From DallasE: US Seventh Cavalry Troopers (55 points)

Better late than never I guess, but here is the first sizeable tranche of my 2026 project, the Little Bighorn in 28mm. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the battle and as I've said before here, I have some stuff planned, so I have to get off my kiester and get painting.

This first bunch are mostly Foundry models, I have a lot of them to paint. The command group above are from an unknown manufacturer, I'm sure someone out there knows who. The guidon is of the type used by the Seventh at Little Bighorn and was handpainted by me on paper.

The last eight models in the post are Foundry's "Old Sweats" pack, sculpted by Mark Copplestone.

They're super-nice models as you'd expect from the Foundry. Paint formula is Kantor Blue highlighted with ancient Ultramarines Blue for the jackets. The pants have been troubling for me. The blue should be light blue but not TOO light... these ones were too light and I toned them down with a blue wash, but still not happy with them. Will do some more experimenting with the next group. Black hats, leather equipment and boots were highlighted Dark Rubber. The yellow is Averland Yellow with an Agrax Earthshade wash, then re-highlighted. Rifle stocks are Dark Brown highlighted New Wood.

Anyway here's one interesting thing about the models... when I was at the Little Bighorn battlefield in 2008 I filled a jar with dirt from Last Stand Hill (as you do) and a little bit was sprinkled into the groundwork on each of these models.

So this is eleven 28mm models x 5 points each = 55 points.

Cheers,

Dallas

Great work on the cavalry Dallas.  You’ve done those lovely Foundry sculpts justice, the blues really work.  Also love the Little Big Horn groundwork.

Tuesday Night Open Mic January 17

 

This week the Tuesday Terrors have the following acts on stage.

• DallasE plays us song good ol' Western music with Cowboy chords.
• JohnB halts out his lute
• MartinC brings out his hankies to practice his Morris dancing.
• Andrew has some middle eastern selections
• MikeF brings us some heavy metal
• SylvainR gets in touch with his inner gondolier and strums a mandolin.
• Andrew returns with some not dinner music
• Ken has some Italian favourites 

And some semi-live old fart music from me.  The Skydiggers are a hugely influential Canadian band who inspired most of the Can-con (Canadian content) Dallas and I have posted.  Through a long list of failed record companies, partings of ways, lost master tapes etc, they never managed to get the recognition that they deserved.  This is perhaps their signature song played at the iconic Massey Hall in TO (Toronto non-Canadians) in 2018 (yes this Century!).