"Nothin' but the rain."

As promised, the beauty shots of the Viper build. No photoshop trickery with the viper model itself, just a composite onto a suitable background.

I think it rather looks the part, don't you?

A Fistful of Wood

Having all these cowboys painted doesn't do me much good unless I have a game to play. As I'm a bit short of the old dineros at the moment, A Fistful of Lead at a mere $6 is a more attractive proposition than Dead Man's Hand which requires a little more of an outlay. I'm intending to pick up Dead Man's Hand as I like the idea of the cards doing special things as well, but from a first read through I'm quite happy with the rules for aFoL.

There are a few paper counters included in the rules for keeping track of wounds an' ammo an' such like, but that's not really in keepin' with that there frontier aesthetic. So an offcut of wood from a fence repair in the garden and a bit of a faff with the laser cutter at work gives us these beauties:

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So the plan is to get the rest of the posse painted and then knock together some cheap and cheerful scenery and then we'll have ourselves a good old fashioned shootout.

And to make up for the lack of painted miniatures, I'll leave you with some photographs I took a year or so ago:

 

 

The gunslinger there is the man who helped we out with the laser-cutter, by the way.

Some painting for the weekend promise!

An Intermission

Progress is ongoing. I'm on track to finish tomorrow night or possibly Saturday at the outside. The brave chaps of the Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers have been stuck on and modelled in. Just waiting for the glue to dry for final weathering and blended and then we pop Barney on.

I didn't want to post any pictures tonight as I'm almost ready for the grand unveiling but I likewise didn't want to leave the blog entry un-illustrated. I've therefore put my other skills as a photographer to use to produce this so you'd all have something to look at:



Thinking ahead to the project after next, you see.

If anyone of you are pulpy Lovecraft lovers, incidentally, you might find some of the photographs I've taken interesting. You can see them here or more general photography can be found here or even here if you're not allergic to Tumblr and want to see my more peculiar creations. I will, needless to say, be doing some decent photographs of the model when it's done.

Close to the finish line!