What a Cowboy

Well as the clock slows down as Christmas approaches... er the release of What a Cowboy approaches, I finished up my Mexican gang. Sort of. I painted standing figures so far. I have yet to get a good print of horses yet for mounted figures. I am trying something with the settings in Chutibox to see if I can print a horse will all of its legs.

I painted the one holding the guitar and another one in black as if they were in a mariachi band or the like. It seemed like a good idea at the time. You will notice that I had trouble printing the pistols. So the gang is carrying snub nosed revolvers. I struggled with how to paint them but I think they are passable.

I need some dead figures to go along with them. 3DBreed does not make casualty figures... yet. I have emailed them and they said they may come back to the range and add to it. In the mean time, I found that i had purchased a pack of Peter Pig dead Mexicans. I have them ready to paint but have not primed them yet. The difficulty will be making them match.

I have three previously painted gangs. Each are painted similarly to make them look like they belong together. The plan is to have mounted, foot and dead figures for each gang member. So far, I only have foot painted and a few dead. I think I only have one mounted figure painted.

The one gang with no dead figures may be some miniatures I purchased on eBay 10 years ago. I can no longer remember. I have some additional figures on painting sticks as seen in the images. i also have a few more cowboy casualty figures to paint up. Peter Pig's range is great as they actually have matching mounter and casualty figures for each of their foot miniatures. I need to get some cattle and dead horses next. I am trying to decide between 3d Breed Cattle or Peter Pig. I'll probably go with the longhorns that are in the Peter Pig range. They have some real gems in that line. I am going to try to paint what I have first.

In looking at what is needed for What a Cowboy, I think I am happy with my terrain as is. I might like to get some cactii. Again, there are some nice Peter Pig ones availible. In the videos that Rich made, I am thinking about buying the pinned markers and wounded figures from Peter Pig to use instead of the acrylic splat token. Just need the game to be released now.

More Paper Terrain

I managed to build some more Eric Hotz Paper Terrain buildings. I must say, I really like these. So far, I have a Saloon (tent with false front), a Livery Stable, a bank, a sheriff's office, a shack, a blacksmith, a privy, a double privy and a pair of sheds. Even with my butter fingers I have managed to put these together with little issues.

And the saloon:

The one thing about these is that they would be WAY less fiddly in a larger scale than 15mm. But they came together quickly and look pretty good. I have enough scenery now for my game this weekend. There are still a number of buildings that I want to make. I just need to cut them out and apply the glue.

Blogger Followers

Not sure what I am doing wrong but I keep noticing that my followers have started dropping off lately. I was at 171 not that long ago and am now at 166. I would assume that it is because of the useless posts here if it were not for the fact that it has been 171 for a long time. It seems y'all are fairly tolerant of my posts.

Anyway, I have made a few more paper buildings for my old west game this saturday with my son. I have not taken any pictures yet but I will later this week. Strangely enough, I am finding it rather relaxing to put these together. I hope to have at least 10 buildings done by Saturday.

Been fiddling around with the Kharkov scenario book some as well. I also almost started work on one of my apartment buildings that i bought from Ebay. The problem is, no directions. I have most of it together but I am at a loss on the decorative bits.

New Toys

I purchased some new miniatures from Ebay. I received some nicely painted Old West miniatures. Enough for three gangs in Fist Full of Lead - Reloaded.

The first up is a group of what I will use as Lawmen.

They just struck me as looking like lawmen more than the others.

The next is the Calamity Jane Gang. The blonde headed girl is the leader.

Then the last is the Dixon gang.

I really like the figure with the two pistols. Reminds me of Kevin Costner's character in Silverado. All are nicely painted. This was a good purchase. It came with some post apocalyptic miniatures. There are some nice police figures, some motorcycles and other odds and ends for a total of more than 20 such figures. There are some monster looking things that I have no clue what they are. Still, it was worth it for the old west minis. No clue what I will do with the rest.

Kharkov Buildings and some Old West.

Kharkov Campaign

Over the weekend, I had several packages arrive. I have been on a bit of a buying spree lately. First up is a lovely warehouse building from Foundations of War. I discovered this on eBay and snapped it up. The instructions are on their website and do not come enclosed in the kit.

The kit was in an envelope with some cardboard in it for support. But that did not stop my post man from cramming it in the box. Fortunately there was no damage to the kit.

I have not yet begun to assemble it. The instructions are far less step by step and will require some figuring. It is a fairly large piece though.

Next up are two buildings from a company called Eldo Miniatures that seem to be exclusively eBay. They are small three and four story buildings that look like they will paint up nicely. These too came with no instructions but they seem simple enough. Again, they are untouched and still in the bag.

Then, i also managed to find a hotel in 15mm that seemed to fit with what I was looking to do. This is from another eBay company called ReyCast out of Poland. The price was right and it looked promising. I don't expect to see it till the end of the month even though it is marked today as shipped. Things are starting to come together.

Old West

My son has asked me to break out the minis again and get in a Old West cowboys game. In honor of that, I just bought Fist Full of Lead - Reloaded last week. Seems like a very straight forward ruleset. I have enough Cowboy minis to get in a good game but I only have adobe buildings. So it was time to fix that. I happen to have some PDFs of Eric Hotz's Whitewash City buildings that I had bought years ago. I started to fiddle with these and rescale them. Here is the first of my efforts.

Honestly, this came out WAY better than I thought it would. The railing was fiddly to deal with but i think it was worth the effort. i should have started out with something bigger but it was a trail balloon. Now to knock out a bank, livery, blacksmith, some stores and a sherrif's office this week.

More Painting Accomplished

Tonight was rather productive. I finished my first set of Old West miniatures. First up is the leader of the gang, Bad Bob. This is from the Peter Pig line, "Hey you in the jail." I really like these character packs. They include a mounted, dismounted and dead figure.

Next up are the rest of his gang. The figures are from their gunmen with pistols pack. The dead poses are from their dead gunmen pack. I tried to paint them in pairs of matching living and dead poses.

These were great fun to paint. I have several more figures to paint up. Oddly enough I have 2 other of the character packs: the sheriff and the marshal. What surprised me is all three of the character packs that I own all are armed with shotguns. I was hoping that there would be at least one with a shotgun. Anyway, these will be used with the Lard Approved "Tin Star" rules.

Next up is what I received in the mail. My major prize that I won from the Mad Padre's recent contest. It is a lovely 28mm adventurer figure. It is full of character and Mike did a great job of painting it up. One day I will have to look into a pulp army of some sort.

Lastly, I finished painting but not yet basing 14 Italian Riflemen, 3 sergeants armed with Barretta SMGs and a lieutenant for my 3rd and final platoon for my CSIR Italian force. In addition, I finished up a 65mm mountain gun. I hope that I can get the basing finished this week.