Dug’s Dead Man’s Hand

I liked the undershirt / long johns top that one of the torsos had. I gave him a badge in his hand to show that he’s under dressed and not had time to attach it to his chest.

I chose to set up the character for my Sheriff around the shirt. Ulysses has been awoken from his slumber to flash the badge and put down a ruckus. The older man has dragged up his trousers and thrust on his boots but heard a gun shot and left with no shirt or jacket. Maybe this time it’s serious.

The long johns I was thinking of were the salmon colour that have been seen in plenty of Westerns. I started with Fleshtearer Red Contrast then some Bugman Glow mix highlights and finally distressed with Bugman’s Glow, then Bugman’s Glow and Wraithbone mix to highlight. The Ultramarine Blue trousers and the Mephiston Red stripe perhaps nods to the old veteran’s stint in the army as a younger man.

Mad Dan is the Killer for the desperados. The skull is nice on the base. The plaid trousers was something they would have worn in the era. (The New York Irish Brigade had plaid trouse as their uniform in the civil war in the 1860s, just not the same as McGillicuddy is wearing). I seem to add plaid into every project, but I won’t probably add anymore, mainly to make Mad Dan standout.

The wild man model for my desperados, the “killer” with two pistols had a head swap from the bits box (it was a donation from a friends so not sure what it is from) with an ECW Warlord cavalry hat added.

My Marshall had a head swap (a GW imperial with the eye patch) with a Frostgrave Wizard sprue bottle in his holster (aka gun pouch).

One of the deputies had a head swap from the Frostgrave Soldiers sprue.

These head swaps left me able to pick all 11 unique heads on the sprue for the rest of the minis so I get to use them all. I managed to empty one entire sprue, leaving no items on it at all to give me one less sprue of clutter etc. And allowed me to try everything at least once and I think these minis had a bunch of character.

There seems to be a basic theme that you have a leader, a gang / faction specific more elite guy, a selection of regular statted guys and some low level levies (like in Saga for example).

So I chose to make desperados and lawmen from the 15 plastic minis on the sprues. The lists only required 7 minis to make a basic 21 points list.

Lawmen

Sherif (boss) – pistol

Marshall (faction specific) – pistol

Deputies – 1x rifle, 1x repeater, 1x shotgun, 2 x pistols

Desperados

Boss – Pistol

Killer (faction specific) – w/ 2 pistols

Gang members – 1x repeater, 1x shotgun, 3 x pistols