Doc Savage and his Fabulous..err.. three or four.

[Doc Twilight]

Hello, everyone.

Recently, I made a deal with a buddy whom I've been trying to hook into playing Pulp period games for years. He had been secretly collecting Pulp villains, but didn't have as much interest in the heroes, so I agreed to do up the heroes for our campaign (we hope others will join us eventually, once they see the figs painted), if he would, in turn, do the heroes for a Pulp Sci-Fi series of games, while I did the villains. Of course, I'm doing both sides for both games, but I've concentrated on Heroes for "Traditional Pulp", and Villains for "Sci-Fi Pulp" first. My friend wants to do "Adventure Pulp" in  our traditional setting, concentrating on Interwar Stuff, rather than "Crime Pulp" (which is fine by me... I usually like the characters who did both, like Doc Savage and the Shaodw, for example, though I must admit I grew up worshipping the Green Hornet (1930s version, not the sixties version.. my dad had old recordings from the pre-war radio shows.)

This is the first set of photos I have to share. Here we have Doc Savage and part of his extended crew.

I apologize for the quality of the photos - though I'm generally very pleased with the way they (and the paintjobs) turned out, I'm still learning on the photo front. For reasons I can't explain, I simply couldn't get a good shot of Monk and Habeas Corpus (the pig), could be the colors I used. Anyway, the shading on the face just doesn't photograph well - but no, that isn't a moustache I added, just a bad trick of the camera.

These were, like all Pulp Figures products, great fun to paint, and very easy to do. They sort of "paint themselves".

Anyway, all I need now, really, is a Ford Trimotor painted up for the Hidalgo Trading Company. Heh, good luck getting a Trimotor in 1/48th, 1/56, or anything close to 25/28mm, let alone many other appropriate pulp planes, right?

Doc:



Monk:



Ham:



Renny:




"Pete Peters":



Hope you enjoy!

-Doc

[JollyBob]

These look good, mate.  Doc Savage is always good quality.

Regarding the photos, do you use a tripod? If not, you should get one. You can pick up the mini ones from most 1 dollar/pound/euro stres for uhm, well 1 dollar/pound/euro. It would make your life easier.

[Doc Twilight]

These look good, mate.  Doc Savage is always good quality.

Regarding the photos, do you use a tripod? If not, you should get one. You can pick up the mini ones from most 1 dollar/pound/euro stres for uhm, well 1 dollar/pound/euro. It would make your life easier.

Thanks again, Bob. I will definitely look into that tripod. Should help matters.

Any idea who this "Pete Peters" chap is supposed to be? I'm really baffled. It's a very nice sculpt, but can't place him in the Doc Savage mythos, though I've tried. Don't think he's the Archaeologist (he had one eye, if I remember correctly, among other things), and none of the others seem to fit, either.

-Doc

[JollyBob]

I have no idea. 

It must be either Johnny or Long Tom, but from the descriptions of the characters on Wiki [wiki]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Savage#The_Fabulous_Five_and_Pat[/wiki] it doesn't really bear much resemblance to either of them.

I would guess at Johnny, the Archaeologist, but he should have a monocle.

Hmmmm... 

[Heldrak]

I believe that the "Pete Peters" character is essentially an amalgam of Johnny and Long Tom, created by Pulp Figures (Bob Murch) to distance the unliscenced Doc Thompson figures from their source material. That being said, "Pete Peters" is a default figure for Johnny as he does in fact have a monocle pinned to his lapel (painted as a flower by Doc Twilight).

Nice work on the skin tone, hair color and "eyes like pools of flake gold" on the Doc figure (as far as one can tell from the blurry photo, anyway ).

I've always thought that Pulp Figures should sneak a Long Tom into another set and allow fans to make an entire "Iron Crew" by purchasing two sets. It might be interesting to make a pre-torn shirt Doc and a Pat as part of that set as well...

[Doc Twilight]

I believe that the "Pete Peters" character is essentially an amalgam of Johnny and Long Tom, created by Pulp Figures (Bob Murch) to distance the unliscenced Doc Thompson figures from their source material. That being said, "Pete Peters" is a default figure for Johnny as he does in fact have a monocle pinned to his lapel (painted as a flower by Doc Twilight).

Nice work on the skin tone, hair color and "eyes like pools of flake gold" on the Doc figure (as far as one can tell from the blurry photo, anyway ).

I've always thought that Pulp Figures should sneak a Long Tom into another set and allow fans to make an entire "Iron Crew" by purchasing two sets. It might be interesting to make a pre-torn shirt Doc and a Pat as part of that set as well...

You know, I could have sworn it was a flower - could have been the way the sculpt came out, I suspect that flash very easily turns a monocle into a flower.

Sorry about that photo. I'm working on it, and I hope to get a better one up soon. Glad that you noticed those golden eyes. It takes folks a minute to get it when they see him in the flesh. Have been asked more than once if I meant to do his eyes "metallic"

And the idea on the pack is a good one. I'm surprised they haven't done it. It'd be nice to field the whole gang!

-Doc