Contain yourself.

I mentioned some step by step painting of Burn In Designs terrain pieces that are coming soon.

Here's a preview... one of the many fun shipping containers!

As you might be able to see by the notches at the top, these can be stacked, just like the real thing!

The truck rig is very sweet!

Nice wide doors...

And you will be able to stack them up just like these:

I wanted to paint them something other than grey, so I did the Google thing and found a lot of great reference images.

There is a lot of information written on the sides of these, and I looked up a variety of ways in which it's designated on the containers.  This will make each side of the container have a bit of interesting freehand to check out!

Of course, no shipping container would be complete without a corporate logo.  A few minutes in Photoshop and I had this ready!  It is one of three logos which will be featured on the various containers.

I wonder if I should have this made into a t-shirt.  It follows along the same line as my "Earth First: We'll strip mine the other planets later" theme. :-)

To give you a sens of scale, we have a set of Victoria Miniatures Highland Moss Guard.

Stay tuned for much more!!

The Cart Before the Horse

The Pink Flamingo joins the rest of the town of Wappelville!

I thought I would snap a few images of what the town looks like at this point, since it's about to get a lot bigger!

The train station also has its sign.

As we look down the road to the future of Wappelville, one of the first things to be added are all the new boardwalk lengths and matching sign/light posts which are emerging now on the Burn In Designs site.

The additional boardwalk lengths should double the total for the town.  This will be important, since we came up with the house rule about starting and ending your movement on the boardwalks.  It adds to your quickness if you do so.

We have not utilized that rule very much, since we haven't been able to cover the whole town.  In fairness to one side or the other, we made sure those boardwalks were far away from any deployment zones.

In addition, it's very hazardous to move across those walks right now, since you are always left out in the open.  If there are lamp posts and sign posts to be found at regular intervals, it will make a huge difference in survival!!

For instance, If you can reach one of those posts with an action to spare, you can take cover, which will add at least a +2, or even a +3, to that roll to shoot at you.  That can translate into needing a 8, 9, or 10 to hit.

We think that will help out standard hired hand infantry, and also facilitate more close combat, as we had in a recent test fight.

All shooting battles get boring in a hurry.  When at least a portion of it is a knock down brawl, things get interesting.

Since Wild West Exodus has all those variations in close combat halos, weapons and other abilities, there are a lot more decisions to make.

More decisions = more better!!!

The Wooster Sisters and their little pets!

At least, the big rats join their owners!  Betty and Lilly Wooster will now have some company when they toddle around Wappelville.

All of the rats are Reaper BONES minis, while the two sisters are traditional metal Reaper figures.

They will be civilians and character doubles in the Wild West Exodus universe.  

The giant rats will be easier to distinguish on the table from the Lawmen CCK9 doggies.  It was a problem we started to identify early on, since so many factions can use the dogs.

The daughters of the Honorable Bertram Wooster  have certainly irritated the family Valet, Jeeves, as their 'pets' tend to leave behind quite an ugly mess.

More than once these rather monstrous creatures have been blamed for the sudden disappearance of dogs and small children.

However, nobody wishes to accuse the powerful politician and owner of the Final Slumber Funeral Parlor of any sort of misdeeds!  Stay tuned to watch the exploits of the Wooster girls...

Chop chop!

Did this guy chop down the cherry tree?  I cannot tell a lie, but I'm guessing not. :-)

This is the first of a set of ten beastmen from Mierce Miniatures.

I believe these are called Gabrax.  More to come!

The Nation grows...

While there the rest of the posse is well under way, I could not resist putting what was 100% done out onto the photo area.

The large variation in sizes was too intriguing to pass by!  I had to see it all together.

This is not a bad representation of what's available... heavy and light support, a Boss, a sidekick, and even a Mercenary ally!

There are three more Energy Beasts on the way in addition to Stone Fist, which should boost those cavalry numbers.

I have two more Bosses, Sitting Bull and Iron Tooth, that will boost the Creature Feature element. :-)

Both the Brave and Scalper Hired Hands are fully prepped and ready for painting.  I'm glad that I waited on those, because I now have a very solid color scheme for them.

The Scalpers will have lots of black on them, to mimic the colors of Geronimo, Sky Spirit, Iron Tooth and other characters.  Stay tuned!

Aw... rats.

Today we have two giant rats from the Reaper BONES line.

They were just the right size for what I needed... and that is a few 'pets' for the Wooster Sisters.

Big fangs and bigger tails!

With a bit of a skin condition.

They will be joining the Wooster Sisters very soon, so stay tuned!

Still trying to figure it out...

A few more views of the Outlaw Dust Cutter for you, this time from above.

I am still trying to figure out which weapon option works best.  With its high rate of speed, I had anticipated that the flame template version could be a valuable support to close combat.

It almost worked out that way in the last game, but the timing was not there, and it was picked off early.  The high armor of 4 sounds great, but it is almost always cut in half.  The high lifeblood had saved it in an earlier effort, but not with the kind of heavy firepower hitting it this time around.

The mini cannon might be interesting, but I still want to see the flame template option in conjunction with the Flame Truck.  Now an opponent would have to split that heavy firepower.

Even if they are able to take out the bigger flame truck, it will take a lot more effort to do so, and that might leave them set "in place" to be targeted by something else... like this fast moving Light Support!

As soon as that experiment happens, you will see it play out across these pages, so stay tuned!!!

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