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Wild West Terrain Part VI: Town Shots

LittleLeadMen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:49:47 +0000

Here are some of pictures of the entire collection, laid out as a simple western town. At some point, I may make more printed signs for the original buildings I did, which all had hand-painted text.

Wild West Terrain Part V

LittleLeadMen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:45:30 +0000

A Frontier Mountain Man-esque cabin.

Log Cabin:With open interior:

Some crop fields and fences:

Wild West Terrain Part IV

LittleLeadMen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:39:40 +0000

Because the Sheriff’s Office and the Gun Store go hand in hand.

Plenty of room for outlaws.Again, I left the Gun Shop pretty open, so models can move through the building with ease during games.

“Mia’s Mercantile” is the other general store in town, named after my daughter. :)

This shop has a small shelf inside with goods, again mostly open for gaming purposes.

Wild West Terrain Part III

LittleLeadMen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:31:49 +0000

Ida’s Flophouse, a good place to rent a bed for the night for a weary traveller.Interior Of Ida’s Flophouse. Still Enough room for 25mm figures to move around and brawl!

“The Rattlesnake Saloon”

This is a relatively small drinking hole. At some point I would like to build a large saloon, with cowboys gambling, piano player, big ‘ol bar, etc. Until then, this will be the place for the town drunk to get in trouble. :)

More Wild West Terrain

LittleLeadMen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:26:34 +0000

Here are more of my Wild West buildings:

Little Town Shops

Emily’s Provisions, the biggest general store in town!

Interior Shot of the General Store

Rear View of the Storefronts

Finishing Things

LittleLeadMen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:17:19 +0000

Like many miniature enthusiasts, I sometimes suffer from “Shiny model syndrome”. There’s always a new army, figure, book, etc. And so many seem like great new projects! In light of my massive collection of “stuff” in my storage closet, I wanted to make a dent in the collection, and FINISH something for once!

Finishing feels good. It’s kind of easy to do, if you do a little bit at a time. And then you get to look back and feel a real sense of accomplishment. I’ve been meaning to finish up my Wild West terrain for a LONG time. I started this project in a fit of cowboy obsession almost two years ago. I bought a lot of materials and buildings, and even got a fair amount done. But then it sat. And sat.

I moved out to California last year, and found a new gaming group out here. They all expressed some interest in playing “Legends of the Old West”, which was a perfect excuse to break the project out and FINISH it. :)

Here is my Wild West terrain collection:

Chillicothe & Sons Trade Goods, The Red Dragon

The RED DRAGON. Is it a Chinese Laundry? A House of Ill-Repute? An Opium Smuggling Den? A Restaurant? Lots of game possibilities…

I’ve tried to make the insides of these buildings simple, for ease of gameplay. I ran out of textured plastic card for the interior wood floors. At some point I will most likely visit the train store to spruce them up a bit.

Burna Boys

LittleLeadMen — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:26:16 +0000

Here is my main unit of Burna Boys. Included is a Mek with Kustom Mega Blasta.

MAD DOK “SPLEEN RIPPA”

LittleLeadMen — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:53:21 +0000

The Dok is IN.

Trukk Boys Squad 1

LittleLeadMen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:05:13 +0000

So far I’ve shown a lot of big stuff- battlewagons, squiggoth, etc. As every general knows, you need troops to fight your battles. I tend to run a mechanized army, so I have several squads of ork boys in trukks (as well as in the Squiggoth).

When I originally started building this army, I purchased a decent sized lot of 2nd edition ork boys and decided to paint them up as bad moons. Kind of as a test- which eventually turned into a larger and larger army.

Here is the first trukk boys squad & their nob.

Of course, all Trukk Boys need a Trukk to ride in……….

Squiggoth!

LittleLeadMen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:47:49 +0000

This is a great kit for any Ork plaer, the Forge World Squiggoth.

I converted mine by scratch building a larger howda (the old howda went onto my battlewagon). I also added leman russ style sponsons with big shootas on either side. Typically, I was playing this as a “counts as” battlewagon”, hence the two big shootas. Recently I have been playing in the Southern California 40k League, which allows and encourages Forge World in army lists. So for those league games, this was a cyborked Squiggoth. I added a power plant and tesla coils around its head to represent the ‘borking.