Battle of Calabash Junction

[Cory]

As I couldn't drag my group onto the ECW38 bandwagon we have gone with a 1930's civil war in America.

Yesterday I did manage to get a few photos from a game when we played hookey from work.

Oscar Boyle, the "Commisar of the Cumberland", and his bodyguards are ambushed while gathering at the store at Calabash Junction.



National guardsmen quickly rush over the eager but poorly trained red pickets.


Here two guardsmen advance up the Hooverville Pike while the pro government mechanic of the local Texaco station joins in.

[Burgundavia]

This post really should be the pulp section. I like your scenery. Where did you get your vehicles? I don't recognize the manufacture and I thought I knew all the makers of roughly 28mm vehicles (1:48,1:56, etc.).

[postal]

very cool,ive been getting into 1930's gaming my self and picking up and getting ready to build stuff ,I love the gas station I just pick up a gas pump off of e-bay but now I have to build a gas station,to bad your three states away.

[aircav]

Thats great 

[Cory]

The cars are a 1:54 black '32 model A coupe from Model Masters or some such, the 1:55 model T is "Lizzie" from the cars movie -both are cheap diecast that can be had for a few bucks. The red car is a 1920's model A sedan from Athearn and is a bit pricier.

[postal]

 I thought there was something odd about that model t.,I want to here about the building where did they come from?

[Cory]

They're all scratchbuilt out of cheap materials. Most incoroporate 1/2" pink foam - a 4x8 sheet costs about ten bucks and goes on forever.

The gas station is my old west blacksmith's shop made out of pink foam with a removable Texaco sign added. Here's a picture without the sign.


The country store is made from scribed basswood on a 1/2 pink foam base for the foundation. The post office addition is scribed 3mm foam.  The roof is horizantal strips of masking tape on cardstock to get that old tar paper roof look and the porch and addition roofs are scrap corrugated paper. Took about 3 hours and $5 to build. Signs are all from Google, just use "Vintage signs" in your search.

The grain silo was cut from corrugated paper and painted like corrugated iron.

[postal]

thanks cory I well pass it out to my group and see what we come up with and got to say it again love those buildings.

[BaronVonJ]

I'm on the same kick, using Crimson Skies as a background:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=9905.0

[Cory]

We considered the Crimson Skies but decided to go along a little different path. CS, along with Car wars and many other games, simply divide the US and Canada by grabbing a map and drawing new countries mostly along state lines. It works but we wanted a background that incorporated the issues of the era the way ECW38 does and reflected a nationwide civil war rather than clean 1860 style secession.

We drew inspiration from the Bonus Army march and the strikes like the battle at Blair Mountain. Movies like Matewan and Sinclair Lewis's play It Couldn't Happen Here also provide some direction.

Already I am painting up the Fascist Lindy's Legion of pro Lindbergh while another player is doing the silver shirts. Alger Hiss and others will probably show up in another guys Wobblies.

[Wolf 359]

  Cory, where did the Purina building come from?
  Postal, what are of Texas do you live in?

[postal]

in a suburb of austin.

[Wolf 359]

  Postal, it sounds like we may need to play a game of this at MilleniumCon this year. I'm east of DFW.
  You a member of LSHM?

[postal]

no not yet,I am millenium con every year since I moved here my picture always makes the site,I ran the weird war stuff last year,and I only live 12 blocks from the con.

[F.U.B.A.R]

 If it wasnt real it would be hard to believe! The Business Coup plot, Henry Ford and the Fasicts. Mac Arthur, Patton, and Eisenhower turning on the Bonus Army!