Aerosan OSGA 6

More stuff for Whiteout, this time 2 Aerosans from Baker Company.

In Whiteout you can have Sno-Cats as equipment or find them as terrain-encounters. My take on the game is more pre-WWII Pulp, so I was after something else. These Aerosans looked just right.

The Aerosans were used during WWII by the Soviets, and captured ones by the Finns and Germans.

The kit, especially the metal parts, are not the best, and I changed the tin-rods for plastic ones to get a more stable and rugged model. The rig for the motor isn’t very like the real part, but this being pulp I just didn’t bother to convert it more than I did.

We’re in the Arctic, and I already got some Winter War Russians painted, so my baddies in Whiteout will be Russians. I painted the aerosans to work here as well as in WWII-winter conditions.

Finally I 3D-printed a hatch for when I need an unarmed vehicle. It’s hatch + plug so I can just drop it in place when needed.

They were this week’s painting challenge.

Crashed aircraft for Whiteout

I’m building and painting terrain, vehicles and figures for Whiteout, which is a solo/co-op game that I think looks really interesting. Also, in these times, anything solo has a certain appeal.

Here´s the first finished terrain-piece, a Beechcraft G17S Staggerwing in 1/48 scale from AMT.

Built straight from the box, buried in a piece of foam insulation covered in sealant and painted with Vallejo Ground Texture Snow.

Now I’m letting the 3D-printer produce some suitable things for the game. More on that later.

Here it is on my Whiteout gaming-mat from Deep Cut Studio. (6x4' Winter with 1' grids and 2 point line thickness (I think)a greyish grid colour with 50% transparency for discrete grid-lines) 

You can buy Whiteout and lots of stuff for it from Sally 4^th.

De Havilland DH4a – Pulp Edition

I got myself a 1/48 scale De Havilland DH4a (Passenger) from Roden a while ago. The idea was to use it in my pulp games, as a prop or maybe something to fight for. It was half-finished for quite a while until I got it on the painting table and put it all together.

It’s a nice kit, but a bit fiddly, especially when it’s time to assemble the wings… Getting the top one in place was a bit of a pain. It didn't help that I dropped it when it was nearly done.

I painted it up totally imaginary and put on some random slides from the stash.

Pretty good result and it will look good on the gaming table, I’m sure

As a great little extra there were lots of spare parts, including quite a few bombs and machine guns. These will definitely find use as contraband. Great stuff.

Wheels for my 28mm heroes

I’ve been looking for vehicles for my games, both pulp, 70’s and modern.

I found the Mini Cooper (1/43 scale) and the truck (about 1/50 scale I guess) at a gigantic flea market the other week. They will come in handy with our up-coming zombie-game (Hjärnor/Brains) set in Sweden.

The 1953 Cadillac (also 1/43 scale) was bought in a shop months ago and will be useful for both 70’s and modern. I think I have to paint up some Raggare to cruise the neighbourhood and bash some zombie-heads.

I will re-paint the truck into a park management vehicle or something like that. The other two look good as they are.

The 1/43 vehicles are obviously a bit big compared to the 28mm minis, but they will have to do.

Circus stands and wagons

More stuff for the pulp carnival from Plast Craft Games and their Malifaux range.

These two booths are from the Circus Stand Set.

Four wagons from the Circus Wagon Set.

All sets are prepainted made from PVC and go together easily with superglue. They could be used as is but that will leave very prominent white edges, so I camouflaged those with appropriate paints. Worked rather well, I think, especially if you are half a meter off during a game.

The backs of the printed parts are also stark white, and where necessary, inside the booths and at the back of the wagon ornaments, I gave those some paint to make them blend in better.

Comparison between Sarissa's Gypsy Caravan and Circus Wagon

Nice pieces, but a bit large, especially the booths.

Caravans from Sarissa

The Circus/Carnival nears completion (well, it will obviously never be complete, but it nears playability) with these two wagons, a Ledge Type Gypsy Caravan and a Bow Top Gypsy Caravan from Sarissa’s Gaslamp Alley range.

Both are MDF and cardboard sets and goes together really well.

Really like them. I’ve got rather fond of Sarissa’s kits, as they have yet to disappoint me.

Fun to paint in all these garish colours, but I will soon go back to my Vikings and dull, dull, dull J

Carden Loyd Carrier from Warlord

Evil Overlords seem to have a big budget for transports for their (lazy) minions and correspondingly tiny budgets for firearms- training. When one of them get their priorities right then whatever hero is after said Overlord will be in for a surprise. A short-lived surprise.

Anyway, I bought the Carden-Loyd Carrier from Warlord for a Sealion campaign that never took off, and it’s been in the resin- and tin-mountain since. I thought a slight repurpose in its life would give it a reason to meet the paintbrush, and it was promptly relocated to a suitably evil overlord’s car-park. In the off-chance that we will actually build all those other minis for Seelöwe I painted it in a colour that could pass as proper for a home-guard unit somewhere in southern England.

"And I thought the Komsomolets was cramped"

The integral crew had British helmets and that sealed their fate as they were promptly decapitated and got replacement-heads from the bits box (I think they came from Perry Italians… must be a horror for a British WWII-soldier…). The resulting chaps could still pass for home-guard as their uniforms were painted in a suitable colour for British infantry, which works equally well for minions.

The kit was so-so. The resin body needed quite a lot of work to be presentable while the metal tracks and tow-hook were rather good.

A bit of a disappointment overall but the Overlord is more than pleased.

Komsomolets from Baker Company

I have a bunch of vehicles from Baker Company and the Winter War kickstarter they had a couple of years ago. Our Winter War project was placed on hold and the vehicles just laid there.

I had an idea of using some of them for pulp gaming, either 1930’s Pulp alley or 60’s/70’s 7TV. I did a truck a while ago and this time it was the Komsomolets tractor that got some love.

Evil minions are often seen riding on strange wheeled or tracked vehicles in their masters lairs (they seem unable to walk even short distances in cult movies) and a Komsomolets looks just the part.

I painted it dark green, so it could be used in an actual WWII game without looking totally out of place and an evil overlord would probably be pleased with the paintjob also.

I got two sets of crew; one could be used as Soviets while this one got a suitable minion-look paintjob.

Just as with the truck we have a really nice resin-body, but the metal parts are rather crappy and the crew are not the best out there. A pity as it’s a fun little vehicle.

Pulp wheels – a car from Perry and a truck from Baker Company

Even though Soerabaja Harbour is ready for action it doesn’t mean that there is no pulp-tings on my painting table. On the contrary it seems, as I got one or two things going.

At the moment there are a few half-finished fantasy figures there and I’m also very keen on continue to paint my Dust stuff – those models are just great fun to paint. Me and my mate Thomas is also very keen on starting to game Dust Warfare again. Also some more figures for the CSSS.

Anyway, here are the newest addition to the Pulp car-pool.

GAZ AAA truck from Baker Company.

This model comes from the Winter War Kickstarter by Baker Company and we finally received our final shipment of stuff a couple of months ago. This is one of the Russian GAZ AAA trucks in that shipment.

It’s a licence-built Ford AA with twin rear-wheels. Built from 1932 into the fifties making it suitable for WWII, Korea, Indochina and more. It also works well as a civilian truck for my Pulp Alley games.

The kit isn't the best out there. The resin parts are good but the metal less so. Rather crudely done unfortunately.

It is painted Vallejo 985 Hull Red drybrushed with 818 Red Leather.

Fiat 508 Militare Coloniale Staff Car from Perry Miniatures. 

Another military vehicle press-ganged into pulp-use. A decent resin and tin model, but I’m not super-excited about it.

Painted Vallejo 898 Dark Sea Blue and a drybrush of 964 Field Blue. Shading with Army Painter Dark Tone ink.

Finally a picture of the OM36 truck, now with the missing steering wheel added.