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Title: Pulp Alley AAR: Dirk Drake and the Perilous Island Episode 3 - At Death's Door
Post by: bong-67 on October 20, 2017, 10:36:47 AM

Hi,
Here is a belated report of game 3 of our Perilous Island Campiagn played at the G3 club Glasgoe on the 22nd of August. Episode 3, At Death's Door found the Daredevils and their enemy, the Ahnenerbe battle in a compound in Athens as they attempted to secure Lord Darrow's box containing vital clues to his location.
Thanks to a sterling performance by the Daredevils, in particular, Chomper the bulldog, the Daredevils secured the box with the vital clue they needed.
The set-up at the start of the episode:
(https://i.imgur.com/n07qwuy.jpg)

Chomper heroically holds off the Ahnenerbe to buy vital time for Dirk:
(https://i.imgur.com/Ryz4ety.jpg)

The end of the game.  The Daredevils escape with Lord Darrow's box as the compound is rocked by a series of mysterious explosions:

(https://i.imgur.com/afYl9g7.jpg)

Title: Re: Pulp Alley AAR: Dirk Drake and the Perilous Island Episode 3 - At Death's Door
Post by: Alcide Nikopol on October 21, 2017, 06:07:44 AM

Wonderful!

Title: Re: Pulp Alley AAR: Dirk Drake and the Perilous Island Episode 3 - At Death's Door
Post by: Matt on October 21, 2017, 01:32:03 PM

Cool, thanks for sharing.  Where do your buildings come from? I am also interested in your chain link fence.  Looks like it was scratch built.  Any insights on what you did there?

Matt

Title: Re: Pulp Alley AAR: Dirk Drake and the Perilous Island Episode 3 - At Death's Door
Post by: Wolf Girl on October 22, 2017, 03:15:11 AM

Awesome!  :-*

Title: Re: Pulp Alley AAR: Dirk Drake and the Perilous Island Episode 3 - At Death's Door
Post by: bong-67 on October 22, 2017, 10:42:34 AM

Glad you liked our game folks.  The big red brick warehouse is the Sarissa Precision warehouse and it belongs to the G3 club.  It was painted by one of the members for a participation game at a wargames  show.  The G3 club has some fantastic resources including a whole town's worth of victorian buildings.
The grey multi-storey building is mine and is scratch built from cork floor tile based on ideas in the Makatishi web site.  It was straightforward to build but I inadverdantly used sealed cork tiles which were very hard to cut.  I've now got some unsealed tiles which migt be easier to use.
The fencing was very easy, just car bodywork mesh from Halfords cut to size with balsa wood posts glued to the mesh and the posts glued to plastic card bases.  If you paint the balsa posts before glueing hem to the mesh the fence doesn't need any more painting.  The fences are quick and easy to do and one pack of mesh makes loads.
The buildings used for Mexican Manhunt were a mix of Italeri plastic 1/72 mediterranian houses, Warbases Spanish modular houses (I rendered the walls with ready mixed filler), and Hovels arab buildings.  Walls were foamcore glued to card bases with the foamcore rendered with filler.

Title: Re: Pulp Alley AAR: Dirk Drake and the Perilous Island Episode 3 - At Death's Door
Post by: d phipps on October 22, 2017, 08:30:45 PM

Very cool! THANKS for playing and sharing Pulp Alley.  ;)