Vonkluge

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2013, 06:35:40 AM »
As part of my plan for consolidation of scales and miniatures and spending more quality time with a few peroids and scales I sold off all my Wild west.... just watched Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider and wish I had it all back! ;D

Offline smirnoff

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2013, 06:48:53 AM »
New to the Old West.
We are developing a set of rules at the club and the Old West frenzy is upon us.
Town fights based on 5 man gangs (3 x pistol figures, 1 shotgun, 1 rifle); game is a cross between wargaming and poker.

So I dived in and got 2 gangs from Black Scorpion (resins); nice figures but a nightmare to remove 'flash'.

You will have heard of the James-Younger gang?
Well now we have the James-May gang (apologies to those not exposed to Top Gear or Man Lab):

Frank James
Jesse James
James May
Jeremiah Clarkson
Ricky the Kid

and a mariachi band down on it's luck that has turned to crime.... The Old El Paso Mariachi and Independent Financial Advisors Band.

Buildings are a mix of pdf print outs stuck onto cardboard and the new (and rather tasty) 4Ground Old West range.
Having never tried the Old West I am throughly enjoying it complete with sound tracks from the iPod and misquoted lines from the films....
« Last Edit: May 29, 2013, 06:55:08 AM by smirnoff »

Offline Dewbakuk

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2013, 06:56:46 AM »
Right, I hereby demand a tutorial on tumbleweeds!
So many projects..... so little time.......

Offline Gutbukkit

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2013, 07:13:24 AM »
Progress on my saloon has stalled somewhat after weekends of viking reenactment and going back to work after being on holiday but it shall resume soon. Painted 1 more guy to add to the horribly outnumbered lawmen posse to deal with the horde of painted Mexicans. Zombies have also taken my attention away from the old west for a bit but I'll be back.

Offline Dr. The Viking

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2013, 07:35:16 AM »
Right, I hereby demand a tutorial on tumbleweeds!

I just unfold a piece of sisal rope curl it up in a ball

Offline Overlord

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2013, 07:41:42 AM »
1. Take some rubberised horsehair and a pair of scissors.
2. Cut off a piece of horsehair approx. 1" cubed.
3. Trim into a rough ball shape with the scissors.
4. Place on table.
5. Yes kids, you can even blow it across the table.

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Offline Vonkluge

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Re: ...tumbleweeds...
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2013, 07:44:37 AM »
Living out here in the very "West" you speak and occasionaly having tumbleweeds roll down the street, I'm pretty familiar with them. I made mine with little balls of "steel wool" prime with auto primer red brown, dry brush yellow grey, dull coat,your done. Being made out of Steel a whole passel of them thar things can be stuck to a strip of magnet for storage, pardner.

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