Plains of Terror

Plains of Terror STL Miniatures: Expanding the Wanted Frontier

Every western needs someone the audience hasn’t met yet. Plains of Terror is the expansion to Join or Die Wanted, adding characters and designs that widen what a game set on the frontier can be about.

Supplied as digital STL files for home printing, built to sit alongside the wider Wanted collection.

What an expansion is for

A western skirmish game runs on a small cast, which is its strength and its limitation. Five figures make a posse, but five figures also make every game feel the same after a while. What changes that isn’t more of the same archetypes, it’s models that suggest a different kind of scenario.

That’s the role Plains of Terror plays. Combined with the core Wanted range it gives you a wider pool of characters to build encounters from, and more importantly it gives you reasons for those encounters to be about something other than a bank robbery.

Building mixed forces

The models are designed to work with the rest of the Wanted collection rather than as a standalone force. In practice that means you can build a posse that pulls from both ranges, or set one against the other, depending on what your scenario needs.

For roleplaying groups this is the more useful way to buy models. A party of player characters from one range facing whatever Plains of Terror supplies gives you a session’s worth of table presence without printing an army.

Painting a small collection

Ranges like this reward a different approach from a wargame army. There’s no unit coherence to maintain and no uniform to get right, so every figure can be painted as an individual with its own palette. Nobody is going to look at your posse and complain that two coats don’t match.

That freedom is worth using. Western figures are largely earth tones, and the models that stand out are the ones where somebody made a deliberate choice: a single strong colour on a coat, a distinctive hat, boots that aren’t brown. With eight models on the table, each one can carry that.

Printing

Around 0.03mm layer height on resin covers gaming figures, and 0.02mm is worth it on characters you’ll spend real time painting, which in a range this size is most of them. Tilt 30 to 45 degrees for drainage.

Hat brims and weapon barrels are the fragile parts, as with any western range. Orient so the brim faces upward rather than presenting its underside flat to the plate, and check support placement before committing.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need the main Wanted collection to use these?
No, but they work better together. Plains of Terror is designed as an expansion, which means the models assume a wider cast around them rather than forming a complete force on their own. If you’re starting from nothing, a Wanted pack gives you the core archetypes a western game needs and this range adds variety on top. If you already have a Wanted collection, this is the range that stops your games feeling repetitive.

How do I make eight figures look like a coherent collection?
Basing does most of it. Uniform basing ties together models painted in completely different palettes, and for a western setting that means dry earth, boardwalk planking or dusty scrub applied consistently across everything. Beyond that, pick two or three colours that recur across the collection in small amounts, on a bandana here and a saddle blanket there, so the eye finds a thread linking figures that otherwise share nothing. It’s the opposite discipline from painting an army, where consistency is the default and variation is the effort.

What am I actually buying?
Digital STL files for 3D printing. You download them and print on your own machine, and no physical miniature is shipped. Bases are not included, so you’ll source those separately in whatever size your ruleset specifies. What you gain is cost per model, which matters less on a small collection than on an army, and selection: you print exactly the characters you want rather than whatever came in the box.

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