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Offline The Gray Ghost

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Making a Western style fort
« on: March 09, 2011, 12:49:45 AM »
Any tips on making one of these?
Are there any premade wall sets out there?
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it anymore and what is it seems weird and scary.

Offline FifteensAway

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Re: Making a Western style fort
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2011, 06:05:44 AM »
I think we need to have your question better clarified to give you a useful answer.  Do you want a wooden stockade?  Do you want an "open" fort which is what most of them were?  What scale are you working in?  Let us know and I'm sure one of us or more will chime in to help you out.

Offline Glitzer

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Re: Making a Western style fort
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2011, 09:57:55 AM »
Osprey did a book about them, I doubt you could build a realistic one on your table, maybe you could build an edge of one.

Then again you could build one of those Movie-Forts which should work quite well for a Wargame.
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Offline Malamute

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Re: Making a Western style fort
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2011, 10:29:01 AM »
If you want a Hollywood inspired wooden stockade type then try this from Frontline Wargaming:

http://www.frontlinewargaming.co.uk/

Designed for French and Indian Wars, but I reckon it would look the part with some yellow kneckerchief wearing dirtyshirt blue cavalrymen standing on the ramparts. :)
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Offline The Gray Ghost

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Re: Making a Western style fort
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2011, 01:35:34 PM »
I think we need to have your question better clarified to give you a useful answer. 
Sorry about that.
I'm looking for western style log fort in 28mm with the log buildings, not so much an entire fort but enough to fight in and around it.

GG

Offline Tom Reed

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Re: Making a Western style fort
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2011, 02:45:15 PM »
Old Glory has a pretty nice one I've been eyeing for some time, and if you are an Army member you can buy it at 40% off.
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Offline Axtklinge

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Re: Making a Western style fort
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2011, 08:54:18 PM »
As mentioned before there's a some alternatives if you're into buying one, but IMO it could be a great chance to build one yourself, as big or as small as you'd like it to be.
And you could even build it in sections so it would be both easy to store, and also to get it bigger/smaller according to the game...

:)


Offline timg

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Re: Making a Western style fort
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2011, 08:55:25 PM »
If you want a Hollywood inspired wooden stockade type then try this from Frontline Wargaming:

http://www.frontlinewargaming.co.uk/

Designed for French and Indian Wars, but I reckon it would look the part with some yellow kneckerchief wearing dirtyshirt blue cavalrymen standing on the ramparts. :)

If only someone made such figures, Hollywood cavalry would be great. Nice link to the buildings, some usefull stuff.

Offline saltflats1929

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Re: Making a Western style fort
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2011, 09:11:15 PM »
Have a look at these guys.
http://achesoncreations.com/

 

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