Showing posts with label 1st Corps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1st Corps. Show all posts

Monday, 22 July 2019

Pulp Wheels!


One of the major parts of a good pulp story is a good old fashioned car chase! Here are a little selection of 'Pulp' style cars, roadsters and trucks...

First up, a simple 'Roadster' by Blue Moon.


A couple of old school motor cars.



A battered old truck, just out of Hicksville, USA.


Tin Tin, Captain Haddock and Snowy in a 'Saloon Car' by 1st Corps.


Thomson and Thompson in a '4-wheel Speedster', also by 1st Corps.


An old Innsmouth Police wagon. Long since abandoned...(Great Escape Games)


Another '4-wheel Speedster' by 1st Corps.


A selection of slightly more traditional 1920's and 1930's, gangster style cars with drivers and passengers.




Pure Pulp but no idea who produces this one...


A couple of 3-wheel Speedsters by 1st Corps.



Something slightly different but still within the Pulp genre was the classic Mark VII tank in Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade. Special effects artist George Gibbs visited a museum to negotiate renting a small French World War I tank for the film but ultimately decided on building one. The Mark VII Tank was a replica vehicle built on an old excavator chassis. It was based on the real-world Tank Mark VIII which possessed no main top turret. The replica measured 36 feet!


This is the HLBS/Copplestone version of the one from the film. It's a beast of a model, as shown by Lottie, who proudly stands next to it in the picture below.





Last up is a classic Sd.Kfz. 221/2 or 'Leichter PanzerspƤhwagen'. This is probably at the later end of the pulp period I am looking at but they did apparently go into production in 1935 so it still fits.


Models are produced by a variety of companies including 1st Corps, HLBS/Copplestone, Blue Moon, Great Escape Games and Sloppy Jalopy.


Monday, 17 December 2018

Tintin!


A very small pet project I first thought of back in 2012 and finally got around to...Tintin!

Apparently there looks to be another film on the way but it is a good few years off yet.

So, here we have Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus speeding to their next adventure in an open top saloon...


...hotly followed by incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson!


Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock.


Tintin and his trusty companions Snowy, the Captain and Prof. Calculus.


A mixture of manufacturers! The alternate 'Nosey Youth' version is from the 1st Corps 20th Century Follies range that has some great pulpy style stuff in it including a variety of vehicles and some very cool motorcycles.

No idea of rules but I am thinking the obvious would be Pulp Alley?


Maybe I will get to play a "Tintin Meets Call of Cthulhu" game after all?