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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: Overlord on November 10, 2007, 12:09:55 PM
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I finally got around to sorting out the pics I took at the recent LotoW weekend at GWHQ.
Apologies for the quality of some, they were taken with a phone camera.
They concentrate on the great buildings, partly because most of the action shots came out blurry (My fault, unfamiliar with the phone cam :? )
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow03.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow05.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow06.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow07.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow01.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow02.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow10.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow09.jpg)
The final shootout, Law vs Outlaw.
(Includes the Ponderosa http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=2930 )
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/Wild%20West/LotoW2007/Lotow13.jpg)
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A VERY big shootout, if you ask me. Nice boards 8) 8) 8)
And nicely painted posse and gang, too, although those huge figures in the background seem a bit out of scale and do not have hats.
Oh, and those poor cows. :cry:
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Aaarrrgh... necron cows... :lol:
Edit: Sorry, when I first laid eyes on these pcs, I thought a couple of the cows were unpainted, thus my remark :oops:
Like everyone else I find the town splendid, of course!
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Great looking town! What is the table surface made of?
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A VERY big shootout, if you ask me. Nice boards 8) 8) 8)
And nicely painted posse and gang, too, although those huge figures in the background seem a bit out of scale and do not have hats.
Oh, and those poor cows. :cry:
A few of the buildings are mine, but most were made by Colin (Rushcal?) of CR Models. They were beautifully done with interiors for most (See the Sherrif Office above).
Each player provided his own posse of figures, with a range of manufacturers; Foundry (new and old ranges), Artizan, Black Scorpion etc.
The big shootout involved all 10 players, but using only their Hero characters.
In the first 2 shootout pics you can see Ray "Cowman" Earle (Organiser of the weekend and member of this forum) hiding behind a steer that he shot dead after the Lawmen stampeded it towards him.
The carcass took so many hits for Ray that we (The Lawmen) began to suspect it was made of Kevlar! :lol:
Great looking town! What is the table surface made of?
The tables are GW's. It looked like sand scattered over glue on the board surface, then painted. Very simple and hardwearing, but effective.
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The buildings look fantastic and the game must have been a hoot, I hope backstabbing and devious alliances were the order of the day :D
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These are really nice board with superb buildings!
Thanks!
Olivier
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Great photo's Paul. :mrgreen:
That was one lucky Mexican!
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Great looking buildings :love:
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Wonderful town! I love the fences and the hanging laundry.
Looks like it was a fun time.
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Just embarking on my own Old West project and there's some ideas I'll be
stealing using, especially the back yards.
Great Stuff!
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Great looking table :-*
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Good to see this again ten years down the line, Paul! Still a great looking cow-town 8)
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"Good to see this again ten years down the line, Paul! Still a great looking cow-town" Well, almost. By todays standards it is very bland. The ground cover is too monotone and there isn't a single item of scatter terrain that I saw unless you count a seriously misplaced outhouse! But, for 2007, I suppose pretty good. Certainly the buildings were stand outs for that time. Does remind me that I need to get to work on my own Old West project - trains to be worked on this weekend hopefully. So, thanks for the inspiration.
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By todays standards it is very bland. The ground cover is too monotone and there isn't a single item of scatter terrain that I saw unless you count a seriously misplaced outhouse! But, for 2007, I suppose pretty good.
Really? Gosh, you are a hard man to please. Compared to some of the abysmal terrain I see shown on this forum from time to time these days, this 10 year old tabletop with its lovely buildings looks like a piece of prize-winning art to me. The surface is plain sand, true enough, but then the buildings are parked on GW’s tabletops as the OP reports. As for scatter terrain - well personally I don’t like to see loads of bits plonked down all over the place, so this is much to my taste. But it’s personal preference, I appreciate :)
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Indeed, personal preference. I love the scatter terrain because when looking at photos of the real old west it is almost always all over the place. A good game needs lots of cover. From a movie, but not history, the store shoot out in Chisum is a case in point.
And, as I said, the buildings were very good. Oh, and, yes, I am hard to please! ;)
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.....Does remind me that I need to get to work on my own Old West project - trains to be worked on this weekend hopefully. So, thanks for the inspiration.
Looking forward to seeing your project (I like scatter😄). You’ve certainly set the bar very high for yourself!
Doug
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I like it.
A lot!
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Thanks for dragging it from the depths, Doc, as I had not seen these shots before.
It has given me a few ideas too.
:D
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So, on the subject of scatter terrain, would railroad locomotives and cars count as scatter terrain or not? In my case they will, in certain cases - many cases, be dynamic elements in the game because they will be able to move. Other pieces will be static.
If that counts, locos and cars, then I'm busy this weekend making progress on 54 pieces of 'scatter terrain'.
And we'll see if I get over that bar or fall woefully short. If the latter, I'll stand up and take it like a man. Oh, wait, can I duck behind that stack of sacks first?! lol
What of wagons and carts? Do they count as scatter terrain or not. Or, like the trains, if dynamic, no, if static, yes? Assuming, of course.
Have lots of boxes, barrels, bags, various and sundry 'furnishings', etc. for my scatter terrain - but can always add more.
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That looks amazing. Thanks for sharing all of those photo and the peek at that interior. The Sheriff's office and jail is a really neat structure.
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Is this the ten year anniversary of this thread? lol
It's made me remember how much I enjoyed LotOW. I must dig out my old wild west stuff and dust off the rules one day.