Last Crow warriors on horse...for now

 Hi you all!

Here are the last figures for the 2 sets of regular Crow warriors:

I hope you like them!

Cheers!

Some new sets availabe

 Hi you all!

I have received the castings of some of the figures I finished some months ago :-)

Cheyenne warrior societies:

From left to right:  Elk or Crooked Lance, Coyote or Kit Fox, Redshield or Buffalo Warriors and Inverted Bowstring or Contrary Warriors:

Cheyenne warrior woman:

Plains warriors with guns:

High ranking warrior with mail armor:

I hope you like them!

Cheers!

More mounted Crow warriors

 Hi you all!

Today I show you some more mounted Crow warriors. I have already finished the first 4 figures for the first pack and I'm pressing on with the second one :-) The ones with hand-weapons will have them as a separate piece in order to give the same options as in the original ones.

                                                

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It has been fun to have the opportunity to work on the Crow again after all these years and to try to sculpt the same figures but with some variations. Sometimes I see the old miniatures and think: "Wow, how did I do that? That must have taken me a long to sculpt!" :-P 

I hope you like them!

Cheers,

Juan

First mounted Crow warriors

 Hi you all!

Today I wanted to show you the first finished Crow warriors on horse. These are versions of the ones on foot I made a while ago (PW-01 for those familiar with them ;-) )

I had forgotten how much work goes into these figures, with the many ornaments and the hair extensions on the back, but I'm really happy about how they turned up :-)

The next ones are almost finished, so stay tuned! :-)

Cheers,

Juan

Cheyenne Warrior Societies

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Here is a new pack for the Plains Indians: Warrior Society members of the Cheyenne.

The first one is an officer of the Coyote Society (also Kit Fox Men or Fox Soldiers).

Typical regalia is his bowlance (carried by two of the members of the society), his crescent-shaped leather necklace and the two eagle feathers in his scalplock. This figure is also armed with a blanket gun (a shawed off gun), but many of them had bow and arrows when dancing.

Coyote Society members were cunning, run big distances and had great endurance, like the coyote, and painted their bodies yellow, except the lower parts of legs and arms, that were painted red.

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The second one is a Contrary Warrior, or member of the Bow-String Society (or Inverted Bow-String Society).

These warriors acted as contraries and carried a bow-spear. They wore an stuffed owl on the forehead. They also had a bone whistle suspended from a string around their necks.

They had to be specially strong of body and mind and be very courageous, and act in a solemn and stoic manner. They painted their bodies and clothes red.

For this figure I opted for a striking pose. He is also a bit bigger than the others.

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The third one is one of the bravest men of the Hoof-Rattle warrior society, also known as Elk Soldiers or Crooked Lance.

The two bravest men in this Warrior Society carried each a crooked lance wrapped in otter skin with pendants of eagle feathers. The rest of the members of this society carried straight lances wrapped in otter skin, but, appart from this, there wasn't much common regalia. This warrior wears a warshirt with scalps and a stand-up warbonnet (typical of both Cheyenne and Blackfeet) to show his high warrior status.

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The fourth one is my favorite: a member of the Red-Shield society (also Bull Soldiers or Buffalo Warriors).

Typical society regalia is his shield (painted red) with the buffalo bull's tail still atached and his headdress of buffalo skin with horns. Warriors of this society used to arm themselves with spears, like this one. They painted their bodies and the headdress' horns red.

This one wears also hide leggings with a quilled band and a pectoral made of hairpipes.

These were a blast to sculpt. I hope you like them!

Horses and more!

 Hi you all!

I have finally finished the horses for the Plains Indians, after much struggling. 

It has taken me some years to make them, as I find horse anatomy a bit imposing and got mentally blocked a couple of times. I'm very happy that this year I managed to overcome all those hurdles and, in fact, it took me only a couple weeks time to finish them (given that I had already made the torsos (is that the word for animals too??) and parts of a pair of legs previously.

Anyway, I'm happy they are finally ready, as that wasn't only a big challenge for me, but also because it enables me to begin sculpting the mounted versions of the minis I have already made. I can't wait!

Besides, I have been working on some more Cheyenne, which I'll show you next time. Here are some WIP images. This time I didn't want to use armatures, as I wanted to improve my sculpting a bit making them completely from scratch. 

Some more warriors with guns

 Hi you all!

I haven't updated the blog in a while and, in fact, I wasn't able to sculpt for some time. Several months ago I got back on track and I have been sculpting some figures

These are "generic" warriors (they could be used as Teton Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho and others) with more modern guns that could be used in the 60`s and 70`s (including Little Big Horn). Guns are a two Spencer carbines, a Henry repeating rifle and a Colt. Some of the warriors wear trade shirts, which are very typical in latter periods. I'll probably end up making a set like this for every tribe I have sculpted so far

I hope you like them!