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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Mancha on September 24, 2012, 05:06:22 AM
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Hi All,
This is something of an odd (in a variety of ways) and very small update for Hinterland; Pulp Characters:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8038/8018342569_d5de10eec1.jpg)
These are sculpted by Matt Bickley, and while they’re slightly larger in scale than the female of the species, they should look good next to miniatures from Pulp Figures, Copplestone, Brigade and whoever else sells pulp miniatures. Alas, having cost more at every stage, they’re also somewhat more expensive than the usual Hinterland fare, but worth every penny I think. You can buy these and other fine Hinterland products here:
http://hinterlandminiatures.weebly.com/storecart.html
Thanks for your interest.
Mancha/Jason
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They're nice. I like the captain. I could easily see him on the deck of a u-boat.
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Oh you rascally wag! I see what you've done there! :-*
Let's seeeeeee... I spot Allan, Aristides Silk, annnd I think Dr. Mueller? Not quite sure of the one the far left - there's been plenty of that type! I can't place the one in the middle and that's driving me nuts.
Come on you eagle-eyed lot, let's see if we can solve this puzzle!
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I love the 'about to punch' character. Also a lot I've missed in the range!
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Lovely update, Mancha! :)
I'll have to bookmark these for a future purchase.
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Quite excellent stuff, Mancha.
Starkadder Station will be placing an order very soon.
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I love the 'about to punch' character. Also a lot I've missed in the range!
Yes, I think I need him for my orderlies of the assylum gang:
(http://www.witchhunter.net/league/01_season/027_orderlies_of_the_asylum_hammershield.jpg)
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Oh you rascally wag! I see what you've done there! :-*
Let's seeeeeee... I spot Allan, Aristides Silk, annnd I think Dr. Mueller? Not quite sure of the one the far left - there's been plenty of that type! I can't place the one in the middle and that's driving me nuts.
Come on you eagle-eyed lot, let's see if we can solve this puzzle!
Shit! How could I miss this reference? I MUST have the Alan fig to. The chappie with the cane and Stetson, that's the good captain Archibald H. himself in civilian threads, isn't it?
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Wait, I think I've got the one in the middle... is it Jolyon Wagg?!
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I suspected Alan would be the tip-off.
Hammers: I can see how the cane figure could be the Captain in cvilian clothes, but FramFramson was right when he said it was Dr. Mueller, although looking perhaps somewhat beefier than the original.
FramFramson: I can also see how the middle one might look like Jolyon, but you've got it wrong. Keep looking. I'll try to post a better pic tonight. :)
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Hm... is that a small goatee on the middle fellow?
I'd say he was the Syldavian secret agent, but the outfit's totally wrong and he's far too cheery-looking anyway. Plus I'm sure that satchel refers to something (I originally thought of the scene where Wagg is pulling out the insurance papers, right before he catches it in the face...)
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Hm... is that a small goatee on the middle fellow?
I'd say he was the Syldavian secret agent, but the outfit's wrong other than the homburg (no ribbon tie) and he's far too cheery-looking anyway.
Col Sponz? No I don't see that either...
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Colonel Sponz would be a fantastic addition to any pulp miniatures line though! I'm also surprised at the lack of a certain temporarily-indisposed South American on-again off-again dictator.
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I'm liking the sculpting style of Matt and glad to see he's sculpting that sort of stuff. Very characterful.
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Some more pics; perhaps helpful.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8037/8021381704_0ac0b6b31d.jpg)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8319/8021376153_f36b90192f.jpg)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8034/8021381242_ba851756d9.jpg)
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Oliveira da Figueira!
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These look nice and are quite funny but I would rather see Hinterland bring out more sailors (pistols and cutlasses?) or stormtroopers. :-[
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These look nice and are quite funny but I would rather see Hinterland bring out more sailors (pistols and cutlasses?) or stormtroopers. :-[
This is just for fun. More Trench Raiders are being cast even as we speak, and sailors are in the works as well.
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Another interesting omission is a certain big-nosed Greek magnate.
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Can only do so much. :(
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Well, in fairness he's picked five that have a lot of utility for general pulp gaming and which are somewhat unique (well, Allan has quite a few counterparts). I'm sure other lines have plenty of monocled villains, both in and out of uniform.
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Plus, what's-his-name's nose is just too big. :)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8037/8021381704_0ac0b6b31d.jpg)
Oliveira de Figueira, surely?
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8319/8021376153_f36b90192f.jpg)
You told us it is Doctor Muller/Mull Pascha, but I still think it looks like the Captain in his Mad Men finest (like in The Castafiore Emerald)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8034/8021381242_ba851756d9.jpg)
That's got to be the rat beating, nameless brute from Land of Black Gold, some second mate or some such.
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Oliveira da Figueira!
Sorry Hammers, I've already got the confirmed kill. ;)
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Sorry Hammers, I've already got the confirmed kill. ;)
What, I dont even get an assist?
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I think Hammers gets credit for observing that Mueller could easily be the Captain at his more domestic and dashing. :)
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That, yes. :D
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Nice figures, although I must admit I have no idea who the characters are you all are talking about. I live a sheltered life :)
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Tintin.
Minor characters ;)
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Tintin.
Minor characters ;)
Is it me, or was it about 15 years ago I read an album? lol
Damn, now I have to buy them all just to indoctorine my child...
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I was telling Dr. Mathias, I think there's actually some rule in the LAF FAQ that one may only be a member if one has read all the Tintin books. ;)
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Is it me, or was it about 15 years ago I read an album? lol
Damn, now I have to buy them all just to indoctorine my child...
As a Swede I know where Silversixx is coming from with this one. The 'artistic director' of the Stockholm Cultural Center was just the other day about to purge the library from Tintin album because of their colonialist and racist outlook. There was of course a huge public outcry.
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The 'artistic director' of the Stockholm Cultural Center was just the other day about to purge the library from Tintin album because of their colonialist and racist outlook. There was of course a huge public outcry.
Oh c'mon, Tintin's hardly Biggles is he lol
Excellent characters Mancha 8)
I'll be buying some after I've fleeced Malamute next month............um! I mean sold some Alamo paintwork :D
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Oh c'mon, Tintin's hardly Biggles is he lol
It's one album in particular which causes all the trouble: Tintin in the Congo, which is indeed pretty ghastly. It was meeting Chinese schoolchildren while working on The Blue Lotus which convinced Hergé to research his books. Up until then, he just used the clichés that were prevalent among right-wing Catholic Europeans of his day. Tintin in America, for example, is as guilty as this as Tintin in the Congo, but the prevailing clichés about Americans weren't as poisonous as those about Africans.
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He did have something of a Damascene conversion. The Blue Lotus even has Chang lecturing Tintin about bigotry and stereotypes. For me Tintin really hits its stride around the time of this watershed moment, in a storytelling sense as well as regarding realism, accuracy and dumping all the conservative propaganda that Le Petit Vingtième wanted him to ram down the throats of young Belgians. We get interesting stories instead of just a bunch of mad skits and random events slapped together into a book.
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Aha! Stealth bigotry, a bit like Enid Blyton's Famous Fifth Column ;)
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Aha! Stealth bigotry, a bit like Enid Blyton's Famous Fifth Column ;)
As a Canadian I read noddy books as a kid (my grandparents had a whole set), when I was so young that my primary memory of the series was "Parp parp!"
Many years later someone mentioned the series again and I had a look to refresh my memory. Bit of a minor shocker to come on it again with a (more or less) modern adult perspective. Those er, car theives are something else.
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Nice. Looking at some future purchases.