Some WIP Blue Moon 15mm Wild West minis

Working on those Blue Moon 15mm Wild minis. These are from the Personalities pack. Got them Block painted. Will be doing a MinWax dip on them this weekend. Then just gotta do the bases. These minis paint up easy.

Blue Moon Bandits

Blue Moon Lawmen

Blue Moon Mfg 15mm Wild West Review

I recently read on the Hawgleg forum that Blue Moon had just started a bunch of 15mm lines, among them some Wild West. Since I had just started some 15mm Wild West I went to their site to check them out. I was blown away. Everything about their 15mm site is just outstanding. First of all, they have pictures of everything! Not just pics of a few of their minis. Every mini. Not just a thumbnail that you can't tell what the heck you're looking at, either. They have thumbnails that you can click on and get 2 progressively larger pics showing all of the minis in a particular pack. No more having to buy minis and hope they look good or are equipped the way you want. You can see them. They're color pics. The minis have been washed to bring out the detail, and there is a lot of detail. The pic above is one of their enlarged pics showing their "Personalities" pack.

I bought the Personalities pack and I love it. First of all, the service was great. The pack showed up in the mail in 2 days!

Every mini is different. I had recently bought some other brands' minis. They didn't have pics of all their minis on their website. Some had just a title. One pack I got from that other brand had 12 minis in the pack but only in 3 poses. I hate that. With the Blue Moon minis I got 25 different minis for $15, including a coffin, blacksmith anvil and one of the 25 minis is a mounted "One-Eyed Fat Man" like Rooster Cogburn from True Grit. As you can see in the pic, the minis are in groups of 5. These are my unofficial descriptions of the groups:

5 Mexican Bandidos
5 Kerchief wearing Masked Robbers
5 Lawmen
5 Personalities: A "Blondie" from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", a "Bat Masterson" a "wild Bill Hickock" and a couple of others.
5 Miscellaneous Types: A blacksmith, an Undertaker, 2 other townies, and the mounted Rooster.

Size: The minis are pretty much 18mm instead of "true 15mm". They're noticeably larger than the Minifigs and Peter Pig minis I have. The latter seem to be "true 15mm".

Detail: The level of detail on the Blue Moon minis appears slightly superior in comparison to the Minifig and Peter Pig minis. But maybe that's just a function of size and my failing vision. :)

Now for some poorly executed pics of badly painted minis :).
Blue Moon 15mm Bandidos - Block Painted & Dipped


Size Comparison Shot (Left-Right) of Blue Moon Bandido with Minifig and Peter Pig

One-Eyed Fat Man

I am planning on painting the remainder of these minis up in like groups, as I did with the Bandidos. I'm going to use some unofficial Gutshot conventions for the painting, also. The Lawmen are good guys or "White Hats". Therefor, I'll be painting their hats white. The Masked Robbers are bad guys or "Black Hats". So they get black hats. I'm thinking that using cohesive colors in a given group will help for making "warbands" for Flying Lead, also.

As always, comments are welcome, and thanks for looking.

Luckyjoe

I'm back! Now for some 15mm Wild West

Hi, folks. This blog has been idle for a long time. Time to get it back up and running. I'm still into 15mm gaming but am now expanding into Wild West. I had a lot of 28mm Wild West and had been playing some "Gutshot" from Hawgleg Publishing a few years ago. I'm thinking I'll start Gutshot back up in 15mm, maybe try Andrea Sfiligoi & Rich Jones' Flying Lead solo and with the kids for Wild West also.




So far I'm amassing a big pile of unpainted 15mm Cowboys and such. (For tiny prices compared to 28mm) Got some of the Minifigs Wild West Townsfolk and Gunfighters and Apaches from Musket Miniatures. Some Peter Pig Wild West from Brookhurst Hobbies: Female Gunfighters, Lawmen with Sawed-Off Shotguns, and Gunmen with Rifles. And just recently got the "15mm Wild West Personalities" pack from Blue Moon. Now if we can just get Khurasan and Rebel Minis to make some Wild West 15's I'd be in hog heaven.





Also got some H/O scale "Rustic Rails" Wild West Buildings from Jerry's Hobby Junction. That's a great place. Excellent service. Fast shipping with outstanding packaging to protect the buildings, and they even threw in a nice little resin outhouse for free. I'll be getting more of their stuff soon. Those buildings are very nice with lots of detail and they scale in perfectly with 15mm.





Had to make a few scratchbuilt buildings also. I probably have as much fun building and painting, trying new materials, techniques on scratchbuilts as I do playing the games.





But don't expect beautifully detailed and painted minis and buildings from me, though. As I get older I obsess less on perfection (never could close, anyway) and just settle for getting things ready for the tabletop. And since I'm taking it easier I enjoy it more :).





I'm planning on putting up a series of posts about the different manufacturer's minis, the building, and hopefully some battle reports. I hope some of it will be interesting.





Luckyjoe

Rebel Minis 15mm Greys

I finally got around to painting my Rebel Minis Greys. These are nice little minis that paint up very easily. I love the way the eyes were modeled. Their size made them very easy to paint, and allows them to stand out against the rest of the mini. The weapons are very nicely detailed and make a nice contrast to the relatively plain style of the rest of the body. I painted these with a white undercoat and then did a succession of blue washes, going back over with a lighter blue for highlights. I used a silver for the weapons with a black wash and a little red for the nubs on the weapons nozzles. Then I used a craft paint metallic purple for the eyes. It was a pretty fast paint job, and I'm pleased with the results, overall. Thanks for looking.

90 New 15mm Zombies by the "dip" method

This weekend I finished off a quick, cheap project that netted us 90 zombies. I won an e-bay auction for 100 H/O scale model railroad people. One of the TMP posters (Agent Brown) had mentioned that he had used some H/O people to make Zombies for 15mm, so I wanted to try that, too.

I only ended up using 90 of the 100 because eight of them were in a sitting position. I did a little touch up paint on some of the minis prior to dipping, the rest I just dipped as is. Then I glued them in groups of 10 to one inch bases and in groups of 5 to 1/2 inch bases. I like green zombies so after dipping I went back and touched up some flesh with green. Then a quick Dullcoat, and here they are.

the whole 90


A 5 group with one of my fence sections


A 10 group with a Rebel Mini Modern Zombie


H/O Scale model RR people - 1/87 and 1/100


Zombie 5 with a Rebel Minis Street Punk


Zombie 5 with Splintered Light Minis Armed Space Crew


Zombie 5 with Splintered Light Minis Ghoul


Zombie 10 with Rebel Minis Modern Zombie


Zombie 10 with Splintered Light Minis Armed Space Crew


Zombie 10 with Splintered Light Minis Ghoul


Thanks for looking

Some 15mm minis for All Things Zombie

I recently got the Armed Space Crew from Splintered Light Minis. These are beautiful minis and even though they're not for Zombie gaming, they're gonna feature prominently in our next game of ATZ2. There are 6 minis in the set and I really like 4 of them especially. There's a not Malcolm Reynolds, not-Zoe, not-Wash and not-Jayne. I can't quite tell who the other 2 are, but they're still pretty good. Here's some pics:

Painted up some Last Night on Earth Heroes

After painting the LNOE Zombies, I had to paint the Heroes. There are eight Heroes in the basic game with another 4 Heroes available from their website for $12. I might have to pick those up, also, though I think $12 for four 28mm plastic minis is a bit steep. Anyway, the heroes minis are pretty nice, with some good archtypal character types. Beautiful female nurse with a shotgun. Stalwart priest/preacher with a bible and torch, pretty farmer's daughter with a chainsaw, teenage schoolgirl with an axe and handgun, a guy with a flaregun and can of gasoline, a jock with a baseball bat, a uniformed modern sheriff with a flashlight and large bore handgun, and a drifter with an axe and meat cleaver. The poses are dynamic and sculpting is very nice, better than many metals I have seen. Sizewise, they're a little smaller than Clix figures, Heroscape, and GW.

Here's a pic of the Nurse with a Heroclix Thug for size comparison.


Another size comparison pic with a converted Horrorclix zombie


Schoolgirl and flaregun guy


Jock and Priest


Nurse and Sheriff


Drifter and Farmer's Daughter


Thanks for looking :)