piper909 | 11 Mar 2017 2:09 p.m. PST |
Who doesn't find use for lots of "hillbillies"? I've recently finished work on a small horde of scrappy hill folk ready to take on outsiders of any stripe or fight among themselves if life gets too dull. In the past, I've matched some against gangsters, aliens, zombies, lawmen, cultists -- really, only your imagination limits you. The movie "Next of Kin" has been discussed elsewhere as a good scenario builder for a mobster/mountain people gang war, for example. A couple are still on the painting table, but here's a roundup so far -- mainly Copplestone (?) and Blue Moon 25mm figs.
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Hafen von Schlockenberg | 11 Mar 2017 2:14 p.m. PST |
Nice work--especially on the prints for the grannies! |
Waco Joe | 11 Mar 2017 3:42 p.m. PST |
You are set for the Battle of Blair's Mountain link One of the origins of the word "redneck", from the identifying bandanna of the miners. |
Jeigheff | 11 Mar 2017 5:18 p.m. PST |
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piper909 | 11 Mar 2017 5:30 p.m. PST |
Thanks, Jeff! A number of the womenfolk from the Blue Moon set have open hands, so I gave farm implements to many of these (cannibalized form various medieval peasants) just to get them armed; but one could easily get inventive with how you equipped them li'l spitfires. Blair Mountain, wow! Have been reading up on this. MORE stuff they don't teach you in American history classes. Yes, game possibilities there, sadly. -- Granny Van Winkle (in the purple) has been a demon shootist in the games she's been in -- no untrustworthy bootlegger or revenooer better look crosswise at her, or else! That figure is building up a rep! |
Sobieski | 11 Mar 2017 5:41 p.m. PST |
Creative new genre there; impressive. Action pix, pliss. |
Twoball Cane | 11 Mar 2017 8:24 p.m. PST |
We're hankering for a hootenanny with that bunch. |
Dwindling Gravitas | 11 Mar 2017 11:37 p.m. PST |
Great-looking figs. Really! And an extra WOW for WJ for an amazingly interesting link! |
mghFond | 12 Mar 2017 10:02 a.m. PST |
Part of the link – the Matewan gunbattle is covered in the Sayle's movie Matewan. Really good flick. YouTube link Also for those interested in seldom covered conflict in the US, look up the Colorado Coalfield War of 1914. Lots of shootouts (and sadly a massacre too at Ludlow) and both sides had large numbers of armed men. The company men even had an armored car. Dynamite, machineguns were used. Pitched battles at mines. Fascinating story. Oh and nice paint jobs on the hill folk! |
Old Glory | 12 Mar 2017 11:54 a.m. PST |
I love the whole concept of early 20th century USA "union wars" -- It's in my mind to do a 28mm range sometime ? Regards Russ Dunaway |
piper909 | 12 Mar 2017 12:58 p.m. PST |
This has been an educational thread. Just ordered the film Matewan for further inspiration. My own dad comes from Kentucky (but the west, not the coal mining regions), just a dirt farming family, so I have great sympathy for Appalachian people and the mountaineers, so often abused and mocked. It is an unfortunate thing that so many of the models in Blue Moon's "Hillbilly" set are based on grotesque caricatures. A company couldn't do that with other ethnic types or minorities (altho' the issue of overly busty cartoon females is an ongoing concern in the hobby…. and one not restricted to the hobby). PS: I'll look for any action pix from the tabletop but I'm not sure I took any from our past games -- held at a friend's house or a game store mainly -- or if I have copies of any pix taken by others. But will keep looking in my folders. I've also got some trucks and other vehicles for these figures to hitch a ride on. |
doug redshirt | 12 Mar 2017 1:56 p.m. PST |
PBS has a great show from American Experience, "The Mine Wars". You can watch it on line from PBS. It covers when the first union organizers tried to get into the area to organize and what the mine owners supported by the state governor did to stomp all over them. link |
Col Durnford | 13 Mar 2017 6:01 a.m. PST |
Guy, "A company couldn't do that with other ethnic types or minorities". Every see Bobby Jackson's Thugz? link
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piper909 | 13 Mar 2017 1:52 p.m. PST |
Frankly, those "Thugz" look fairly authentic as black street toughs, apart from maybe the Robert Crumb-influenced female. It's not like they're "Sambo" stereotypes, unless street thug is the new "Sambo." I see drawings just like these in comic books for both black and white and Latino punks and muggers. With these hillbillies, you see a bunch of quasi-Neanderthals mixed in; acromegalic, splay-footed, bucktoothed demihumans, altho' the gals are all Ellie Mae beauties semi-dressed. (Unless they're Grannies.) |
The Angry Piper | 15 Mar 2017 6:57 a.m. PST |
Piper, Ever check out "Outsiders" on WGN? It's about a mountain clan of moonshiners in rural Kentucky fighting to keep their mountain out of the hands of the coal company. Plenty of scenario ideas and not a bad show. |
The Angry Piper | 15 Mar 2017 10:43 a.m. PST |
Also: great job on those hillbillies! |
Cacique Caribe | 15 Mar 2017 6:38 p.m. PST |
Now you can do Alien Pig Farm 3000:
Dan |
piper909 | 16 Mar 2017 2:04 p.m. PST |
Wow, fresh ideas and inspirations! Thanks! I only recently got WGN back on my cable options, I'll have to look for this show in the schedule. And new comics to scout at the store! |
Cacique Caribe | 26 Mar 2017 6:31 p.m. PST |
Shirtless with overalls is a classic look:
link Dan |
piper909 | 28 Mar 2017 2:49 p.m. PST |
Man, those look like Embleton paintings from an Osprey Men-at-Arms title! |
Henry Martini | 28 Mar 2017 7:25 p.m. PST |
They are: 'Dentally Challenged Irregulars of the American Backwoods, 1850 – 1950, Volume 1.'. |