A varied bunch of pulp figures and another SMOG-mini + Gothcon

Wild West Wizard of Oz Tin Man from Reaper, another civilian from Blue Moon and their Slice of Americana box and finally a Neobedouin Shaman from RAFM

I guess these will be the final minis this month.

Shamock the Great from SMOG: Rise of Moloch

You’ll find me at Gothcon this weekend, demoing Chain of Command. Please come by and say hello if you're here. 

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An old lady from Blue Moon (and a bonus assassin)

I still got quite a few unpainted minis in the Slice of Americana box from Blue Moon.

This one is just finished and it’s fantastic little mini, so full of character.

She’ll be great as a bystander in a game of Pulp Alley.

I need some assassin-types for Pulp Alley, already have a couple painted but need more. This GCC Agent from Mercs: Recon had to do. An extremely fast paintjob to have a figure if needed. Nothing much to brag about, but he will be able to do his nefarious deeds.

A couple of minis from Oathsworn, Blue Moon and RAFM

A varied bunch of figures this time.

 

First we have a pregnant woman from Oathsworn Miniatures. This is such a nice mini, and she can be used in everything from a fantasy setting, to pulp, to modern and SF.

Next a butcher from Blue Moon and their Slice of Americana box. A good background figure in a 1930’s pulp or gangster game.

Finally an knife-armed cultist from RAFM. It will come in handy in our Pulp Alley campaign as it is inevitable that it ends up in Egypt sooner or later. 

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A couple of more civilians from Blue Moon

I’m slowly getting back into painting mode after summer vacation. Really slowly…

Anyway, here are a couple of more 1930’s civilians from Blue Moon and their Slice of Americana pack.

I’m sure they will see action in a Pulp Alley or gangster game in the not too distant future.

Civilians from Blue Moon and Artizan

Still painting civilians. 

 

First off are the final two from Artizan Designs’ Department of Paranormal Studies II pack. I bought the pack to get the priest that I have used in one of my Pulp Alley leagues.

These two will see more or less action as hapless civilians that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong moment.

Also a couple of females from Blue Moon Manufacturing’s Slice of Americana pack. These sculpts are rather old and shows it, I’m afraid.

Anyway, they will walk around in the background in some pulp or gangster games, and the one in green dress could even work in a fantasy setting.

Blue Moon Manufacturing – Slice of Americana, part 1

 

I won Blue Moon Manufacturing's boxed set Slice of Americana a couple of years ago and seems like a good time to dust it off, clean up the models, prime them and give them at least a basic paintjob.

The box contains 20 minis very suitable for 1930’s environments, and I’m sure they will come in handy in our club games of Pulp Alley.

I’ll paint them in four batches, as I’ve found out that five to seven models a time is a rather optimal number for me, as the risk is very high that I’ll just be bored to tears trying to do more in one go. Having five of these each time gives me the freedom to toss in an odd model or two in between.

So, here’s the first round of figures, males this time, and all looking respectable. Very basic but useful anyway, as you can never have too many civilians in a pulp-game (well, you could, but… you know).

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Cairo Civilians I from West Wind

Another pack of civilians bought from Old Glory Miniatures UK. Whether they are West Wind or Blue Moon I don’t know, but here they are, CIC-009 Cairo Civilians I. These got a bit more colours than the other pack I finished a week ago but essentially made in the same way.

They will see action as non-combatants in out coming Pulp Alley Perilous Island campaign at the club. They might even see action at tonight’s game.
Next up some Foreign Legion soldiers.

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Cairo Civilians #2 from West Wind

I bought these figures from Old Glory Miniatures UK. I found them under the Blue Moon header, came to their Blue Moon Miniatures page and on that I clicked on ‘28mm Blue Moon Manufacturing’. Another page and here I clicked  the ‘Chaos in Cairo’ link and found a couple of packs that suited me. This one was called ‘CIC-10: Cairo Civilians II’.

When it arrived the package said West Wind was the producer and the pack was called ‘CIC-10 Civilians #2 w/Cart’. A bit confusing, but now I have them and they are painted.

They will be used in our Pulp Alley campaign and other Pulp Alley games also, as generic Arabic non-combatants. Eye-candy for the tables.

Mould lines on these were manageable and as the metal is on the soft side they were easily removed with a file.

Not much to say about the painting really. Based with Vallejo Foundation White, a wash of Army Painter Dark Tone ink and a heavy drybrush with Off-White on all the white cloth. The female is obviously painted with black and a dark grey drybrush.

A nice addition to my other Pulp Arabs. Set #1 is on the painting table now.

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Arabs and mummies from Blue Moon

The last figures from the Blue Moon Box (find the adventurers here). These are the locals, both living and not fully living…

These living locals with their white clothes inspired me to dig out my Winter War Finnish troops. The idea was to continue with white, but fate wanted something else, something for the next post, which will be about unboxing Brimstone.

Not much to say about the paints, but the white robes where primed with Vallejo Foundation White, washed with AP Dark Tone and drybrushed Vallejo Off White. For the Finns I will try this and a couple of other basecoats to see what works best.

The mummies where washed with AP Strong Tone, otherwise the same.

So, that was the Blue Moon box. Nice figures for my newly awakened pulp interest.

Adventurers from Blue Moon and some Mars Attacks!

I won a box of Blue Moon figures a year ago, and in my present pulp-fever I finally got them to the painting table. First up are the adventurers.

Paints used:

The female investigator

Shoes – Humbrol 62 Leather washed with Army Painter Strong Tone

Hat – Vallejo 989 Sky Grey

Skirt – 990 Light Grey

Coat – 991 Dark Sea Grey

All greys washed with AP Dark Tone

Scarf – Citadel Foundation Mechrite Red washed with Citadel Washes Baal Red

Male adventurer with rifle

Shoes – as above

Vest – 872 Chocholate Brown

Shirt – Iraqui Sand

Trousers – 977 Desert Yellow

Everything AP Strong Tone wash.

Male with Shotgun

Shirt – 912 Tan Yellow

Trousers – 874 Tan Earth

Boots – Formula P3 Bootstrap Leather

Braces – 872 Chocolate Brown

Washed with AP Strong Tone

Hair  941 Burnt Umber washed with AP Dark Tone

Female with torch

Trousers – 874 Tan Earth

Boots – P3 Bootstrap Leather

Washed with AP Strong Tone

Shirt – 975 Military Green

Hair – 940 Saddle Brown

Washed with AP Dark Tone

Male with torch

Shirt – 837 Pale Sand

Coat – 874 Tan Earth

Trousers – 977 Desert Yellow

Boots – P3 Bootstrap Leather

Washed with AP Strong Tone

Hair – 940 Saddle Brown washed with AP Dark Tone

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Finally, Thomas and I spent Tuesday evening eating Asian food, drinking beer and playing Mars Attacks! Pic from the second game, where my human soldiers just wiped out the Martian menace. First game wasn’t as fun as my Martians were equally wiped out. Second time we play, and it’s a fast and fun game. We have only played the first scenario, and I think we’re getting the hang of things, but we need more games to hopefully not make too many screw-ups. Everything will probably work better when minis and terrain are properly painted - that means you, Thomas :-)

I won stuff from Blue Moon!

I always try to answer the questions in the competitions in Miniature Wargames, they are usually rather hard, and I always learn something. If I know all the answers and feel the prize is something I would like, then I usually send in my answers.

Did so in issue 365, and I got a mail a while ago from Henry Hyde the editor of the magazine, congratulating me to my amazing intellect (or rather, my luck in the draw, as there were quite a few contestants who had gotten it right).

The prize was £25 of Blue Moon miniatures from Old Glory UK.

I’ve had my eyes on Blue Moon for several years, so this prize really suited me. Of the stuff Old Glory had available I found the “Things that go bump in the night” 28mm series, with the “I just don’t feel my age” box, something suitably pulp for me. A great way of feeling out Blue Moon. (There are also a lot of 15mm Blue Moon figs at Old Glory, if that is your thing).

The box arrived the day before yesterday. So what’s in it?

 5 adventurers

5 locals

A sarcophagus with a loose mummy, and, argh… It’s alive!

Sooner or later you’ll even see some of these painted J

A great big Thank You! to Andy of Old Glory and Henry!