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!
...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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
