Affun's Pulp Stuff - A Captain (31/8-15)

[Arundel]

Another great figure. I agree that the gunmetal looks really good; I also like how you did his glasses. Thank you for sharing!

[affun]

I needed a break from painting fantasy stuff, and so, after an excellent game of 'Fantasy' Alley I felt motivated to make an effort towards getting my pulp leagues done. Thus, I managed to finish painting Daya, and thus my first league is almost done. Just one more guy to go. That should be manageable!

Daya will be mostly playing the role of melee distraction - gunning straight for whatever opportune target presents itself, and hopefully providing the rest of the league time to get the mission done. A bloody big blade in the face tends to get peoples attention.

I'll be back, hopefully in a bit less time than two months, with the final member for the league.

Thanks for reading!

[d phipps]

Excellent! One of my favorite miniatures. 

[affun]

Excellent! One of my favorite miniatures. 

She is quite nice. In fact, I find that almost all of Mark Copplestone's stuff is. Glad you like my effort too. Can't wait to get her in a game as well.

[marianas_gamer]

Ming and Daya are both on  my painting table now and will be good inspiration!
LB

[affun]

Thats the first league done



I imagine these as a pair of agents using foreign mercenaries to accomplish high risk missions - the lives of mercenaries are cheap, and should anything go wrong, the incident would not be traceable back to them.  That's the idea anyways: I'll expand upon it later, when I write up a blogpost on the league proper for my blog. For now I just wanted to show them together, as well as the latest mini finished for the league; Ivanov, Agent and Sidekick.

In game-terms, he'll be the one to do the physical objectives and the fighting. Another great Copplestone miniature, originall yfrom the Future Wars range, I thought he could be appropriated as an agent-type. You'll notice that he is the only member of the league with no red on him: That is because the miniature might pull double duty as a "generic" agent of sorts, or a gangster, for other leagues than this one.

With this league done, I just need someone to oppose them, and I can start gaming

Thanks for reading and commenting y'all!
~Affun

[blacksoilbill]

Lovely stuff, and the Future Wars heavy fits in perfectly.

[affun]

Finished up painting this mean-looking German, as a start to my next league - Some german strike-force, out to secure occult artifacts for the reich.



I am not entirely sure I am happy with the paint job though: I don't think the blue-grey works with the brown, and I am having a small crisis of basing: Rethinking whether I should go for 25mm bases instead of the 20mm's I've been using so far.

mmm. Desicions.

[Argonor]

- Some german strike-force, out to secure occult artifacts for the reich.

Ahnenerbe. 

[affun]

Ahnenerbe. 

Oh yeah, that was a thing! Reality exceeds fiction, once again. I think I actually read about that a little while ago, but then completely forgot it.
I really enjoy grounding fantastical and pulp stuff in vague "realism" like that.

[d phipps]

Excellent work! Can't wait to see them in action. 

[affun]

Excellent work! Can't wait to see them in action.  

Same here. I just need to find an excuse...

I will try and do an AAR when I get another League together.

This guy got finished today, as part of my "Buy less, Paint more" drive to make a 'dent' in the leadpile this month:

I've not really decided which role he'll play: Whether he is a villain or hero, leader or sidekick. It's a flexible miniature, and I am sure that he'll find a place as more stuff gets painted.

[d phipps]

Another great Copplestone mini. And a great paint job! 

[Valerik]

Another great Copplestone mini. And a great paint job! 

I agree with Dave!  & I really like this guy...  & his ossifer too...

Finished up painting this mean-looking German ~ I am not entirely sure I am happy with the paint job though: I don't think the blue-grey works with the brown.

It's one of those uncomfortable colour choices, which I think actually enhances the feller's menace.

I would suggest painting that ribbon in his buttonhole though, he earned it honourably after all.
& twould add a bright splash livening up the gloom.



Great War Iron Cross (EK II) is "C", 3rd from left, the rest are WWII. 
Being Pulp, & tiny, as long as it looks great, does it really matter?
Or pick a German state's cockade colours & use them.

I am having a small crisis of basing: Rethinking whether I should go for 25mm bases instead of the 20mm's I've been using so far.

There is one clear choice:

 ULTRA-INVISO™ BASES  hand made by Wolf Girl, aka Mila Phipps, for the Phipps Cartel, aka Pulp Alley,
game, store, lifestyle, cult, or obsession, whichever you prefer.



http://store.pulpalley.com/product-p/1320.htm


I'm also rolling mine own with the handy dandy rusty trusty punch stolen from the dormant leather shop,
or that nifty mech punch I purchased from Michael's.
Using mallet & metal does add a stress relief factor to making bases though, not to be dismissed lightly.

The very thin-ness of Mila's ULTRA-INVISO™ bases is what sold me, over other offerings out there.
To me they look & "feel" better with un-based vehicles, aircraft, buildings & scenery, whether next to or ON 'em.

For Song of Drums and Tomahawks I plan to ULTRA-INVISO™ base those Minquas &  stalwart Swedes on the Delaware I paint to blend with forest, field, fort, rock, redoubt, ship, shore or snow.  
Ditto an upcoming future foray:  Space Pulp endeavours with Valkeeri & their Radon Zombee Askaris.

I quite like the way the thin discrete ULTRA-INVISO™ bases make my figures look standing on ANYTHING.

The thicker Litko ones I've got may see use for critters or plot points, or or weapons, or simple scenery pieces. 

& it's actually much easier, & far less labour intensive or materiel hungry than traditional scenic-ed bases.

YMMV

Valerik

"Sic friat crustulum"
Mrs. Peel