Monday, August 19, 2024

Single Bases Arrive! No need to panic.

Almost from inception, I've planned to multi-base my Old West figures.  Recently, however, I've toyed with doing at least some on single bases - in large part from having found some nice round steel bases which work a lot better than square bases for me both for stability and aesthetically.  So I rummaged through the 'periphery' of the collection and found 24 mounted figures which I matched as best I could with 24 foot figures and added in 24 dead figures to make 'sets' of matched mounted/foot/dead.  Didn't have enough 'extra' saddled horses to mark dismounts, only eight, so I made eight groups of three, did have enough dead horses so each group will also have a dead horse.  I plan to make each group of three mounted on similar colored horses, all three on roans for instance with a matching roan saddled horse and dead horse.  One of the 24 is a woman, the rest are men.  

Since I'm so fond of games with unarmed civilians roaming around, I also dove into the unarmed figures on the edges of the collection and found a dozen men and a dozen women - but with too many duplicated sculpts (leftover figures more or less) so I went into the 'main collection' and swapped out figures from various groupings to reduce that unwanted duplication.

So far, the metal is only cleaned up and primed and that is what the images below show.  However, I've named all 24 of the 'sets' figures and the unarmed civilians.  The 'sets' are inspired my western movie actors, the unarmed civilians have character names from various western movies.

The first image shows the 12 unarmed women and two dead to go with them.  There are still a couple duplicates but just paint differently (dress and hair colors) and live with it. 

This second image has the 12 unarmed men.  Again the two dead.

An image of the eight standing saddled horses and eight dead horses.

On the right in front is group 4 and in the back is group 8.  
From right to left is group 1 through group 3 in front and group 5 through group 7 in back.
And just a shot of all the figures, 140 total pieces counting people and animals, alive and dead.
The above is really a small fraction of the total Old West collection but should be more than enough to get the period onto the gaming table this year.  Might add in some young folk, adolescents, and smaller children, a dozen of each, just not yet.

Here are the "Sets" by name:

Set 1: Willie Chiller, Picky Slim, Bren Walters
Set 2: Livy Lancelot (the lone woman), Eldred Gregory, Newbie Pauls
Set 3: Elm Jackeye, Wynn Keen, Boon Dickie
Set 4: Flint Haymaker, Mitch Roberts, Bron Carlitos
Set 5: Wayne Morris, Stew Jameson, Ford Glenburg
Set 6: Coop Garrulous, Lance Burtman, "Fondles" Henryson
Set 7: Maquerie "Mac" Stevens, Marvin Leafie, Eli Samuels
Set 8: Duvall Bobman, Arney Jimmer, Cob Burnjim

The unarmed men:

Nathan Burdette, Charley Hecker, Emmett Quincy, Mose Harper, Charlie McCorrey, Dalton Peabody, Cassius Starbuckle, Peter Ericson, Byron McElroy, Sam Fuller, Chris Calloway, Jack Wilson

The unarmed women:

Debbie Edwards, Hallie Stoddard, Emma Nelson, Alice Evans, Amy Kane, Mildred Fuller, Marian Starrett, Kate Nelson, Penelope Cushings, Lucy Mallory, Kathleen Yorke, Jill McBain, 

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