Building the Old West

We had a game over the weekend playing a team up of Cowboys and Indians vs Outlaws and Aliens.

The battle report is here;  https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1885181/?order=asc

I did a thing.

This will be for one specific scenario and if someone doesn’t enjoy the whimsy the saucermen and robots can be replaced by Indians.

I used Army Painter Necrotic Green for the head and washed it with Green Tone.  The eyes are Pure Red also from Army Painter.  The raygun is Army Painter Gun Metal the uniform is Army Painter Hydra Turquoise and the chest insignia is Army Painter Bright Gold washed in GW Seraphim Sepia and the jewel in the center is Army Painter Cobalt Metal.  Arms and legs are GW Eshin Gray and then everything except the head was washed in GW Nuln Oil Gloss and the Turquoise parts highlighted back up with Hydra Turquoise.  Everything was then given a matte coat with Vallejo spray matte.

The saucer was spray painted with Army Painter Plate Metal and the darker panels painted with Gun Metal.  Panel lines were done using Tamiya black panel liner.

I didn’t glue the two halves together as I think I can light it from the inside using one of those battery powered led candlelights.

I’m be of the figures has embroidery on the back of his short waisted jacket, arms and legs so I used GW Contrast Nlood Angels Red to pick this detail out but otherwise I’m using standard acrylic paints.

It was common for cowboys and vaqueros to have their pants given extra reinforcement to the seat to make them longer wearing. Sometimes this was in a different color but not always.  Two of the figures have this feature so I painted them in different colors to accentuate this detail.

I’ve started on the Banditos set from Great Escape Games and have settled on the basic colors.  A lot of the traditional cowboy equipment and terms came from Mexican vaqueros, including the short wasted jackets with colorful embroidery.  Only one of the figures has this embroidered element but a couple of the figures have serapes and four have the short waisted jackets.  All in all a pretty nice set.

I finished the hayloft and added window and door details.

So the next big question is what color to paint it?  Most of the businesses only have the front painted up.  But the livery is one of the largest buildings so it needs to stand out.

Barns are traditionally red because in this era, it’s the cheapest color to manufacture.  So, maybe?

Our town got bigger and is now sporting an actual livery and associated corral.  A fairly big structure with two stories, multiple doors and lots of story potential and hiding places.

The big open doors aren’t actually supposed to be open. They accidentally got punched out during assembly so now I need to figure out what to do.  Glue them back in, open or closed?  And what about the doors on the other end?

Sensing a business opportunity Mr. Wiley & Sons have set up shop in our town. I suspect business will be good.

I painted up some Native Americans using Great Escape Games box of Renegade Indians.  One of the figures is wearing an army coat with corporal stripes so I’ll probably add him to the cavalry posse as a Scout.

Indian Scouts had always been an informal part of the US Army but in 1866 the War Department officially authorized them. Initially issued Civil War era surplus they would eventually get their own uniforms and branch of service insignia.  The insignia was a pair of crossed arrows. This insignia was later adopted by Special Forces.

I decided to fancy up the existing hills while working on even more ridges, hills and mesas.  I used some PVA glue and sand on the flat horizontal surfaces to add some interest. I then gave everything a drybrush of Army Painter Skeleton Bone. I then glued some foam tufts to act as foilage.

I’ve been thinking about adding some door frames to the jail for awhile now. I finally got around to using some leftover MDF sprues to make two door frames. Once I cut them to size I glued them together in the proper shape, primed and then painted them.