Hallowe'en Madness 2012

The second Hallowe'en Madness Battle Report.

Pictures by Rob, Battle Report by me. Minis by me, except for the Ghostly Gunslingers and the Hired Guns all by Rob. Terrain by both of us.

Enjoy!

Click on the pages to embiggen them.

Welcome

No posts for a while alas, but a 'welcome aboard' to the latest Follower of the blog - Black Smoke, who is responsible for the Colour of War blog, well worth checking out.

As always it is a privilege and a pleasure to see someone else signed up, so very much appreciated, thank you.

There should be some painting action next month. After the apparent success of Zomtober (see my other blog on this thread here), my main gaming buddy and I have decided to do something similar with supers minis in November.

We aim to get four minis (minimum) painted in the month of November  I think I know the four I will tackle but more details soon; suffice it to say that most if not all will be Pulp City minis.

New Crusaders

Two issues in, and New Crusaders from Archie Comics is one of my favourite comics of 'right now'. My tastes in favoured comics can be varied (well varied within the superhero genre at any rate), extending from the dark and mature themes of books like Black Summer, Marshall Law and Watchmen, and Ellis' Stormwatch and Authority, to 'big-screen'-like books such as Ultimates, Morrison's JLA, to the off-the-wall books like Jack Staff and Xombi,  heart-felt comics such as Astro City, and populist stuff like Avengers, New Avengers and Civil War, to more sentimental and warmer fayre such as All-Star Superman (also Morrison), Mudman and even Young Avengers (it has such heart that book by Heinberg and Cheung).

Yet amid all that, give me something that captures a tone I recall from way back when I started reading comics more than three decades ago and suddenly I am very, very interested. New Crusaders is just such a comic book, informed by decades of progression of superhero comic books as an art-form, and also the varied history of this stable of characters. For parents (read: probably dads) wanting to have a comic book they can enjoy but can safely show to their kids (harder to achieve these days than it used to be, especially with DC), then New Crusaders is just such a comic book. And I for one am hooked!

Images © Archie Comic Publications 2012

Summoned Terrain Tokens

Black Swamp and Nuclear Waste, both roughly 6 inches in diameter

Pulp City has always had a few concepts that were not ordered in exact terminology, and one of the things that is happening with the rules revision is catching some of those generic ideas and codifying how the rules operate for them. That in turn should make the game more accessible which is the plan at any rate!

Among those ideas were things we are now going to be calling Summoned Terrain; stuff like the old Black Swamp from the Albino Gator's Curse for Francis Gator, and the old Nuclear Leak for Nuclear Jones.

I showed the WiP's of these a couple of weeks ago, and here they are finished, with poured Magic Water to complete them (which took about twice as long as advertised to set by the way!).

My really big Tokens; Summoned Terrain.

Welcome

Another 'welcome' post, this one a shout-out to Tom Grimshaw.

I always like to welcome every new Follower of the blog aboard the good ship Pulp Citizen, and so Tom is no exception.

As ever, a big thank you to everyone who stops by.

On the hobby front, well no painting in the past few days. On the 'other' front, we continue to press ahead in revising each and every one of those Supremes in readiness for the open beta launch either at the end of the year or beginning of next. Also, fans of the game and its background keep an peeled on the new website as new fluff will be posted there weekly, and some times more frequently than that for new updates (we will strive to ensure we sneak the odd new item through from time to time, like Captain Hadron last week).

Mini Trade: Ninjas! [Ninja Body Wanted]

I am looking to swap a Ninja body for another Ninja body.

My next batch of Ninjas will be five in total and I want four to have a strong sense of uniformity, so really would like to exchange like for like.

I have a body like the one on the top picture that I would like to exchange for a body like the one in the bottom picture, preferably with someone based in the UK, if not I will consider an overseas exchange.

I don't need heads or weapons, but have some spares of heads and weapons/arms that can sweeten the deal if you like!

If you can help, comment on this post and we will work something out.

Cheers.

Ninjas! (Way Of the Fist & Blade)

Ninjas

A loooong while since I posted some newly painted minis, so I was glad to get these done, even if my painting skills were more than a little rusty in completing them.

Hadron has hit a back-burner yet again, but not because of these Ninjas, rather I hit yet another painting block. Therefore I wanted to 'get something done', and these were to hand, so without much further ado I cracked into them. Well I say 'without much further ado', but I did change two of the heads mid-way through.

Ninja Sensei

They were assembled a few weeks ago but inevitably got put to one side. The sculpts are by the brilliant James Van Schaik and are four piece models (head, two arms, body) with two body variations.

When I decided to get stuck into them I had plans for these to represent two rank and file Ninjas and their Sensei, but part-way through I changed my mind as to which model should represent the Sensei, so heads were swapped around a bit and one taken out (bare-head for the Sensei, swapped for a wraparound goggles head and a different goggles head was put onto one of the other Ninjas).

These guys are intended to be some 'good guy' Ninjas, therefore probably linked to the loose collection of Supremes known as the Way of the Fist & Blade. Since the pivotal figure in that collective is Crimson Oni, I wanted a colour scheme to match him. Highlighting the dark body-suit was challenging and probably shows off my current painting rustiness most of all. Still they are done and that is the main thing for me.

Way of the Fist & Blade Ninjas with Crimson Oni

I will be doing more Ninjas and Sensei in the future (for the Jade Cult), and they will have the more traditional masks and probably bare heads for Sensei. They will look a little more uniform in that respect I expect. And there should be many more them...