Named

All 120 of my northern plains warriors are now named - on their bases.  Well, except for 9 'new' Minifigs ones I've decided to keep (along with 9 of their cowboys) in the same mounted/foot/dead format - though I do need to pull out a half dozen more dead horses for the warriors and the cowboys, already pulled the standing horses.  Those will all get named eventually.    

And, for fun, I set aside a set of three figures - a white cowboy, a Native American semi-westernized, and a Mexican to be my Tres Amigos.  Plan to paint them in somewhat gaudy colors, figures to be used to add a humorous element to games at times.  Need to come up with some hilarious names for those three characters.

LAKOTA	LAKOTA	LAKOTA
BRAVE KNEES	MOOSE RIDER	BROKEN THUMB
Laughing Loon	Buffalo Knapper	Charging Crow
Napping Bear	Little Creek	Last Horse
Orenda	Laughing Wolf	Rocky Bear
Afraid of Rabbits	Willow Tall Tree	Flat Iron
Howling Wolf	Takoda	Hugging Bears
HOPPING FROG	CATCHES PINECONES	TOUCH THE CLOUDS
Coyote Chuckles	Beaver Eater	Grey Feather
Stinking Farts	Giggling Grizzly	Sky Heart
Lizard Laughing	Rabbit Runs	Afraid of Frogs
Rumbling Raccoon	Sneaky Fox	Bison Healer
Snoring Snake	Sees Tomorrow	Whistling Wind
CHASING RABBITS	BEAR CLUB	SWIFT BEAR
Smiling Hawk	Laughing Lynx	Little Skunk
Jumping Squirrel	Puzzled Panther	Bear Foot
Leaping Lizards	Runs From Bees	Hollow Horn
Running Brook	Sneezing Buffalo	Flying Hawk
Winking Owl	Running Bear	Lark Song

ARAPAHO	CHEYENNE
RATTLING RIBS	KILLS MANY
Coyote Chaser	Owl Man
Skunk Eater	Porcupine Bear
Rabbit Ears	Little Finger
Burning Sage	White Shield
Falling Star	Running Nose
YELLOW EAGLE	WAR BONNET
Yellow Bear	White Antelope
Left Hand	Black Wolf
Night Wind	Prairie Dog
Big Belly	Tall Bull
Cut Face	Pole Catcher
	LAME BEAVER
	Strong Elk
	Sly Fox
	Cloud Falcon
	Skyfire
	Singing Willow

CROW	SHOSHONE	NEZ PERCE
FIERCE FALCON	SUNRISE HAWK	OLD MOCCASIN
Long Otter	Inkatosho	Spotted Horses
Wolf Bow	Fibbeuati	Elk Antler
Osh-Tisch	Waki	Waterfall Mist
Steels Horses	Weeping Elk	Crane Walker
Belch-a-lot	Agile Goat	One Eyed
HORSE TAMER	CHIPMUNK	THUNDER SPEAKS
Pronghorn	Badger	Empty Belly
Ax Breaker	Salamander	Lightening Arrow
Bear Storm	Chases Bobcats	Worries Frogs
Rising Hawk	Storm Cloud	Flint Keeper
Iron Feather	Blue Raven	Eagle Talon

All of the named figures are pretty much ready for painting except for a wee bit more of priming after some rearranging bases.  Now all 20 groups have a warbonnet leader mounted and on foot and as many as possible have a warbonnet dead - though not half, just not enough, the rest are different types of dead while all the non-war bonnet figures have Peter Pig dead (yeah, some of the war bonnet dead are Peter Pig as well but the war bonnet sets them apart).

No plans to name the multi-based warriors, 48 of them.

Apache have names as well but not yet prepped:

APACHE
Mounted	Mounted	Mounted	Mounted
Dasodaha	Biminak	Kuruk	Nitis
Norroso	Taklishim	Yiska	La-choy
Ka-ete-nay	Eskinospas	Illanipi	Ahiga
Bidzil	Klah	Shiye	Niichaad
Toh Yah	Taza	Delshay	Eknath
Bimisi	Laziyah	Tarak	Itza-Chu
On Foot Only	On Foot Only	On Foot Only	On Foot Only
Tse	Elan	Shilah	Nastas
Dahkeya	Goyathlay	Atsa	Hok’ee
Gaagii	Hastin	Naalnish	Ashkii
Sani	Chalipun	Itza-Chu	Sicheii
Bishalani	Ata’Halne	Eskminizin	Hashkedasalla
Gad	Sike	Tsela	Kilchii

Making great strides in both prepping this collection for painting and reducing what I intend to paint.  Still excessive, yes, but down about 40% or so.  

 

Bison dead

Bison dead - and some singles, which belong here.  The prior post not so much but leaving it for the moment.  The whiter dead buffalo are meant to resemble skinned buffaloes for just the hides and tongues.

 

The Q at 3" x 8"

 

 

The painted parade - well, mostly painted

 A few shots of a bunch of my painted - a lot by me, quite a few by John W.: 

The "not so nice" folk on the left.  A bunch of multi-figure based civilians, mostly unarmed, on the right before I decided to focus on single basing.

The Mexicans in the upper left - still needing to get their bases textured.  Below them are the former slaves, black men (at least 25% of the cowboys of the Old West were black - and some of them were women).  

Off to the right are a dozen each unarmed men and women, the first to get single based once I committed to going that direction.  And glad to report there are enough dead figures for my standard for 'only dismounted' sets of six figures plus one dead.  Again, some of these still need their bases textured.

The "mostly nice" folk in this box with a few still needing to get painted.  On the right top are Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, and Belle Starr - not necessarily in that order.  Below them is Sister Veronica/Veronica Voluptuous (in demure and less so garb versions) and her mule Clinty.  Moving down are the prospector brothers and their mules Minty and Woody.  At the bottom right is the unpainted C.J. Mongo with a longhorn head below him - a gate or wall trophy when I get that far.  The bottom row with the two unpainted 'sets' are my "Legends" - not historical or Hollywood, just 'created' for my Old West world; sometimes the Legends are in the 'nice' camp and sometime not at all.  

That is less than half of my mounted civilians purchased - keeping 156 total sets of mounted/foot/dead including what you see above but with no intention to ever have them all on the table at once.  Just wanted a wide variety.  While you might be saying 'that's crazy' and you may be right, again, it is actually a bit of sanity on display by choosing to 'let go' of the balance. 

Only have 42 more'sets' of the civilians to finish prepping and priming, bases already prepped for them all.  Apaches and native villagers and village 'scatter' still to go finish prepping.  

Civilians rebased to single basing

28, 20, 25, 23 < per box count, top to bottom. 

Below are 96 groups or 'sets' of figures at six figures per group - though some of the groups only have 4 or 5 stands besides the 'dead' (every set gets a dead figure) because sometimes there is one sculpt representing two figures, usually children at play or children with their Moms. 

Not included are 4 fully painted groups in other boxes, just ran out of steam to pull them out and add them to these boxes. That makes 100 'sets'. 

There are also five additional groups of men and women (3 to 2) that are all painted and game ready but multi-based, well, really ten groups because they are twelve figures each and I've settled on six figure groups. Hmm, maybe I need to use some of the extra casualty figures I have, need to double check. 

There are some additional figures in the photos that are 'specials' or one-offs. Why so many? Because I downsized from over 1,000 figures to just over 600 civilain figures on foot only. Not a 'why' you are thinking? Why enough for me. The mules, donkeys, horses seen in one box with the various miners are pack animals.

The above image shows the unarmed 'white' civilians, those on the left are women and girls - the girls being the top three rows and the fourth row being young girls, the rest women. Mixed with the women are some additional children when there is a two figure single sculpt. 

 On the right are all men and down the center are Mormons at the top and The Bank at the bottom, mixed groups of men and women.

In this image on the right are all the saloon district figures - from soiled doves to dance hall girls, from gamblers at cards to entertainers, from bar staff to drunks. On the bottom right is a band - marching style which will be painted in a more festive motif. 

On the top left are all my funeral related figures, a more somberly attired band, grave digger and embalmer and other funeral service types, then the more affluent men and women in funeral attire as well as less affluent men and women. 

At the bottom left are a lone prospector, the miners (gold and silver), and the copper miners. There is also a surgeon operating and a couple stretcher bearers bringing another patient. And off near the top right is a Wicked Wanda (a converted witch figure) lying naked in bed and holding a knife (converted from the end of her broomstick).

Here on the top left are the Chinese figures, men, women, children, trackworkers, and shaolin temple figures. To their right are both around town or fort native men, women, and children and then black men, women, and children. 

 To the lower right are the Women's Temperance Union figures (in need of appropriate signage being added). 

 Bottom left are all armed figure groups with two of them being women including female gunfighters.

This box has the Mexicans: men, women, and children with one mixed group of men and women with the unarmed to the left and top right are the armed Mexicans which includes one group of women and one group with dynamite. 

Bottom right are non-Mexican armed men representing the Anachronism Free Militia (or the Denver Free Militia for a Hallelujah Trail game.) At the bottom are the Oracle related figures. And down the center are a few horse holder sets and then El Pollo Grande as mounted, foot, and dead with a couple of attendants. He represents the oppressor of the peons - four of six painted groups included (not painted by me though). 

Clearly, most of these figures are not yet painted and some are not yet primed but need drier weather to do that last bit before painting. I just want this entire collection to be in what I call 'stand-by status' meaning anything not game ready is primed and ready to paint when needed/desired.

I intend to use these figures not only for games but more importantly to create visuals for story-telling which may or may not be game related.