Pulp Alley gaming area W.I.P. - Deadline long past work goes on new PICs added

[Menelduir]

Hello

It is the Thursday before a Saturday game day, and as all to often happens I am scrambling to get the tables set up! The dock and tramp steamer, and the 'rough' part of town having been sitting on my table unpainted and only sort of placed in a proper set up.

Over the last couple of days I have assembled the train track, cut/painted/and applied scenic material to the track roadbed, painted the ship, finished building the crane, and painted some of the base coat on the gaming mat. Two nights and part of Saturday morning to complete this project, oh and also clean up the room so that the group can walk in some degree of safety.

In the end I should have 4 gaming areas for PA. The docks and the slum area are two separate gaming areas that could also meet somewhere in the middle for a single game area. Then two other tables will each have a layout for gaming.

My big question: Why do I always seem to wait until the last moment?
For some reason motivation always seems to come at the last minute!

Oh well

Here be the pics:


 

[Troll]

Looking good. I think for some of us a sense of urgency is needed before we begin a project. For me my creative burst come about 2 days before I run a game.  Lots of last minute painting and assembly.

Hope everything turns out well.

Troll

[d phipps]

Wow! Looking great! I can't wait to see it in action. 

[warrenpeace]

Impressive project!

[Traveler Man]

Wow!  Plenty of scope for Pulp mayhem there! I'm looking forward to the game report.

[Menelduir]

Thanks for the comments!

With my room, and miniature games in general, it is sometimes important to see the before picture of the mess, to understand that what looks messy when we get together to play is actually cleaned up! (hope that makes sense)

As it stands I expect 5 players on Saturday, and right now there is not enough clear space to have 2 of them let
alone all 5 of them in the room!

It feels like my room should be featured in an episode of hoarders!  

However it always seems to work out in the end, I don't know how, it's a mystery.  

[ivor13]

Looks a great start! Love boards like this  Really like the variety in the buildings - am I seeing resin from Old Glory, a 4ground warehouse, and even some Woodland Scenics O scale buildings?

[Menelduir]

The countdown to Saturday game day, start time 2pm Saturday.

The night? before the game (actually 2 AM Saturday 12 hours away)
No where near ready, only worked on the one table (two game areas docks/slum) no work on cleaning/clearing the mess disaster that is my room...

[WuZhuiQiu]

And the tables were an enjoyable setting for yesterday's games of Pulp Alley!

It's a shame that Pulp Alley's scenario durations and movement distances don't allow for all that much tactical use of building interiors, though, although I suppose that that may be more feasible with more combat-oriented, non-pulp rules.

[soldado]

lovely work on all that.

Can I ask about the TTCombat frieghter? did you use blue foam to deepen and lengthen the hull?

[Codsticker]

Very inspiring! can you tell us a little about the buildings you have used there?

[Menelduir]

And the tables were an enjoyable setting for yesterday's games of Pulp Alley!

It's a shame that Pulp Alley's scenario durations and movement distances don't allow for all that much tactical use of building interiors, though, although I suppose that that may be more feasible with more combat-oriented, non-pulp rules.

Glad you enjoyed the game! Now with your duo league it would be hard for your team to do a lot of exploring. If you remember we did do a lot of in house fighting in one of the our games (AAR to be posted soon).

[Menelduir]

Yes I used 1" blue styrofoam double stacked to increase the height and length of the T Combat ship. It was the Wednesday before the game day that I cut and sanded it into shape. I was originally going to cover the hull with textured black craft paper, but after paining it black I figured it would look good enough for this game. If I leave it as is I plan to add some 'rust' to the hull and upper structure.

By the way the stern is a red plastic basket that would be used at a picnic. I found a set of 3. I planned to use 1 for a gondola for a planned airship... 

The crane is by Fenris games Arkham Avenue.
The factory is the set by Sarissa, as are the tracks and the rolling stock.
The 'slum' buildings are mostly Old Glory resin, with two TT Combat MDF buildings.
The big red warehouse is also Old Glory
The sand coloured warehouse is from Ziterdes
Then there is the 4ground warehouse, only had time to finish the first floor.

Did I miss anything?

[WuZhuiQiu]

Glad you enjoyed the game! Now with your duo league it would be hard for your team to do a lot of exploring. If you remember we did do a lot of in house fighting in one of the our games (AAR to be posted soon).

Yes, it would have been. Even with larger leagues, though, there usually seems to be just enough time if the league stays in the streets and out of the buildings, as in the China Town setting. Right, was that the game where the leprechaun almost showed up?

[Menelduir]

Well at the end of the gaming day Saturday, the tables and room had achieved a mostly done feel.
Some buildings were more done than others, but no one complained...

In total we played 5 games on Saturday, 1 on the docks, 1 in the 'slums', 1 in the 'Eastside' and 2 in Chinatown.

The dock game was a 3 player game that went right down to the wire, with one league playing the spoiler taking victory from one league, but ironically not achieving the victory themselves, and instead they unintentionally allowed the third league to win the game.

All the other games were two player games.

Here are post game pics, more pics will follow in an after game report or two.