Modern Pulp

[area23]

Lately I've been thinking that the best term to describe my near-future gangs and background would be Modern Pulp. Near Future or Post Apocalyptic both don't cover it.

For instance, right now I'm in a Red Shadows phase, the bad guys from the 1980's Action Force toy series.

Combined with G.I. Joe/ COBRA, Dawn of the Dead, Blade Runner/Aliens/Terminator/Mad Max/12 Monkeys/28 days later, Bond, Croft, Rambo and all kind of modern movements like Hezbollah, Al qaeda, red brigades but also A.L.F., Black Bloc-squatters-Autonomen, Unabombers, 1960's radicals, Grey abductors and Daleks and the odd superhero and supernatural manifestations and terracotta warriors.
What it comes down to, is really Pulp, isn't it? and in forty or fifty years people will all get nostalgic about it?

The genre as I see it should be aknowledged and embraced by the geek community and a good descriptive term, better than 'Modern Pulp' would be great too.

[twrchtrwyth]

Mulp? ::

[Kalidus]

This looks great! I'm definitely inspired by this.

I also would like to see what ideas you might have for an opposing force (good-guys). Something along the lines of G.I. Joe-style forces maybe?

One idea is that I'm picturing the Games Workshop Catachan Infantry (Jungle Fighters).

Maybe use a name to play off of the Red Shadows theme?
"Golden Eagles" perhaps...

[majorsmith]

nice! i used to collect red shadows, action force and all that! copplestone make some figures which i think are ideal for cobra troopers,

it would be nice to have a 'revenge of the red shadows' game set in the south american jungle? heres a few 40mm graven figures i painted as shadows just to see what they looked like!

[assi]

..and, naturally, the bad guys have german mps  ::

[KeyanSark]

..and, naturally, the bad guys have german mps  ::

That's an unwritten rule of pulpdom  :mrgreen:

[twrchtrwyth]

They look good Majorsmith.

[soapy]

And for those who haven't already seen them elsewhere...

http://actionforcevsredshadows.blogspot.com/

I'm having a whale of a time doing this little lot...

Stay lucky,
Soaps.

[twrchtrwyth]

And for those who haven't already seen them elsewhere...

http://actionforcevsredshadows.blogspot.com/

I'm having a whale of a time doing this little lot...

Stay lucky,
Soaps.

Excellent, I had some of those action figures.

[muppetman]

oh my god!! i had all them figs ::

i love what you have done..  i cant wait to see the Baron Ironblood finished, please post it when he is done..

oh man i have got to make some now, long live the red shadows!!

[revford]

Those are some familiar looking toys.  I had at least one or two of them.  

Great looking conversions too everyone and a great idea.

[dinohunterpoa]

Modern Pulp = MULP!

Take a look at the excellent "Tomb Raider & Witchblade" series of comics ( Top Cow/Image Comics), and also the "Danger Girl" comics (published by Cliffhanger! Comics), and you´ll recognize all the "clichés" of the Pulp genre revamped into a modern setting!

(the Danger Girl series even features an evil organization called The Hammer - The Fourth Reich!!!)

[dinohunterpoa]

By the way...

The three first original characters of Danger Girl as Heroclix miniatures:







And their nemesis, the evil Major Maxim:

[soapy]

I've always thought that a couple of the lasses in this pack would work for Abbey and the girls...


The second and third bear a remarkable resemblance to those danger girl statuettes.

[Lowtardog]

I feel old I dont remember these toys :oops: