From ClintB -15mm Apache Indians. (48 Points)

I gad a spare day yesterday so I managed to take some figures from an old project that had stalled and once undercoated managed to get 24 Apache Indians in 15mm finished. They had been on my to do list for about 2 years and the project had stalled so it feels a great relief to have gotten them done boxed up and put away.

When I started  this project I was going to use the "Hey you in the Jail!" rules by Peter Pig, but I may now use "Blackpowder" instead or more likely I will forget the figures and return to them in a year or two from now. The figures are "Freikorp15" figures available from "QRF" in the UK as lets be honest 15mm Wild West figures are not so very popular with 28mm gunfight figures taking the title for this period.

Sometimes the desire to fight colonial wargames means we need exotic adversaries from India, Africa or the Far East. But not all countries travelled to far flung corners of the world' for some  they only had to go out into their back yard! Please forgive the inaccuracy of the chief wearing a feathered headdress as this is not authentic as far as I can see within the Apache nations but is instead a sculptors whim. I have included him for game purposes rather than historical accuracy as it allows me to build a force 3 figures to a base.

I have kept the Peter Pig basing convention of 3 figures to a 30mm x 30mm square base. Due to the filmic nature of the force and terrain, little rocks (little pieces of cork) and static grass have been added to the bases. It just helps to break them up and make them look more like broken ground. After all we have all seen enough films where they hide in rocky out crops and fight the Yankie boys in blue. But then again films are not always historically accurate are they?


From Curt:

Ha! These look great! I've not seen Apaches in 15mm before and I think you've done a bang-up job on them Clint. I love the guy in the headdress - right out of Central Casting - wonderful.