johnnybach
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I'm not quite sure where this thread fits - but thought that as it is using figures that I have either painted from castings, or repaired and repainted from damaged figures - I would be better off starting up a new thread entirely - so have put it here.
I have called it - "The Rendezvous" - because that's what the Mountain Men of The Rocky Mountains and North-West region called it themselves, during their heyday ( from circa 1810-1860). These pioneering trappers, hunters and traders would meet up once a year - at a designated place - to trade their furs with others, buy supplies - down a few snorts of whisky - and generally have a good time. The main objective, of course, was to trade the furs they had either trapped - or exchanged with others who had trapped them - such as the North American Native Indian hunters. Indeed, so close did they become - that many even took Indian wives.
Below - is my first pic. of an attempted exchange of goods going on. It's really an excuse to show some of my latest painted castings - which are behind a pair of figures you may have seen before - in another thread. Here's the pic. - with an explanation below.
In the foreground - is a Mountain Man trying to exchange a blanket - and maybe a cooking pot - with an Injun Chief. The trader is a Dorset Soldiers casting, adapted with a milliput made blanket held in two modified arms - which he is offering to a seated re-painted hollowcast Crescent Chief. Behind them are my three latest amigos - who are from Whitetower Miniatures ( in the UK) - which I purchased as castings. I have some others to add to this scene - but they are currently in another country - awaiting transportation here! ( which means I didn't have room to bring them over in my hand-luggage, last time).
The three ( from left to right) are three well known characters from the period: William Sublette - Liver Eating Johnson - and Bill Mitchell.
I'll leave it there for now, pardners - but will return to build on this beginning scene with more figures, in due course. jb
I have called it - "The Rendezvous" - because that's what the Mountain Men of The Rocky Mountains and North-West region called it themselves, during their heyday ( from circa 1810-1860). These pioneering trappers, hunters and traders would meet up once a year - at a designated place - to trade their furs with others, buy supplies - down a few snorts of whisky - and generally have a good time. The main objective, of course, was to trade the furs they had either trapped - or exchanged with others who had trapped them - such as the North American Native Indian hunters. Indeed, so close did they become - that many even took Indian wives.
Below - is my first pic. of an attempted exchange of goods going on. It's really an excuse to show some of my latest painted castings - which are behind a pair of figures you may have seen before - in another thread. Here's the pic. - with an explanation below.
In the foreground - is a Mountain Man trying to exchange a blanket - and maybe a cooking pot - with an Injun Chief. The trader is a Dorset Soldiers casting, adapted with a milliput made blanket held in two modified arms - which he is offering to a seated re-painted hollowcast Crescent Chief. Behind them are my three latest amigos - who are from Whitetower Miniatures ( in the UK) - which I purchased as castings. I have some others to add to this scene - but they are currently in another country - awaiting transportation here! ( which means I didn't have room to bring them over in my hand-luggage, last time).
The three ( from left to right) are three well known characters from the period: William Sublette - Liver Eating Johnson - and Bill Mitchell.
I'll leave it there for now, pardners - but will return to build on this beginning scene with more figures, in due course. jb
