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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: Elbows on May 29, 2013, 02:23:25 AM
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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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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.
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Dammit! I thought you were going to show us how to make them!
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So did I!
Belly button lint painted browny grey?
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Dammit! I thought you were going to show us how to make them!
lol
And me!
Belly button lint painted browny grey?
lol lol lol
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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.
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Glad to see some life around here! lol 48 hours was far too long! :D
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I bought a load of figures last year and have been busy painting everything else.
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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
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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....
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Right, I hereby demand a tutorial on tumbleweeds!
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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.
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Right, I hereby demand a tutorial on tumbleweeds!
I just unfold a piece of sisal rope curl it up in a ball
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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.
:D
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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
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I bought a load of figures last year and have been busy painting everything else.
On that note: I bought half a town a few months ago, and got given a whole bunch of figures, but have been busy painting everything else..... ::)
Old West will get started this year, just not sure exactly when.
:D
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I'm also just starting up an Old West set up as yet another period I don't have the time, space or money for! I currently have a few ACW buildings I intend to reuse and Battleflag's saloon with about 20 Artizan cowboys bought from Ebay. You lot are a bad influence! ;D
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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.
:D
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
Pictures or it didn't happen :D
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Pictures or it didn't happen :D
This ;D
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For tumbleweed, I picked up a bag of very light tan/brown lichen at AC Moore. Seems to look right when strewn about in small clumps.
I've played 4 games of FOL in the past couple weeks, two solo and two head to head. Still have 10 figures to get painted, and then order the Black Scorpion mounted figures and try to build some wagons.
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Things have been a little busy of late, but normal Old West gaming will resume shortly. In addition I have sourced a pile of new figures , buildings, and carriages for mt train, so the workbench is getting ready for serious use
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Pictures or it didn't happen :D
Well I sold my whole "Wild West" setup 6 months ago, buildings, figures, cactus, and tumbleweeds, only to a few picture as it was a work in progress that I abandoned if favor of others projects. But here are a few pics,
(http://www.historicalhobbies.com/DOGS/main/images/jpgs/Cowboys1&2.jpg)
(http://www.historicalhobbies.com/DOGS/main/images/jpgs/Cowboys2&3.jpg)
(http://www.historicalhobbies.com/DOGS/main/images/jpgs/Cowboys5&6.jpg)
(http://www.historicalhobbies.com/ForSale/4.jpg)
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Very nice cacti Vonkluge.
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Thanks, Elk101,
Yes they came out so well I was tempted to keep my Old West stuff! A few of them were scratch built.... I have just found that I have to eliminate a few periods so I can concentrate on they ones I really love and do them really well. Sad but time and money limit ones endeavors! >:(
Bill
(http://www.historicalHobbies.com/DOGS/main/images/WWII/Reninforce4.jpg)
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Excellent cacti
Where did you get them?
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Pegasus Hobbies has plastic cactii - they're quite good.
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I wouldn't say no to another game of Shoot & Skedaddle...
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Well I sold my whole "Wild West" setup 6 months ago, buildings, figures, cactus, and tumbleweeds, only to a few picture as it was a work in progress that I abandoned if favor of others projects.
Those look great, too bad I wasn't the one you sold them to! :-*
I'm just getting started with Old West (and getting back into miniatures after more than a decade). Got several dozen figures, mostly Knuckleduster, and picked up some Whitewash City pdfs. Of course, after so much time I also had to start over with paints, which has been more of a chore to get enough for not too much cash. I think I'll be fine with all of the discontinued paints I've found online (Derivan minis and Adikolor), and I'm excited to try this newfangled wet palette thing that all the kids are talking about these days. Last time I painted, it was just dipping from the pot! Who came up with these dropper bottles for paint??
Anyhow, since I'm pretty much starting from scratch, any suggestions from you folks would go a long way!
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Pegasus Hobbies has plastic cactii - they're quite good.
The Cactus in the picture I posted are Pegusus cacti, with a paint job, you have to assemble them and paint the to look really good. They come sort of jade green, like cake decorations otherwise. :o
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I wouldn't say no to another game of Shoot & Skedaddle...
I'm sure we can set something up...I drove all the way up to Charlotte the other weekend and we didn't even get a game in! I've lugged this stuff all over the place lately.
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Those look great, too bad I wasn't the one you sold them to! :-*
Last time I painted, it was just dipping from the pot! Who came up with these dropper bottles for paint??
Anyhow, since I'm pretty much starting from scratch, any suggestions from you folks would go a long way!
Well I am possibly about to sell all my Gladiators and arenas.... :o Like gunfights with swords! I have ALL of the foundry gladiator line and two arenas, lions, tigers, bears, ohh my!