The Mysterious Stranger

Yup, the Stranger is in town, and she's mighty mean with that Winchester.

This is a very fun Reaper BONES miniature that I ran across, and thought it might add some flavor to the Wild West Exodus scenarios that we wanted to run using the new Jailhouse.

For some reason, I kept thinking of the Next Gen episode 'Fistfull of Datas', where Troi joins Worf & son on the holodeck.

She helps them out with the Hollander gang, and even guards the prisoner in the jail.  I thought it might be fun to have that character in our scenarios, helping out the Lawmen.

Ironically enough, much of the costume Troi wore in that episode matches this mini... and it happened to be very similar to my Lawmen color scheme.  How convenient!!

You're in the Jailhouse now...

We continue with our Jailhouse project, the fantastic new building from Burn In Designs.

No Jail is complete without Wanted posters, so it was time to hit Google. I selected a variety of posters, including those which left a spot for your own image.  

I figured that I would make my own Wanted posters later, and use this selection for now.  One of them was even Billie the Kid, so that was perfect!

Posters printed... time to cut them out!

The posters already add so much flavor!

More posters on the side walls...

And inside too!

I brought out some Secret Weapon weathering powders to do some final work...

Using a large, soft brush, the dried pigments were applied towards the bottom of the walls to indicate the kicked up dust.

A darker mixture was used to indicate some stains coming down from the roof.

I love the difference little touches such as these make.

Looking more and more like a jail...

Here's your sign!  Done in glowing red, as my Lawmen love.

The 'mysterious stranger' arrives at the Jail.  Could Worf be inside?

My next effort will be taking care of the boardwalk sections and possibly the Gallows.

Cutting no corners...

Now for another phase of the Jailhouse from Burn in Designs!

After the Flex Paste had dried, it was time to paint the walls!

I put out some basic colors on the palette... a few reddish browns, a grey, and an off white.

The reddish brown and grey were mixed together to create a darker, cooler red shade.

Some of the lighter browns, and even the off white were eventually mixed in as I brushed over the lighter colors with a larger flat brush.

By working rapidly with these broad strokes, the paint stayed wet enough for enough time to allow me to mix right on the panels.  The same was done for painting the stucco portions of the walls, scumbling the paint as before.

All four exterior walls painted!  Again, keeping the colors somewhat grayed down important, as well as maintaining a lot of subtle variety in the shading.

I used a mix of metallic paints and regular colors to paint the window bars.

Some preliminary stains painted on... but the majority of that work will be done later with weathering powders.

To hide the corner seams a little more, I applied flex paste to those edges once the pieces were glued together.

Once the secondary details were added, such as the weathering powders, these seams would be far less noticeable in the stucco areas.

I used a few Secret Weapon washes on the metal bars to tone them down and stain them a bit, and then glued them in place.

I also made some more variety of shades in the exposed brick portions of the exterior walls...

And finished gluing the cells in place.  Stay tuned for the next episode, where you will see all the final details, including wanted posters, added to this fine Jailhouse from Burn In Designs!!!

Let's go Bulls!!!

Just a few more hours until the Bulls begin the quest for #7!!!!  Here's hoping that things go a tad bit better health wise for the Bulls this season.  Please...

Anyway, more Mierce Minos.

Each one has a very interesting personality to it...

Which makes them even more interesting as a group!

A storm of lead

With the Long Range hired hands complete, we have some group shots for the Lawmen.

I am hoping to combine these guys with some Interceptors, Pat Garrett and Doc Holliday.

There is a mercenary hired hand that would be quite deadly in combination with that posse, but it will be a while before I have that guy :-)

In the meantime, we shall see if these long range lads can be as effective in the urban environment as the Close Combat hired hands had been.

I am hoping that the multiple Interceptors can flush out units that are attempting to stay out of the line of sight of the Rifle toting Lawmen.

It's an unusual mix of speed and static defense that might be tricky to work out at first... we shall see!

Not a load of Bull...

Well, it's just a little over 24 hours until the Bulls begin the new season!!!  So, we shall honor our favorite team with some Mierce Miniatures Minotaurs!!!

I have to say, these have been fun to paint. Not too crazy, with decently sculpted muscles and so on.

They are also a nice size.  Big enough to be quite different from a beastman, but not ginormous!

Lemme give ya all four barrels...

Some more light support for the Lawmen.  This quad shotgun has caused quite a bit of damage the lest few games, taking out characters and clearing out buildings.

He comes free when you include ten close combat Hired Hands.  Those close combat lads really came into their own the last game!  This guy may not be very fleet of foot, but he's got a hankerin' to set the world on fire.

In order to more easily distinguish him from the other Long Range Hired Hands, I used some shell casings from Secret Weapon Miniatures.

There are four casings on the base, just to let me know from a distance who is my key shotgun toting dude. :-)