The main project I intended to tackle in this Challenge was the Little Bighorn. This year marks the sesquicentennial of the battle, the most famous victory of the coalition of Indigenous peoples over the US Army. It's also my 55th birthday this year and if all goes to plan I will celebrate by hosting a wargame of the battle. But first I have to paint the models!
I have a large collection of (so far) unpainted models from Foundry that will form the forces in the battle. I just love these figures as they are so well-done and characterful. This is "Goes Through the Camp" from the Dog Soldiers pack.
He was really fun to paint and went up in an evening. The secret sauce to the skin tone is GW Ratskin Flesh over a Doombull Brown base. I'd intended to paint 10 or so Seventh Cavalry on foot to accompany him but decided to just get him done and submitted before the Toy Story deadline.
And speaking of the Toy Story theme... I can never think of the Plains Wars without thinking about Marx, the company that pretty much invented the "toy soldier playset." Marx was in business from 1919 to 1980 but the toys I always think of were these playsets, marketed in the 1950s and 1960s and based on historical themes and TV shows (!). They were crammed with stuff and usually sold for less than $7USD. While Marx is long out of business the molds survived and newly made figures are still sold.
Anyway that's one 28mm infantry model for 5 points, plus 50 for the theme. More Plains Wars stuff coming soon, I promise!
Dallas
Nicely painted. My brother and I had that fort. Great nostalgia.
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ReplyDeleteVery nicely done! My dad and his brothers had the Fort Apache as kids and I played with it as a kid in my grandmother's basement decades later.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful brushwork on 'Goes Through the Camp', Dallas. Skin tone recipe noted! Those Marx sets were awesome (and obviously a Communist ploy). I remember the sets offered at the back of comic books (smaller scale figures), and wonder if they were from the same company. I had the ACW set and it was awesome.
ReplyDeleteFollowup on this (couldn't resist the rabbit hole): https://wemeantwell.medium.com/comic-book-flat-soldiers-b9056ffc5b46
DeleteLovely work on this mini, Dallas. If your collection gets painted up this well, it should make for an amazing game.
ReplyDeleteIf the rest are as good as that Dallas you're going to have a great looking force
ReplyDeleteExcellent work on this figures Dallas, love the fine details. I remember those Marx sets.
ReplyDeleteSuper looking figure and nice toy theme!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Wonderful painted figure!
ReplyDeleteAnd I can't stop looking at that box with figures! Love it!
Nice work, Dallas!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see this theme appear and your painting is a delight- useful skin tone info
ReplyDeleteFabulous native warrior Dallas.
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