A brief encounter with a larger scale

Purchased the below 9 packs this past Saturday and hoping to find out some more information on the range which I believe is Out of Production. 

The below image shows a figure (inside the unopened package) as being 25 mm from bottom of foot to eyes.

edit: unrelated to above but I have today adjusted the Pages options to the left side of the Home page so that only Pages that work are there.  I did a little renaming to accommodate the eventual topics I want to fit under the Pages 'umbrella'.

Cacti Revisited

Took some time to sort my cacti - now have 190 - and was able to sort them into groups of 3 and every group of 3 (63 of them) has all different models, plus one lone and unique metal sculpt of a cacti.  However, I am going to still go with groups of 9, 6, and 3 cacti so the larger groupings might duplicate a little bit.  Breakdown will be:

11 groups of 9 - 99 cacti, around 12 square inches, 132 total

10 groups of 6 - 60 cacti, around 9 square inches, 90 total

10 groups of 3 - 30 cacti, around 4 square inches, 40 total

1 'group' of 1 -  1 cacti, around whatever it turns out to be, undecided

That will be around 262 square inches of cacti, not quite two square feet - however, by spreading them out a bit can cover a much larger area in cacti.  And important to note that the bases will not be square at all but irregularly curved bits.  The 'eleventh' group of 9 cacti will definitely be a multi-level base, some of the other bases and sizes might also be but this one will be a prominent terrain piece.

Oh, and courtesy of the 3D printing phenomenon, I have some 15 mm rattlesnakes to add into the mix!

Just adding up those civilian on foot additions

 Anachronism               34 groups (408) (64 dead)

Lodgepole Creek        13 groups (156) + 1 group (168 + 28 dead)

Alkali Wells                13 groups (156) + 1 group (168 + 28 dead)

Muleskinner Canyon    6 groups (72) + 1 group (84 + 14 dead)

Mescalarilla                  6 groups (72) + 1 group (84 + 14 dead)

Dork's Claims               2 groups (24) + 1 group (36 + 6 dead)

Bull's Butt                     2 groups (24) + 1 group (36 + 6 dead)

"Environs"                   22 groups (264) + 1 group (276 + 46 dead)

105 groups = 1,260 + 210 dead (and those six prospector mules) (1,476 pieces including babes in arms)

Might remove the 'more modern' film crew and just leave the 'old fashioned' film crew as the 'roaming' group

Over half of the above is primed and ready for painting

Vehicles and more ready to paint

While working on another project I got a bit more done - all of the Peter Pig Mexican Revolution cars and pickup trucks are primed and ready to paint (some assembly of wind screens and adding heads still needs to get done).

Primed all 49 teepees and their associated pieces.

And primed one unit of armed men and women - with casualties - for Anachronism which I believe means all of that town's civilians are ready to paint.

Also primed a bunch of dead horses, saddle and draft, as well as horse skeletons and human skeletons.  Mostly meant for Old West but useable in other settings.

And got the 14 dead buffalo plus 6 'hunted' buffalo and two solo horseback riders hunting the buffalo primed for painting.  The 'dead' are just models removed from their bases.  That means a total of 140 buffalo!

No photos at this time.

A little evidence of progress

 Prepped a couple of units for Mescarilla today:

A 'sombrero' unit from Bluemoon (Old Glory 25s) - from one of the Mexican Wars ranges, forget which.

These are from Peter Pigs' Mexican Revolution range, again in Sombreros.

Here is a side-by-side comparison, Bluemoon on the left, Peter Pig on the right.

And a little better angle to show the distinctive size difference.  Workable in separate units.

Just wanted to show this project is not abandoned, not by any means.

A bit of a drought out west, I hear

Yup, not much happening lately on the Old West front but I did place an order today for some items that may jump start my long languishing scratch built town.  And you'll have to trust me on this - this period is in no way abandoned.  If I were to roll back to the maximum on miniatures there are three for sure keepers: my American Revolution, My Slightly Cracked Colonials, and the Old West/Pony Wars.  Lately the first of those two have gotten the greater part of my attention.  And with my wife retired the end of the last year I've had to spend time getting her adjusted and feeling valued and useful and not just watching television - and that accursed shopping channel.  

So, absolutely expect more here, just be patient in the waiting.  I do have my courthouse on the workbench when time allows, hopefully soon.  Expect it will be quite the reveal - especially the name that goes with it.  We'll see,