AHPC post V

 Boy have I slacked off on posting, again.

HERE is the link to the AHPC page. It was a small post consisting of VSF stuff, Deep sea divers, a pulp league, Some pulp opponents and a unit of Indian troops for back of beyond.

My second post to the challenge

 

Halfling mage for Fantastic Battles

So my second post is up HERE

A mix of stuff, including some Back of Beyond, a Halfling and some pulp figures.

US Marines for Pulp/BoB

Pulp aliens

Trotsky's troops

Pulp Alley urban boards

 

 Finally I have gotten around to addressing my woefully inadequate urban/tarmac gaming surface. Good old Dave of Pulp Alley keeps talking about 18" x 18" tiles as a good gaming surface. Well, while he seems to be able to walk into a home store in the US and readily find these tiles it seems to be a bit more of a challenge here in Canada. Even if you can find them they are sold by the case which is not so economical to me. However I did find some tiles on Amazon and then figured out a way to make them double sided, sort of like what Dave does.

AHPC XIV Posts 6 and 7 Rats and 15mm Sci-fi

 

 So, I did two posts to the challenge this past week, my usual (at least the usual this challenge) 15mm sci fi vehicles and some 28mm Pulp stuff. I only got 13 vehicles done this week (see the link to find out why) As for the 28mm stuff, well the rats have needed to be done for quite some time, as had the scarabs, still have more scarabs to do. The robot got done only because sudden inspiration grabbed hold of me and allowed me to finish off a figure that has been languishing for a year or two in my to be done pile.

Rats can be found HERE while the vehicle post is HERE

Pulp Pacific preparations

 

So, prep work has finally started on some required elements for a new PULP alley campaign, China Station. The gunship is by Sarissa with Pulp Figures hardware and figures. The two junks are 3D Russian 'puzzles' that I bought many, many years ago. 

Second post to AHPC XIII [18 x 28mm foot, 1 large 28mm tank, 2 x large 28mm VSF robots]

 

Greek Skeletons to fight the Argonauts

Mark IX tank, the beast and agent Jada

Two top hat toffs

Marlene

Four Toff associates

The whole gang

Four 'penguins' and Marlene

First of my Foundry Argonauts figures

Two VSF robots [MIME's]

Scale shot

The inevitable overthrow of humanity has begun...

 Finally finished of the ten tin cans on the left, and the last four Pulp Figures robots on the right, the hover bots were just an after thought.

Some big baddies finished off

 

 Four Crooked Dice miniatures and one from Crocodile Games. Big blue and the Pharaoh have been sitting around almost completed for a few years, it was high time that I finished them off. However the three Argonauts had only been primed, so maybe not as bad?  

Finally finished off two Old Glory resin buildings

 

 These two have been sitting around for a few years, just waiting to be painted. I bought these after our big Vice Alley Pulp Alley campaign. They are solid and heavy and crooked, everything I come to expect from Old Glory resin models. Both have removable roofs, and both have some really nice detail work. However both also have roof issues, specifically, the roofs do not easily match up. 

More buildings built and some even primed

 

So four more buildings completed, so 1/2 way through the new arrivals. They are easy to build, even the large house, that looked a little daunting at first but was easy enough to assemble.

Bones ruins finished

 

Inspired by Goodrich Castle, and some of the castles in Scotland, I decided to deviate away from my traditional grey stone paint job and opted for reddish/pink. I still do not think I managed to get the right shade to match the originals, but I do like the end result.

 

 

 

Father & son

 

Thought maybe we should see them together.

 

KIKO, son of Kong

 

 Last item in February to get finished off is Kiko, using the Crooked Dice gorilla. I seem to have gone ape crazy lately, and have been monkeying around with my many simian figures, most notably the larger gorilla figure of an earlier post. Since most of my gorillas are likely to be painted in a more typical colour scheme I thought I would do this one up as an albino ape, just like Kong's son was in the movie.

Gorilla of my dreams?

 Took a break from Imperial troops to paint up this Reaper gorilla. It is a lovely model, so good that even my painting cannot ruin it!

Something from Ainsty castings

 

It is amazing what photos reveal that the naked eye cannot see... 

From this one picture I see that some touch ups are needed. Now given my eyes are nearly 60 years old, what I can see on a table top is not as clear as this picture, but I still think a little bit more work may well be in order.

Derelict automobiles for Pulp action

 

About time for something not GW related!