Tipis and Indians

[cmsciulli]

I finished up several Tipis, taking inspiration from these boards, and the corresponding Indians to inhabit the Tipis.









Figs are from Conquest Miniatures Comanche line:











And what are plains Indians without some Bison to hunt?




Cheers and thanks for looking!

[Driscoles]

Very nice. The tipis need a little more dirt - at the opening on top - from the fire.

I saw the Custers Last Stand TV movie last weekend. It definately gave me a final kick to start this topic too.

Iam tempted for years with Little Big Horn and the plains wars...

Björn

[Terrible Tim]

Great look stuff. The fire place is a cool idea.

[Hitman]

Great idea...another inspirational use of CD's for bases. They look great!! You probably need a bit of a soot-look near the top of the tipis due to the fire and smoke, otherwise...well done. Thanks for sharing.

[Aaron]

Nice work. If you don't mind a little constructive criticism on the figures I think a thin yellow-brown wash will help pop out the details on the bone shirts.

[cmsciulli]

Nice work. If you don't mind a little constructive criticism on the figures I think a thin yellow-brown wash will help pop out the details on the bone shirts.

That's a great idea, thank you.

As far as the soot comments go. . . do you guys mean make the front of the tipi look sooty up near the top?  It's not showing well in the pics, but I did paint the top flaps of the tipis gray and black to look sooty.

[Plynkes]

I spent a few days living in a tipi once. It was like the Tardis. Much bigger inside than you would expect. This one wasn't sooty around the top, but maybe they cleaned it regularly, I dunno.

They look great. The pictures actually remind me of old Blue Peter annuals (or some similar book) that had "how to make" articles in them. I remember one all about making "wigwams" (that's what we called tipis in those days, I don't know which is actually more correct), and yours very much remind me of those ones in that lost book from my childhood. Thanks for digging up the memories! 

[Wargame4fun]

  Wow, that fire pit is fantastic!

Good job Christin