Whiskey Hills get busy!

[FifteensAway]

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:

http://whiskeyhills.blogspot.com

As always, you should be able to click a photo to make it bigger or to just troll through the photos.

[Sunjester]

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?

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Stunning pictures, what a collection!      

Posted one of your photos here for you.

[guitarheroandy]

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.

[Harry Faversham]

Who makes the figures?

 

[FifteensAway]

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.

[FifteensAway]

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?

Thanks.