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Post by tradgardmastre on Sept 14, 2022 6:49:22 GMT
Morning all,
l was wondering was was out there in 54mm ( and 40mm) in the way of mountain men ?
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Post by Henri Sebald on Sept 14, 2022 9:41:35 GMT
 airfix.webp (68.99 KB)  Hi the last pic are cts on ebay, saw them the other day having a butterfly browse. regards Henri |
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Post by rahway on Sept 14, 2022 15:25:19 GMT
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Post by manoftinblog on Sept 14, 2022 21:02:30 GMT
I’m sure there were several articles on Modelling Wild West Mountain Men in Miniature Wargames or Military Modelling.
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Post by gusmacrae on Sept 15, 2022 20:33:12 GMT
White Tower Miniatures do a small range of mounted and foot mountain men in 54mm metal. They are very good and reasonably priced for metal figures.
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Post by Mike Blake on Sept 16, 2022 15:40:40 GMT
I have some of the XFo sets in front of me now - all for the War of 1812 - Frontiersmen, Kentucky Rifles, and Militian Civilan Dress (plus Woodland Indians Tecumseh's) as these were what Steve Weston had in stock (http://plasticsoldiers.co.uk/), bought to look at their potential for a Russian Alaska MM campaign we have just started - Russian sailors perhaps... They would all lend themselves to becoming MM for sure, especially with parts swapped between the sets.They are all up to the usual XFo standard of detail, with no over-exaggerted poses. Certaily well worth a look.
White Tower has been recommended and they are nice figures, if a little casually posed IIRC - great for a Rendesvoo. Simply sculpted WT figures paint up very nicely.
Publius (?I think - a Russian maker anyway) does a wonderful action packed set in metal and plastic - the metal are cheaper! Go figure. EBay will find them. I bought a set and so did a fellow member of the LODG and he's painted his up whilst mine languish in a box and will probably never get finished now, as two figures the same looks a bit odd in a skirmish. The sculpting is very sharp and my pal says they almost paint themselves - certainly his do look good. His are 'Oirish', the Sons of Hibernia Independent Trappers and Traders...
We started MM skimishing back in the 70s and I still have many of the figures, all conversions, of the cowby, indian and even WWII Americans Airfix and Timpo. All the games were written up as The Chronicles of Nazareth Hawkins, Mountain Man, and published for group members as part of the Annals of Pima County journal and newsletter, with illustrations by me and my good friend Chris Beaumont, AKA The Border Ruffian. I sill have them all as MSWord docs and jpegs - could convert to pdfs if anyone is interested. I don't think we have many photos of games but I will see what I can find.
Back to figures - all American Indian figures are potential of course - MM were great adopters of the native costume and way of life. Check out all Alamo figures - Conte and and Paragon have some really characters crying out to be used as MM pretty much as they are.
AWI ranges are the same - some of ours came from the old Accurate American sets. It depends how far back you want to go but clothing in skins went on right through.
Have you got the Ted Spring series of booklets on the F&IW - one volume is on MM and though the illustrations are naive the info and inspiration is marvellous.
We even had a couple of rafts, one of which was transported overland in the campaign for use on another river!
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Post by Mike Blake on Sept 16, 2022 15:45:29 GMT
![]() White Tower
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Post by Mike Blake on Sept 16, 2022 15:47:32 GMT
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Post by Mike Blake on Sept 16, 2022 16:03:54 GMT
Warhansa - not sure if they are still going tho...
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Post by Mike Blake on Sept 16, 2022 16:06:45 GMT
sketches from the Chronicles... MM firearms and 'Maneatin' Murphy Leads the Way'... 
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Post by Mike Blake on Sept 16, 2022 16:13:00 GMT
Chapter The First
-On The Waterfront-In which we gather together as stalwart and bold a band of Adventurers as ever ventured forth - we find a fine Craft to sail the mighty Missouri - come up against the Opposition in our first fight - and suffer our first tragic loss. Ironhand was a very singular Delaware - he had one hand, one eye and one testicle. For all that he was the best fighter, best shot and best fornicator I ever knew, aye, and one of the best Companions too, if it comes to that - Red or white - God rest his heathen soul. He and the other men who gathered in the Moorings Tavern in St. Louis were as mixed a selection of humanity as you might ever find in one place.
They had come in answer to the Advertisement that my partner and I had posted all over the city in various places. Amos Curtis and I had met in Taos the previous year, where we had both reluctantly worked as Trappers for other men to profit by. Reluc-tantly because the yoke of servitude for an-other rode roughly on our shoulders, both being men of an independent spirit. Fortunately Amos combined with this independ-ence a consummate business skill. This combination, and at this remove I venture to say too my not inconsiderable facility as a trapper, enabled us to leave Taos that winter richer, if not wiser, men and return to St. Louis determined to start out on our own Business venture; to gather our share of the wealth we had seen just waiting in the icy streams of Mexico. What I lacked in facility for commerce, I made up for in a skill in leading men even at that early age, and in a knowledge of the wilds gained from painful experience...
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Post by gusmacrae on Sept 18, 2022 12:07:38 GMT
Love the sketches, Mike. White Tower have brought out some new mounted, mountain men with pack horses. Those Russian figures do look great but I think they are more in the 60mm range, although I have never actually saw them in the flesh, so to speak. I did a few conversions many years ago using Airfix collectors series kits and milliput, I thought at the time they looked quite good. I haven't seen them for over 30 years right enough. They may still be out there in the mancave (shed) buried under a mountain of plastic metal and resin in the mancave (shed). The Chronicles of Nazareth Hawkins do sound mighty interesting.
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Post by Mike Blake on Sept 18, 2022 14:47:19 GMT
You are right, the Russians are 60mm but then MM were larger than life!!!
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Post by tradgardmastre on Sept 18, 2022 16:37:37 GMT
Thanks for info and inspiration.
As a boy I had a few big Elastolin plastic mountain men and a figure of Winnetou, sadly long gone.
I just realised l have some Expeditionary Force 1812 figures somewhere in the shed. They should suffice and more.
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