Doowop's build projects

[doowopapocalypse]

Having never really gained any enthusiasm for Wahammer armies, I decided to try super-gluing something different to my hands.


This is about the shape of things so far.

Stuff Pictured:
Nieuport Type 17-piloted by a slightly mad and very bored minor French noble
German Asiakorps NCO
White Russian Officer
Chinese in British gear-security force/mercenary
tribal levies (would a 1/48 vickers be 28mm scale?)
tribal levy cavalry
cuirassiers of the desert
professional officer corps with howdah pistols

Hoping that making a log will help me as a modeler, and also to keep motivated. Comments, advice, etc. all welcome

 

[doowopapocalypse]

Also found a 3 dollar coupe. Having recently re-watched the Fleischer Superman cartoons, I wanted to see if I could put something together inspired by the armoured coupe from "Billion Dollar Limited". It is, however, bigger than any coupe has a right to be, but what's a scale issue between friends in a pulp game? I think this will be an easy project. I want to have a bomb-tosser in the roof hatch, but that might be hard given the scale issues.

[Wirelizard]

(snip) ...I decided to try super-gluing something different to my hands.

 

I'm going to borrow this quote when I start a new project or switch projects and use it from now on.

The assortment of figures, planes and cars looks very pulpy and excellently mad. Looking forward to seeing how this project goes!

[doowopapocalypse]

Thanks, Wirelizard. It was actually reading your build of the plane that made me pick one up.
Speaking of planes...

Cam across her whilst spring cleaning. Figured it was "close enough" to a Flea biplane, and in my search for a picture, came across the Martin Kitten
Pretty sure the toy was modeled off of this one. I need to replace the prop, but the big problem is what to do with this god-awful hump.


Progress with the coupe goes slow. School work has me on the ropes. Did manage a rough fit of one amour section, even did it on the text book to remind it who's boss.

[former user]

(would a 1/48 vickers be 28mm scale?)

NO, nothing is 28 mm "scale", because it is not a scale but an aesthetic convention that uses a human height corresponding to 1/56 scale. Certain details however are so exaggerated and in different scales, that some collectors prefer 1/48 vehicles because these do not look that crowded when used with 28mm figures. Basically it is a matter of taste which scale or not scale of vehicles You use, since nothing is "right" or "wrong". On the other hand, 1/56 vehicles that are currently "en vogue" do allow for a certain inflationary use on a tabletop due to being a bit smaller than 1/48. Then again the tinier ones when containing drivers and passengers tend to appear a bit cramped and spilling over. Especially equipment usually held by people and thus sculpted in an exaggerated size tends to look gigantic when used in 1/56 scaled models. This is why toys are so popular and can look so "correct" with 28mm if their proportion distortion fits that of 28mm.

So, to cut much blahblah short, the answer to Your question is "why not?"   

oh, yes, on a personal note: While comparison shots of human 28mm figures do make a lot of sense if one combines different manufacturers, don't let Yourself be fooled by extensive scale/size comparisons of vehicles - in the end even the same model in different scales can look fine together if they do not stand side by side during the whole game, which is rarely the case.
But that is only me.....

btw, Your Pulp approach is gorgeous, i will follow with interest

[Dr. The Viking]

Any make or brand on this flyer?!

[doowopapocalypse]

Any make or brand on this flyer?!

Doc, I couldn't find any on the plane but a quick google search for pull-back biplane came up with this. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Classic-Wing-Diecast-Military-Biplane-Model-Pullback-Action-Spin-Prop-Camo-NEW-/180975183667

[doowopapocalypse]

Dejected in my lack of sucess at the first go of mounting plastic egg bits to the car (damned thing won't lay flat), I found solace in (mostly) putting together some ECW cav.

They look funny without the tops of their heads. More at the blog.

[Dr. The Viking]

Doc, I couldn't find any on the plane but a quick google search for pull-back biplane came up with this. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Classic-Wing-Diecast-Military-Biplane-Model-Pullback-Action-Spin-Prop-Camo-NEW-/180975183667

Thanks mate. Too bad all the cool stuff is in the US... behind the wall of customs!

[FramFramson]

Dejected in my lack of sucess at the first go of mounting plastic egg bits to the car (damned thing won't lay flat), I found solace in (mostly) putting together some ECW cav.

They look funny without the tops of their heads. More at the blog.

These clearly aren't roundhead troops.

[doowopapocalypse]

I'm annoyed I didn't think of this joke. Yeah, I plan on having most of them in lobsterpots, but I've got stupid sausage fingers and figure it'd be easier to paint faces without the nosebar to worry around.

[doowopapocalypse]

Generic desert bandits

Howdah pistols and stick grenades.


Tibetan swordsman and Tong hatchetman. No idea what to do head-wise for these two. Need to find Perry Plastic ACW revolver arms.


Post-Great War in Africa freikorps. Grenades, luger, shield, warhammer.

After the step back re: the coupe, I wanted to act like I had accomplished something.

[Bergil]

I'd have probably turned those plastic horses and men into centaurs, then had them riding the plane as some sort of flying stunt group.

But then I'm nuts.

Re the plane hump ~ Carefully shave it away with a scalpel then sand it off with fine, wettable sandpaper (or weird black sandpaper as I call it)

[doowopapocalypse]

Bergil-Thanks. I think I'm gonna hang off until I find something to fill the gap with.

Fictional African Freikorps Assault Section (what a mouthful)


More Bandits


Apropo of nothing-two Irish kerns

[doowopapocalypse]

Looking down the barrel of the semester's end, I snatch a few moments to put a few GW swashbucklers together.