"Firing into the Brown" #66 - Verbeek, Saloons, hitching rails and stuff...

"So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as well as Volunteers. So he marches with the Chief to a great big plain on the top of a mountain, and the Chiefs men rushes into a village and takes it; we three Martinis firing into the brown of the enemy".

Kipling "The Man Who Would Be King"

Time for another update..

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The mini is a Peter Pig British  Cavalry officer and was
painted and gifted to me by Prinz Geoffrey over on the
Cavendaria blog

"Verdomme" muttered Verbeek, as he kicked his horse Teufel into a fitful gallop across the dry featureless sand of the south Sudan.. 

"This is the second time these damned British have almost had me killed!", completely ignoring of course that on the previous occasion it had been he himself that had managed to get himself captured...

Happily Suakin, and safety, were only a few hours away. As he peered over his shoulder at the scene of the recent battle, he could see that the Dervish camelry were circling on top of the little hillock they had so recently occupied - their weapons in the air, he could also hear the sounds of their triumphant ululating... more importantly though, they were not following...

"God zij dank", it looks like he and Teufel would live to 'observe' another day.. glancing around he could see the gunners on their limber also looked relieved, but after just one look at the the face of the British Colonel recently in charge of the desert position, Verbeek decided to hold his counsel - their would be time enough later for his observations.. (😏)

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The last of the Cedar Gulch buildings has just left the painting table..  the Silver Dollar Saloon and Hotel..  "Whiskey, Beer and Rooms"

Pleased with this one..  a very imposing building on two floors both of which are accessible as I didn't glue them together..

Not sure I'll ever need to access the interior as I'm happy the floor plan idea is working, but you never know..

Dry brushed with dust brown, red windows and frames (very effective, was pleased with those), woodgrain doors, and the roof is a tawny brown ink wash..

 

The Saloon sign came off the Interweb and was serendipitously just the right colours!

Also pleased that the veranda is just the right size to fit the bases of my figures.. calling that one done - the beers are on me, boys!

With a bit of spare time after I'd finished the hotel I then knocked up a few hitching rails to put outside my various buildings - these were just extra-long BBQ matches cut to size, and then the hot glue gun was deployed for the first time in an age to stick them together...  hot glue guns are hideous by the way, the stuff strings up and goes everywhere. Black undercoat and then two contrasting shades of mud brown finished them off - bases are MDF with the usual PVA glue and sand/clump/stone cover..

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 Laters, as the young people are want to say...