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Title: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Bob Murch on 14 October 2014, 12:13:55 AM
The Drawing Room Detectives are headed for production shortly. The release will be in a few weeks at the most.
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: redzed on 14 October 2014, 12:22:04 AM
they look ace :D
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Post by: d phipps on 14 October 2014, 02:32:01 AM
Excellent! We'll have to get these.  :-*
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Post by: FramFramson on 14 October 2014, 04:45:34 AM
That clue set!
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Steve F on 14 October 2014, 07:40:10 PM
Nice minis, but you'd need six packs to get enough Napoleons.
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Post by: argsilverson on 14 October 2014, 08:43:37 PM
Lovely set. long awaited.

OK, I indentify the three personalities here (I think the lady could be Agatha Christie's Miss Marple) but who is the first?
From the Napoleonic bust I suspect he is Sherlock Holmes, isn't he?

A very nice Poirot here!
Nice minis, but you'd need six packs to get enough Napoleons.
But Bob might issue one of his "unit builder" packs with 6 Napoleon's busts! [and maybe 6 packed in a box with straw protection!]
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Orctrader on 14 October 2014, 08:52:24 PM
Must buys; must paints.   :)
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Steve F on 14 October 2014, 09:28:07 PM
OK, I indentify the three personalities here (I think the lady could be Agatha Christie's Miss Marple) but who is the first?
From the Napoleonic bust I suspect he is Sherlock Holmes, isn't he?

Eller Queen, I'd guess.  I think the bust is a red herring (appropriately enough): after all, the Maltese Falcon is there, but Sam Spade isn't.
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: joroas on 14 October 2014, 09:39:04 PM
Notice that it is clue set 1, implying that there are several more to come!
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Bob Murch on 14 October 2014, 11:13:43 PM
Notice that is clue set 1, implying that there are several more to come!

Excellent deduction my good man.
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: marianas_gamer on 15 October 2014, 03:06:33 AM
Really nice!
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Post by: Ignatieff on 15 October 2014, 10:42:45 AM
Splendid! :-*
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Mason on 15 October 2014, 10:58:44 AM
Oh, my giddy aunt!

Yes, Please!
 :D :D :D

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Post by: Big Martin Back on 15 October 2014, 12:16:19 PM
Great stuff and I really like the "clues". Looks like they'll be very useful bits for all sorts of things.
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: matthais-mouse on 15 October 2014, 12:25:15 PM
I shall make a purchase of these at some point I do believe :D
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: FramFramson on 15 October 2014, 04:23:43 PM
Well, I must concede defeat on mister top-left since neither I nor my wife could figure out who that is. It's not Ellery Queen, I think, at least not in his most-commonly known form, and it's certainly not Nero Wolfe (who probably wouldn't work so well in an action game anyway!).
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Mason on 15 October 2014, 04:37:28 PM
I just assumed that the top-left fella was Sherlock Holmes, the 'S' on his breast pocket leads me further in that direction....I could be wrong, but that was my first impression.

Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: FramFramson on 15 October 2014, 04:51:54 PM
I guess it's not impossible, but I think that's pretty unlikely for the 20's/30's.
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Traveler Man on 15 October 2014, 05:17:51 PM
Jolly nice!  :-*
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Gundamentalist 5.56 on 15 October 2014, 06:40:16 PM
I guess it's not impossible, but I think that's pretty unlikely for the 20's/30's.

It is if Sherlock is played by Basil Rathbone, but on double-checking he only started in 1939...
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: fastolfrus on 15 October 2014, 07:01:58 PM
But 1939 is in the 1930s?
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Steve F on 15 October 2014, 07:24:44 PM
<Crashing bore mode on>  Basil Rathbone first played Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1939, but that film, and its sequel The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, made later the same year, were both period pieces set in the Victorian era.  Both were produced by 20th Century Fox.

Fox then dropped the series.  Rathbone, together with Nigel Bruce, was later hired by Universal to make Sherlock Holmes of the Voice of Terror, the first in a long series set contemporaneously with their production.  Voice of Terror was released in 1942 and the last of the Universal films was Dressed to Kill in 1946.  Rathbone would revive the role intermittently on radio and TV for the rest of his life.

Having said that, I think that the 1939 Hound was the first time a Holmes film had been set in the past.  Unless the recently discovered 1916 film starring William Gillette is an exception (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29474334 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29474334) ), all the previous adaptations, such as the ones starring Arthur Wontner which ran throughout the 1930s, or the 40-50 shorts starring Eille Norwood in the early 1920s, had been set contemporary with their production. <Crashing bore mode off>

That mini still doesn't seem right for Holmes, though.
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Prof. Dinglebat. Phd. on 16 October 2014, 01:50:54 AM
 Detective Sexton Blake.  :)
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: FramFramson on 16 October 2014, 02:06:56 AM
Detective Sexton Blake.  :)
Ah! I think you might just have it there.
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: joroas on 16 October 2014, 07:58:25 AM
(http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq343/wordswortheditions/9781840221701.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=71836.0;attach=25351;image)
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on 18 October 2014, 03:36:10 PM
Detective Sexton Blake.  :)

Ah, Prof. you have solved the case and joroas has provided the proof. You jointly win a night out with Tinker at a restaurant of your choice!
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on 18 October 2014, 03:39:48 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IREfRlj7Qs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IREfRlj7Qs)
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Prof. Dinglebat. Phd. on 19 October 2014, 12:02:57 AM
Quote from: Mad Lord Snapcase
Ah, Prof. you have solved the case and joroas has provided the proof. You jointly win a night out with Tinker at a restaurant of your choice!

I hear there's great dancing to be had and they have a great band at Mustafa's sizzle and grill.
Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Mason on 19 October 2014, 12:05:35 AM
Oh, no....

Here we go again.....
 ;)

Title: Re: Pulp Figures' Drawing Room Detectives
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on 19 October 2014, 07:42:33 AM
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Here we go again.....
  ;)

Dancing on ice at the Pink Pelican?