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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Bushbaby on 29 June 2017, 11:57:33 AM

Title: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Bushbaby on 29 June 2017, 11:57:33 AM: The crew of the booze laden trawler "Aurora", prepare to greet unwelcome guests in the fog outside Nova Scotia.

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Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on 29 June 2017, 02:34:49 PM: Superb! Very pulpy, I do like a booze laden trawler.
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: d phipps on 29 June 2017, 03:50:33 PM: Very cool! THANKS for posting.
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Sunjester on 29 June 2017, 04:50:21 PM: Is that a coastguard cutter approaching, or something with BIG tentacles? Looks superb, I really must get a trawler or tramp steamer of some description.
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: 3 fingers on 29 June 2017, 05:34:29 PM: Really nice ship,though rum runners has got me thinking,anyone ever done shine runners?
That could been good ,rival gangs ,cops vs shine runners, car chases,protecting stills etc
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: FramFramson on 29 June 2017, 05:51:16 PM: Whatta ship! Excellent work!
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Sunjester on 29 June 2017, 06:24:14 PM: Quote from: 3 fingers on 29 June 2017, 05:34:29 PM
Really nice ship,though rum runners has got me thinking,anyone ever done shine runners?
That could been good ,rival gangs ,cops vs shine runners, car chases,protecting stills etc

I will be including them in my pulp 1920s Canadian games http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=99375.msg1247973#msg1247973

I have a bunch of gangsters and cops on the painting table right now and I'm working on a 3-player scenario.
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: FramFramson on 29 June 2017, 06:59:58 PM: So did you build this perfectly-scaled trawler yourself?
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: PortCharmers on 29 June 2017, 07:39:45 PM: Yes, tell us about the boat!
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Bushbaby on 29 June 2017, 07:53:12 PM: Quote from: FramFramson on 29 June 2017, 06:59:58 PM
So did you build this perfectly-scaled trawler yourself?

I found it in a fleamarket, dusty and worn down, basically a wreck. So I gave it love, repaint and repairs, and voila! The Aurora was born.
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Legion1963 on 29 June 2017, 07:57:49 PM: Indeed. Very nice. A lovely ship it is. Was it a water-line model when you bought it or did you convert? ;-)
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Bushbaby on 29 June 2017, 08:07:07 PM: Quote from: Legion1963 on 29 June 2017, 07:57:49 PM
Indeed. Very nice. A lovely ship it is. Was it a water-line model when you bought it or did you convert? ;-)

Neither. It still isn´t.

Why? Well I bought it for 20 EUR. Now I found one on an auction site going for 800 EUR (!)

Suddenly cutting it up it wasn´t as simple anymore...
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Wirelizard on 29 June 2017, 08:10:51 PM: Man, if you can get 800 EUR for the damn thing, that'll buy a lot of pewter, resin, and beer!

Still, nobody makes a 28mm trawler that I'm aware of and they were very common as rumrunning vessels on both coasts, so maybe waterlining it would be for the best...

I rather like the idea of rumrunners suddenly enmeshed in Cthuloid goings-on after being out on an especially dark and misty night, or just as an element in a more regular pulpy game.
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: warrenpeace on 29 June 2017, 09:03:41 PM: I see a couple of possible solutions, Bushbaby. Either hurry up and waterline the trawler so that you won't be tempted to sell it for 800 euro, or sculpt some kind of water base to hold the ship without waterlining. The second solution might look a little odd, unless other ships and boats are also done that way, but would retain value for possible future sale. Or, as a third option, perhaps you could design your table so that the surface is supposed to be a number of feet under water. You would have to build up a higher beach and shore.
Title: Re: Rumrunners in the mist.
Post by: Bushbaby on 02 July 2017, 07:07:58 AM: Gaah decisions, decisions!

Lucklily I have roughly five other projects going on, so there is no need to do anything right now. So let's just procrastinate for now!