Pulp me sideways!

[d phipps]

WOW, those look really nice! 

I'm hoping to see them in action!!

[Pulpthulhu]

Very nice indeed!  Planning on doing proper indoors for the temple as well?

Heh Pocoloco

yes definitely be working on doing temple interiors - see early in this thread for a Hirst link I posted to a massive temple that was my initial main source of inspiration/sanity loss for doing this.

Using the Hirst blocks gives you endless possibilities and detail but takes a hell of a long time to cast it all! Trying to cut a few corners hence my first attempt at learning to create 3x3 tile squares moulds - will use lessons learned here to try and attempt other moulds of wall sections and floor details to speed the build process along...

[Big Martin]

Thanks for the photos of everything - seriously tempted with the Scotia Grendel stuff to do a temple of my own seeing as my mate John is never going to get around to doing anything with the bits he bought.

[Pulpthulhu]

Thanks Dave and Big Martin...

Might test drive them this w/e...

Also as if I don't have enough already to do have been hunting down a bunch of Plasticville buildings that have started to arrive so will be painting them up in the coming weeks too...

[d phipps]

Also as if I don't have enough already to do have been hunting down a bunch of Plasticville buildings that have started to arrive so will be painting them up in the coming weeks too...

Great! I've been looking at those too. There are definitely some O gauge buildings that scale very nicely next to 28mm.

[Argonor]

Great project - Pulp is what brought me to this forum years ago, and I still cherish the genre, although my gaming has been paused due to unemployment and frantic job-search.

The Crescent Root buildings are absolutely ace; I approached CR some years ago asking for postage fares to Denmark, but they turned out to be absolutely prohibiting - and at that time they did not have any Europe distributors (I don't know if they've got some by now).

[Pulpthulhu]

Some of the bits and pieces I ordered last year have started to turn up in the mail!

I mentioned I've been tracking down some Plasticville O/S scale buildings which work well with 28mm scale. They have nice detail on them (brickwork, tiles, window panes etc) and they just click together so you can pull them apart for storage. Whilst you could get away with using them out of the box I will paint them as I want a more dreary looking town to simulate Arkham etc. Whilst some hold together well just from clicking together some are a bit shaky so I will also probably end up gluing them and basing them. They also have gaps for windows - ie no glass - so will probably end up sticking plastic behind them.

Here some of them are fresh out of the box clicked together and put on the table to see how they fit:


IMG_0758 by Pulpthulhu, on Flickr


IMG_0760 by Pulpthulhu, on Flickr


IMG_0761 by Pulpthulhu, on Flickr

Again most unpainted so will be worked on in the future just had to see what they looked like. Initial favourites the town hall, cathedral, bank, supermarket.

Where to get it all:

Plasticville Buildings:
Ebay is great for the older ones and Bachmann Trains (http://bachmanntrains.shptron.com/c/o-scale_plasticville-u-s-a_kits) have their recent stuff. I also have yet to arrive the hangar and airport terminal and country ranch and barn...

Streets, sidewalks, alleys:
I found my streets and sidewalks at "Mean Streets" here - http://www.thevirtualarmchairgeneral.com/610-Mean-Streets-Main-Page.html. Just print out PDFs and glue to card/foam boards. They also have some great buildings as well that could be a cheaper option than Plasticville - definetely worth looking at. I like their Chinatown series a lot! They also do "Mean Sets" interior sets which are pretty cool - opium den, the garage from St Valentines Day Massacre etc - get them here http://www.thevirtualarmchairgeneral.com/620-Mean-Sets.htm

Other Tall Building
The 3 story building is not Plasticville but rather another O scale manufacturer Rail King - there seems to be a number of variants of the same kit just with different colour schemes and names - this one was Exterminators - again found on ebay.

Monkeying around?
Yes that's a large ape on the building! After reading all the Kong threads here I had to track one down - found on Amazon - Silverback Gorilla by Safari stands around 6" high and 6" long so good solid size for 28mm - see the gangster figure on the rooftop for scale - am sure Kong will feature in a future island expedition and may end up back in town on the same building if he escapes captivity...

[d phipps]

Nice, I really like how that's coming together! 

When we finish up the terrain for Perilous Island, I sooooo want to start on a city set like this.

We've been looking at the Plasticville Airport Terminal and Hangar as well.


THANKS for sharing!

[Oldben1]

You're preaching to the choir, you've got a nice selection of plasticville there and some rare ones too.  I especially like the factory.  You just need a masked vigilante breaking through the skylights in the roof.  Nice layout.

[Pulpthulhu]

Thanks guys - I do have a masked vigilante figure that would work well - will post once painted

Again drawing further inspiration from this forum I've started on my own jungle.

Take some 5mm MDF board and cut out random shapes with jigsaw and sandpaper to smooth edges. Then take bunch of different aquarium plants - pull apart/cut shorter and mix up shapes and colours and then hot glue gun them to bases:


IMG_0769 by Pulpthulhu, on Flickr

I decided to try and build some depth and height into the pieces so began each with a taller piece in the middle and then add additional pieces around the base - a few work in progress pieces:


IMG_0764 by Pulpthulhu, on Flickr

Starts to look like a jungle when you have a bunch of them all together - with an Easter Island statue head (another aquarium find) and 6" high Kong for scale:


IMG_0770 by Pulpthulhu, on Flickr

The plants typically are about 6cm high with centre pieces rising to approx 10cm.

A few perspective shots with minis:


IMG_0771 by Pulpthulhu, on Flickr


IMG_0772 by Pulpthulhu, on Flickr

Still need to add extra plants and sort bases out but thought I'd post the work in progress shots...   

[pocoloco]

Nice jungle, purhased aquarium plants myself last weekend for the same purpose in mind.

And do I spot a McDonalds toy in the last pic? (I have two of those ).

[Pulpthulhu]

Macca's toy? No the Easter island statue was from an aquarium shop and Kong was from amazon...

[pocoloco]

Ah, ok, thought you might have modded a Macca toy, got two seen in the photo, waiting (already quite a number of years, actually) to be made into terrain feature...



Yes, they even "talk". Need to cover those things either with green stuff etc or a wall structure.

[d phipps]

Nick, great work on your new jungle. I really like how dense it feels!   



HAVE FUN!

[Argonor]

You need cake deco palm trees! A pulp jungle must have palm trees!! 
I don't remember where I bought mine, but they come cheap.

You show a wonderfully high productivity, I must say!