{"id":9678,"date":"2020-04-17T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:42:06","slug":"highwaymen-and-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=9678","title":{"rendered":"Highwaymen and Smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No, I’m not talking about members of Congress! I am talking about figures I purchased from Outpost Wargaming Service<\/a> from Badger Games. These really appealed to me a year or so ago. I bought a bunch — a few were out of stock. During the plague lock-in, a lot of stuff in my painting queue is moving to the painting table at a faster-than-normal rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work in progress photo of the highwaymen and other figures as I completed them. This is the queue for flocking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These were a nice break after painting the Ozz figures with a lot of figures in Napoleonic style uniforms. With these, I could paint them in whatever colors I wanted. Of course many were in dark cloaks, the better to conduct nefarious enterprises in the dead of night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another work in progress photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Many of the WSD smugglers and highwaymen have mounted and dismounted versions of the same figure. I actually didn’t realize this at first. I was going to paint all the dismounted figures first and then the mounted figures. Then I realized there were many matched pairs and I started painting them at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This one is called “the Colonel’s lady.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I really like the dragoon figures. There were mounted and dismounted versions of them as well; although, there were limited poses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mounted dragoons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The brigands accost a coach full of wealthy victims. (The coach is from Old Glory.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I see a scenario in which two rival bands of brigades want to loot from the coach. One of the people in the coach is secretly a hero type. Dragoons rush onto the table to the rescue. There will be at least four distinct factions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some miscellaneous figures in front of the Old Glory coach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another group falls victim to marauders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just a few more figures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t take pictures of every figure in the line. There were a lot of them as you can see from the work in progress photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mixed into this batch of figures a few others from the project box as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My daughter’s D&D character “designed” on Hero Forge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some Asterix and Obelix Romans. I wish I could find more of these Asterix and Obelix figures at a reasonable price.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I don’t even know where this figure came from. It was in my painting box. I don’t know where I got it, who made it, or anything.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A figure I designed for myself on Hero Forge to amortize the shipping of my daughter’s figure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I began this batch of figures last Saturday, so they took me a full week to complete. I will combine these with the Old Glory duelist figures to make some fun scenarios, but I don’t know when I’ll get them on the table with all the “social distancing.”<\/p>\n