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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: joroas on December 08, 2012, 06:03:21 PM
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(http://pulpfigures.com/files/pss10.jpg)
PSS-10 The Volcano Queen
The set includes: The Queen, a torch bearing tiki shaman and warrior guard, a carved tiki god and the young sacrifice awaiting rescue
(http://pulpfigures.com/files/pgs17.jpg)
PGS-17 German Maxim Guns, both light (tripod mounted) and heavy.
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Impossibly nice as always. I'm a huge fan. :-*
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Excellent! Love the volcano queen set 8)
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Superb... but shouldn’t the MG have ammo feeds? ::)
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Superb... but shouldn’t the MG have ammo feeds? ::)
I believe the "light" one is meant to be an MG 08/15. There is a magazine on the side, just forward of the operator's hand on the trigger.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Great%20War/91515.jpg)
It could be a little bigger on the model, I suppose. Both the guns look a little rough and sloppy to my mind, but the figures are nice. Bob's still got that whole "Glen or Glenda?" thing going on with his female faces, though. That rather uncharitable comment notwithstanding, I do love that Volcano Queen figure.
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Oooo... These are nice. Not so keen on the machine gunners but then, I have no real use for them.
But my next purchases from Pulp Figures is already decided: Various Yukon Peril sets.
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Great sculpts as always.
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Love the new figures.
Pulp Figures rock.
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Thanks for the info, Plynkes. I just turn 40 last Friday and I might need a new pair of glasses… It is thru that the magazine is rather on the small side… ::)
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Volcano Queen pack is one of the best packs he ever done. I'm in awe.
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I think the problem is, Plynkes, that Bob is making Pulp era minis and not historical ones...... Therefore, they only have to LOOK right as opposed to BEING right. Check out the old films, they take huge liberties......
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The Volcano Queen ist just :o!
(Not too keen on the Germans, tbh. :?)
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I think the problem is, Plynkes, that Bob is making Pulp era minis and not historical ones...... Therefore, they only have to LOOK right as opposed to BEING right. Check out the old films, they take huge liberties......
No, that isn't the problem. My (slight, and it is only slight) beef with the guns is nothing to do with historical accuracy. I just think they aren't the nicest-looking models. Maybe the paint job is contributing to the impression I get, but they just look a teensy bit rough and ready to me.
If I had wanted to comment on historical accuracy I might have said something about the dubious probability of German colonial troops getting their hands on a Null-acht-fünfzehn in the first place. But I didn't, for as you pointed out, they are Pulp figures. ;)
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On top of which, I've never seen an MG 08/15 on a mount like that (or indeed, any sort of tripod - that's the point of the MG 08/15 - taking the MG 08 off its mount to increase its deployability, ala the Lewis gun). But this is Pulp.
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<snip>Bob's still got that whole "Glen or Glenda?" thing going on with his female faces, though. That rather uncharitable comment notwithstanding, I do love that Volcano Queen figure.
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) I know that wasn't uncharitable just an observation. And there is some merit in that view.
But there also certainly is some variation in female faces in 1:1 scale figures. A co-worker (working on wife #4 - all are "Asian" - from Philippines to India - in background) once made a biting observation that "<Asian country deleted> women are the most beautiful in the world, from the shoulders down." Apparently he found there flatter faces with with larger noses not "feminine enough" in his mind. Strictly his prejudice I suppose but before anyone goes off about that comment let me say that there are facial variations between ethnic groups where one man's beautiful woman is another's unappealing female. I think Bob Murch is working to achieve a semi-stereotypical look to his figures. But that just my thought on his female figure faces.
I think it is true that some/many of his female figures have (for lack of exactly the adjective i want) "harder" or "street wise" looking faces than other sculptors making female figures. I had a class mate that (despite her inner beauty and grace which she had in spades,) can only be described as plain as a board. I have seen very few miniatures that approach that look. Many female figures have less relation to "normal" than to "idealized" female appearance.
Gracias,
Glenn
Edit: a link that touches on "beauty" - http://reportermag.com/article/body-image/beauty-in-different-cultures
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Nice to see a complete set of figures that I actually like. There's usually at least one poor figure per set that ends up in the bits box, but not this time!!
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I think Bob Murch is working to achieve a semi-stereotypical look to his figures. But that just my thought on his female figure faces.
I wouldn't go so far and say Bob is trying to give his female figures some kind of "semi-stereotypical look". My observation was, the most 28mm sculptors are suffering from "the same faces" illness. It seems to be very hard, also for the best of them (Perry, Garrity, Klocke etc.) to do different faces in different ways. Once one has learned making faces, he/she's struggling to find another style. The same for Bob, these faces are just something he's able to do quickly and fairly nice (at least from my point of view). Something else would either probably be too much work or wouldn't work at all.
Though that's just my observation, I also could be wrong.
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I wouldn't go so far and say Bob is trying to give his female figures some kind of "semi-stereotypical look". My observation was, the most 28mm sculptors are suffering from "the same faces" illness. It seems to be very hard, also for the best of them (Perry, Garrity, Klocke etc.) to do different faces in different ways. Once one has learned making faces, he/she's struggling to find another style. The same for Bob, these faces are just something he's able to do quickly and fairly nice (at least from my point of view). Something else would either probably be too much work or wouldn't work at all.
Though that's just my observation, I also could be wrong.
Agreed. Character figures aside there's distinct sameness to even the best sculptors faces, be it Hicks, Copplestone, the Perry twins, etc etc. Not a complaint mind you, merely an observation.
As for Mr Murch's depiction of females faces, I kinda like 'em. Some Like it Hot isn't a bad film after al land one day I might just want to game the Stonewall Riots. If I do, I know where to source the minis.
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As for Mr Murch's depiction of females faces, I kinda like 'em. Some Like it Hot isn't a bad film after al land one day I might just want to game the Stonewall Riots. If I do, I know where to source the minis.
lol
That would be an interesting game.
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how do the Bob Murch figures compare size wise to artizan and copplestone pulp ranges
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how do the Bob Murch figures compare size wise to artizan and copplestone pulp ranges
They do well, you really can mix them
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how do the Bob Murch figures compare size wise to artizan and copplestone pulp ranges
The scale-o-matic gives some pointers:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=10500.0
Copplestone generally appears to be a bit bigger than the Murch stuff:
http://ephemera.150m.com/figures_files/pulperafigures.htm
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thanks for that a big help
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I really like Bob's miniatures as a whole, and these later releases (such as the thugees and islanders) do really tickle my imagination :)
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I wouldn't go so far and say Bob is trying to give his female figures some kind of "semi-stereotypical look". My observation was, the most 28mm sculptors are suffering from "the same faces" illness. It seems to be very hard, also for the best of them (Perry, Garrity, Klocke etc.) to do different faces in different ways. Once one has learned making faces, he/she's struggling to find another style. The same for Bob, these faces are just something he's able to do quickly and fairly nice (at least from my point of view). Something else would either probably be too much work or wouldn't work at all.
Though that's just my observation, I also could be wrong.
Error is a way of life for me somedays. ;)
I may be over thinking the face thing. ::)
Now I need to go back and check the figures of the lines I bought when I bought giant (25+ mm) sized figures to check this out. ???
You, sir, are making me think! :? lol
Gracias,
Glenn
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I like Bob's faces -- male and female. His faces have more character than most other sculptors.