...tumbleweeds...

[Elbows]

Such silence here...now I feel like maybe I was the only person posting here!    Surely someone else is making buildings or painting cowboys!

[Poiter50]

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.

[Sinewgrab]

Dammit!  I thought you were going to show us how to make them!

[beefcake]

So did I!
Belly button lint painted browny grey?

[Mason]

Dammit!  I thought you were going to show us how to make them!

 
And me!

Belly button lint painted browny grey?

 

[Brian Smaller]

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.

[Elbows]

Glad to see some life around here!    48 hours was far too long! 

[Dr. The Viking]

I bought a load of figures last year and have been busy painting everything else.

[Vonkluge]

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!

[smirnoff]

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....

[Dewbakuk]

Right, I hereby demand a tutorial on tumbleweeds!

[Gutbukkit]

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.

[Dr. The Viking]

Right, I hereby demand a tutorial on tumbleweeds!

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

[Overlord]

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.

 

[Vonkluge]

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.

Yee Haa,

Bill