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Title: FIW Indians
Post by: Nosher on 20 July 2016, 06:44:50 PM

Excuse my ignorance but did Indian Tribe's in the FIW use/live in teepees?

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 20 July 2016, 06:53:46 PM

They used long houses.
Some nice examples in28mm here...
http://store.warlordgames.com/collections/french-indian-war-1754-1763?page=2

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: Leman on 20 July 2016, 07:08:29 PM

These long houses were known as wigwams, the name often given incorrectly to tepees.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: Nosher on 20 July 2016, 07:45:11 PM

Cheers chaps. Now to try and find some in 15mm.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: Zippee on 20 July 2016, 08:24:12 PM

I thought the wigwams were the circular huts rather than the long houses

although I agree the term has been badly abused in the past.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: Leman on 20 July 2016, 08:39:21 PM

I know some were circular and some were long, but it's a long time, over 50 years, since I learned I was using the wrong word for tepees. I remember at the time being told that wigwams were what the eastern tribes in 'Hawkeye' lived in. Now that was a great little boys TV programme.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: GrumpyOldMan on 20 July 2016, 10:28:10 PM

Hello Nosher.

Below id a pic of a reconstructed wigwam at Plimouth Plantation:-

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j4E84PTRqoY/UKhKx-h_48I/AAAAAAAAJwM/GEw5fXAt3FQ/s320/8-23-2006-14.jpg)

With some careful painting of the original hide to resemble reeds you might be able to get away with the Mongol yurts:-

(http://www.pendraken.co.uk/ProductImages/MON14.JPG)

Otherwise there is a b&w pdf of a card model of an Iroquois longhouse here http://www.susankae.com/Iroquois%20longhouse.pdf (http://www.susankae.com/Iroquois%20longhouse.pdf)

(http://www.susankae.com/Paper%20Longhouses.JPG)

Cheers

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: Maenoferren on 23 July 2016, 08:54:44 AM

What about the inside of a Kinder egg for the wigwam. I used them to make a 10mm mesolythic hunters village.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: FierceKitty on 23 July 2016, 10:27:59 AM

Quote from: Maenoferren on 23 July 2016, 08:54:44 AM
What about the inside of a Kinder egg for the wigwam. I used them to make a 10mm mesolythic hunters village.

Tried something similar for Zulu huts a few years ago. Didn't hold paint well.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: Maenoferren on 23 July 2016, 01:06:24 PM

Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 July 2016, 10:27:59 AM
Tried something similar for Zulu huts a few years ago. Didn't hold paint well.

I covered mine in tissue paper first before painting.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: FierceKitty on 23 July 2016, 02:05:36 PM

Sneaky.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: Maenoferren on 23 July 2016, 02:30:18 PM

(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160723_151419_zpshfy40tbx.jpg) (http://s215.photobucket.com/user/Maenoferren/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160723_151419_zpshfy40tbx.jpg.html)

The bigger one is from another similar thing. I was going to do lots of different colours but couldn't be bothered.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: FierceKitty on 23 July 2016, 02:36:09 PM

Might be worth coming back to. They do pretty textiles, those people.

Title: Re: FIW Indians
Post by: FierceKitty on 23 July 2016, 02:37:19 PM

Sorry - still thinking (if I may use the word) of aboriginal Americans.

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