A couple 40mm old west figures

[Evilcartoonist]

Taking my 40mm old west figures out of storage, I discovered a few were yet unpainted, so I remedied that.
Here are the first couple, a pair of cowboys. I also have a couple armed townies almost finished. I'll post those here later.
These are by HLBS (now sold by minifigs.uk and Knuckleduster, who has their own excellent range of 40mm ((and 28mm)) old west.)

I went about painting these using a heavy-handed version of the "english" system (three-color layering) to somewhat simulate a Frederick Remington painting.

[Mason]

Nice work!
 

Old West is something that translates well to 40mm, I reckon.
 

[Evilcartoonist]

... And here are the other two, originally by HLBS.



 After seven years, my entire 40mm old west collection is painted (photo below was taken last week and doesn't include the four figures in this thread).

[Mason]

 

That IS impressive!

Absolutely gorgeous!
 

[THE CID]

Top notch set of figures, I'm jealous . THE CID.

[Orctrader]

Very good.   

[Admiral Benbow]

Absolutely top notch work!
 

[Ray Earle]

Brilliant work EvilC!!  

Although, you've cost me a fortune as I hadn't realised that minifigs had picked the range up.   Did they get the Paper street soap company range too?

Time to sort out my collection.

Are those figures based on 25mm rounds?

[Hummster]

Excellent work again, just    at the sight of the full collection.

[Evilcartoonist]

Did they get the Paper street soap company range too?
Are those figures based on 25mm rounds?

I'm not sure what happened to Paper Soap.
And yes, those are 25mm round bases, though, I'd prefer 30 or 40mm (which I had little access to when I first painted these figures.)

[Ray Earle]

Just been on the website and the old Paper street stuff is under the spaghetti western section. 

I was going to go with 30mm bases myself.

How does the knuckleduster stuff compare size wise to the Hlbs figures?

[Deedles]

thats an excellent collection.. 

[Treebeard]

That's very cool.
I'd like to see some closeup of all of them 

[Evilcartoonist]

Ray, the HLBS and Knuckleduster figures match up perfectly. The Knuckledusters have a slightly different sculpting style (they're a little more hard-edged) but they still fit well together.

Treebeard, visit my blog at: http://carmensminiaturepainting.blogspot.com/
You can either do a search for 40mm old west, or you can scroll down a bunch on the main page and see a list of 40mm old west articles along the left side. Just too many to show here

[Elbows]

I feel like it's a crime that those ever ended up stuffed away in a box...