{"id":3016,"date":"2019-02-24T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T12:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2019-02-24T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T12:19:06","slug":"saddle-up-boys-and-girls-if-applicable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"Saddle Up, Boys! (and Girls, if applicable)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of my 2019 Resolutions <\/a>was to finally play GW’s Legends of the Old West<\/em>, an out-of-print Old West skirmish game using the Warhammer engine. Despite using a variation of the IGO\/UGO mechanic, it remains pretty popular among Old West gamers, as it’s easy to pick up and play, particularly if you’re familiar with Warhammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been wanting to play some Old West skirmish for years now, and even started making a Mexican border town, Mescalero<\/a>, several years ago. Like many projects of mine, this got sidelined in favor of whatever else struck my fancy; but not before I also bought, assembled and painted some Plastcraft Western Buildings<\/a>. I now have the beginnings of two towns; a traditional Mexican adobe village and a clapboard boom-town. (I also meant to make some Badlands scenery (and I still will), but, you know…sidelined.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I managed to get my hands on the holy grail of 28mm Western gaming, the OOP 1\/64 scale ERTL Cow Town playset. It contains a Hotel\/Saloon, a Sherriff’s Office, a Blacksmith, and an outbuilding and outhouse, along with lots of other scenic knick-knacks (like bar tables and desks). Between the Cow Town set, the Plastcraft buildings, and a couple of MDF buildings I bought from Knuckleduster, I have no excuse not to move forward with this project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Old West miniatures, I have a mixture from Blue Moon, Old Glory, Foundry, Knuckleduster and Reaper. Before the whole thing got sidelined, I painted up the Blue Moon cowboys that I got from Scale Creep. I really like this line a lot. The Old Glory and Foundry stuff looks a little small compared to the others (especially the Reaper Chronoscope stuff), but I’m hoping it won’t bother me too much when I actually start playing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First up, the Blue Moon miniatures. The Earp brothers: Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan, along with Doc Holliday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Clantons: Ike, Billy and Johnny Ringo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frank and Billy McClaury; Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Daltons: Emmett, Bob and Grat. (Yes, Grat.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few Reaper Chronoscope miniatures: Stone (who I think is an undead gunslinger, although I didn’t paint him that way); Deadeye Slim; and a U.S. Agent (not to be confused with the guy who replaced Captain America). Both Stone and Slim are Bones miniatures. I bought the Agent because he has a pepperbox pistol, and that’s kinda cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some Reaper fantasy townsfolk can serve double duty as Old West civilian miniatures, as seen here. The bartender and strumpet both work well as Old West miniatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Same can be said for the blacksmith (what moron parked a wagon full of hay near the forge?!)…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this RAFM Call of Cthulhu doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of these miniatures count towards my painting queue progress, sadly; most were painted years ago. But THIS is my big project for this year; in lieu of starting a new army, I’ll get my Old West scenery and miniatures all done instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In between other stuff, of course…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my 2019 Resolutions was to finally play GW’s Legends of the Old West, an out-of-print Old West skirmish game using the Warhammer engine. Despite using a variation of the IGO\/UGO mechanic, it remains pretty popular among Old West gamers, as it’s easy to pick up and play, particularly if you’re familiar with Warhammer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39,24],"tags":[83,81,49,16],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miniatures","category-old-west","category-terrain-and-scenics","tag-blue-moon","tag-knuckleduster","tag-old-west","tag-reaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}