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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: area23 on 02 March 2008, 07:56:03 PM
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Lately I've been thinking that the best term to describe my near-future gangs and background would be Modern Pulp. Near Future or Post Apocalyptic both don't cover it.
For instance, right now I'm in a Red Shadows phase, the bad guys from the 1980's Action Force toy series.
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1203454182210.JPG)
Combined with G.I. Joe/ COBRA, Dawn of the Dead, Blade Runner/Aliens/Terminator/Mad Max/12 Monkeys/28 days later, Bond, Croft, Rambo and all kind of modern movements like Hezbollah, Al qaeda, red brigades but also A.L.F., Black Bloc-squatters-Autonomen, Unabombers, 1960's radicals, Grey abductors and Daleks and the odd superhero and supernatural manifestations and terracotta warriors.
What it comes down to, is really Pulp, isn't it? and in forty or fifty years people will all get nostalgic about it?
The genre as I see it should be aknowledged and embraced by the geek community and a good descriptive term, better than 'Modern Pulp' would be great too.
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Mulp? :lol:
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This looks great! I'm definitely inspired by this.
I also would like to see what ideas you might have for an opposing force (good-guys). Something along the lines of G.I. Joe-style forces maybe?
One idea is that I'm picturing the Games Workshop Catachan Infantry (Jungle Fighters).
Maybe use a name to play off of the Red Shadows theme?
"Golden Eagles" perhaps...
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nice! i used to collect red shadows, action force and all that! copplestone make some figures which i think are ideal for cobra troopers,
it would be nice to have a 'revenge of the red shadows' game set in the south american jungle? heres a few 40mm graven figures i painted as shadows just to see what they looked like!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v430/majorsmith/7b13.jpg)
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..and, naturally, the bad guys have german mps :lol:
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..and, naturally, the bad guys have german mps :lol:
That's an unwritten rule of pulpdom :mrgreen:
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They look good Majorsmith. 8)
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And for those who haven't already seen them elsewhere...
http://actionforcevsredshadows.blogspot.com/
I'm having a whale of a time doing this little lot...
Stay lucky,
Soaps.
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And for those who haven't already seen them elsewhere...
http://actionforcevsredshadows.blogspot.com/
I'm having a whale of a time doing this little lot...
Stay lucky,
Soaps.
Excellent, I had some of those action figures. 8)
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oh my god!! i had all them figs :lol:
i love what you have done.. i cant wait to see the Baron Ironblood finished, please post it when he is done..
oh man i have got to make some now, long live the red shadows!!
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Those are some familiar looking toys. I had at least one or two of them. :)
Great looking conversions too everyone and a great idea.
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Modern Pulp = MULP!
Take a look at the excellent "Tomb Raider & Witchblade" series of comics ( Top Cow/Image Comics), and also the "Danger Girl" comics (published by Cliffhanger! Comics), and you´ll recognize all the "clichés" of the Pulp genre revamped into a modern setting!
(the Danger Girl series even features an evil organization called The Hammer - The Fourth Reich!!!)
(http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/Feb06/wild/DangerGirlBackinBlackCv4.jpg)
(https://store-imtoys.locasite.com.br/loja/images/dg-SET-N.jpg)
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By the way...
The three first original characters of Danger Girl as Heroclix miniatures:
(http://www.wizkidsgames.com/images/figures/Rotating/HIIN/HIIN_073_rot01.jpg)
(http://
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/images/figures/Rotating/HIIN/HIIN_016_rot01.jpg)
(http://www.wizkidsgames.com/images/figures/Rotating/HIIN/HIIN_049_rot01.jpg)
And their nemesis, the evil Major Maxim:
(http://www.wizkidsgames.com/images/figures/Rotating/HIIN/HIIN_052_rot01.jpg)
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I've always thought that a couple of the lasses in this pack would work for Abbey and the girls...
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f235/soapywan/fw10.jpg)
The second and third bear a remarkable resemblance to those danger girl statuettes.
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I feel old I dont remember these toys :oops:
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I feel old I dont remember these toys :oops:
Me neither :cry: They look great, love what you have done with those red chaps Majorsmith :)
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I remember them, but I never had any. They came out in the early 80s, so I don't think you chaps are too old, unless I'm wildly out about your ages.
They were sort of Star Wars figures size Action Men (I think an attempt by the Action Man people to cash in on the popularity of the Star Wars figures. That size of figure was the new big thing). They had historical ones as well as the outlandish cartoony pulp figures. I always wanted the Iranian Embassy siege SAS men. But like I said, I never got any of these toys.
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i pretty much had all the early action force figures, i also collected the comic which had stories about various figures from the range, im sure people will remember 'Battle Action Force' had some great stuff in there as well, like johnny red and charleys war
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I've always thought that a couple of the lasses in this pack would work for Abbey and the girls...
The second and third bear a remarkable resemblance to those danger girl statuettes.
Soapy, I totally agree with you!
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By the way...
The three first original characters of Danger Girl as Heroclix miniatures:
(http://www.wizkidsgames.com/images/figures/Rotating/HIIN/HIIN_073_rot01.jpg)
(http://
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/images/figures/Rotating/HIIN/HIIN_016_rot01.jpg)
(http://www.wizkidsgames.com/images/figures/Rotating/HIIN/HIIN_049_rot01.jpg)
And their nemesis, the evil Major Maxim:
(http://www.wizkidsgames.com/images/figures/Rotating/HIIN/HIIN_052_rot01.jpg)
There is actually one more made by WizKids, Sydney Savage.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/indy/figuregallery.asp?unitid=4267
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Majorsmith you made my day with the Red shadow troopers.What a great idea!I went all misty eyed when i saw them.Can you remember what the aquatic trooper(a bit like a green deep one?) was called?It came with a net i think.Been bugging me for hours....
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the kraken i think! found in the ice by baron ironblood
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That's it!!! The Kraken!I can sleep tonight now.I could picture the beastie but not the name.Would make an interesting charactor too.Can you remember if there was just the one or were they troops?
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[quote="wellender
There is actually one more made by WizKids, Sydney Savage.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/indy/figuregallery.asp?unitid=4267[/quote]
Yep, but as you can see in my original post, the link to her picture was not working!
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[quote="wellender
There is actually one more made by WizKids, Sydney Savage.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/indy/figuregallery.asp?unitid=4267
Yep, but as you can see in my original post, the link to her picture was not working![/quote]
Actually, I didn't notice it. Sorry.
I don't remember these guys, was this in Europe only?
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[quote="wellender
There is actually one more made by WizKids, Sydney Savage.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/indy/figuregallery.asp?unitid=4267
Yep, but as you can see in my original post, the link to her picture was not working!
Actually, I didn't notice it. Sorry.
I don't remember these guys, was this in Europe only?[/quote]
No, these were common to EU and USA, apart from Natalia Kassle and Major Maxim who were USA only. There is also a unique Abbey Chase sculpt.
(http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii318/twrchtrwyth/Modelau%20wedi%20prynu/HIIN_090_rot01.jpg)
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That's it!!! The Kraken!I can sleep tonight now.I could picture the beastie but not the name.Would make an interesting charactor too.Can you remember if there was just the one or were they troops?
Oh they were troops all right... (http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/Blood/Kraken.html)
Stay lucky,
Soaps.
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I remember them, but I never had any. They came out in the early 80s, so I don't think you chaps are too old, unless I'm wildly out about your ages.
They were sort of Star Wars figures size Action Men (I think an attempt by the Action Man people to cash in on the popularity of the Star Wars figures. That size of figure was the new big thing). They had historical ones as well as the outlandish cartoony pulp figures. I always wanted the Iranian Embassy siege SAS men. But like I said, I never got any of these toys.
Ahh right, I would have just been getting into Warhammer then so plastic toys would have been out of the question for me :D
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In 1982 I was still a couple of years away from being snared into this godforsaken world of gaming by a copy of White Dwarf, cruelly left in my local newsagent as a trap for the unwary.
I was still wanting to play with plastic toys, but starting to feel the societal pressure on me saying that I shouldn't.
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Thanks soapy.Always liked them figs but never had any.Still like the colour schemes of the red shadows and ironblood's troops.
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Working on the Red Shadows:
(http://www.displacedminiatures.com/images/img.1205705211825.JPG)
(http://www.displacedminiatures.com/images/img.1205704508941.JPG)
More on my blogschmog, link below ->
Soapy's link above is a treasure, the site features all action figs, their history, all the comics....
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No, these were common to EU and USA, apart from Natalia Kassle and Major Maxim who were USA only. There is also a unique Abbey Chase sculpt.
Sorry, I meant the action figure line that is the topic. I've never seen them and was just wondering if they were a Europe only toy. They do look pretty cool.
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Can't wait to see the shadows completed.Keep up the good work.
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Sorry, I meant the action figure line that is the topic. I've never seen them and was just wondering if they were a Europe only toy. They do look pretty cool.
They were the precursor of the similar G.I. JOE line if I'm not confused.