A varied bunch of pulp minis

Here’s the latest from the painting table, a bunch of pulp minis that took a bit longer than expected to finish.

The figures come from:

Warlord, and their Operation Sealion Enemy Agents pack. It’s a nice additional nun that will be useful, as they are, and the other two will find a place in a game of Pulp Alley, I’m sure.

Artizan Designs and the final figure from their Merchant Sailors pack

RAFM – a gigantic doctor from their Cthulhu range. The size of that head compared to the others... Their RAFM figures are all over the place size-wise, which is really annoying.

Finally two pics of 3D-printed stuff waiting for paint. More on what has happened on the 3D-printing front soon.

Last minis from July – nun, ghoul and Atalanta

 

The last post of July will be on a couple of different minis finished in the last couple of days.

The nun, from Warlord Games and their Operation Sea Lion – Enemy Agents blister, looks stern but innocent enough… from the front.

But if you look at what she’s doing behind her back… She’ll be perfect in my Vatican-league in Pulp Alley, and will have the “Burst Fire” ability. Yes, I do have a thing for armed nuns…

The ghoul’s from Andy at Heresy Miniatures, and it is a great little mini, as always from Heresy. Gruesome.

Finally the first painted mini from Mythic Battles: Pantheon. Atalanta is one of five heroes in the base box, and a good enough figure. I wasn’t super excited by the mini so she stood half-finished on the painting table quite a long time.

Corpo di Spedizione della Santa Sede

Meet my league for Pulp Alley – CSSS or Corpo di Spedizione della Santa Sede (The Holy See Expeditionary Corps).

The adventures take place in the 1930’s and it is very much pulp – think Indiana Jones and you will get the idea. Different gangs, called leagues, are battling each other all over the world, trying to further their ideas – be it finding treasures, de-cloaking Cthulhu cults or further the ambitions of their state or order.

Enter the CSSS – a league sent by the Holy See to further the Only True Teachings and, of course, bring back artefacts to the collections in the Vatican. It is made up of clergy from the Church and men and women provided by the Italian Armed Forces.

As the Holy See has just received the Vatican State from Mussolini they feel that they can’t say no to the kind offer of state-sponsored help and neither can they refuse to further the goals of their benefactors - the Fascist Party and Benito himself.

I’m trying out the league at the moment, and we had a game at the club yesterday when they saw combat for the first time. More on that in a further post.

The League
CSSS relies heavily on its sidekicks (they have a Perk called Company of Heroes giving access to a second sidekick. A Perk affects the whole league and will cost you) and as servants of God they have a wide network of true believers all over the world that will help them (the Perk called Network of Supporters)

The characters:

Soura, Monsignore and Padre

The Leader

Monsignore Cadaverico

Monsignore is on a direct mission from God and he has no problem getting willing allies or followers on his adventures (he has the ability Commander giving him access to 4 points of Allies (costing 2 points) or Followers (costing 1)). He can access the wealth of Church and State (he got the ability Wealthy) and he is able to manipulate his surroundings (ability Savvy). His true strength is manipulation but as a leader he really is good at everything.

Monsignore comes from Shadows over Brimstone. I will change him into another miniature as soon as it gets delivered and painted. Could be some time…

The sidekicks

Don't you dare mess with me, punk!

Suora Innocenza

This is a sister you really don’t want to meet in dark alley. You really don’t want to meet her at all. She is a close-combat machine that will rush anyone (she’s got the abilities Brash (she can get into close combat with anyone without the usual limit of only being able to rush the one closest to you) and surprisingly fast – what you see is a package of muscles (Speedy  - she runs faster/longer than most)

Innocenza is a Reaper Bones miniature.

Padre with his most prized possesions - a cross and a tommy gun

Padre Sicario

A very active army priest that likes his cross as much as his guns. He is the sharp-shooter in the gang (Abilities Dead Eye (like Brash but for shooting) and Eagle Eyed (shoots longer))

Padre comes from Warlord and is modified with new head-gear and this and that.

Maligna, Tortura and a guy not used this time.

The Allies

These will differ a bit between adventures, but for the first game I used.

Soldato Tortura and Soldato Maligno

They are booth primarily shooters.

All soldiers from Perry Miniatures and their WWII Italian range. Notes on the paints used here - they are based on real uniforms.

A couple of other soldiers to be used later on. 

Note the map of Isola Pericolosa (Perilous Island - the name of the published adventure from Pulp Alley). As all treasure maps it has a great big X in the middle...

A final shot of the boats from last post, this time with occupants.

Italian Autoblinda AB41 from Warlord

Another Italian AFV in 1/56 scale (or 28mm), this time the Autoblinda AB41 from Warlord.

A very nice metal and resin kit that goes together easily. I painted the wheels separately to reach every part of them and the car.

Paints used:

Body – Vallejo 912 Tan Yellow, a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone ink, a heavy drybrush with 977 Desert Yellow (I made a mistake here, in my mind I used 912, but the result was so good I will stay with this combo), a final light drybrush of 837 Pale Sand.

Wheels – Vallejo Panzer Aces 306 Dark Rubber washed with AP Dark Tone ink.

I haven’t brushed any pigments on this car yet as I have an idea of painting some signs on it, but that will be after Gothcon during the holidays. I don’t have time for that now.

AB41 and CV35

Another camera than my usual, this one is a Canon Ixus 140, a small compact that works surprisingly well. My old one died this weekend. Rest in peace.

Hey! You should really check out Con Man on Indiegogo. I’m just saying Firefly and Serenity. 

War Dogs from Otherworld and Celt Mastiffs from Warlord

Lots of doggies this time. The kind you don’t want to be on the wrong side of the leash of.

First of two war dogs from Otherworld, and their Accessories series. Very nice models.

Then three Mastiffs from Warlord Games, their Hail Caesar range. With these dogs there were also a Celt packmaster, but he’s gone to the tin-mountain.

As you can see they are a bit different, but they will work well as a large pack in coming games of Song of Blades and Heroes, and probably in my D&D campaign.

Paints used:

Overall Vallejo 912 Tan Yellow, washed with Army Painter Strong Tone and drybrushed 837 Pale Sand. Black drybrush on heads, tails and some feet.

Leather was Vallejo 871 Leather Brown drybrushed 981 Orange Brown.