Dead Man's Knees is now painted; piccies in a day or two, when Lee returns from visiting family. A question for the creative ones here: how does one model convincing ladders?
With difficulty.....
You might try plastrut stuff.
Ta. I'll have a look.
If you don,t mind spending a bit, you could use railroad fences.
Just turn them on their sides, and paint them brown!
I think kestrel do packs of fences.
"Granny grating" aka plastic canvas is a mesh intended for needlecraft which comes in a variety of grid sizes and can be cut for ladders/ sci-fi basing/ weird looking armies and much more.
Looks like this
(http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/supplyimages/570423_1000_1_800.jpg)
Warbases do ladders in 28mm in MDF.
Here are some Plasruct ladders that Ian mentioned. These are roughly HO scale:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000WS8ZM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I used them for a project unrelated to wargaming and they worked well.
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https://www.kallistra.co.uk/?page=18#anchorha01
(https://www.kallistra.co.uk/?page=18#anchorha01)
Kallistra. Bit oversized but OK.
The peaceful town of Dead Man's Knees.
A few landmarks. Hmmm, need a few hitching rails.
More. I regret that my painting isn't altogether what Leven's buildings deserve. Notice too that the condemned is going to have to scramble up an 8' structure to get to the rope they use to hang him.
We've still got Tara.
Thanks for posting - its a very useful thread - lots of good links/tips - and inspiring images. :-bd
Could not have come at a better time, as I need inspiration for my Bush War African town. - Hope to have some images up next week.
Nice FK
I liked the pictures of the buildings, very much capture the era (my knowledge of which comes strictly from Hollywood).
It seems like you have all the building types that I see in all "Western" movies.
Is that a requirement of the rules you are using? What are the rules?
The last has probably been discussed but couldn't find it wth search feature.
I assume the buildings are wide spaced either for game play or proper photography?
It would be cool to see them tightly bunched surrounded with vast tracts of near nothing.
One of the starling things about much of the West is seeing a vague speck on the horizon and
a half hour later you are suddenly in a small settlement.
I've got many pages of notes; haven't yet put them together into a ruleset, and it's a daunting job (was I serious about "After winning two consecutive hands of poker, player has a one in six chance of being called out for cheating, or one in three if he actually was cheating; in either case, roll on table to determine if result is a fistfight, a knifefight, a quick draw over the table, or a formal challenge to step outside with Colt peacemakers, unless either party is a mad dog killer psychopath, in which case...."?). I think the rules will be called The Good, the Bad, and the Lucky, but possibly The Significant Seven, which is teasing my wife over a mistake she made.
Stuff on the table is just for photography at this stage.
Don't know if it is still about but there used to be a book called 'Wild west Structures you can make' for railway modellers with plans and lists of suppliers, published by James Publications in teh US. I have a copy, and have built some of teh buildings. they are pretty good and N gauge is nearly the same as 10mm...
Lone Ranger frontier town (http://www.thrillingdays.com/frontier-town/buildings.html)
The box-backs needed to make them (http://www.thrillingdays.com/frontier-town/boxbacks.html)
No idea what scale these are, but could be useful?
Cheers, M.
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Ta. I've given up on the Wild West project, however, and the gunfighters have been assembled into the 26th Maryland militia regiment. The buildings are still suitable for 19th century American battles, fortunately.