more Pulpy villains!

I am trying very hard not to get too distracted by other things at the moment.  I have started another building for zombies (more of that when it is finished - hopefully later this week!) and I have been picking away at some pulp figures.  On an earlier post I showed some Artizan cultists and said that I had a few more to complete.  I finally got round to doing just that!
First up is a cultist with a flame thrower.  A fun figure but maybe not the most useful...

 I chose to do the flamethrower a more ceremonial gold than a militartistic green or grey.

 This is one of the most useful figures as he is armed with a sub machine gun.

 I could probably do with more of these.  Maybe in the future...

 I assume that this is the cult leader, reading some occult book to summon help from beyond the veil!

 Nice figure although there was some nasty flash on the hand holding the book that, when trimmed, lost some of the detail of that hand.  Due to its position though you cannot really see the damage.

 Here is a group shot of the cult all together.  It's a good start but I need more cultist and ones just armed with common weapons.  To be continued........

My efforts for this coming week are going to be focused on a game I am running at the weekend. It is a cowboy game, although I use the description very loosely as I need 8 factions and I try and make them all as different as possible, bound together by an outrageous plot!!!!  I have just painted Queen Victoria who is the leader of one of the factions......
I will show her next post!  Have a good week :)

Cult of the golden Sun

I am trying to mix terrain build projects with a bit of painting just to keep things interesting for me.  After all the garages last week I decided to paint a few more Artizan pulp figures, this time some hooded cultists.  I feel that cultist are a mainstream of pulp adventures providing minions for the villains of the story.
First up is a jailer, and a not too conscientious one at that as he has his hood up in order to smoke a cigar.  You can tell he is the jailer as he carries a set of large keys in his hand.

This time the figure is hooded and carrying a pistol.  A very useful type of grunt.  These are simple figures without a huge amount of unnecessary detail and so quite straightforward to paint.

 This last one of the group is unarmed so maybe a little bit new to the 'kidnapping helpless females and sacrifice them to an unknown god' line of work.

 A group shot of the cult membership so far.  I have another three part painted at the moment and they will probably join the ranks at some point next week.

On a different note, I received notification that my figures from the 'war and empire' kickstarter have been posted and I am eagerly awaiting their arrival.  Hopefully they will not join the pile of unpainted figures from my other two figure kickstarters......

That's all for this post, have a good few days :)

A Pulp faction...

 So along side my zombie project I am keen to start another campaign, this time based on a Pulp Egypt theme.  I feel that although I am still in the 'zone' for making modern terrain, I am a bit 'survivored' out and so am keen to paint something else.  Here is product of that keenness!!

The figures are not part of my christmas haul.  Rather they are the left overs from my previous Pulp attempt and the victims of Pulp burnout (I think it says in my profile that I suffer from magpie or 'oohh shiney!' syndrome :) I swap projects a lot! ).

 Like my christmas present, these are also from Artizan and when I started to paint them I wondered why I had left them unattempted as they were such fun to paint - the models are so characterful!

 When I start to flesh out more of the details of the campaign I am sure that these figures will form the core of one of the rival factions.  I'm not sure whether that will make them villains or not!

 I've tried to use a natural palette with them all, emphasizing them being a group.  I feel that it has been successful.

 I love this figure.  There used to be a cartoon called 'stop the pigeon' starring Dick Dastardly and Muttley (loved that dog!!! must find a figure for him as I have DD ).  He also had a sidekick, whose name escapes me, who had a very high collar to his coat that he used to hid in.  This figure reminds me very much of him.....  only with a machine gun!

 The face masks on these look a little menacing,  making them more believable as villains.

 I shall have to see if they do any more figures to go in this group.

Here is a group shot of the figures painted this week.  They have turned ok, I think, and have sort of rekindled my painting mojo and I am looking forward to painting some more for this project.

On the rules front, I purchased the new edition of 'Larger than life' by two hour wargames.  They seem an improvement of the first edition, which I have but have never played, seeming a more complete set of rules.  I am looking forward to giving them a go at some point, but that seems a little way off yet before I am in a position to do that.
That's all for this post so have a good remainder of the week.
thanks for looking.