Woe to anyone who is trying to do an Old Western layout, with action posed figures of gunfighters, badmen or lawmen. In O scale, there is practically nothing.
Yes, Artista and others have a few Old West figures, but they are boring cowboys, standing with a rope or a drink in their hands, or shoeing a horse, or doing some other mundane cowboy thing. And, yes, they have Old West Saloon girls, Old West doctors, lawyers, and blacksmiths. All ho-hum. Through all of my searches, I think I found one badman and one Sheriff in O Scale by Knuckledusters, poised to draw on each other, and that was it.
There is one set of 3-D printed figures by a company, of rustlers on horses, but their cowboy hats all came out of the 3-D printers looking like 1930s fedoras. So, you have a bunch of rustlers who look like Humphrey Bogart on horseback.
Knuckledusters makes some great Old West action figures, in pewter, looking identical to the great characters in the most famous western movies, but they are all in 28mm, for gaming only.
So, this leaves the old plastic really bad-looking Marx molded plastic "cowboys and indians" sets, which are just too poor to bother with.
I guess, I'll have to make my Old West layout into something else. South Park anyone?
Mannyrock
