CapnJim's Pulp Stuff (More Figures for Matewan - Pg 10...04 Jun 23).

[carlos marighela]

Sound like a fun game. Kudos to the marines!

[BaronVonJ]

Get any converts to the system?

[Cat]

Great looking games!  Sweet collection of cars too.

Boy, if my games even remotely resemble what actually happened, I can see why Mail truck and train robberies stopped completely after Marines began guarding the Mail in both 1921 and 1926..

"I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
 
— Major-General Smedley Butler, USMC

[CapnJim]

Sound like a fun game. Kudos to the marines!

It was fun.  And Yeah, the Marines have been kickin' ass and takin' names...

Get any converts to the system?

Maybe.  Of the 8 players between the two games, 4 players were new to the rules.  They all indicated they enjoyed them...

Great looking games!  Sweet collection of cars too.

"I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
 
— Major-General Smedley Butler, USMC

Thanks, Cat.  And good for Gen. Butler...

[CapnJim]

And now, back to getting ready for my Matewan scenario.  Today, I finished the first of 2 batches of figures, all prepped and primed.  I already have a bunch of figures I can use in my collection, but these will provide the rest of what I need to do the scenario - 13 Gun Thugs (including the Felts brothers), 24 Coal Miners/Armed Townsfolk (including Police Chief Hatfield and Mayor Testerman), and 10 or so regular townsfolk (milling around the street and at the train station). 

These 9 all have long guns (although a few could also be shotguns - but for Matewan, they'll be rifles).  The first 2 pics are a couple Baldwin-Felts Gun Thugs.  The next 4 are Coal Miners/Armed Townsfolk.  The last one is the whole batch together.

The other 9 ready to go include 4 guys with shotguns (Winchester '97s and double-barrels), and 5 fellas with pistols.  Painting on them should begin this weekend...

[carlos marighela]

Be careful with Smedley. You'll be gaming an alterative version of McArthur breaking up the bonus marchers  and the plot to put an unwilling Gen Butler into the White House before you know it. 

[Dubar]

Nice figs, I need me some more gangsters.

[FramFramson]

Be careful with Smedley. You'll be gaming an alterative version of McArthur breaking up the bonus marchers  and the plot to put an unwilling Gen Butler into the White House before you know it. 

A fellow Butler fan!

You sir, are an upstanding fellow of unparalleled taste and sophistication.

[carlos marighela]

Oh, I like to think I'm on the side of the angels. 

Long time fan of old Smedley. One of those rare creatures who took the notion of public service seriously.

[FramFramson]

That he certainly did.

[CapnJim]

Okay you two.  Settle down... 

Back to the business at hand - more figures for my Matewan scenario.  These are all gonna be coal miners/armed townsfolk.  Some are from the Moonshiner box set from GEG's The Chicago Way.  The others are kit-bashed Wargames Atlantic plastic French Partisans.

The first 2 pics are guys with shotguns, while the 2nd 2 pics are the fellers what have pistols.  The last 2 pics are this batch all together...

With those, I should have all the figures I need.  Now it's on to terrain...

[Cat]

Nice work!
 
That box of Partisans is kitbashers' heaven.

[mikedemana]

These are great! You could use them for so many things...

Mike Demana

[carlos marighela]

Nicely done but you can never have enough figures and these are crying out for a place on that table.

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