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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: LordOdo on May 02, 2014, 12:55:56 PM

Title: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: LordOdo on May 02, 2014, 12:55:56 PM
I was thinking about games slightly based on the comic books in the The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec series. While I was overthinking this I came up to questions:
-What would be the place to post this here on LAF? I now placed in The Great War, as it's setted around that time
-Does anyone know about suitable miniatures?

Cheers!
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: Plynkes on May 02, 2014, 02:54:43 PM
-What would be the place to post this here on LAF?

Weird Wars I would say, which is where it will be going, presently.  ;)

As a general rule of thumb, if there are any pterodactyls involved, it doesn't belong in "The Great War."  :)
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: LordOdo on May 02, 2014, 03:06:27 PM
Aha okay, that was where I first wanted to post it. But I thought Weird Wars was WWII..
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: Elprez on May 02, 2014, 03:30:13 PM

I'd have thought it was closer to Pulp?
Maybe, even at a push, VSF?



Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: former user on May 02, 2014, 03:38:31 PM
Yes, VSF it should be

Foundry has suitable victorian ladies
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: Elprez on May 02, 2014, 03:41:46 PM
And, as for figures, some of Foundry's Darkest Africa lady adventurers would do, or perhaps Ironclad's Victorian Sci Fi ladies?

(Edit: Beaten to it by former user,  lol, but thats 2 votes for Foundry's ladies)



Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: LordOdo on May 02, 2014, 03:46:14 PM
Thanks all! the ladies aren't the biggest problem, it's way harder to find French Police miniatures...
These are what I've found until now, but they're are a bit to modern..
http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/French-Gendarmes-police5_p_388.html
http://ironcladminiatures.com/en/victorian-sci-fi-characters/60-inspector-corbitt.html

List of usuable miniatures:
Foundry:
-VC001
-VC006
-VC032

Reaper Steampunk
-50305


http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Russian-Train-Crew-3_p_591.html
http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Innocent-Bystanders-I-aka-Civilians-5_p_415.html
http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/German-Scientist-pointing-or-pressing-button-etc_p_1028.html
http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/German-Scientist-holding-flask_p_1029.html

http://ironcladminiatures.com/en/victorian-sci-fi-characters/2798-irene-adler.html
http://ironcladminiatures.com/en/victorian-sci-fi-characters/2797-alan-quartermain.html
http://ironcladminiatures.com/en/victorian-sci-fi-characters/43-dr-watson.html
http://ironcladminiatures.com/en/victorian-sci-fi-characters/57-professor-mandark.html
http://ironcladminiatures.com/en/victorian-sci-fi-characters/58-mycroft-holmes.html

http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=colonel-michaels~hfsf117&category=miniatures~modern-non%252dcoms-%2F-civilians
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: former user on May 02, 2014, 03:47:11 PM
the Reaper Steampunk versions might be a bit more suitable, if I go by the movie...
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: LordOdo on May 02, 2014, 03:52:34 PM
the Reaper Steampunk versions might be a bit more suitable, if I go by the movie...

I'll have a look
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: former user on May 02, 2014, 04:28:49 PM
oh, and
http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/French-Gendarmes-police5_p_388.html
but these might be too modern, so try Great War Miniatures early war french or belgian officers
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: LordOdo on May 02, 2014, 05:35:30 PM
Thanks!
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: Plynkes on May 02, 2014, 05:37:27 PM
On reflection Weird Wars may not really have been the most suitable spot to send this, as though I am unfamiliar with these adventures I believe they lack the "wars" aspect needed to qualify for a place here. It didn't occur to me to send something not set in the Victorian era to VSF Adventures, tomfool that I am.

Alas it is now out of my hands, so it will be up to Christian to decide if this thread is going to be moved on yet again, like some poor drunken vagrant.  :)
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: former user on May 02, 2014, 05:41:14 PM
Yes, it is difficult to find a tag for that
it is called "gaslamp fantasy" and set on both sides of WW1. I haven't read the comics, thus I don't know if it qualifies for Pulp, but it definitely does for VSF
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: pacofeanor on May 03, 2014, 04:31:34 PM
Adhele Blanc ces is Victorian Scisnce Fiction without doubt !!!!!

My IHMN version of Adhele and the Pterodactyl !

(http://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/13/24/33/11/p1010038.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=237&u=13243311)

best regards
paco
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: LordOdo on May 03, 2014, 08:27:33 PM
wow, thats a big, nasty pterodactyl! Nice Adele btw where did you get her?
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: LordOdo on May 04, 2014, 10:15:21 PM
I've been thinking, and I think this thread fits best at pulp or VSF, as you all suggested..

Can this thread get moved again?
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: pacofeanor on May 05, 2014, 08:13:59 AM
wow, thats a big, nasty pterodactyl! Nice Adele btw where did you get her?


i get her in the IHMN's box, lord Currs company :

http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=5257

in fact, the miniatures gaves me the idea of Adhele Blanc Sec!

best regards
paco
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: The_Beast on May 13, 2014, 02:57:31 PM
The Adele avec 'dactyl is definitely movie, which felt rather VSF, but I gather the comic books have some WWI of the weird variety...

Perhaps too many comments from those who've only seen references to the books?  lol

Hardly the first trans-board thread I've seen, and despaired of not seeing in multiple boards. Still, there's SO many things that work SO much better on LAF, I'd never use TMP as an example...  ;)

Doug
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: former user on May 13, 2014, 03:02:44 PM
as a matter of fact, there is no WW1 element in the comic books, since they couldn't figure out her role in the war,  so they literally froze her for the duration of the war.
It would be then a VSF/Pulp crossover....
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: pierrebi on May 13, 2014, 03:06:16 PM

i get her in the IHMN's box, lord Currs company :

http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=5257

in fact, the miniatures gaves me the idea of Adhele Blanc Sec!

best regards
paco

I already asked but neve had an answer ... how big IHNM miniatures are? Same size of Artizan Design and Pulp Miniatures or they are bigger, just like the new serie of Horror Artizan miniatures?
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: The_Beast on May 14, 2014, 12:28:38 AM
I already asked but neve had an answer ... how big IHNM miniatures are? Same size of Artizan Design and Pulp Miniatures or they are bigger, just like the new serie of Horror Artizan miniatures?

I can't give an answer, but am almost sure I saw one on the VSF board. Also, piccies with mixed fig lines, I think.

Sorry I can't do better.

Doug
Title: Re: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec-esque adventures?
Post by: Jakar Nilson on May 16, 2014, 06:35:33 PM
as a matter of fact, there is no WW1 element in the comic books, since they couldn't figure out her role in the war,  so they literally froze her for the duration of the war.
It would be then a VSF/Pulp crossover....

Yeah, and while Tardi had her frozen for the duration of the war, he did expand her entourage by adding a character who had served. And incidentally is the protagonist of his earlier work "Adieu Brindavoine". But the "protagonists" of his Vernes-inspired work "Le Démon des Glaces" (The Arctic Maurauder) also pop up. Go and read it. It's bonkers.

All that's really left is for a young Nestor Burma to appear.