"20mm Wild West???" Topic

Well
after a large number of requests and inquiries, I was wondering if indeed people would be interested in me sculpting up a 20mm Wild West line…
AND, if so, any suggestions on what to include?
The Outlander…

A set of Texas Rangers would be nice, along with some Mexican bandits for them to shoot it out with!

Make some that are not hero's. A few fat guys & gals. things like that.

Yeah, like Fatt Masterson.

Definitely Mexican bandits. Some Mexican Federales would be cool. Maybe some NOT hollywood characters ala the Duke, etc.

Thanks,

John

There are already plastics on the market…

If you're a good sculptor, go 28mm and give Artizan some competition. Just don't charge their IMO crazy-high prices, especially as in their pulp ranges. $4.75 USD per figure is out of my range, especially when I must supply all the figures. Plenty of figures to do yet.

YES..! There are many 20mm (HO RR scale) Western buildings
available**, but few 20mm figures.. I'd like to see:

- 'Personality' figures.. since most Wild West is skirmish,
with one figure being one man.. in sets.. for example,
Matt Dillon/ Festus/ Doc/ Miss Kitty
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly..(duh)
Cisco Kid and Pancho
Lone Ranger and Tonto..

- Gunfighters (duh)
- Light Guns.. like a Gatling
- Townsfolk

One thought would be VSF type figures..

Take a look at Foundry's and Eureka's and others 28mm stuff for inspiration..:-)

Note: No need for Mexicans or Federales.. Raventhorpe already has these covered pretty extensively.

** see seperate post for a buildings list

What terrainsherlock said. And some figures suitable for the Span-Am War too. :-)

20mm is not HO. In 20mm one needs:

Assorted cowboys--wranglers, branders, cookie
Gunslinger
Sheriff
U.S. Marshal
Deputies
Hanging judge
Texas Rangers
Saloon keepers
Card sharps
Dance Hall Girls
Prospectors
Sodbusters defending their barbed wire
Comanches
Apaches
Franciscans
Revival preachers
Wells Fargo stagecoach drivers/guards
Bank tellers
Telegraph clerks
Mexican banditos and federales
Pinkertons/Payroll guards
Train engineers/conductors/firemen/brakemen
Chinese and Irish railworkers
U.S Cavalry
Scouts
Indian Agents
Patent Medicine Salesmen
Tinkers/Peddlars
Barber
Piano Player

Cattle barons
Railroad speculators
Rainmakers
Schoolmarms
Drunken sawbones
Territorial governor and pampered family
Mongo--only pawn in game of life.

Horsetraders/Liverymen
Blacksmiths
General Store Shopkeeper
Newspaper Publisher
Buffalo Soldiers

and the Magnificent Seven..! (how did I forget them..?)

FYI:
1:87 – HO Scale Trains 1/8"=1' (1:96 actual.. 1:87)
It's actually a mm scale 1:87.1 or 0.138"=1' but
1/8" is used as a convenience
1:90 – 20mm Soldiers.. also seen listed as
1:89 1:88.5 1:91

Close enuff for me..

I was also thinking about a stagecoach, a Rooster Cogburn, and many movie-looking personalities.

Lots of food for thought…
any other info, email me direct:
info@outlandgames.net

In plastics, 20mm almost always means 1/72, not HO or 1/90.

If there's little in HO (there are the railroad characters of course, but not much else), there's little more in 1/72. Most of the existing Wild West kits in 1/72 are 1970's-era Hollywood sets.

I agree we need more characters: Quanah Parker, Satanta, Little Robe, Big Tree, Lone Wolf, etc.

And some bad guys too: Col Nelson Miles, Lt. Baldwin, Billy Dixon, the vile Col Ranald Mackenzie, & the vilest of the vile, Gen. Phil Sheridan…. ;)

As Terrain Sherlock pointed out Raventhorpe does Mexicans, Federales and Gunslingers, Qualitycast did a range for plains wars that I believe is out of production now though Brookhurst hobbies may still have stock. Imex does cheap wagons and a stagecoach. Musket miniatures also does civilians and various occupations but these may be a little small, I don't own any so I can't say. The qualitycast and Raventhorpe I have are compatible in size.

There was a similar thread some time back.

I would like some dead and injured gunfighters to use as markers in my games. Some Mountain men trappers would be nice.

BTW.. note that Raventhorpe does seven *count 'em* seven
different poses of gunfighters.

I, personally, could use oh.. a couple more poses, anyway..
Maybe even some riding horses..? (Just a wild idea there..)

Might be nice in 1/72 scale, as most HO buildings and railroad stuff wouild be OK, and all those old Atlantic "HO" re-issues (the plastic Wild West sets) would add plenty of filler figures.

I believe IMEX has a new set of 1/72 banditos as well.

matching sets of mounted and on foot figs

Smokey hadn't heard anything about Imex releasing Mexican bandits. I know they are planning a Villa set but with Imex that could be 5 years from now. :-) Any news if this set is actually out?

Thanks,

John