What A Cowboy - A School House

I have had absolutely no time to paint over this past weekend. No progress was made on the existing miniatures either. But, I did have a late night at work monitoring things and had time on my hands. I began to work on a School House for my town. I managed to make a mock up of the school house based on the one from some pictures that I found and the excelent paper model from Eric Hotz's Whitewash City. Here is what the model looks like in TinkerCad. It is just small enough in 1/100th to fit on my build plate!

I have the files sliced and ready to go. I am not sure about the roof. I was trying to figure out what to do with it. I did not put in a stove pipe into the roof. I probably should go back and do that. The roof on the Whitewash City model was a planked roof. Many of the buildings that I saw pictures of had a shingle roof. I have some left over shingle sheets from either Sarissa or Warbases that I may use for this. That could provide a nice look to the building. I made the planking effects go deeper this time into the building to try and have them show up in the scale. So far I am happy with what io have done.

One shange is that I did not include a boardwalk section in front of the building. The one I did for the small office did not work out that well. It lifted up during curing and was so thin that it broke in half while pulling it up off of the curing plate. I will need to create something for that but it will be so thin, I am looking more towards scratch building the boardwalk rather than printing one.

Anyway, it has been fun to work on. I will throw it up for free on the PayHip site once I have a chance to print it myself or get someone to.

What a Cowboy - Painting Progress and Campaign

Made some painting progress over the weekend. It was good to be able to have the time to paint. I managed one 3DBreed miniature. It is the town drunk figure that they give away for free. He has his jacked partially off and is staggering with a bottle. It was a fun miniature to paint and will become a townsfolk for the mining camp and the town.

I did a few scenic items as well. I finished a small mine entrance and some cacti on desertish looking bases. I tried using contrast paints for the first time and was pleasantly surprised by them. I think I may try some more of these. Also painted up some camp items that will go on a base for a mining camp.

I also started on some bases of some animals. I printed three horses successfully which will be mounts for some mounted Mexicans. Also printed a cowboy horse holder with three horses. I have four Texas longhorns to paint up as well.

For having only played one actual game, i really like these rules. Enough that I started a historical campaign for them.

I am looking to model the Second Battle of Adobe Walls. This is rather ambitious considering that I have absolutely no plains Indian figures. The historical battle pitted 28 buffalo hunters against a force of some seven hundred plains indians. It boiled down to a series of cavalry charges against men in adobe and sod structures. The indians took casualties over the course of three days before pulling out. But the incident has a number of smaller surrounding actions as well. I can see these leading to an interesting campaign.

I am looking at 3d Breed again to pick up the miniatures for this project. I think I have some ideas about how to carry out the campaign and split up the battle into three separate actions. Anyway, still doing the research for this and it may end up with the pile of other half started projects on my hard drive.

What A Cowboy: Progress

Been printing quite a bit. I made a mine entrance but broke the track section. I managed to print some scatter to place on the stand in front of the entrance.

I also printed campsite items as well. I still need to make a few tents and a cook fire.

I printed a number of animals, including a deer, a buffalo, a rabbit, a wolf and a dog. but more importantly, six longhorn cattle. but in removing the spruces, I destroyed 2 of the.

I also printed some cacti as well. I found some old bases that I mounted the cacti to. they are a bit thick but look pretty good. I am concerned about filing them down since they appear to be resin.

Lastly, I printed a set of dice for What A Cowboy. I started to paint them but figure with use, that might be pointless.

while I need to paint all of it. I will attempt to use some contrast paints on the cacti. I need some white primer. it will be interesting to try out.

I reached out to Rich since my preorder has not arrived but with the posting of the desparado cards, I should be able to play. I have worked on a campaign, but want some practice with the rules first. I have watched the games that Tabletop CP posted and can't wait to try.

My Mexican town is small. I want just a few buildings and a church. My goal is the cantina from Sarrissa. Also their 2 story building. I want a few more buildings but am not sure what to get.

I did get to play a quick game today. It was a quick two on two game. It moved quickly and was good fun. I can see where this will be a good game to get on the table and do multiple playthroughs in an evening.