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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Oldben1 on January 17, 2011, 03:32:47 AM
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Here is the beginning of a skirmish table I'm building for a quick set of games next month. I was totally inspired by Grimm and his beautiful plasticville conversions. This site has really made me step up my game. My mind is boggled by all the talent.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26861900@N00/
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Excellent work. The buildings look great.
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Those are great! I really must get moving on some more urban pulp buildings; two isn't enough!
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Great Buildings!! The only thing that I would suggest is that you make new signs to hang over the plasticville ones. Otherwise, top notch, I'm sure that Grimm is proud to be the inspiration for these.
LB
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I like those very much cool scenery
dodge
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Very, very nice. Very atmospheric.
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Very good PLASTICVILLE repaints.
And the rest of your pics (Indy, Starwars, dungeons, cemetery, etc) are a joy to see.
It must be great to play with all that beautiful scenery and models.
Thanks for sharing.
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Very impressive! :-*
You must remember to take plenty of pictures when you run your game(s)...!
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Thank -you all.
I tried covering up the plasticville signs with mixed results. I thought leaving them generic looked better.
My friends are pretty scattered. I make more terrain then we are able to play with. It still looks good on the bookshelf.
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What technique did you use on the Five and Dime to get that appearance? :o
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These are very nice. I'm a plasticville painter myself and yours make mine look poor. What make is the diner in your pics? I haven't seen that one before.
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The diner is a Lionelville. Give me a few days and I'll post a picture of the box.
In terms of painting, I spray the buildings black and drybrush with grey and white and a little yellow mixed together. The 'brick' on the sides is black drybrush red and drybrush red with a little white.
I'm just finishing the factory.
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that is a wonderfully done work, so much so that i wish i had a chance to game with them.truly very nice.
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They look nice, any European distribution for Plasticville and tips on painting?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/26861900@N00/
As promised, here is the Diner's box. I've never seen this model before. I bought it from a local dealer who bought it 10 years ago. It looks pretty cheesy out of the box but paints well. Be warned though, it only has 3 completed sides, you have to build the fourth yourself!
I also posted pics of my finished a factory, unfortunately it is not perfect in scale, especially around the doors. It is such a nice model to paint I think it looks good.
I'm not sure about Plasticivlle in Europe, although you get buy them online. I paid 40 dollars for all 4 buildings which is a good deal although some of the models were warped or cracked.
In terms of painting I drybrushed everything. I started black and built up the colous in lighter tones. I liked how Grim made the 50's stucco look like brick with red drybrushing. If I found I drybrushed too much or I wanted something to look dirty, I watered paint down heavily and gave the building an 'inkwash' to make it dirty. Those retro posters and ads are the best. The cover all my mistakes.
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hi oldben1
i realy like the stuff and i am happy to give you some insperation :)
cheers grimm
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Grimm, me old Chinaman! I was just thinking we have not seen you much in a while... :)
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Lots and lots of fantastic scenery! Those building really add great flavour to any gaming board. (Also, I love the SW stuff especially the Death Star rooms.)
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Great stuff - has inspired me to dig out the buildings for my city project (including a number of Plasticville ones) and actually think about doing something with them at last.
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I couldn't really tell from the pictures, but are the interiors accessible?
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The terrain is excellent. What did you use as a base for the buildings?
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I only have an interior for the garage. The large two story is stackable with a roof and a false floor, but because most of my models were so warped from age and general wear I found I really had to glue them to stay straight. My factory has braces inside to push the walls out to make it sit flat on the ground. I would love to do interiors, but the plasticvile buildings are really too small.
I used painted cardboard for the sidewalk. I founs when I added barrels and debris they turned out nicely.
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Sorry to revive this old thread but the buildings look fantastic! I was wondering what scales they are, are they all O scale or is there a mix in there? I've been scouring the internet trying to find somewhere in the UK that sells a good range of Plasticville etc buildings in O but can't but have found other scales and I'm not sure how suitable they will be.
All this scale stuff really does confuse me, easily done though.
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All the buildings pictured are O Scale. This place sells Plasticville in the UK:
http://www.ontracks.co.uk/index.php?page=catalogue&cat=530&toplevel=1
So do these:
http://www.darkhousegames.co.uk/
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Hello,
The gentleman I bought the factory from said that it was "S: scale. It is very close but the doorways are rather small. I've seen people modify the doors so they are larger but they looked close enough to me. Apparently they are Marx molds.
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Thanks for the swift replies I'll check those out.
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very cool!
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Where did you get the garbage cans...? And did you just Google Image search old movie posters and shrink them down and print them off...?