Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: FifteensAway on 23 May 2017, 04:26:29 AM
Title: Whiskey Hills get busy!
Post by: FifteensAway on 23 May 2017, 04:26:29 AM
Or my blog gets a bunch of photos posted showing progress on figures - just a start though, which, once you see what is already done, will cause some to question my sanity. But, hey, aren't grown men playing miniatures a bit nuts? If so, I'm not seeking a cure. Sorry, I don't use a photo hosting service so you'll have to visit the blog (unless some kind sole reposts a tempting photo here. Almost two dozen photos so be warned, here's the link:
As always, you should be able to click a photo to make it bigger or to just troll through the photos.
Title: Re: Whiskey Hills get busy!
Post by: Sunjester on 23 May 2017, 06:38:39 AM
Impressive! I can't wait to see that all painted. The final game is going to look amazing, will you have a week in which to play it? ;)
Title: Re: Whiskey Hills get busy!
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on 23 May 2017, 07:18:36 AM
Stunning pictures, what a collection! :o :-*
Posted one of your photos here for you.
Title: Re: Whiskey Hills get busy!
Post by: guitarheroandy on 23 May 2017, 07:34:17 AM
Good grief!! What a collection!! If you get it all painted it will be an even more impressive sight. I'd love to see that game should it come to fruition.
Title: Re: Whiskey Hills get busy!
Post by: Harry Faversham on 23 May 2017, 09:13:42 AM
Who makes the figures?
???
Title: Re: Whiskey Hills get busy!
Post by: FifteensAway on 23 May 2017, 01:41:56 PM
Thanks, Mad Lord, for posting the photo - a fine soul, indeed, as opposed to a fine sole!
Figures are from across the spectrum - Minifigs, Peter Pig, Hovels, a few Irregular here and there, some Blue Moon, Freikorps Yellow Ribbon range. And probably others I don't recall, collected over a long time and not all of those manufacturers in the pictures. The buffalo include some plastics, the pronghorn from Irregular (part of a special request I made some years back).
The full game is intended for a multi-game master convention game and would be an all day game with the ability for some players to float in as others float out. Much more than just a plains indian wars game - trains, wagon trains, at least one river boat, banks, longhorns, stagecoaches, mines, three different towns, hundreds of unarmed civilians to populate the towns. Should be pretty cool.
To me, a town exists to house people and thus a town needs a lot of folks in it.
I borrow from history, fiction, and Hollywood for inspiration. The real, huge challenge is to get it all painted - and no way can I do the masterful paint jobs some here do, not and expect to paint it in my lifetime. But I do intend to paint the whole thing and build the towns (one scratch build, the others with ready made buildings - the desert southwest town and the out on the prairie town, the 'metropolis' on the river will mostly be scratch built.
Title: Re: Whiskey Hills get busy!
Post by: FifteensAway on 26 May 2017, 06:20:47 AM
A question - 72 horse pony herd, 36 horse cavalry remount herd. 72 standing horses and 36 'flying' horses (trot or galloping poses). Should I keep the 'flying' horses for the cavalry or the native pony herd? Thoughts on which way to go and why?