Category: old west

Rollo Sullivan

I already have quite a few miniatures suitable for the Old West style game. At GamesDay 2008 I did purchase the Warhammer Historical Old West rules, I also found some other Foundry Old West models to complement the blisters I already had.

Rollo Sullivan is part of OW9/1 Shootists.

Rollo Sullivan

I based the model on a two pence piece. The next stage will be a white undercoat.

One of the Pinkerton Men

I was looking for some other stuff when I found some more Wargames Foundry Old West figures. This is one of the Pinkerton Men from the OW9/1 Shootists set.

One of the Pinkerton Men

You can originally see that I had based them on a penny, but I couldn’t work out how to get it off the coin easily without damaging the model.

I think my models were packaged differently when I bought them. Currently this model is available in the following pack.

"Excuse me sir…"

I was looking for some other stuff when I found some more Wargames Foundry Old West figures. This is Cemetery Sam.

Cemetery Sam

He is from the Old West Townsfolk – The Town Vigilance Committee – OW117 set.

I was thinking of buying some Victorian models to go alongside my Victorian Science Fiction vehicles, but here I had some all the time. My intention after painting them is to use them with the Old West rules.

Old West Civvies

While going through an old box of stuff, in the main to find stuff I no longer want to sell on eBay, I found some more Foundry Old West figures.

I am pretty sure they are Foundry, but can’t find them on the website at the moment, I will post photographs at a later date.

I have now based them on two pence pieces, they were originally based on pennies, but in order to match my other gunfighters I needed to base them on larger coins.

Pitching the Roof

I had mentioned in a previous blog post that I was thinking about painting my Sarissa Precision buildings for the Old West. I took the plunge and painted the flat roof of the store.

I used a Citadel grey to paint the roof to represent that it had been pitched with tar and then faded in the sun. Black paint would have been too dark.

You can see in this image how it looked before I painted the roof.

The downside of this kind of painting I think will be that it will obscure the laser etching of the roof tiles on my other Sarissa Precision building.

Painting more Old West Gunfighters

I have been painting more of my Foundry gunfighters to get more of them finished for a future game of Old West. In the main I have been using Citdeal and Vallejo paints, using browns and the odd green. I need to get some blue for jeans though.

So far I have only finished Emmet Gates, but hope to get most of them finished soon.

Basing the Old West

I mentioned before that I wasn’t initially happy with my basing of my Old West miniatures so have been adding green stuff to the coins I was using for bases.

This should mean that when I come to paint the bases with textured paint it should mean the bases don’t look so coin-like.

Painting the Roof

Though I have used my Sarissa Precision Old West 25mm Buildings in game of Legends of the Old West, I think they could do with some extra work to add more detail. I would certainly like to add some weathering, but I would also like the paint the roof tiles on the shack.

What I am not sure about is how to paint the tiles and not paint out the etching that defines the tiles. What sort of process and paints should I be using? Should I use inks or a wash? Will thinned paint cover the etching? Should I paint each tile individually?

What process are you using to paint your laser etched buildings?