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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: FramFramson on 10 December 2013, 01:29:28 AM
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It's not at the top of my leagues to make, but they're a very good candidate for a smaller league (I am guilty of planning some bigger leagues and realized I will need smaller ones for learning with). If I wanted to make a straight adaptation of the Tintin gang, who makes the appropriate minis? I don't mean our own LAF post-apocalyptic version, but the "regular" ones.
Copplestone has a not-Tintin & not-Snowy and there's a few enemies in a pack by Hinterland (Allan!). Who makes a Captain Haddock & Professor Calculus? Maybe the Thom(p)sons?
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For Haddock, you may find a good one in Artizan's Merchant Sailors or Blue Moon's Captain Josiah packs.
Drawing a blank on the others.
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Had a look, sadly there's nothing close for the Captain (who's easily the most important one to find). Captain Josiah is a short and very stocky fellow, with a different sort of face, big heavy boots and a deeply ribbed shirt. Artizan's few merchantmen all have a German flavour to them and wear buttoned-up coats.
I was actually amazed that Bob Murch didn't have anything close, given he has more than a half-dozen merchant seamen packs.
I actually spent a bit of time going down the full manufacturer list. It might come to having to do a couple conversions.
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(http://www.matakishi.com/Tintin%20and%20friends%202%20600.jpg)
Tintin is from Copplestone Figures.
Captain Haddock is a Brigade Games figure with a head swap from another, they're both merchant seamen. I've given him a bren gun.
The Thompson Twins are two Winston Churchill figures from Amazon Miniatures (with Thompsons). I added the walking sticks and removed the cigars.
Calculus is a WestWind London Detective (Jack the Ripper set) with added umbrella.
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I saw those Brigade sailors! I don't know about picking up two full packs to make just one character though. Have to think about that.
That Calculus is perfect though! The Thom(p)sons look good too.
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Matakishi is the man 8)
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Matakishi is the man 8)
Indeed! That's some excellent work. :-*
@ FF -- The extra sailors could probably be worked in to other leagues, or they could be used as Backup, or they could be used as 'plot point' markers for scenarios.
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My Haddock is from an Artizan WWII SAS set:
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/3_21_04_08_10_04_06_29.jpg)
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For Haddock I used a Brigade Games mini, Tintin from Copplestone (what else):
(http://www.adpublishing.de/assets/images/Haddock_Snowy_Tim.jpg)
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My Haddock is from an Artizan WWII SAS set:
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/3_21_04_08_10_04_06_29.jpg)
Oooh, I like this one too.
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By the way Matakishi, where did you get the Umbrella you added to Calculus? Did you sculpt it yourself?
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Some great Haddocks there. Get them altogether for an identity parade!
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By the way Matakishi, where did you get the Umbrella you added to Calculus? Did you sculpt it yourself?
No, I had it on a sprue of extras but I can't remember where from. It's metal though.
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That's alright... probably not the hardest thing in creation to make from scratch.
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That's alright... probably not the hardest thing in creation to make from scratch.
One of the clix ranges has a Penguin with usuable brollies. They're plastic, I got 3 figures for a quid fifty. Have a butchers, I got the one in white... http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=hero+clix&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.Xhero+clix+penguin&_nkw=hero+clix+penguin&_sacat=0
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Ooh ooh, I wanna play:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3602/5802460394_c9c83b95b9_o.jpg)
Looks like I have the same Captain as Matakishi.
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The metal umbrella may come from Copplestone's marching Chinese soldiers with cap (Back of Beyond range). You get several of them in the pack.
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(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3602/5802460394_c9c83b95b9_o.jpg)
That looks more like Morrisey than TinTin. lol
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Ooh ooh, I wanna play:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3602/5802460394_c9c83b95b9_o.jpg)
Looks like I have the same Captain as Matakishi.
Jason, those are awesome! Where'd you get your Professor Calculus? lol lol
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This is a challenge for a not Tin Tin sculptor. I bought the DVD animated set for a song recently, a Pulper's dream set of storylines.
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Ooh ooh, I wanna play:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3602/5802460394_c9c83b95b9_o.jpg)
Looks like I have the same Captain as Matakishi.
I second Dave's query, that Calculus is brilliant, where does he come from?
Great work in all these replies.
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That looks more like Morrisey than TinTin. lol
I call him my slightly grown-up, disenchanted, disgruntled TinTin. ;)
Jason, those are awesome! Where'd you get your Professor Calculus? lol lol
I second Dave's query, that Calculus is brilliant, where does he come from?
Calculus was more or less sculpted. There’s a torso with peg legs under that coat, and the hands came from somewhere as well, but the coat and head are green stuff.
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Calculus was more or less sculpted. There’s a torso with peg legs under that coat, and the hands came from somewhere as well, but the coat and head are green stuff.
Impressive. 8)
I've got TinTin and Snowy, my grandson likes to play them especially in command of the old BEF Belgians.
(http://6milphil.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dsc01653.jpg?w=440&h=330)
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Hi,
Here's my Tin Tin league for Pulp Alley. Tin Tin and snowy are from the Copplestone detectives set, Haddock is Captain Josiah from Blue Moon, Calculus is a conversion from two Artizan Thrilling Tales figures - the body of Arne with the head of Dr Glockinspeil, and the Thompson Twins are both the Artizan Thrilling Tales Terrance with a green stuff moustache.
All the best,
George.
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m505/bong-67/P1030649.jpg)[/URL]
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The scariest thing about Mancha's version is that someone's armed both the Thom(p)sons with full machine guns!
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The scariest thing about Mancha's version is that someone's armed both the Thom(p)sons with full machine guns!
They look like BARs not MGs.
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the Thompson Twins are both the Artizan Thrilling Tales Terrance
Not wishing to be pedantic bong-67 (oh alright, yes I am!) but the detectives were Thompson (with a 'p') and Thomson (without a 'p'), so not related!
But I do like your league, really nice painting and a good choice for Haddock. :-*
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(http://s.pixogs.com/image/A-150-44581-1368196429-6247.jpeg)
The Thompson Twins
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Mancha: Bloody brilliant line-up!
:-*
Can you give a rundown of what was used to make T. and T. please?
Where are those bowler hat heads from?
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Mancha: Can you give a rundown of what was used to make T. and T. please?
Where are those bowler hat heads from?
The figures are from Brigade Games' Mob Wars line, specifically the pack titled "Gangsters with BARs":
http://www.brigadegames.com/Gangsters-with-BARs-5_p_419.html
All I did was make green stuff bowlers and mustaches.
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The figures are from Brigade Games' Mob Wars line, specificically the pack titled "Gangsters with BARs":
http://www.brigadegames.com/Gangsters-with-BARs-5_p_419.html
All I did was make green stuff bowlers and mustaches.
Cheers, Mancha!
:D
And a cracking job you did, too.
:-*
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All I did was make green stuff bowlers and mustaches.
All? That was better than anything I would have thought to do!
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Bumping this wondering if anyone has a suggestion for a figure for Chang?
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One of the Obelisk Chinese civilians maybe ???
cheers
James
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They're a little too obviously Victorian rather than 20th century (which is why I decided not to pick them up earlier), and the shop's shut/out of stock now.
None of them really look like a teenage boy though, so no big loss there :(
Maybe a modern martial artist that might be converted?
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Linking this thread, so I'm also updating it with my own version:
(http://i.imgur.com/yFGUgmh.jpg)
I also have Hinterland's Allan painted up.
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Excellent brushwork, FF! :-*
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I posted them in my own thread before (sorry if you thought they were new!), so this is sort of cheating. lol
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Ooh ooh, I wanna play:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3602/5802460394_c9c83b95b9_o.jpg)
Looks like I have the same Captain as Matakishi.
Very nice! Calculus in powered roller skates from "The Red Sea Sharks". Good piece of scratchbuilding.
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This is a challenge for a not Tin Tin sculptor. I bought the DVD animated set for a song recently, a Pulper's dream set of storylines.
You need to see Tintin and the Golden Fleece live action film from the 60's. Well worth the price of the recently remastered and released film on DVD.
Can anyone suggest 15mm figures for the same league?
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As a tin tin cosplayer im glad I stumbled here haha. Ive always thought about trying to get some herge miniatures and here is the inspiration to do so :)
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Going back to Chang, I wonder if anyone makes 20mm or 1/72 Chinese civilians that I might be able to use for him.
Mad Lord Snapcase very kindly sent me a Copplestone Red Spear that I thought would do the trick, but he's bigger and stockier than Tintin.
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For a long time, I've been trying to find a figure I could convert into Chang for a Tintin League.
What I need is something of a tall order: A Chinese or Asian civilian in the right scale, in rather plain dress, who is smaller than Tintin but not by more than a couple of mm. For reference the Tintin figure every (myself included) is the Copplestone one which is 29mm to the top of his head (30mm, if you include his famous hair tuft).
I don't mind figures of different sizes and heights, but proportionality forces me to be picky in certain cases. Just as the Captain had to be taller than Tintin, so does Chang need to be shorter, or at least not higher than 29mm.
I've thought about some of the Copplestone Chinese, but they're actually larger and bulkier than Tintin by a very noticeable amount. Obelisk's Boxer Chinese civilian line (now discontinued anyway) were mostly in dressed rather obviously in the more elaborate 19th century clothes and most of the men in that line were plump shopkeepers anyway. I've looked at the 1/72 Red Box Chinese boxers (thinking I might go one scale down) and they seen terribly cheap-looking and also in pretty much unsuitable and ridiculous combat poses. The IHMN Tongs don't seem like they would work either. Tsuba's Japanese would actually be a perfect size with the right type of face, but they're all in very heavy kit and conversion would be a nightmare.
Foundry doesn't seen to have any boxer civilians. Does anyone know if they ever did in the past? I know it's a long shot, but maybe there's an OOP figure I could use.
I don't expect to find exactly what I'm looking for and I can convert within reason. Is there anything even remotely close to what I'm looking for?
Going back to Chang, I wonder if anyone makes 20mm or 1/72 Chinese civilians that I might be able to use for him.
Mad Lord Snapcase very kindly sent me a Copplestone Red Spear that I thought would do the trick, but he's bigger and stockier than Tintin.
Why ever in the WORLD did you image Ol' Snappy was svelte?
Most of the "B" adjectives would fit, "beefy", "bulky", "brash", "broad" (as in beam, not babe) etc...
Mind you, I'm a fine one to talk, portly is as portly does...
THIS figure came immediately to mind, just had to recall when & where I'd seen "her". Courtesy of the LAF thread "List of Pulp figure Manufacturers" http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=61108.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=61108.0) one FramFramson put together I was on target in under 3 minutes...
(http://www.blackarmyproductions.com/components/com_redshop/assets/images/product/1341294500_WashijiToroandKawashimaYoshikoUnpaintedSmaller.jpg)
"Kawashima Yoshiko, Japanese Agent
Item #: SH04
Price: $ 3
Sculptor: Leandro Ventic
Description
Chinese princess turned Japanese agent. An actual historical figure, she was known for wearing men's clothing and uniforms. (Pictured on the right.) Original price $3, on sale for $2 through Nov. 15!
Kawashima Yoshiko (also known as "Eastern Jewel") was a Manchu princess brought up in Japan and trained from an early age to hate the Chinese. Living among the upper class population of Shanghai with her lover, an Imperial Army officer, she was in fact secretly employed by Japanese Intelligence, and helped to destabilize the country in preparation for the planned Japanese invasion. A highly controversial figure, even today."
Approximately 27mm tall
From Black Army's Shanghai 1930 Range
http://www.blackarmyproductions.com/index.php?option=com_redshop&view=category&layout=detail&cid=4&Itemid=207 (http://www.blackarmyproductions.com/index.php?option=com_redshop&view=category&layout=detail&cid=4&Itemid=207)
"Her" picture seems more'n a bit androgynous,
(Kawashima Yoshiko I mean, Not "the Daft Devonian", aka MLS)
so absent the usual female lumps n'bumps should suit a teenager.
I've not sen this figure in the flesh, errr, lead, uh, pewter, so YMMV.
Valerik
who can't seem to recall what he knows he oughta remember
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I think that there would still be a hell of a lot of conversion involved (Those are certainly not a man's hips, as the sculptor was good enough to depict. And the clothes are completely different), but it's no worse than several other suggestions.
one FramFramson put together
I'd watch out for that one. He's always up to no good.
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I think that there would still be a hell of a lot of conversion involved (Those are certainly not a man's hips, as the sculptor was good enough to depict. And the clothes are completely different), but it's no worse than several other suggestions.
Knowing nought of TinTin, absent mention of Rin,
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--W4sL1rOfGc/TthMnXmYABI/AAAAAAAAAdw/bkdA2VfpO3Q/s1600/Rin+Tin+Tin+A+Dog+of+the+Regiment.jpg)
(http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.3211303.1317478212!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG)
I only tried to suggest a suitably tall, err, short, Oriental teenager.
NOW you decide WIDTH is an issue?
Jeez...
Recalls my (admittedly amateur) stage carpentry days past,
"With lights on they'll love it!!"
Only two actual, specific dimensions required for constructing functional platform, corridor, exit/entrance, &/or perch scenery:
MCH & MCW
measured amongst one's cast, & divided (very) by max quantity in said space at any given moment, one derives the necessary percentages to calculate:
MCH = Mean Cheek Height
and
MCW = Mean Cheek Width
Thus ensuring a viable lash up of scenery with minimal effort & materials without severely discommoding the actoids...
Ah well, I'm still glad you forced me to find "her" again...
Valerik
your mileage DID vary
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your mileage DID vary
That's what I get for not using hi-test. lol
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That's what I get for not using hi-test.
Whadya Canuckistanis hafta pay fer Ethyl dese days?
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DST-al5kOOQ/UWE3KqzHmrI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/AJjT0lUIA7g/s1600/bodie-gas-station.jpg)
Y'all still use gallons right? Real 'uns or Imperial?
Or have ya been socialized inta Litres?
(http://oi34.tinypic.com/x2qlwy.jpg)
Valerik
An old '70s canard "We gots more coal dan dey gots oil, lets DIG it!!" true in fact, but oh the price!
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Why ever in the WORLD did you image Ol' Snappy was svelte?
Most of the "B" adjectives would fit, "beefy", "bulky", "brash", "broad" (as in beam, not babe) etc...
Mind you, I'm a fine one to talk, portly is as portly does...
Unfortunately, on this occasion, my esteemed colleague Valerik is correct. The Snapcase waist line does necessitate shopping in stores that stock clothes for the more heroically-proportioned amongst us!
However..................