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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: moif on January 29, 2010, 04:27:30 PM
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Hello everyone. I've been lurking for a while, reading other peoples threads and enjoying the images, and now I've decided to post some of my own. Rocketman is a skirmish wargame campaign I run with my friends. Its set in the 1930's, and bordering on alternative history. I also have a Rocketman blog (http://brookehurst.blogspot.com/) if any one is curious.
So far my friends and I have played five campaigns and I am currently preparing for a sixth. Campaigns vary from two to five games each. All the images here are from the third campaign.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/RR_2.jpg)
Rolls Royce armoured cars, from Copplestone Castings
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Indytank03.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Indytank01.jpg)
This is a model of the converted International Mk VIII tank, from the film 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'. The model is a toy made by Disney but is no longer produced. I have two of them but the second is not yet fully converted to a wargaming element.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Blackguards_2.jpg)
Bolshevik 'Black Guards' with antagonist Viktor 'The Iron Czar' Korsakov.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Billede014.jpg)
Generic Bolsheviks
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Chapt4battle_2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Chapt3abattle.jpg)
Isometric game maps. I usually draw all my game maps like this, though most are black and white.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Guardtower01.jpg)
A watch tower with removal roof. Click here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Guardtower02.jpg) to see the model without roof.
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Here are some images of ruins I have made for the next Rocketman campaign.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruin001.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruin001a.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruin002.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruin003.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruin004.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruin005.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruin006.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruins002.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Ruins003.jpg)
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Nice work, I've had photos of your ruined buildings in my 'Inspiration' folder since I first saw them on TerraGenesis.
Welcome to the forum :)
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Thanks matakishi. I like this forum. It has a lot more of the type of games I like.
And finally (for now) a few more models from the fourther Rocketman campaign;
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/LeMollusc.jpg)
A tramp steamer (unweathered due to time constraints) made of carboard.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/rm5_3_2.jpg)
A crashed aircraft (Arado) with giant mushrooms (made from a modelling putty called FIMO)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/HQplan.jpg)
A secret lair/HQ, made of cardboard, unpainted, for a single evenings game. The model has subsequently been cannibalised to make more ruins.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/IMG_6660.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/IMG_6646.jpg)
A German merchant U boat (Bremen (http://uboat.net/wwi/types/index.html?type=U+151)) under attack by Rocketman and some Brazilian militia, on the Amazon river. I'm the guy in the grey T shirt BTW.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/IMG_6709.jpg)
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Great stuff!
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Yes - very nice all round :)
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Very nice indeed, I'd love a ship like yours.
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Lots of great stuff, those Rolls Royces are amazing. The FT-17 in the ruins, is it a 1:32 model?
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The FT17 is 1/48 scale. I bought it from Gasoline, but it was rather expensive alas.
http://www.gaso-line.eu/
Here are a few more random images
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/RM34_01.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Triffid001.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/RM3.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Chapt5battle_3.jpg)
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Outstanding stuff! :-*
Consider your mushroom idea well and truly stolen.
Oh, and welcome :)
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Awesome stuff! A comprehensive vision and beautiful down to the details...
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Very nice work. Your blog looks like it'll be a good read, too.
Love the isometrics. Any particular programme you use? I have most of the ProFantasy (including Perspectives Pro), Dundjinni and Fractal Mapper applications but haven't really sat down long enough to get comfortable with them.
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Really great pics and ideas. I love your models, ruins, ships, everything. This looks like a lot of fun. Gotta start stealing some ideas and get going with some project on my own...
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wow everything is brilliant, really love those ruins
do you have a how I made this?
very inspiring :D
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You have some pretty great stuff there. What do you use the isometric game maps for. They are very interesting. By the way, your miniatures and terrain modelling are fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
8)
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With regards to the isometrics, they are hand drawn.
Dodge. Here are a few WIP pictures of a building under construction.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/WIP5.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/WIP6.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/WIP1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/WIP2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/WIP3.jpg)
The bricks are cut from a cork mat or a block of cork for debris. I make a rough set of walls of scrap wood or cardboard, glue the bricks on, paint the whole thing with watered down polyfilla, then paint the colour with acrylic paints.
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:o
that's a lot of work with astonishing result :-*
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You have some pretty great stuff there. What do you use the isometric game maps for. They are very interesting. By the way, your miniatures and terrain modelling are fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
8)
The isometric maps are used to convey the sense of terrain because I don't have the space or facilities to makes true 3d table tops. Instead I draw contour lines, water and roads on an olive green cloth with coloured chalk and place building and other terrain models on this. One day I hope to get a basement or some other place where I can really let loose and make terrain tiles.
Here is an example. This first image corresponds to the following isolmetric illustration;
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Image003.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Map002a.jpg)
And here are a few more isometric maps, most in my more usual black and white style;
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/RM32map.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/GameMap.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Chapt4deckplan_2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/chapter1map-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/MapRM_5_3.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/MapRM_5_2.jpg)
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Gawd, I hate talented people! ;)
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Most jealous - love the mapping stuff it just looks great. Soooooooooooooo wish I could do somegthing like that...
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Thank you very much for that, looks straight forward and effective, that cork is a versatile material isn't it.
:)
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Very versatile, especially if you can find those cork place mats, the sort you put hot plates on. The ones I use are 3mm thick. It makes cutting bricks very easy.
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Wow! There’s a lot of inspiring stuff in this tread... 8)
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o_o :o
You are either an architect or a professional modeller or both ?
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Brilliant stuff you made, but why only this cloth you put on a table? No real gametable....
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I remember he said he had no space to store scenery - which I can understand...
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We still looking for multi-use-terrainboards. Brilliant figures and terrain-pieces need a brilliant board...
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Great stuff!
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former user
I'm an illustrator.
NurgleHH
I use so many different geographical locations and elevations that I'd need hundreds of terrain boards and I only have a few shelves to store my stuff (my kids take up a lot of room) so I use the isometric maps to illustrate what the location looks like, and we use contour lines.
Lack of storage space is also why I make a lot of models in cardboard, as these can be thrown away/cannibalised once the game is over.
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I'm an illustrator.
but apart from the talent, You do have some education in technical drawing?
cause You're very accurate and descriptive
I believe I recognize a certain "architectural" style from my father
anyway, I like Your style very much
do You also do comission work?
guess it's time to transfer Your designs into solid 3D ;)
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Well, I was taught the rudiments of technical drawing at high school, x, y, z and all that. Those were the days when British education was worth something (I grew up in the UK). I taught myself about perspective and the rest is just practice and a pedantic love of detail.
I've done commission work in the past, if the pay is decent and the brief is interesting enough, but I'm not freelance.
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With regards to the isometrics, they are hand drawn.
Surely you are shitting us?!
Of course you are not, but you are very deft at it. And the use of cork tile. Big round of applause to you.
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Here here (claps loudly)!
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Thank you.
Here is an account (with pictures) of the first game using my various, newly built/bought models and terrain features
http://jrc-1138.blogspot.com/2010/03/rm62-part-one-conclusion.html
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Amazing in every respect.
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I make a lot of models in cardboard, as these can be thrown away...
Sir... I am not typically an emotional man, but you bring a tear to my eye. There are many possessions (and some people) in my life that would be thrown away over my terrain. >:D
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Wow, this is awesome.
Are you an architect or 3D designer of some sort?
A lot of your illustrations look like the ones my friends come up with at uni. Absoloutely stunning.
Love the buildings as well. Lots of time and effort appears to have gone into them.
I sometimes wonder how people have time to go to work! >:(
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Wow some great stuff the maps alone are amazing without commenting on the rest of it..
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Not an architect no. LOL.
I'm currently working on an armoured train to be used in two games. The idea is, it has to be a real monster, but still realistic. As with previous models, its made of cardboard with details in wood and plastic (the rivets are sausage sliced cocktail sticks). Here are a couple of WIP pictures to show it before it gets painted. I haven't decided which colour it should be yet. I had the idea that it could be painted in a dazzle pattern, but that might not look the part for a Bolshevik train. I'll post more pictures when its got some colour on it (and hopefully my friend who knows how to use a camera will take the pictures so they won't be quite so yellow).
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Destroyer01.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Destroyer02.jpg)
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Your train looks amazing sir
don't bother with the painting, tanks and AC were camouflaged in RCW.
Don't remember about trains right now, but this hardly matters
Will You be running the train on a track?
it looks a bit wide for that
from my experience, trains in 28 mm scale should be between 6 and 8 cm wide (tunnels, stations, bridges etc).
keep up the good work, Your train is really nice
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Thanks for the great photos and inspiration to do some building of my own.
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No track alas. If I ever go the whole way and buy a 1/56 armoured train, then I'll buy the tracks too, but for just two games, chalk lines will suffice to mark the track. As always storage space and the needs of small children take precedence and everything I do these days hinges on their requirements.
In the mean while, I'm considering building something even bigger and more menacing than an armoured train; namely a giant landship; here is an idea of what I'd like to do; for scale, the small turrets would be the same as those on the aarmoured train model; the model would be roughly 35cm long.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/landship_preview.jpg)
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I want one for VSF!!!!
Cast it, you know you want to... ;)
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I might if I knew how to, but I think it might be a tad expensive.
I intend to build it in cardboard.
edited to add;
Here is the write up of Part 2 of 'the Battle of Wadi Sahib', with pictures.
http://jrc-1138.blogspot.com/2010/03/rm62-part-two-conclusion.html
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I have to say that I am becoming a big Rocketman fan, or at least a fan of your battle reports etc. Hows this for an armoured train design scheme. I found it on a forum a while back, and kept the pic for inspiration.
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg223/timhall1955/train019.jpg)
Oh and more Rocketman please......
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Your blog sites are amazing!!!
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Last thursdays RM got bumped a week, so in the mean time I've been preparing for RM7. RM7 will be played as a role playing game in two parts, with each part lasting for four or five sessions. The second part takes place in a harbour, and that requires ship models. I already have a freighter, which I shall modify and weather in the meantime, but this week end, in between watching movies, I've been drawing up plans for an early twentieth century destroyer model. I've cut the base of the hull which measures 120cm long by 12cm wide. Its in two 60cm long sections because I couldn't find any card that was long enough. I'll post WIP images of the model as I build it, but in the mean time here is a scan of my schematic.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/Sahinschematic_2.jpg)
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Hows this for an armoured train design scheme. I found it on a forum a while back, and kept the pic for inspiration.
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg223/timhall1955/train019.jpg)
lol lol this is @Svenn's Polish armoured guncar, I think he even offered it for sale, here on LAF
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Here are a few examples of the type of vessel I am aiming for.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/hmslaforey.jpg)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/USS_Patterson_DD-36_0503601.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/USSTruxtunDD14.jpg
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lol lol this is @Svenn's Polish armoured guncar, I think he even offered it for sale, here on LAF
Yes it is, thanks for jogging my memory, I am old and it is going. Apologies Svenn.
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For any one curious, the third and concluding write up for our current Rocketman game has been posted here (http://jrc-1138.blogspot.com/2010/04/rm62-part-three-conclusion.html).
http://jrc-1138.blogspot.com/2010/04/rm62-part-three-conclusion.html
The campaign in its entirety can be seen here
http://brookehurst.blogspot.com/search/label/RM06%20%27Extremis%27
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The latest Rocketman game write up is posted for any one who is curious;
http://jrc-1138.blogspot.com/2010/04/rm63.html
...and here is a snap shot of my latest model, inspired in part by Pulp Miniatures 'China Station', I've been looking at shanty buildings and using the insides of cardboard to replicate rusty old corrugated metal sheeting.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v59/evilmoif/-ROCKETMAN-/bighut1.jpg)
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Great stuff, very inspirational!
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Here is the latest RM write up (featuring my cardboard armoured train model)
http://jrc-1138.blogspot.com/2010/06/rm64.html
This game actually took place a few weeks ago, but an eye injury forced me to postpone the write up.
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Cool! The train is great!
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The latest RM chapter is under way. Part one is blogged here;
http://jrc-1138.blogspot.com/2010/06/rm65-part-one.html
Here are a couple of atmospheric photo's from the write up.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0vhyQjYMZaA/TBUjyfi2VFI/AAAAAAAAFC0/jseWCCwAepY/s1600/RM6_5_04.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0vhyQjYMZaA/TBUjxst6skI/AAAAAAAAFCk/9bw8wlerDWQ/s1600/RM6_5_02.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0vhyQjYMZaA/TBUlPpHZw4I/AAAAAAAAFC8/JaSSLPztlYI/s1600/RM6_5_05.jpg)
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great pics :-*
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love the second picture :o
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The last RM game of the season is finished, images can be seen here for any interested parties.
http://jrc-1138.blogspot.com/2010/06/rm65-part-two.html
The next Rocketman campaign will probably be late in the year. I'll post images in a new thread when the time comes. Thanks for all the compliments and interest over the course of this thread, and here is a preview of the carnage.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0vhyQjYMZaA/TBtPtMsp1CI/AAAAAAAAFFU/pbpIGuUquFc/s1600/RM6_5_17.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0vhyQjYMZaA/TBtOGtMXo6I/AAAAAAAAFFE/lxEaNXaZ4l8/s1600/RM6_5_19.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0vhyQjYMZaA/TBtNHAHbUaI/AAAAAAAAFEE/0UdFzvElj8I/s1600/RM6_5_24.jpg)
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The fire in the top of the tank are great!!!!!
Good job!
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If any one is interested, I just came across another Indy tank on UK e-bay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INDIANA-JONES-ACTION-FLEET-MICRO-ACTION-CHAR-B1-TANK-/390212924024?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ada80b278
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Arrrghh... just noticed this remark: 'A secret lair/HQ, made of cardboard, unpainted, for a single evenings game. The model has subsequently been cannibalised to make more ruins.' :o
Wish I had the time/surplus to do a model like that lol