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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: tin shed gamer on October 18, 2019, 12:52:40 PM
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Hi all,
This is a slightly self indulgent and functional thread. It's going to be my only Pulp thread so it'll include builds and painted stuff.
As I said its slightly self indulgent as I was taking photos of commissions.When I thought I'd use a card plane as a back drop .Opened the draw to find a ball hammer nestled amongst the carnage (fostering is such fun ! My own fault really lol.Should clarify it wasn't willful just clumsy fingers and the desire to hide what you thought you'd get in trouble for hense a hastily hidden hammer ::))So I've spent much of the morning superglueing .
Which is why I've decided to do the thread.
First up flying things
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More flying things
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Floaty boaty things.
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Snow things and walking things.
The cupboard with the car's and figures escape attention.So I'll pop them on some time later.
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That's an amazing body of work! It's inspiring! :-* :-* :-*
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A reminder that almost the entirety of that lot was made from cereal box cardboard.
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A phenomenal collection of very imaginative things.
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Cheers ,
I've quite a selection of armoured cars and six lorries. In fact I gave Ewan a Rolls Royce for his VBCW games and the Sarissa chateaux in its own grounds. as I'd run out of space. Now I've all four Austin 7's and the new civillian staff car painted which means I've still no space.
If I'm honest I've still planes sat on the work top from these photos as I can't quite for the life of me remember how to fit them all back in the draw.
And..
I'm now building another rocket ship from a Pringles tube. So I'll have even less room.(I'll add more pictures soon as its little more than the pointed Pringles tin with fins at the moment.)
Plus a load of motorcycle combinations I've not painted and a 1930's town slowly taking shape.
Plus a few follies vehicles.
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The Austin 7's are brilliant.
Question on the tarpaulin on the truck sides, is that a casting or a scratch built tarp. I've tried doing tarps out of fine cotton and they look ok but coase, I can't get those sorts of folds in the material.
I'm only after wargaming standard so it needs to be quick and easy.
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Incredible work :o
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Technically both.
It's two castings of my sculpt. ;)
With the exception of the ertl money boxes and the Smer walrus(pilot ,interior,and weapons all me)Everything on here is me pretending I know what I'm doing.
Not out of ego or vanity. Just practicality I simply run out of time after painting my stuff for ad's and to figure out if it worked they way I thought it would.So I use my own work because its already painted and here.
That said pretty much all of my fantasy stuff is commercial stuff.It just so happens my own work is enough for my Pulp needs simply because its here.
Plus I've three at University so I've never any spare cash. ::)
As for making tarpaulin avoid fabric like the plague you simply cannot scale it down.It won't behave in the same way as you need.
The same with ordinary paper. Tissue paper over formers such as cones and triangles.The trick is not to glue the paper simply use water in a misting spray bottle and gently soak the tissue allowing it to do its thing as it softens and takes to the formers under its own weight.Then speed dry with a hair dryer .It stops warping in absorbent surfaces.Then trim the ends /edges to you desired shape.(don't try to start with a definite shape to the tarpaulin as it'll never quite look as you want it to.)
Cheers Dan.
I'll chuck a few more bits on soon
Mark.
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Great to see all of this fun stuff again :-* :-* You are making it hard to resist those great trucks!
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Well that's just bloody fantastic :D
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Solution to storage situation: Switch to the marvelous world of 15 mm! lol Well, it is a an idea to consider.
Sincerely hope no convulsions, no palpatations, nor other untoward events resulted from this response. :o
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Technically both.
It's two castings of my sculpt. ;)
With the exception of the ertl money boxes and the Smer walrus(pilot ,interior,and weapons all me)Everything on here is me pretending I know what I'm doing.
Not out of ego or vanity. Just practicality I simply run out of time after painting my stuff for ad's and to figure out if it worked they way I thought it would.So I use my own work because its already painted and here.
That said pretty much all of my fantasy stuff is commercial stuff.It just so happens my own work is enough for my Pulp needs simply because its here.
Plus I've three at University so I've never any spare cash. ::)
As for making tarpaulin avoid fabric like the plague you simply cannot scale it down.It won't behave in the same way as you need.
The same with ordinary paper. Tissue paper over formers such as cones and triangles.The trick is not to glue the paper simply use water in a misting spray bottle and gently soak the tissue allowing it to do its thing as it softens and takes to the formers under its own weight.Then speed dry with a hair dryer .It stops warping in absorbent surfaces.Then trim the ends /edges to you desired shape.(don't try to start with a definite shape to the tarpaulin as it'll never quite look as you want it to.)
Cheers Dan.
I'll chuck a few more bits on soon
Mark.
Mark thanks for the insight, I've tried kitchen roll soaked in pva and it was a nightmare to use and gave an appalling finish, never thought to use a mister. Once its taken shape and dried do you fix it with glue or something to harden it?
I just posted a covered waggon on the western forum and I used thin cotton from an old pair of boxer shorts, glued in place on the struts but I coated it inside with pva to try and make it rigid without clogging the cotton texture on the outside. Its ok but not great although to be honest I'm quite pleased with it.
Cheers
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Marvelous work & just screams PULP :)
Vagabond, what is it with you & old boxers ? lol
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In fact I gave Ewan a Rolls Royce for his VBCW games and the Sarissa chateaux in its own grounds. as I'd run out of space.
The beautiful little Rolls Royce armoured car in action at Partizan.
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lol
Yep that'd be the one.
It's one of those odd quirks of this hobby. The spoked wheels out sold the wire wheels .But people were buying wire wheel sets to convert the spoked version .So the wire wheel version/option was dropped.
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It's way to soggy to try to take photos of all the cars/armoured cars,at the moment.
So here's a few pictures.Of bits and bobs that see duty in my pulp games.
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And a few more.Including some of Bobs with a very simple colour scheme(pre basing photos as it's still raining)
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My goodness those mobsters' barber clearly hasn't been paying his protection!
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Great work :)
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Excellent :-* :-* What is your technique for the 5 O'clock shadow?
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Matt,
Everyone's knows an unshaven type is unsavoury and more than likely a fifth columnists.I mean it stands to reason. :D
For this style of painting all the figures are undercoated with a pale grey aerosol. Then it's just super fast as I jut paint the top half of the face leaving the jaw line/stubble as under coat.Then its a dark grey thinned with a purple ink . Lightly applied on a couple of coats.With a final light dry brush of the base or mid tone of the flesh colours used. It's. Very quick a couple of minutes for all of them.
The clothing is done in a similar way allowing the undercoat to act as a part high light. Buy wiping a little bit of paint off as it starts to dry.
The denim on the sailor is where its most obvious (although the suits are done exactly the same way.) single colour of blue wiped off in highlight areas then the dark grey used for the stubble is used for shadows (any over paint quickly. Wiped off to keep the grey in the creases.Then a very light dry brush over selected areas of a sand colour
And few more pulp bits to start to bring my pulp stuff upto date.
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Thanks Mark for the description of how you do the 5 o'clock shadow. Really different from how I normally paint so quite useful. Fantastic assortment of your vehicles. The pics are quite helpful for illustrating headlight painting techniques, two different styles here - one more jewel like.
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Well if it's headlight painting thats of interest then here's a couple more .
Mark.
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Wow TSG! :o I'm gobsmacked. Lovely brushwork there on all of it!!
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Fantastic painting and scenery. :)
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It's still crazy to me how your vehicles are made of cereal boxes :o
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Not all are made from cereal card . The majority are vehicles sculpted for casting.
There's still the odd daft project I get talked in to by Fram and other's such as the cereal packet golem (some where back up the page.) Built and painted in an evening.
I'm still making rocketships out of Pringles tubes.(I keep giving the damned things away.)
Also I'm waiting on this mdf frame version to arrive just to see if it's worth the effort and if it saves time in the long run.As they've a Tin Tin style rocket frame that I've been toying with getting .But... I'd end having my arm twisted to sculpt a crew for it.
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Wow TSG! :o I'm gobsmacked. Lovely brushwork there on all of it!!
+1
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There's still the odd daft project I get talked in to by Fram
lol
Say, have you ever thought of doing a...
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lol
For a split second I thought ' a what?'
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How about some nice BEF miniatures in 28mm :) to go with all those funky vehicles?
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I just spent the last two hours looking a back posting of your work here on LAF, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Great stuff!
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Feel a bit fraudulent as I've not had much time for anything new.(but not for much longer ;)) cheers none the less.
I've few more bits on the Homefront thread as everything off late crosses over from one thread to the other,so it's mostly been postsed on there.
Mark.