The Nefarious Schemes of One Fram Framson (update 6/2 - Awooga)

[FramFramson]

Thanks fellows!

I wonder what that makes a woman with a cigar.

Dangerous! 

[gary42]

He's the evil, midnight painter what paints at midnight! 

[FramFramson]

That's really not all that far wrong... 

[FramFramson]

I don't do art anymore (long story), but I found this image from my folders from long ago and I think some of you might like it for its pulpiness.

[d phipps]

You did that? That's awesome! 

[gary42]

Storyboard guy?

[FramFramson]

Storyboard guy?

Never even got that far...

[gary42]

Looks great!

[Doomsdave]

Fram that is an amazing piece of work.  It's a shame you don't do it anymore. 

[OSHIROmodels]

That's a cracking bit of work mate 

You should carry on, I'm sure there are several small companies that would love to use your style in promoting their stuff.

cheers

Dave

[FramFramson]

We had our game today, the first in many months. I'll put up an AAR as soon as the images and text are all sorted, but for now, here are some new additions I was able to put together this week.



A squad of army troops, to add to my other filler Russians. Now I have enough for the Bogatyrs league to occasionally call on the Red Army to help out (after all they are officers!). Here we have three infantrymen (including a scout wearing his fur hat against regulations), a medic, and a sergeant. I had to modify the copplestone infantry somewhat to give the soldiers side caps (by the mid-30's the infantry had side caps) and the sergeant has to have his pants converted (I almost forgot to do this, so I was joking he required "Emergency Jodphur Surgery").



A sleeping/wounded man and some pilot types. The middle fellow is brave Italian air hero Umberto Nobile, who is absolutely a brilliant real-life pulpy character and incidentally the first man (sharing credit with fellow-traveller Roald Amundsen) to reach the north pole in his airship Norge.

Three adventurers had previously claimed the Pole, and while Fredrick Cook was correctly derided as a fraud almost immediately, only modern research has determined that BOTH Robert Peary and Richard E. Byrd lied. Both explorers came close, but were too weak-willed to admit the truth, and instead chose to falsify their logbooks and records to convince the public they had genuinely attained the pole. Nobile never learned it in his lifetime, but he and Amundsen were actually the first men to truly reach the North Pole - and in an airship no less! It really doesn't get much pulpier than that!

Nobile was actually an attempt at 28mm portraiture, so that was very interesting as I had to use several painting tricks to slightly reshape the Biggles face of the base figure.



A few plot points and/or scenery elements. A burnt-out campfire, a cairn of loose stones, a backpack, and a sapling with a banner or rag tied to it.

[d phipps]

Brilliant! Such beautiful, detailed work. Those faces are fantastic. Love it all 

I can't wait to see your AAR! THANKS for posting.

[FramFramson]

Thanks Dave!

Also, as today was the first of a two-parter, we should be having our next game next weekend. Not such giant delays now that we have some basic scenery!

[Mason]

Stunning work as usual, Matt.
 

The extra effort that you always put in to your projects really pays dividends.
 

[Malebolgia]

Really good stuff! Lots of character and ace painting.