Dead Man´s Hand - New civilians in the town

Manufacturer:  I´m not sure - maybe Foundry or Redoubt

Scale:  28mm

Hi everybody,

tomorrow will be the last day of my holidays and I was able to do some more paintwork on my figures for Dead Man´s Hand within the last few days.

These two ladies are the output of today. I hope to get some more figures finished tomorrow.

Cheers

Mike

Dead Man´s Hand - A New Years Game

Hi all,

first of all a Happy New Year to everyone with a lot of health, fortune and success.

May 2017 be a good year with a lot of time for our hobby.

Today my nephew Andrè and I played a good game of Dead Man´s Hand in my man´s cave.

Andrè never played tabletop before and he had a lot of fun. I am sure that he will join some more games in future. I am also not very firm to the rules yet, so it was a test for both of us.

We just decided to play with two full gangs. Everybody had to kill all members of the enemy gang.

Andrè wanted to play Indians and I chose a gang of Cowboys. As I don´t have a gang of Indians of the Wildwest yet I just gave my Mohawks to him. So please don´t be confused if you see Indians of times of the French and Indian War fighting against Cowboys in the Wildwest in the 70´s of the 19th century.

Here are some impressions of our game. Enjoy. :)

Cheers

Mike

The set of the game

The set part two.

The undertaker who would have a lot to do today.

Ready for Action.

The SassyGal Saloon I just finished last week.

Dolly Dalton - she won´t take part in the fight but she´s the newest civilian of the town.

My cowboys occupying two buildings shooting at their enemies. Both guys jam

Another two guys occupying a third building.

The Indians getting into position.

One of my Cowboys Managing to get close to the building occupied by an indian warrior.

A second cowboy joining his comrade.

What a brilliant shot - My Rancher lying dead on the ground. The chief of my gang has left the set.

My cowboy with his shotgun manages to enter the building. He shoots from point blank and gets a bonus of 6. But the card of Andrè prevents his warrior to die immediately.

Meanwhile another Indian kills one cowboy with a precise shot.

The indian in the building reacts on the shot by the shotgun with a melee and kills him.

Andrè again manages to kill one of my cowboys with another excellent shot.

The warrior in the building got support by another indian. But my cowboy shoots him down.

Another indian is knocked out.

This time the indians got a double jam.

Andrè was lucky and killed all of my cowboys and still had four of his warriors on the table.

It was a great victory for him. Congratulations and I will be prepared for revenge.

A new home for the hobby

Hi,

Within the last weeks I had to work on the cellar just to tidy it up and bring some structure in my Daddy's former hobby room. He had a stroke almost exactly three years ago (9th of November 2013) and can't manage to get downstairs into his former hobby castle anymore where he used to do his own music. Meanwhile he also suffers from dementia and won't be able to practice his hobby.

After a long time I asked my mother if she would mind to allow me to tidy the room up and to use it for my hobby. Though I am also a musician playing in a band I didn't want to keep the room as it was before. You have to know that my father just had a lot of keyboards, guitars, tripods, CD's and all other things you could have in mind concerning music there in his room. I often wondered how he was able to move his body through this labyrinth of things for the whole room was just filled up with all these things.

My mother was facilitated that I would clean the room and help to sort all that stuff.

After I had done this I just started to build a cabinet on one wall that would cover all the things that I hadn't been able to sort until now finally. So I got some boxes to sort the things and hide them within the cabinet to make the room look more structured.

Now it was time to make a cupboard for my minis. Here is the result of my work of the last weekend. I am really proud of it as I am not a carpenter or something like that. I just got into a DIY-store

standing there and thinking about how the room could look like. With the vision I got in mind I just bought several things I needed and got into the new hobby room to start without a drawn plan or

something like that.

Hope you like it. ;)

 

Cheers

Mike