Does anyone have any suggestions on cowboy figures? Most of the horseback riders that I have found have english saddles instead of western saddles. [:(]
Thanks.
Sue
Look for MUSKET MINIATURE products
[#ditto]here’s the link http://www.musketminiatures.com/ , there’s also some civil war figs that can double as cowboys.[8D]
Thanks for the tip. I was actually on the web site when your note came in. I was really scratching my head. In one corner of the layout, there will be a farm with a stockyard. I found a picture of some cowboys bathing in a pond, but I need to tie the horses to a nearby bush or tree. Some of these figures might do the trick. I have the rock in the pond, but need the figures before I do the water.
Thanks. I am still open for more suggestions.
Sue
Have you looked at the military kit manufacturers like Italeri, Revell etc as many do figures from all periods so might include the Old West that might be suitable, although 1/72 scale.
As mentioned, Musket miniatures are good. Bachman makes an Old West set. There are others that I have found on eBay. Jordan makes wagons/carriages. Mostly, I kept my eyes on eBay and got them in bulk when they came up.
Also you can get hats and saddles and convert otherwise unfitting characters.
Who makes the hats and saddles? That sounds interesting since I will be hanging them on bushes?
Sue
Cowboy Bushes…very interesting.
They are made by Musket Miniatures.
Musket Miniature’s figures are good. There just isn’t enough variety for a whole layout. I’ve found some really good ones out there, but they seem to be older and they pop up at train shows and on eBay. I’ve had a lot of luck on eBay, but you have to be persistent. And you pretty much have to paint everything.
Musket Minatures
Bachman Figures
Unnamed at train show.
I am going to have some cowboys bathing in a pond while the bushes wear their hats and clothes. I got the idea from a book of cowboys in the old west. I thought that I would also tie up their horses. It looks like Musket Minatures might have something for that also. I still need more variety so I will check out Bachman Figures.
Sue
Airfix makes several sets of Old West miniatures, but they are closer to 1:72 scale. If they will be in the foreground and physically separate from other miniatures, the difference in size (which is something on the order of a sixteenth to an eighth of an inch in height) won’t be noticeable. You’ll have to paint them, and the plastic is kinda soft, but they make cowboys, settlers, Indians and cavalry.
That’s the one I couldn’t remember. I have a couple packages of those. They were made quite a while ago and tend to be more action oriented–like active gunfights and roping cow.
Most of my figures are Preiser and Woodland Scenics.
Are you guys depicting the west?
sue
Spacemouse, I ordered some musket minatures today. I did not find the hats. [C):-)] They had saddles, but no hats. How do I make cowboy bushes?[(-D]
Sue
I guess I’m technically depicting the “West” but not the Old West: I model Sacramento, CA in the 1940s/50s. I might have a “fake Old West” scene somewhere (TV cowboys being pretty popular in the era) but not modeling the “Old West” per se.
The late 1940’s would be our era. Lots of farms still used horses to manage cattle. I am using woodland scenics herefords for the beef cattle. Polled herefords do not have horns so I am dehorning them. The farm will be in the back corner. I think that we will use N scale for the farm to make it look farther away. The stock yard will be down by the tracks. I still have not completely thought that through.
I appreciate your help. Sue
You ‘thought’ you would tie up their horses. Don’t do something stupid like that; leaving their horses untied would give you a perfect opportunity to model a scene of half-a-dozen footsore cowboys trudging over the hill to headquarters to discover that their nags arrived two hours ago.
You ALWAYS tie up your horses! ALWAYS!! I came perilously close to experiencing the vignette of the previous paragraph when I stopped to answer that "call of nature’ and ground tied the reins. When I finished I turned around and their was old nag - my prized circler - already twenty feet away. Five minutes - and half a mile later - she was a hundred feet away. I resigned myself to a four mile walk to headquarters when a 'hand by the name of Baldy - good old Baldy; in 1958 he was already in his seventies - suddenly appeared on the scene and retrieved old nag.
You say your a cowboy!
I’ll hold that its true!
Ain’t cause of the clothes your wearin’!
But cause of the work you do!
Sue, I don’t know what era you are modeling but don’t get inundated with “western” garb. I knew 'hands that wo
My setting is definitely fake-cowboy for the most part: Sacramento was a small urban metropolis, and there weren’t any nearby ranches. There was, however, a State Fairgrounds featuring livestock shows and rodeos, and public parks where “Days of '49” and other silly Old West things were put on (and still are, in Old Sacramento) so cowboys of the Gene Autry model are definitely in the cards somewhere…just not sure where yet.
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You ‘thought’ you would tie up their horses. Don’t do something stupid like that; leaving their horses untied would give you a perfect opportunity to model a scene of half-a-dozen footsore cowboys trudging over the hill to headquarters to discover that their nags arrived two hours ago.
You ALWAYS tie up your horses! ALWAYS!! I came perilously close to experiencing the vignette of the previous paragraph when I stopped to answer that "call of nature’ and ground tied the reins. When I finished I turned around and their was old nag - my prized circler - already twenty feet away. Five minutes - and half a mile later - she was a hundred feet away. I resigned myself to a four mile walk to headquarters when a 'hand by the name of Baldy - good old Baldy; in 1958 he was already in his seventies - suddenly appeared on the scene and retrieved old nag.
You say your a cowboy!
I’ll hold that its true!
Ain’t cause of the clothes your wearin’!
But cause of the work you do!
Sue, I don’t know what era you are modeling but don’t get inundated with “western” garb.&n
I got my hats from eBay Store: Nomonee Railroad. They don’t seem to have the hats right now, but you could write Babs and ask. But they have more than Musket Miniatures. You should take a look.
Spacemouse, The cowboy figures came with yesterday’s mail. I have not examined them yet with magnification, but I will get to that sometime today. I like the bedrolls on the back of the saddles. I will try to send pictures.
Thanks again, Sue