What a Cowboy Tents Revisited

I am pleased with the first tent structure that I made. I still need to print it but got caught up in working with Tinkercad. So I put together a second building. This one is a false front store on a tent structure. Again, I used a Whitewash City building as the inspiration for this.

I have run both buildings through my slicer and want to print them this weekend. I have also purchased a few buildings from MyMiniFactory and will give printing those a try.

Rebasing Militia

I did something British Legion adjacent as I worked on rebasing my militia. I have rebased two groups of 10 militia. I started another. I have five groups left to work on plus a group of 6 militia skirmishers. The Big Men will remain based on US Pennies. The infantry bases are 3d printed and are a unified size between militia and regulars.

I am really liking the look of the new basing. I have my two finished groups of British Legion so based. But I have six more groups of Provincial Infantry to rebase. Some are on small washers. I still have some on my original basing which was three to a plastic square. I have not figured out what I will do for a cavalry base yet. I only have one completed unit of British Legion Cavalry. My thought was to make a sabot that will fit the bases that these are already mounted on.Who knows if that will stick.

I have six figures of a regular Continental unit painted up that will need rebasing. I want to complete these out to a group of 8. I will see if I can get my STLs from Henry Turner to match. Will have to see. I also have two groups that have yet to be primed of Georgia Continentals. Those are lower on the to do list.

If, I can get my British Legion troops finished and all of my existing troops rebased, my next priority is to print some Continental Dragoons. I want to have some as Pulaski's Legion and William Washington's Dragoons. I have a single group of 8 Militia Cavalry. I have Henry Turner's Militia Cavalry STLs to print out to add some more. I have Horse Holders for the British Legion from Peter Pig. I will need some for the others as well. Anyway. it was almost progress on a project.

What a Cowboy - Terrain

After placing an order for seven packs of Peter Pig Cowboys for What a Cowboy, I started to review my terrain. I am close to satisfied with the small Mexican village I have been building. I have assembled but not plastered or painted the Sarissa Cantina that I have. My town terrain is currently all paper terrain from Eric Hotz. While I have a large number of Whitewash City buildings built, I am not quite sold on the look. The paper terrain does provide some inspiration to make my own terrain.

In looking at the sample map from the WAC rulebook for the campaign, there are 10 areas on the map. Over a year ago, I bought some houses under construction from Project Wargaming. These were right at the edge of what my printer could manage. I have a friend printing these for me with his larger printer. These would be useful for the New Suburb area, the town and even the lumber mill. I do have some models for other buildings as well that I may attempt to print sometime soon. I have a Battlefront Rail station that would be pressed into service as well as rail tracks. I am lacking a train. I printed a mine head and have some small outbuildings for the mine area. But one thing I wanted was a large tent building that would be used for either a headquarters or an important temporary building.

I looked at what was there with Whitewash city. i found a suitable structure and wondered if I could build it in Tinkercad. I spent some time on it and managed to get something suitable.

I am pleased with it and it will fit on my printer's build plate. I found some good other smaller tents on Thingiverse and have downloaded those. They will need to be shrunk as they area all for a larger scale. If I get these printed and based, it will make a great start for the Miner camp or for the timbermill. I have some camp items for Sharp Practice for my AWI games. These should be usable as well.

This leaves a school house. I do not have one of those. I may buy a church either from Sarissa or possibly Game Craft Miniatures and add a graveyard to it. The suburb and town are still needing some attention. The rules suggest a 4' x 4' play area. That is actually great as that means I can still use half of my table as a painting area. Lets see if I will be able to get this moving.

I am looking to have a multi faction game going. I will dice for townies that are looking to defend what they have in addition to other factions looking to interdict the others. This could be fun.

Cold War is Hot Again!

Flank March Miniatures has published a set of Cold War modifications for Chain of Command. These looks really promising. They rely heavily on Chain of Command 2 as the base with slight modifications to make them fit the period better. I am keen to try these out. It has a nice array of Soviet, British and US troops available. I have reached out and run some ideas about how to change these to represent Cubans and Sandinistas as well.

I was comparing the force lists to FM 7-7 for the US Mechanized Platoon. I have both the 1977 and the 1985 editions of these documents. That provided 3 distinct formations in them all based around the M113 troop carrier. I have a base platoon for both sides ready to go for the game. I have been eyeing the files from Flank March for their Soviet Engineers and went ahead and ordered them. I think these will offer some great fun this year.

Check out the rule for yourself: https://www.flankmarch.com/downloads

Weekend Progress

Well, not much happened over the weekend. I managed to paint tyhe bridle and saddles of some of my British Legion Cavalry. I am struggling to figure out what to paint the saddle Blankets. One showed white blankets and another showed the dark green of the uniform jackets. I did get some primer on the casualties and a few of the other odds and ends. I just didn't have the patience to get any more painting done. Hopefully, I can get more done soon.

I have been thinking about two other rule sets - What a Cowboy and Algernon Pulls It Off. I have some cowboys done and painted up from Peter Pig. I am very happy with the ones that I have but wanted a few more. So I went on the Brookhurst Hobbies Website and got a few character models. I really like the character models as they have a standing a mounted and a casualty figure for the same guy. This fits in with how I view the game. The low figure count needed lends itself to having multiple figures for a given character.

For Algernon, I had settled on 1/144 scale miniatures a while back. I found miniatures for many of the Austro-Hungarian and Italian aircraft that I want. But my ground cloth was pretty bad. It was a blue felt cloth with some home drawn hexes. I wanted something better and decided to order from BattleMat Bazaar. I asked for recommendations from the Algernon Facebook group and the unanimous choice seemed to be Deep Cut Studios. They are based in the UK and the postage would have been more than I wanted to pay. The BMB one is about 4' by 5' and has 2" hexes. Now I just need to finish painting the miniatures that I have.

So far, I just has a single Nieuport 11 and a pair of Fokker Eindecker A.IIIs ready to go. I have more to finish. So all and all, not much progress and more work to do.