More Wild West figures from Artizan;
These are Pinkerton agents, but could also represent US government secret agents.
The organisation was founded in the 1850s by Allan Pinkerton, a Scottish detective and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency. It later changed its name to the Pinkerton Agency.
It was founded to help enable businessmen control and monitor their employees and to prevent industrial action and strikes. The Agency also worked with the US government as a supplement to the government's own Secret Service. In addition to its activities in strike-breaking and spying on unions and labour organisations, Pinkerton agents were also involved in crime-fighting in the Wild West, notably against bank and train robbers.
These figures are clearly suitable for use in all manner of settings, especially in games of In Her Majesty's Name and other VSF and Steampunk, as well as western gunfighting games.
I have these models I'm my old west town. Nice paint job
ReplyDeleteThanks! There are other Pinkertons in the Artizan range. I might have to get them because they would work for lots of things, seeing as they look quite generic 19th century "bloke with gun".
ReplyDeleteThese guys have a lot of gaming potential. After all they *can* be "good guys"... if that's what they're being paid to do. But more likely their amoral nature will come up against the PCs' mission in some rather nasty way...
ReplyDeleteLovely job on this trio.
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