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.
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.
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