Starting my old west project

[ichwillauch]

Kitbashing the gunfighter and gunfighter II plastic sets to make the first citizens of a town with no name so far...

From left to right: a woman who wants to open her own saloon. The preacher: the only man who can read and write. He is now selling whiskey to the man on the far right. Next in line: an old man with many papers to show. Documents to claim his “legal rights” to the gold mine. Far right: the man who found the only nugget so far in the abandoned Spanish gold mine. In a literary sense, he is the founding father of the city.

The farmer and the stable owner

The miners who are digging deeper and deeper in the old Spanish mine.

More miners digging day and night.

From left to right, two honourable people defending the citizens from two notorious bandits, or are they the same as the bandits?

More to come...

[tikitang]

Nice work! I like the guy with the scythe. There's not enough scythe combat in typical western settings.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Very clever kitbashing! 👍

[supervike]

These are great!!  I need to get some of those kits.

[Ramirez Noname]

That’s a great selection of kitbashed folks.

RMZ

[ichwillauch]

Thanks all for the nice comments. Here are the last kitbashed miniatures, this time with an acw artillery sprue and some parts taken from the cannon fodder 2 and frostgrave wizard sprues.

[ichwillauch]

Another model...

He began his career as a muleteer in the American Civil War and later became a famous outlaw in the Wild West

[CapnJim]

All these kit-bashes look good.  I especially like the fellow with the lasso....

[ichwillauch]

First ideas about playing solo in the old west:

I chose Pinal County, Arizona for no particular reason. Taking a historical map and adding a two-mile hex grid turns the map into a Boot Hill campaign map.


There is a paper called "Place Names in Arizona" hosted by the University of Arizona that gives some information about ancient places, their date of foundation and purpose. The 1880 and 1890 census adds information about their population numbers.
Everything else then becomes pure fiction, heavily influenced by various Italo western movies and the novels by Karl May.
To play solo in the old west, it can be important to change the level of wargaming. So I want to use four different levels of detail:
1. The men who would be kings for larger engagements with half-size units
2. LOTOW for posse engagements. A posse is more or less a half-size unit in TMWWBK
3. Boot Hill 3e to play a single character or when it is necessary to use work or social skills. Four mounted characters will form a LOTOW-Posse
4. Boot Hill 3e special rules for duels in a final shootout.

Fortunately I own LOTOW the Old West and Frontier so it's possible to field Cowboys, Law Enforcers, Outlaws, Cavalry and Indian posses. Boot Hill 3e is available again on drivethrurpg.
The first goal for now is to set up mathematical formulars  that allows a character to be translated into the various rulesets. The next goal is to more or less balance weapon lethality between the different rulesets. The third goal is the calculation and transfer of experience points between the different rulesets.

In addition, of course, I still need tons of terrain, miniatures and buildings...

... of course I already own tons of miniatures, I only have to paint them all

[ichwillauch]

After a longer break a small update on my old west project.

The first group: The settlers form a wagon train against a previously unkown opponent of unimagined size.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

This is great Ichwillauch, I really like they way you’ve used the fireforge peasants (a brilliant kit) to add some variety.

I don’t think that wagon circle is going to be enough!

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[syrinx0]

Doesn't look good for those settlers!