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Title: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 18, 2019, 12:52:40 PM
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
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 18, 2019, 12:56:27 PM
More flying things
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 18, 2019, 12:59:17 PM
Floaty boaty things.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 18, 2019, 01:03:42 PM
Snow things and walking things.

The cupboard with the car's and figures escape attention.So I'll pop them on some time later.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: d phipps on October 18, 2019, 02:45:17 PM
That's an amazing body of work! It's inspiring!  :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: FramFramson on October 18, 2019, 04:42:29 PM
A reminder that almost the entirety of that lot was made from cereal box cardboard.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Vagabond on October 19, 2019, 07:38:39 AM
A phenomenal collection of very imaginative things.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 19, 2019, 06:25:54 PM
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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Vagabond on October 19, 2019, 10:20:35 PM
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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Dan on October 19, 2019, 10:54:07 PM
Incredible work :o
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 19, 2019, 11:19:18 PM
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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: marianas_gamer on October 20, 2019, 02:07:24 AM
Great to see all of this fun stuff again  :-* :-* You are making it hard to resist those great trucks!
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: redzed on October 20, 2019, 04:03:04 AM
Well that's just bloody fantastic :D
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: FifteensAway on October 20, 2019, 05:55:33 AM
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
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Vagabond on October 20, 2019, 09:11:06 AM
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
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Panama on October 20, 2019, 07:51:29 PM
Marvelous work & just screams PULP  :)

Vagabond, what is it with you & old boxers ?  lol 
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Ewan on October 21, 2019, 05:46:52 AM
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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 21, 2019, 03:11:10 PM
 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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 26, 2019, 03:24:02 PM
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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 26, 2019, 03:41:36 PM
And a few more.Including some of Bobs with a very simple colour scheme(pre basing photos as it's still raining)
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: FramFramson on October 26, 2019, 06:30:56 PM
My goodness those mobsters' barber clearly hasn't been paying his protection!
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Panama on October 27, 2019, 10:51:59 AM
Great work :)
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: marianas_gamer on October 27, 2019, 07:41:52 PM
Excellent :-* :-* What is your technique for the 5 O'clock shadow?
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 28, 2019, 11:04:40 AM
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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: marianas_gamer on October 28, 2019, 07:51:46 PM
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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on October 28, 2019, 08:59:29 PM
Well if it's headlight painting thats of interest then here's a couple more .

Mark.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Bravo Six on October 28, 2019, 11:00:12 PM
Wow TSG!  :o I'm gobsmacked. Lovely brushwork there on all of it!!
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Codsticker on November 09, 2019, 03:34:43 AM
Fantastic painting and scenery. :)
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Gloved Fists of Justice on November 09, 2019, 08:06:30 AM
It's still crazy to me how your vehicles are made of cereal boxes  :o
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on November 10, 2019, 02:13:46 PM
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.
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Alcide Nikopol on November 10, 2019, 02:44:49 PM
Wow TSG!  :o I'm gobsmacked. Lovely brushwork there on all of it!!
+1
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: FramFramson on November 10, 2019, 09:03:57 PM
There's still the odd daft project I get talked in to by Fram
lol

Say, have you ever thought of doing a...
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on November 11, 2019, 09:17:19 AM
 lol
For  a split second I thought ' a what?'
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: Shahbahraz on November 11, 2019, 07:06:25 PM
How about some nice BEF miniatures in 28mm  :) to go with all those funky vehicles?
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: War In 15MM on February 10, 2020, 02:07:19 AM
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!
Title: Re: The Pulp endeavors of TSG.
Post by: tin shed gamer on February 12, 2020, 02:37:39 PM
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.