Well, it's been a little while! Back to the grist mill! No new leagues yet, but some assorted characters.
First some folks from the fringes of life.
L-R: A con giveaway of a Mark Copplestone-sculpted Rasputin from Corto Maltese (Miniaturicum has a few for regular sale, luckily!), the
real one, not that tawdry impostor
, A hobo from an 80's Call of Cthulhu minis set which was kindly provided by Svenn, a gypsy witch which is actually a fantasy figure from Red Box Games and was kindly provided by Blackwolf, and Lead Adventure's own Lovecraft (or "Philip von Craft"), who I made sure to paint extra pale for the appropriate "indoors" look (evil day star! evil day star!
) and who - in the world of wonderful pulp may be more than just a mere writer (not a particularly original idea anyway, Mythos and several other such games make Lovecraft into an investigator).
The Lovecraft figure had a great story. So I ordered some figures from Miniaturicum, back in... May/April, I think, and he was one of the figures I'd ordered. He was missing from the order (I got something else that had almost the same product code, so it was just a simple mistake) so I asked Michael to send me a replacement, he says sure, sorry about the mix-up, no problem.
Time goes by, I don't get the replacement. I bug Michael again, he says sorry, and he'll send another. Still nothing and now it's September, okay, what's going on! Right before I'm about to message him again,
Michael contacts
me to tell he knows why I haven't been getting my replacement figure: Somehow my address got mixed up with the address on another order he sent out at the same time as my original order, so he was sending these little Lovecrafts elsewhere.
Where? Well, the reason Michael figured all this out was because
his sister called him to ask "Why do you keep sending me this creepy little man over and over again?"
As well, I've got a brace of fightin' men of various types.
L-R: A Copplestone figure suitable as a generic armed extra in many nations and places, A DUST Tactics mini useable as a commando, assassin, bomber, etc., A Tin Man rocketman, here painted as one of the 2-3 test pilots for the USAAC rocket infantry test squadron, a Copplestone soldier of fortune who might just turn up anywhere, and an Artizan armed sailor to provide a little heavier firepower for existing merchantmen.
The rocketman is the only one with any substantial concept (unless you count Rasputin). The idea is that, as with the Soviets, the Americans also have an experimental jetpack-infantry programme. The US Army Air Corps is still wholly subservient to the Army at this time, but was of course chafing to become a separate branch or at least be made more independent. While the US didn't have a full-scale paratrooper programme until after the Germans invaded Crete in WWII, they were testing the idea throughout the 30's. However, the paratrooper programme is very definition of the USAAC being subservient to the US Army since the air force is reduced to playing city bus for Army infantry.
In my version, the USAAC sets up a competing programme to see if they can train full on flying infantry who would be USAAC forces and not regular Army. Like the Soviets, the Americans find it extremely difficult to find anyone capable of piloting a jetpack at all, let alone safely, though the Americans have perhaps managed to find three to five pilots with the talent to fly a jetpack to the Soviets' one or two. Also like the Soviets, such pilots become propaganda heroes, shown in filmreels around the world.
I may eventually make the rocketman into a league leader, with some regular US infantry or Marines for backup, but for now he will just play the part of the incredibly cocky and obnoxious pomaded-pilot-type, arriving for a publicity stunt or to set some new jetpack flyer-record.
Also, some more toy cars. The middle one was repainted and weathered, the others were just weathered.
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