Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: kingsmt on November 26, 2018, 06:46:11 AM
Title: Wagon Train
Post by: kingsmt on November 26, 2018, 06:46:11 AM
Had some fun with my toys today. Here's a small Wagon Train set up. The big leafy, tree is a Britains tree. The yellow wagon with the red top are both CTS. Both were repainted by me.
The ox drawn wagon came from a cheap "Westward Ho" playset, that included the original Marx wagon recast. You won't find this color wagon or top anywhere else. These were released without the owners permission and disappeared quickly. It has not been repainted.
The two wagon drivers are conversions, made with original, color matched, Marx parts.The bare tree, rock, animals and several figures are all Marx.
The mounted Cowboy, all the women and children and the boy with the whip, are all Larry Patterson figures that I've repainted with new colors.
I had a lot of fun setting this up and it reminded me why I enjoy this hobby so much.
Title: Re: Wagon Train
Post by: zippyfusenet on November 27, 2018, 02:43:15 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daQeJYGCX0M
Title: Re: Wagon Train
Post by: Harry Faversham on November 28, 2018, 03:41:58 PM
Absolutely love it... proper Cowboy toys!!!
:-*
Title: Re: Wagon Train
Post by: FifteensAway on November 30, 2018, 04:55:47 AM
Just a poor kid from a poor family...but it never really mattered...to me.
It was Airfix and Legos and sometimes Tonka trucks (way out of scale). I have a nostalgia buy of the wagon train set release by Hatt (I think) somewhere.
This reminds me of those days half a century ago either in the dirt in the back yard or the blankets on a bed on Saturday mornings with many an adventure and sometimes a big fight. And at this late date no one can explain why Tarzan mixed it up with the Old West during World War Whatever It Was. Imagination can sure fill in a lot of stuff.
Title: Re: Wagon Train
Post by: kingsmt on December 02, 2018, 08:10:59 AM
Right you are, 15. I love my serious 28 mm collection. But there is just something that brings you back in time, when you pull out plastic toy soldiers.
We all had them as kids. And when I set something like this up, I'm a kid again!
Title: Re: Wagon Train
Post by: DintheDin on December 02, 2018, 08:47:58 AM
Lovely old stuff... True nostalgia... Thank you for sharing!