Some of 15mm Wild West repaints

Just repainted some of my old 15mm Wild West figures. All these miniatures are from different manufacturers. First one (I call him "Shorty") is from this "QRF" American Civil War pack link . Second figure can be found on 15mm.co.uk and Battleline Miniatures webstores here and here . Last guy is on the taller side of 15mm scale. He is from "Irregular Miniatures" American Indians range link and his code "PI35 Cowboy or Settler on foot"

How to fight with size difference in 15mm

If you are 15mm gamer and have miniatures from different manufacturers, you may know about size difference in this scale. The matter is some manufacturers made true 15mm figures, and other 16mm, 17mm and even 18mm figs. Peter Pig is one of my favorite manufacturer, but his true 15mm figures looks a bit small in comparison to Blue Moon and Irregular Miniatures figs.

Here is size comparison shot of "Blue Moon" Wild West range civilian, "Peter Pig" Sudan range British soldier and "Irregular Miniatures" Colonial range Sepoy. As you can see true 15mm Peter Pig guy is on the smaller side.

But I found a solution how to deal with this size difference!!!!

You just need to use greenstuff or other material to uplift your true 15mm miniature from its base. When basing your bigger 15mm miniatures, try to cut their base to minimum and place figure inside the washer hole to make miniature look smaller. If you don't use washers but coins, just try to make your uplifted smaller figure heads to be on same lever as bigger 15mm guys.

Here is photo of uplifted Peter Pig figure, true 15mm Wild West figure with sanded base (sorry I haven't finished painting this guy) and bigger Blue Moon figure (with cutted base) placed in the washers hole.

Hope this article will be useful for you :)

And if you wondering about Wild West guy at the middle of the last photo, I'll tell you that you can find this figure on 15mm.co.uk or Battleline Miniatures sites here http://15mm.co.uk/A16.htm or here http://www.battleline-miniatures.co.nz/detail.asp?ProductCriterion=15mm%20American%20Civil&SubProductCriterion=American%20Civil%20war&quicksearch=&NAV=3&ItemNumber=27366

Newly found miniature basing secret!

Long time ago I made small tutorial about basing 15mm miniatureshttp://15mmworld.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/basing-tutorial.html where I used Citadel paint called Desert Yellow (Tallarn Sand in new Citadel paints range) to paint base sides.

Several mouths ago I found that if you use natural sand and Kommando Khaki (Karak Stone) paint for base sides and also you will have much better results!

Here is comparison photo of 4 miniatures based on 20mm washers. First figure is 80% painted Bornu from Irregular Miniatures with base sides painted with Desert Yellow, second figure is Peter Pig Egyptian Speaman with sand on its base and base sides painted with Desert Yellow, third figure is Irregular Miniatures Maasai Warrior with sanded base and base sides painted with Kommando Khaki, and fourth figure is Irregular Miniatures Settler from American Indian range with base sides painted with Kommando Khaki. As you can see figure bases on the left side look much better. Now I am going to repaint all my Desert Yellow base sides with Kommando Khaki

New samples

I've painted some 15mm Irregular Miniatures minis from Peasants (http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/15mmRanges/15mmPeasants.htm) and American Indians (http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/15mmRanges/15mmamerind.htm) ranges.

From left to right John Langstaff, PI35 Cowboy or Settler on foot, Pastor Humphries. Really good figures. Knowing that Irregulars have several variants for their figures, I am going to order more variants of these.

And here is a photo of rebased gorillas from 15mm.co.uk

( http://15mm.co.uk/552_Ape.htm )

Cowboys and Indians

I'd like to show you some of my painted examples of15mm Pony Wars Range from 15mm.co.uk (http://15mm.co.uk/Pony_Wars.htm) and Battleline Miniatures (http://www.battleline-miniatures.co.nz/products.asp?ProductCriterion=15mm%20Pony%20Wars) both ranges are same. I don't know why. Maybe bouth companies bought this range from extincted manufacturer :)

These are a bit old but still nice looking figures.

Gunslighters gang. Left guy is repainted Confederate solder from Freikorps 15 (QRF)

PW14 Gunfighter in duster with Shotgun, PW16 Townsman firing Shotgun, PW13 US Cavalry Trooper with Rifle

PW10 Miner with Rifle (Actually it look more like shotgun), PW11 White Woman in Bonnet

PW04 Indian with Bow, PW05 Indian with Tomahawk, RiflePW06 Indian with Rifle, PW06a Indian with Lance

PW03 Indian with Lance on Horse

Old photo of same figure before rebasing on 1 inch washer.