It Came from the Lightbox: Dead Man’s Hand

How is it I haven’t posted these before? Probably because I keep meaning to write up a post about why Dead Man’s Hand is the platonic ideal for what I want out of a minis game…

I’ve been working on DMH for a couple of months: I’ve painted up a couple of posses for it:

These are Lawmen:

These are either Outlaws or Desperados as one inclines:

Cowboys, but more to supplement either the good guys or the bad guys as needed.

Mountain Men:

“Legends of the West” – Lee Van Cleef (“Best of the Bad”), Jonah Hex, Calamity Jane, some guy who I think looks like Kris Kristofferson (but I think is actually from some Aussie Western), and a Preacher.

Lotta dogs on the terrain sprues, so I had to do a cheeky multibase with my two puppers.

Also spent about a month grinding out some terrain for it. The town’s mostly done: need to paint some livestock and figure out some trees for it. Its name:

Since taking these photos I’ve gotten some furniture painted for the interiors.

I’m pretty happy with how it’s come out.