Useless facts

[Colonel Kilgore]

But the Daltons still live on in cartoon form with Lucky Luke:

[Leslie BT]

they look like an interesting set of figures for the Lawmen / bounty hunters faction.

Perhaps they are the victory point tokens!!

[martin goddard]

Quigley is as good with a pistol as with a rifle, but refers a rifle.

[martin goddard]

In Shalako the Apaches were played by Rumanian gypsies. They also charges an LRDG truck on a neighbouring film set by accident.

[Leman (Andy)]

Whoop. whoop. whoop..........whoops!

[Duncan]

12th November 1799 the first recorded happening of the Leonids meteor shower took place in a ship off the Florida keys by Andrew E Douglass.

[Stewart 46A]

The term "red light district" came from the Red Light Bordello in Dodge City, Kansas. The front door of the building was made of red glass and produced a red glow to the outside world when lit at night. The name carried over to refer to the town's brothel district.

[martin goddard]

Stewart how are your secret Apaches coming along??

[Stewart 46A]

TSS have told me they are in the post today

[Sean Clark]

sssshhhhhhh, they're a secret!

[Leslie BT]

I hope that they have changed the meatal that Freikorp are using now.
With the old figures after an army was dropped most cavalry were in two pieces, the base with the hoofs and the horse body and rider, enough to make a grown man cry!!

But that said the Freikorp sculpts were mostly good.

[Colonel Kilgore]

"Spaghetti westerns" were so-named because their directors and crews were largely Italian.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Many spaghetti westerns were made in Almería in southern Spain.

The iconic "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was filmed in Almería, in Burgos (northern Spain) and in Italy.

[Duncan]

The locomotive in the recent Lone Ranger film (The one with Mr J Depp in it.) Was not a real steam one. It was a mock up powered by two 500hp diesels mounted in the tender. They built over 3 miles of track for it to run around in an oval in the desert for filming, so it was like a real train, just not steam.

[Colonel Kilgore]

For the (original) Magnificent Seven, Yul Brynner studied shooting and the quickdraw method with Rodd Redwing, a Native American who had taught many other Hollywood actors [including co-star Steve McQueen].