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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Hello Nosher.

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



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



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



Cheers

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

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

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.

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.

Sneaky.

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

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

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