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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Mad Doc Morris on November 13, 2009, 04:15:19 PM
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Inspired by a fellow wargamer's presentation at my local club (back then), I couldn't resist anymore and bought some miniatures for the 'Roaring Twenties'. Originally, being a sucker for the Indiana Jones trilogy, I planned to do something 'adventureous' and only that. A wargamer's plan, you know it... ::)
Now a friend of mine and myself are about to stage a little campaign, combining elements both of pulp and adventure stories. The miniatures shown hereafter are the beginnings of this 'project'. Technically they were already finished for some time, only lacking their bases. After finally deciding which style to use, I've taken some pictures, and here they are. Hope you enjoy them.
In any case, please also visit my blog (http://lead-mountain.blogspot.com/) and let me know what you think! :)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/Tabletop/Pulp/DSC05164.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/Tabletop/Pulp/DSC05166.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/Tabletop/Pulp/DSC05168.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/Tabletop/Pulp/DSC05162.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/Tabletop/Pulp/DSC05170.jpg)
Appropriate terrain is still an issue - as is storage room. Ideas welcome. ;)
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They are lovely. The mustard yellow suit is awesome.
Storage problems? Just send them to me, I'll pay the shipping ;)
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The pinstriping and the stockings are very nice. How did you do the stockings?
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Appropriate terrain is still an issue - as is storage room. Ideas welcome. ;)
Very, very good start for that period!
I found cobblestone roads, brick buildings and trams essential. My terrain for the roaring twenties:
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/Gangsters/Chase/Chasepan.jpg)
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/Gangsters/Whiskey/IMG_7254.JPG)
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/Adventures/Chlormann/P1010004.JPG)
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Thanks, guys! :)
Completely forgot to add the police - just solved, phew.
Svenn, give me a second - erm, no. ;)
Froggy, the stockings are crossed lines of white as a final 'highlight' to the lady's legs.
Michi, awesome terrain, I'm envious. That's exactly the kind of board I would want for my own gaming experience. Sadly ruled out by lacking space. :(
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That is some fantastic painting! I have to agree that the yellow suit with purple vest is awesome. I just may have to do the same soon.
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Awesome! :-* :-*
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Beautiful paintwork, Mad Doc. Love the newspapers. A brilliant little touch. :)
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Beautiful paintwork, Mad Doc. Love the newspapers. A brilliant little touch. :)
yep the items of rubbish etc strewn across the bases is perfect. Wonderful stuff ;D
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That's really, really excellent work. :-*
Could I ask where you got the cobblestones?
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Wow! I need those guys for my trainstation. Can I invite them for a platform shoot out?
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Absolutely beautiful! The painting is so rich and clear, and it's set off brilliantly by the bases - are the cobblestones sculpted with greenstuff? They look great. And the rubbish on the bases is a brilliant touch. Could you run through how you did the newspapers? They look fantastic! And finally, the cars! They're great! Are they die-casts? If they are, they painted up beautifully. This is a fantastic project!
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Once again, thanks a lot, fellows - I'm really honoured. :-*
Gallowglass, the cobblestones are made simply by scratching irregular lines into the not fully dried filler I use for my bases.
traveller, they are ready for a drive-by, if you are. ;)
Hawkeye, for the first question see above. The newspapers are made of ordinary paper torn into little pieces; watered down brown colour was added (you might use ink instead) as well as some black lines indicating columns of text. Only hours after I added the newspapers to the bases, Operator 5 came up with this great PDFs which also bears some downsized real newspaper pages; that eases things a lot. The cars are from Matchbox's Yesteryears. Don't recall their actual title, but you should be able to find a lot of them. I repainted mine, but not really sure if I will do it again. ::)
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Thanks, Mad Doc. I thought the cars - one of them, at least - looked familiar to me, and that's why. I have a few of them, and plan on painting them, but from what you're saying, I guess it's a lot of work. If it means anything at all, I think they look far better painted than in the original shiny colours! As for the newspapers - sounds simple, but looks amazing! I'll be doing it for my modern or pulp models in future. Oh, and I should have said the first time round that the faces on the models are brilliant - so full of character and emotion. Simply amazing.
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Well done all around. Great work on all the little details. Quite remarkable!
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Excellent, very well observed they ooze the period.
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Mad Doc
WOW some lovely figures :-* :-* :-*
Pinstripes are great.
and the bases are out standing.
Good job on the re-paints of the cars. Like the soft top :-*
I too am jealous of the scenery by Michi :o :o
Anychance of some close ups and some details of how you built the town?
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I too am jealous of the scenery by Michi :o :o
Anychance of some close ups and some details of how you built the town?
Cobblestone road sections are 15x15, 15x25, 10x10, 10x15 and 10x25cm, foam on 1mm styrene sheet, some with H0/00 tracks embedded.
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/Adventures/Chlormann/P1010016.JPG)
Buildings are based on 25x25cm sqares of 5mm plywood with carved pavements for 2,5cm wide sidewalks.
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/Gangsters/Streetlife3.jpg)
The brick walls are made from foam sheets from the railway model shop.
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/NearFuture/NF-Matrix05.jpg)
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/Gangsters/Italian%20Massacre.jpg)
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/Gangsters/Whiskey/IMG_7249.JPG)
(http://www.diehl-bernd.de/Tabletop/NearFuture/Gangland2-011.JPG)
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As they say in China: Jumpin Jesus on a pogo stick, that's flippin awesome work! Top notch! :o
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Excellent. :)
Painting Gangsters myself at the moment. These are very inspirational.
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Thankyou for lots of good ideas and inspiration. I take off my fedora to you, brilliant work.
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Thanks again, folk! You've kept me motivated for additions over which I'm already chewing... Might take the plunge and open a poll. ::)
Btw @Michi, excellent terrain, but definitely out of reach regarding my limited abilities and storage capacities. ;)
PS: Fixed the link to my blog in the first post - in case you want to see some other views of the miniatures presented here.
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Gorgeous figures there Mad Doc Morris, I never thought I'd see Hitler in a yellow suit with purple waistcoat.
Lovely terrain there too Michi, I would love to play on that board.
I can't help noticing every time Mad Doc (I'm sorry I keep typing 'Mad Dog'... I hope I've corrected them all now :oops: ) mentions the terrian he says 'but I have a problem with storage...' so maybe we can put our collective brains together.
I have seen a terrain set that fitted inside iself so to speak; the buildings were made (in sections if I recall correctly) a bit like Russian dolls, and were stored inside larger ones. Perhaps something like that is worth considering. Also collapsable buildings - there are some very nice PDFs of cardboard buildings that could perhaps be modified to fold down at the end of play. Also, there are snap-together-snap-apart kits that might serve. They're fiddly to put up just before a game, but arguably better than permenantly have terrain that has no-where to go, and certainly better than no terrain at all.
Ultimately, the best place to go for advice on terrain for gaming is I think TerraGenesis - http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/ - and I'm sure people would be able to come up with solutions.
Hope some of this is helpful, and good luck with your Pulp town (or is that 'Pulpville'?)
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Many thanks, especially Red Orc for the input. I'll consider the approach mentioned, sounds quite viable.
Besides, honestly I hadn't Uncle Adolf in mind when painting the chap in yellow suit. Moustaches like that were seemingly quite common back then. Actually my inspiration for the pair were these two fellows:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/Tabletop/laurel-and-hardy.jpg)
Also, Bezzo, I've no clue who you mean. :'( Any advice?
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Indeed, there's a bit of similarity. lol
Maybe Mr Copplestone did an unintentional(?) resemblance.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :o Amazing!
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superb Stuff Here!!!! :o :o :-*
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... I hadn't Uncle Adolf in mind when painting the chap in yellow suit. Moustaches like that were seemingly quite common back then. Actually my inspiration for the pair were these two fellows:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/Tabletop/laurel-and-hardy.jpg)
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It's true, that sort of style was a lot more popular before the 1940s. After that... less so. I didn't really mean that it 'was' Hitler. It does look like him though, a sort of alternate universe angry gay theatre impressario Hitler.
What a different world that would have been.
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Mhh, maybe a Springtime for Hitler-theme? That's a puzzling lovely idea, too. o_o
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Wow nice figures. I love your technique.
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Very nice indeed :)
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Minor update and a bit of crossover: I painted the following miniatures to add some 'adventurous' flavour to our gangster games. More to come, but still to be based.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/Poliorketes/Tabletop/Pulp/DSC05333.jpg)
Other shots and casual chat can be found in my latest blog entry (http://'http://lead-mountain.blogspot.com/2010/03/return-of-pulp.html'). Many thanks for looking. :)
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:o
WOW
Mad Doc-Great figures, the painting and the basing are simply Awesome!
Michi-Great Terrain!
Thank you both for such inspirational pics.
Tom
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Nice old sea dog on the right! Had'nt seen him before. Very nice painting. Who makes him? It's nice to see that someone else mixes in pirates with their pulp as I do on occasion.
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Thanks. :)
The old man is a model from Pulp Miniatures.
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Excellent paint job!