Figures cast and Painted

I received my new figures from Eureka and they came out beautifully. Then I had to paint them for my web store - Pulp 28's: www.pulp28s.com

I'm very happy with most of the results:

To Go Boldly...

Again, I've been a slack blogger. This is because I keep forgetting that I have this space where I can display my latest crap.

Anyway, I've been sculpting a whole new bunch of 28mm greens. The following Space Explorers is an example of what I've been doing. These guys are supposed to be generic space adventurers. I will do another set some time in the next few months but at the moment I'm just finishing off a few more (spy-fi) figures before I send the lot to be moulded and cast.

"Is This Andy's Factory?"

Within the ruins of a post-war factory complex somewhere east of the Berlin Wall, Colonel Zharkov commander of BORIS (Bureau of Revolutionary Insurrectionist Strategies) plans to unleash the power his latest doomsday weapon. However, the Colonel has not counted on the resourceful Dorian Alpha and the Omega Squad...

This set was made by my friend Brendan Day it was in storage and he was going to trash it but he offered it and I took it. I't a bit small (about 30" x 30") but it has enough character and different levels for a good and visually exciting game.

So, on with today's exciting episode of Omega Squad - "Is This Andy's Factory?"

"Protected by his personal bodyguard - Katya Nadzov - Colonel Zharkov looks on as the Omega Squad backed by a section of SHAG Troopers crash his party."

"Meanwhile, Dorian Alpha infiltrates deep into the enemies' lair."

"Unaware of the danger, Colonel Zharkov looks on."

"Dorian's chauffeur, and former guardsman, Blake leads a section of SHAG Troopers into the fray. Behind them Amelia Horne prepares for a diversionary sneak attack."

"The soviet technicians arm the device and begin the countdown... 10, 9, 8..."

"Leaping from the shadows, Dorian Alpha shoots it out with Bogdan Bogdanovich."

"Amelia Horne sneaks in for her diversionary attack but Katya Nadzov is waiting..."

"Meanwhile: Blake and his SHAG Troopers Take out some security guards and technicians."

"After dispatching Bogdanovich and the Soviet technicians it's now time for 

Dorian Alpha to reverse the countdown."

"After a furious fight Amelia Horne comes out victorious however, she has been wounded by Katya's blade. Seeing her weakness The Colonel takes aim with his high caliber pistol - Wounding the plucky beauty and putting her out of the fight."

"With the way clear the thwarted Colonel makes good his escape where he shall, 

no doubt, return in future episodes."

And thus ended the game. The redoubtable cast of Omega Squad once again saved the day although Amelia Horne had to visit the emergency ward thanks to that evil Soviet's well aimed shot. Will the plucky and beautiful Miss Horne make a full recovery? We certainly hope so...!

A Bit of Security Painting

I managed to get some time to paint some Time Lift Security and Federation Security - Both from Crooked Dice. I like the results of both of these figure sets and I'm planning to order the Time Lift with rifles and replace their heads with the beret soldier heads also made by Crooked Dice. I saw this done on their forum and they look great. Just what I was looking for to make my SHAG Troopers for my 7TV program - Omega Squad.

More Recent Sculpts

Here are some more of the sculpts I finished a couple of weeks ago. I use Ebob's 28mm skeletons as armatures and I ran out of them. So whilst I've been waiting my sculpting drive has ground to a halt. This isn't such a bad thing considering that we here in Melbourne have been having an indian summer heatwave and my work area has been unbearably hot. The heat is due to break tomorrow.

But, in the mean time here are some of the other sculpts that I've been posting on other forums. First up a couple of Outer Space Adventurers:

These ones are more 30's/40's Pulp. The singing sisters need a boogie-woogie bugle boy and a microphone to complete the set. The other guy is just another ruffian type.

And finally some 70's cops/spy-fi types. I reworked the lady from the original pic posted last month.

7TV - New Character Cards

I've been working on these since my first game a couple of weeks gone by (see the post below for details and some other images.

7TV Character Cards

After having my first game of 7TV (AAR below) I found that the A4 sheets that I used for the characters wasn't ideal so I did some work on the existing Pulp character sheets that I've done for my upcoming Kong game. I came up with some nice new designs. I did all of the Omega Squad cards including some other S.H.A.G. characters: Archimedes Nesbit (SHAG scientist), Sgt Dawkins (SHAG Trooper NCO) and a few other co-stars and extras. I've only done one of the BORIS cards so far - Colonel Zhukov).

Omega Squad - Pilot Episode

I had my first game of 7TV on the weekend. It involved the Omega Squad who thwarted the attempt of the evil BORIS in their attempts to move some unidentified contraband.

Location: Building site - Early Evening.

Here we see the Colonel Zharkov - The head of BORIS supervising the removal of said unidentified contraband cleverly hidden right in the open inside packing crates. Bogdan Bogdanovich and an unidentified comrade are doing the heavy lifting unaware that Dorian Alpha has infiltrated their operation and acting as a lookout.



Dorian's motor car the XX69 (with Blake at the wheel) comes speeding into shot narrowly missing the comrade on look out who had to dive out of the way (making for some outstanding stunt work).

Much of the original footage has been lost however, both Blake and Amelia Horne burst out of the  XX69. Blake took a successful shot at Bogdan whilst the deadly Miss Horne used her outstanding jujitsu skills to stun the look out. Meanwhile behind the scenes Dorian Alpha used his skills of seduction against the beautiful comrade helping Bogdan to disrupting the loading operation.

Bogdan move up to the XX69 and took a shot at Blake inflicting a minor flesh wound whilst the Colonel revealing the hidden dagger in his boot attacked the nimble Miss Horne but was unable to get past her formidable defences. At this stage Blake took another shot at Bogdan Bogdanovich and felled the big  Soviet. Miss Horne now turned her martial arts skills on the Colonel and gave him a few bruises to remember her by.

The lookout shook his head and waded back into the fray only to find Miss Horne's fashionable boot waiting for his solar plexus  and knocking wind out of him. The Colonel seeing that things were going wrong at this stage made a dash for the van thinking that he could make a getaway with (at least) some of his illegal freight. Slamming the door and, spinning the tyres he made his getaway... But he didn't count on the resourceful Miss Horne making a dive for the passenger seat and giving him a swift judo-chop which almost caused the van to crash into the corner of a building.

Thinking his best bet was to make his escape on foot the Colonel ditched the van and set off on foot heading down a back alley with Miss Horne in pursuit. Back at the building site, Blake jumped into the XX69 and doing a screeching u-turn, followed after the van. Dorian, meanwhile rounded up the two comrades - giving one of them a burst of stun gas from his fake lapel flower - and examined the cargo (finding it to be machine parts of unknown origin).

The show ended with Blake and Miss Horne capturing the Soviet Colonel but, although somewhat disheveled and with a loss of face he nevertheless vowed: "You cannot defeat BORIS. I Will Return!"

Agents of SHAG - Omega Squad

Well it didn't take long...

Greetings Folks, I posted yesterday that i was painting up my new spy team for 7TV and here they are all nicely and finished.

These are my new agents. I sculpted them with the aim of selling them but that plan failed as they didn't generate any interest. I didn't want to go through the expensive process of getting them cast myself so I just decided to paint up the greens. At least I now have a totally unique set of figures.

Anyway, here is my new program for 7TV - the Omega Squad - Nemesis of the evil B.O.R.I.S.

Dorian Alpha is the shaggy haired, trailblazing leader of Omega Squad; a small team of elite agents operating under the umbrella of the Surreptitious and Hazardous Assignments Group (SHAG) a Top Secret organisation of Her Majesties’ Government.  Omega Squad specialise in covert operations, rooting out the enemies of peace and free love and sabotaging their cunning schemes. Using his natural style, charisma and panache Dorian Alpha has infiltrated and foiled countless iniquitous opponents and brought their machiavellian plans to naught.

Alpha's co-stars are:
Blake - Alpha’s chauffeur and right hand man. A former guardsman, and expert rally driver, he has used his various skills to save the day on more than one occasion.

Amelia Horne: Miss Horne is Omega Squad’s resident head knocker. She is a martial artist of outstanding skill with a penchant of turning up at the right place at the right time whilst leaving her squad wondering just how she got there.

Spies - BORIS the Enemy!

I've been working on getting a bunch of figures together for 7TV. The Program I've been working on is titled: Omega Squad.

The Omega Squad is a section of the Surreptitious and Hazardous Assignments Group (SHAG) a Top Secret organisation of Her Majesties’ Government. I've been trying to find some suitable figures for the Omega Squad but I've had no luck in finding what I want. So I decided to sculpt my own characters. I did this a few weeks ago but I only started painting them yesterday.

In the mean time here is Omega Squad's arch nemesis: BORIS. The Bureau of Revolutionary Insurrectionist Strategies: BORIS is an officially sanctioned unofficial section of the KGB which is officially authorized to conduct unofficial operations whilst being officially denied by officials in the Kremlin.

BORIS is headed by Colonel Yuri Zharkov. He and his comrades are specialists in hatching cunning covert operations with the purpose of furthering revolutionary paradigms within the social structures of enemy states. To these ends they are likely to become involved with any number of nefarious plots. They are expert at identifying dissident groups whom they will use as they see fit in order to further the policies of their superiors back in The Kremlin!

From Left: Bogdan Bogdanovich, Colonel Zhukov and Katiya Nadzov

Comrade Putinin (left) and Comrade Boggerov

KGB Types