Building the Old West

Generally speaking when painting figures, I generally start from the skin and work out. So after the skin, shirts, beards, ties are usually next. Then vests, jackets and hats. Specific details like holsters and belts get worked in depending in location and surrounding details.

Most of the basic colors are laid in. Cleanup, washes and dry brushing are next.

With the terrain and civilians mostly done, I’ve started on the first posse, the Lawmen. In Fistful of Lead, you usually only have five people but the Dead Man’s Hand posses are seven figures, so I’ll have a variety of figures to choose from.

The Great Escape Games figures are pretty good but removing seam lines and flas is required on all figures. Fortunately it only takes five to ten minutes each.

Slowly but surely making progress on the wagon, I finished up the driver today. I also finished up the riderless horses. I also found a townsman that the cats had knocked off my painting table. Moral of the story, lock the hobby room door to protect your pets and your hobby.

I built up some animal shipping crates from a 4Ground kit and laid in the basic colors on my riderless horses.

Updating the project log is getting difficult. It’s taken multiple attempts over several days.

I’ve finished the townsfolk and a few of them will have special rules. For instance the doctor may either heal or cause a wound, the undertaker will either reassure you that you’ll live or unnerve you by measuring you for a coffin. Most of the rules will come from Fistful’s own rulebook but a couple like the prisoner or the lady in the blue dress will have scenario specific rules I’m working on.

The townsfolk are mostly done, just a little bit more to do on the bases. I’ll work on rules for most of the characters but fortunately, Fistful of Lead has a whole section for civilians and their special rules.

The wagon itself is done but the question is, should I make the team of horses a separate, removable component? Or permanently attach them and the drover to the wagon?