Author Topic: "It's your Troop now, Mr. Colehill." (Read 35433 times)

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #180 on:** 22 June 2025, 10:39:08 AM »

Your lads will be doing the 'normal' games. The Munchkins will ride when I go 'Big Boy's' toys!

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #181 on:** 22 June 2025, 10:45:18 AM »

The Chief of Scouts reined in his pony...

"Report."

Ordered Yellow Hair.

"Ginrel Sir, don't go down there, there's too many Indians, even for you!"

Yellow Hair smiled.

"That'll be the day!"

Tom Dulski · « **Reply #182 on:** 22 June 2025, 12:38:03 PM »

Those cacti look great

Lord Raglan · « **Reply #183 on:** 22 June 2025, 12:49:45 PM »

Romark · « **Reply #184 on:** 22 June 2025, 03:59:19 PM »

Nice collection Harry,re the Britannia minis I quite like them,and with the right paint job they'll pass nicely.
(Pics from Matakishi's Tea House collection which I've always admired ).

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #185 on:** 22 June 2025, 04:18:10 PM »

This is all Matakishi's fault!
I saw his Custer's Last Stand collection, and fell in love with it. What I've found is, the Brittania giant heads, makes cracking warpaint really pop. Paul loves the little swine, and had a couple of the unbuilt wagons, off me.

Romark · « **Reply #186 on:** 22 June 2025, 04:50:02 PM »

Quote from: Harry Faversham on 22 June 2025, 04:18:10 PM

This is all Matakishi's fault!
I saw his Custer's Last Stand collection, and fell in love with it. What I've found is, the Brittania giant heads, makes cracking warpaint really pop. Paul loves the little swine, and had a couple of the unbuilt wagons, off me.

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CapnJim · « **Reply #187 on:** 22 June 2025, 05:43:53 PM »

A. Lovely collection. You just might have enough Indians at this point. More will be even better, methinks.

B. Would I be pissing on your parade if I pointed out that no cacti were present at Little Big Horn?

They do look grand, though...

FifteensAway · « **Reply #188 on:** 23 June 2025, 03:11:10 AM »

I shall speak out of turn and state that I'm pretty sure Harry is just doing a 'parade' and the cacti are not for the Greasy Grass but for when his Apache make a showing.

And there must be Apache in the mix. A travesty of the highest order if not!

Harry Faversham · « **Reply #189 on:** 23 June 2025, 05:26:23 PM »

And there, in a nutshell, is mi' conundrum!
Do I do it 'properly' with terrain looking like the Great Plains? Or go full blown, 'Pony Wars'/'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon'!!!???

FifteensAway · « **Reply #190 on:** 24 June 2025, 01:42:50 AM »

Well, here comes Ole Grumpy again to set things straight - if not right.

Monument Valley, land of not one action of the Old West of legend, just a place no one much wanted to visit, not even hardly the local indigenous folk, not enough water for a mouse to take a bath most of the time. Water is kind of important for people and horses and all.

Saguaro cactus grow about 400 miles south of Monument Valley - which is about 850 miles southish of Little Bighorn battle site. And that is the dominant species in Harry's pictured collection - though just above a rock there is a prickly pear and they do grow in the valley area.

So, if you go 'whole hog' over the wagon's transom and include saguaro at Little Bighorn - to mix my metaphors - you'd be 'planting' saguaro over 1200 miles from their natural habitat - sort of the distance from London to Algeria more or less.

Now, there ain't no reason you can't. It is a game after all. I'd just call it a variation of Cat Ballou - wildly inaccurate but fun anyway.

Now, if you reserve that tall, 'arm'y verdure for when the Apaches go up against the boys in "dirty shirt blue", why, then all shall be right in the world.

Personally, I wouldn't tempt fate and so misrepresent the Ancient Ones by planting them so far from home.

Say what, you say? Look up Native American legends about the saguaro.

And then go have fun with your toys!

has.been · « **Reply #191 on:** 24 June 2025, 06:50:36 AM »

Harry, if you don't want to go all out with Apaches & 'dirty shirt blue' , you could do a skirmish.
Fistful of Lead, and some of the nice new figures out there. Gringo 40s, Galloping Major etc.
Just a suggestion.

CapnJim · « **Reply #192 on:** 27 June 2025, 12:51:40 AM »

Quote from: Harry Faversham on 23 June 2025, 05:26:23 PM

And there, in a nutshell, is mi' conundrum!
Do I do it 'properly' with terrain looking like the Great Plains? Or go full blown, 'Pony Wars'/'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon'!!!???

Ain't that what they did in Fort Apache? Henry Fonda met his demise in a battle in the Southwest that reeked of Little Big Horn....