More thinking

 27 x 3 = 81 - that's how many individually based figures I'd have if I go that way for all 27 'units' of 12 mounted/foot/dead(standing horses, 1 for 3 only).  But I really like 90 a lot better.  So, I'll have to see if I can come up with an additional 9 foot/mounted/dead.  Pretty sure I have enough to make that work - except maybe additional standing horses.

Bigger challenge is going to be horses to mark dismounts.  Easy enough when just using the individually based figures, if I go that way - and getting more likely, just use three of the four standing horses for each 'unit'.  But when I want to mix the individual based with the 3-to-a-base, not so easy.  No way am I going to add that many additional standing horses to the total (at 2 x 27 = 54 plus probably a few more); might have enough additional to get part way there.  Or, maybe I am nuts enough to get that many more standing horses!  Resistance must rush in!!

Well, at least I know I can do whatever level of 1:1 figure gaming I'm likely to ever want with what I already have.

Possible change

 Giving thought, considerable thought, to doing some single figure basing - at least with the 27 sets of mounted/foot/dead figures.  If I make the jump it will only be one stand of three becomes three stands of one and the other three stands stay at three figures each.  And I would have the individual figures get one die each and the three stands with three figures would only get one die per stand - that would yield a mximm of six dice for a unit.  Need to do some more thinking on this.  

The painted railroad track

Here are some shots of the railroad track after painting it all to match, may go back and do some additional dry brushing but it looks a lot better than it did before getting painted.

Just a quick shot without any other terrain.  If you hunt backward you will find a whole set of photos where you can see the unpainted track. 

This was a nice piece for showing damaged track - all stop!

And a nicely done system for the switches/turnouts with that adapter piece from the turnout to the two straight sections.  

This track was sold by QRF but I don't know if they still have it.  Too bad if not, it is a good system.
 

For a look at lots of animals...

 ...visit the Critters page.  Over 100 photos added showing both painted and unpainted domesticated and wild animals.  I think of this as a visual record of what I have, with some omissions needing to be photographed and added later.

An overhaul of sorts

Been moving a lot of my collections into a rented storage unit since virtually every possible nook and cranny around the house - and the shed - and the side yard - and the outdoor cabinets - was overflowing with no possible place to stick anything else.  Still a bit more to move out and over to the storage unit but the process gave me a lot of room to 'realign' my Old West collection and get it all on one shelf - about eight or nine feet of shelf stacked about as high as possible, say 15" or more.  Well, the Old West trains are still in their old location but not too far from the rest, another cabinet on the same wall.

So now I have a stack of just buildings, another of just detail parts and scatter terrain, a stack of all the townsfolk and another of the environ folk, with a short stack of the "specials".  Almost all of the wagons are now in one stack except for the wagon trains in a larger container and the army wagons and such.  Then there is the just natives (Indians), and then the almost all army stack but including the buffalo, cavalry remuda (remounts), pronghorn antelope, and buffalo, and - last - the "main" folk, the 12/12/12/4 sets of mounted, foot, dead, horse to mark dismount spot sets; well, the two of these that are primed and ready for painting are over near the scatter terrain since the box they are in is a bit too large for the other area.

Maybe this will help propel progress.  This collection is up near the top of my 2024 miniatures priorities.  

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!