Cowboys and Monsters: August 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Everything I have posted here is the product of the five minute rule. As a matter of fact this blog is done using the 5 minute rule. And that is...that I do nearly everything 5 minutes at a time. I am taking out the trash, I swing by the workbench and work on the Livery for...you guessed it 5 minutes. Between folding laundry and pushing the kids on the swings, I apply spackle to the bases of a few minis. Between, coffee and brushing my teeth before work, prime something...I think you get the picture. It is far from ideal...
(and I am sure I am not the only one that has to work this way) but it is the way I have to work things as a father, husband, rodeo clown, master of the dungeon, Marshal, Eladrin Warlord, Red Sox fan, not so handy man and what not.

Here are some shots of the Livery. I finally decided on how to hinge the doors. I ditched the idea of putting the doors inside the frames and have the doors go over the top of the frames. Plus I stopped using "round" brass tubes. The round didn't have enough meat to glue to the slender doors and put up with my ham fisted stylings. So I cut up some square brass "tubes" and bent "L" shaped pieces of paper clips...and here you have it. The heavy beam across the top does double duty. It was a suggestion from a buddy who thought the doors "needed something" to complete the look. and they actually keep the doors on their hinges so I won't have to worry as much in transit and storage. Now the corral on the side of the building...

Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Strange Case of Doctor Von Coggleson

The Good Doctor Coggleson in his search for a cure for his lycanthropy, a ghost-rock induced delusion. With the "help" of one Doctor Richard Reeds, Dr. Von Coggleson was unaware of the impending betrayal by Reeds. It left Von Coggleson permanently and horribly scarred (ugly as Sin, in game terms) But worst of all with out many of the blueprints to his amazing inventions.

Mini by Steve Jackson Games, Hand by Games Workshop, Head by Pulp Figures and Hair by Green Stuff.

I promise to try and take better pictures in the future...

Thursday, August 11, 2011

The Bench...so much work to do.

I hate slot bases. I just can't stand them. I am a strong believer in the washer. I just like its lower profile and the heft it gives a mini. Granted it makes a long process (for me anyway with two kids, a house and a wife) even longer. The New Deadlands minis by Reaper have started coming my way and with a Deadlands campaign finally at long last starting I have had to get it in gear.

Here is the good Doctor Von Coggleson and his wondrous gauntlet.

More of the Doctor. The Ghost Steel makes it so light you hardly know you are wearing it. (Mini by Steve Jackson Games, Gauntlet by Games Workshop.)

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Some of the Buildings

Telegraph Office and the Ace High Saloon (both Arnica)

Shed and a to be named Building (I am talking suggestions) Both again are Arnica

This is the Ghost Water Gazette (I have since added a sign...Arnica)

Not sure what this building is, will again take suggestions. (Arnica)

The Abernathy Restaurant, my very first venture into scratch building...

the Utah Apothecary by Hovel...

Marshal's Office by Kilroy Productions.

This was the fruits of a trade and even came painted...but I do not recall the manufacturer.

Gun Shop by Arnica Montana.

The Undertakers by Arnica, scratch built enclosure on the side and coffins by Kilroy Productions.

Tremmel's General Store by Hovel.

The Bostonian by Arnica Montana.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Stable

Here are some pics of my stable. I made it using the templates from "The Rules with No Name." A book just to shiny and beautiful not to buy when it was on sale for half price. The construction of the stable has sputtered to a halt, because I just can't figure out how I want to hinge the doors. Very frustrating for me...

The Minis here are Jesse Whales from Knuckleduster and one of the Nosferatu from the Great Rail Wars Line.