And back to the dip....

The other week I noticed that my can of Minwax polyshades had dried up. It's been so long since I used the dip method that it must not have been sealed properly. Any, so I bought a new can and decided to clear some stuff of my painting table that's been sitting for way too long. 

 I got all this done in the span of a weekend. I really can't argue with that kid of output. Doing the layered shading and shadowing could take me weeks to get through a group of figures this size. 

 ...I didn't paint these...that really saves time. 

 Investigators from Mansions of Madness

 Civillians...and a monkey

 Zombie George, the Master and his ladies. Big Pimpin'

 I like "Flip Top Nurse" 

 "Surfer with a bite taken out of him" is one of my faves.

Mummies Mummies Everywhere, but Not a Drop to Drink.....wait... is that how that goes?

Here are the mummies as a follow-up to my mummy hunters. As I wade knee deep through this project I'm trying to remember how it started. I know I was sitting on a bunch of really cool mummies that I picked up off a guy on TMP about two years ago maybe. That's what you're looking at below. The two character mummies are Reaper minis, but I really don't know who makes the rest, they're nice though. Mummies just seemed like an area of pulp gaming that was unexplored by our little local gaming Cabal, maybe that's what drew me in. The best part is that I've been watching some mummy movies here and there trying to get geared up for this...and I don't think I even really like mummies. HA! Well I have to make a tomb now....I'm in too deep now, stupid mummies. This guy is actually a Reaper model I had painted a long while ago for Supers. I went back and added some hilighting trying to make him look a bit sharper. I'm happy with how he turned out.

The whole gang

MUMMY HIGH FIVE!!!

or

Mummy Todd to Mummy Jayson:

"You're my everything"

A whole bunch of random....

I got some pulp miniatures painted up for Where Heroes Dare!!! Most of these will be for a mummy's tomb table I want to put together for no real reason in particular, but there are a few other pulp odds and ends too. "Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?"

This is the Artizan "Not Indy" figure, but they didn't sculpt a whip onto him so this forced me to poorly sculpt my own whip...meh. The lady is part of the Blue Moon mummy set along with most of the figs in this post.

I think the guy on the far left is actually a Marine? I got him in a painting class at Historicon one year and thought he would make a good tomb explorer. I was going to paint his 'big socks' to look like rainbow leg warmers and crank up Olivia Newton John's "Let's Get Physical" everytime he hit the table, but I didn't want to get my ass kicked any more often than I have to.

Here are the priest and Dr. Klomp figs from the Artizan line.

Nightclub singer Jessica and surly detective.

These are some Zombie Hunters I painted and dipped(very poorly) several years back. I brought them back out and added some highlights hoping to make them look a bit better. Meh. I'm going to be slowly building up a 28mm zombie collection over this year I think. We'll see how that goes.

Early Christmas Presents from the LAB!!!!!

Doctor Merkury played Santa a little early this year and gifted me these awesome sinister miniatures available from WHAT THE?! Miniatures. I was told to give a big shout out to the company because "They were nice to him", he didn't elaborate on what that meant....it usually means something dirty, so I didn't ask any questions. At any rate they can be found at: http://whattheminiatures.com/

They make an assortment of very fine Weird War II miniatures, I particulary like the Lilith and the Twins miniature and may be ordering her to lead my She-Wolves down the road.

Doc Merkury painted these great miniatures up fo me and they are awesome additions to my slowly growing Weird War II stuff. I'm looking forward to statting these guys up and fielding them. First up we have this fiery gentleman. 13 loyal German soldiers were sent through an experimental dimensional portal created by Nazi scientists...only one returned and he no longer spoke in words, but in flames.

I bring you fire!!!

Next up is this very sinister Red Skull.

Complete with a trophy of his victory over a certain super soldier.

Take that America!

Thanks again Doc, these are awesome.
I got you pink velociraptors, coming soon!

Tramp Steamer...Take 2

After some discussion with TMP'ers I decided that I needed to go back and put a few more touches on this boat. I added a cargo boom and some rust/weathering effects. I found a really good site(lost the link) that had tons of pictures of old cruise ships and steamers that had been beached in India for scrap. I tried to duplicate some of the appearance of rust and weathering that I saw in the pictures on that site. I think it gives the boat a lot more character and am pretty happy with it now. The final effect makes it look like it's been through the ringer a couple times, but I like it. The before shot.

After weathering and additions.

These Ascots Ain't Gonna Move Themselves!

Here are some in progress shots and final results of the first tramp steamer I'm building for my pulp crew. This first ship is meant to be more of a river runner, smuggling type boat. I took a lot of artistic license here and generally don't consider myself much of a model builder. Okay so I know that boats aren't generally perfect ovals but I wanted simple. You'll see later that I ended up shaping one end to a point to give the boat a more "realistic shape". It was the front end I did that to in case you're wondering.

Used a pretty flimsy posterboard for the hull, but it's what I had around that I cold shape and bend. It ended up warping a bit but nothing tragic.

A couple bad pictures of the early stage of the bridge.

I took a piece of foamcore in the shap of the boat and peeled off the paper from one side. Then I made lines with a pen to make the texture of boards for the deck. The effect is alright.

The finished cargo hold. I named the ship after one of my other favorite smuggling ships.

Put a Pulp Figures deck gun at the front of the ship (what do boat riding guys call the front?). I don't know if ships like this ever had guns in the front like this, but I figured if a boat was ever sailing into Cthulhu, they'd be glad for a front gun.

This is pretty much the boat. Meh

From the back (what do boat riding guys call the back?)

The little bits and bobs are all from Reviresco. Cool detail stuff. Probablythe only saving grace of the thing frankly. The ladders are dollar store train tracks.

"Should I be walking off into the water like this???"
"Yeah, it's fine just keep walking"

I made a litte gangplank for the ship's crew to use when docking in exotic ports such as scenic Innsmouth and the Black Lagoon.

All in all I'm pretty pleased with the results. It's a pretty fun little piece of terrain to compliment my tramp steamer guys. The next project is a 3-4 foot long tramp steamer with several levels and areas that would act as a full terrain board for "on ship" encounters.