Bandits & Villagers for Pulp Alley's 'The Bounty Scenario'

 I'm taking two tables to the next Pulp Alley UK Games Day, as well as the re-skinned the Hollow, the other is The Bounty, where the Leagues are searching for a group of bandits (Which are the Major Plot Point)

I've just used whatever desert terrain I have, to represent what I think that an Old West  Mexican village would look like.

For the Bandits I Got Some Figures from the Gringo 40's Mexican Revolution range. These are nice miniatures but some of the rifles look a bit small on some of the figures, so I swapped them for other guns or a rope.

For the four minor plot points I've used some 1st Corps Miniatures Villager Figures, these are The Woman, The Beggar & The Kid. 

For The Stranger Plot point I decided it would be good to paint & use the Wargames Illustrated Giants in Miniature figure of  Alan Quatermain, as he looked suitably Western to me & he really needed painting.

The Hollow - Old West Re-skin

Instead of the Old woman for The Hollow scenario, that I will be taking to the Old West Pulp Alley Games day, I've decided to use a Native American From The Silver Bayonet Range.

He is from the Trading Company Unit in the Canada Supplement.

Also He needed a Tepee to Live in & as I didn't have one anymore I had to make one!

For this I used some bots of wire & another clean washed baby wipe. 

I first made a pattern & cut out the baby wipe Glued the wire together & stuck on the outer layer.

I didn't do a very good job of getting it central though! It was then covered in a few layers of PVA glue to harden the exterior. 

I’ve painted it in various shades of beige & off white & the poles in Foundry Spearshaft triad. 

If I get chance or the inclination, I might put some patterns on it.

Next it is the Major plot point, rather than looking for a grave the players have to find the magic tools to stop a Wendigo

The Hollow Re-Skin - Burial Scaffold

 

I loosely based the Burial Scaffold on the image above for the Hollow Re-Skin For The Old West Pulp Alley Games Day.
For this, I just used some plastic rod that I had & broke it up into various lengths, this was then scored with a razor saw to get a wood effect & glued it all together. 

I added some lengths of Cotton to look like it was lashed together & a skull & feathers to make to make them a bit more interesting.

They were painted with the usual old wood recipe that I used on the Ramshackle Church

The Hollow Re-Skin - Wrapped Dead Body!

 For one reason or another, I Didn't actually manage to make it to the lats Pulp Alley games day, so I thought that I would still take along the Hollow Scenario slightly tweaked for the Old West Pulp Alley Games Day.

So no street lamps this time, the lights will be patches of light shinning through the clouds.

I also decided that the graveyard could be a Native American Burial ground. For this I needed some Burial Scaffolds & a wrapped body.

I thought that the body would be the hardest & this would be best to make first (if it didn't work I could scrap the whole Idea!)

I whittled a bit of balsa to look like a body, next I covered this with a clean washed baby wipe covered it in PVA 7 glued it to the balsa dolly, then i used some thin string to look like it was tied up

After this had dried & I was happy with it I got my pack of Blue Stuff out, I hadn't used this yet as I had bought it & not got round to using it? 

Anyway I melted it in hot water, as per the instructions (I had also made a little jig from Lego, so that i could keep it all square) & pushed in the wrapped body sculpt & waited for it to cool off.

When this was ready I removed the sculpt & mixed up some Brown Stuff & Pushed it in the mold.

I did this 3 times so that i had 3 bodies, I must say I was quite impressed with the Blue Stuff molding stuff, it worked a treat. Whether it would be any good for more complex sculpts, I wouldn't like to say............

Old West Gunfighter League Finished

 Well I got the Old West League finished, ready for the next Pulp Alley UK Games Day 

The bases are painted a sand colour, could maybe use some tufts, but I will have to see what I've got kicking about.

The Horses & Riders are magnatised, this will allow the horses to wander, as per the Pulp Alley Rules

Wild West Gunfighter 3

I've got the third & final member of my League Finished - 'Mad Dog' McFly

The Duster is painted with a Vallejo Khaki Grey basecoat & I added Tan Yellow to this for highlights

 

Wild West Gunfighter No. 2

 Well I've got another one done, 'Otis Glass'

Not much to say about it really!

Wild West Gang Leader

 The Leader for the Pulp Alley Western Gang is actually painted! 

I kept the paint job pretty simple & I think they match well enough. Just need to name him. 

I've named him: Dutch Addams

The Mounted version has also been magnatised to allow the horse to roam when the character has dismounted. Now onto the 2 Sidekicks

Chicken coop & Dog Kennel

 I've managed to get completely sidetracked & started faffing about with a Dog Kennel & Chicken Coop that I picked from fiasco, possibly 3 years ago! Haven't got a clue who makes them, but they are that new fangled 3d printing carry on.

I've based & started painting them & needed to get some Chickens for the inside of the Coop (the Kennel roof doesn't come off)

Getting some chickens was the easy part, they came from Pendraken Miniatures, I just couldn't decide how to do the straw for the nests. Then I had a brain wave & decided to use some electrical wire on a plasticard base.

I roughed up the plasticard to resemble wood chopped up loads of small bits of wire, cut the legs off some chickens & voila a nesting area.

Just need to finish painting them now! so that I can get them in my games of Pulp alley

Cheers

Mounted Plastic Gunfighters Painted Horses

 Well I managed to get the three horses for the mounted gunfighters painted. 

All three are different versions of Dun, I think, any way I like how they’ve come out, whether they are correct or not. There was a bit of gap filling to do before the undercoat went on.

I will finish the bases at the same time as the foot figures

Foot & Mounted Gunfighters For Pulp Alley

The next Pulp alley games day will be a Wild West themed day in September & I sold off all my Western figures years ago, so I need to start from scratch.

I already have a figure running in a Top Hat coat with a bag (no idea where he came from) & I'd given him a large pistol, so I decided this would be the Leader for the League. I just needed to come up with a mounted version & some other members of the gang.

Great Escape Games have released some plastic Gunfighters both foot & mounted & I though that I would get a sprue of each to see if I could cobble something together.

There was a figure on the mounted sprue in a coat & a head wearing a Top hat, which was a good start.

I got the parts glued together to resemble the foot figure & made the coats storm flap & collar first, then added the mask & lengthened the jacket, finally I tackled the bag, which I did in quite a few stages & I think came out ok.

The finished foot & mounted version of the leader can be seen below & overall they match pretty well, I have changed the horse though.

Next I needed to make up two more members of the league. I happened to have two more of the foot bodies wearing the long coat, so I decided to see one would fit on a pair of mounted legs & on the horse, with a bit of manipulation it fitted ok, so this was one of the gang sorted. 

For the next figure I just used the bodies in the Sack Coat & just built straight off the sprue.

Terrain for pulp vs Alley’s The Hollow Scenario - Part 3, The End

 This is the Final part of  my wittering on about putting together a board for The Hollow Scenario.

The last three plot points were quite easy to sort out:

For Grandmother Brunt I’m using the Witch miniature from Gripping Beast, I've already got her painted, also there's a log Cabin that I've already painted up as her house.

Egon Van Ripper plot point will be a Silver Bayonet Canada Harvestman Agent (another previously painted miniature) from the official Northstar Miniatures range. 

I really like this miniature & I’ve not had chance to use him in a game yet.

For the Gravestone, I used a Citadel one from the old Plastic Skeleton sprues & put some tufts around it, to make it resemble being hidden. 

And of course, there’s the Big Bad, the Headless Horseman. I am going to use the converted Front Rank Archduke Charles figure that I converted for The Silver Bayonet scenario The Headless Rider.

I’m also using some other bits & pieces of scenery, some of it scratch built & some bought (even some Snapdragon stuff!!) such as rocks & a patch of rough ground.

 Below is a couple of pictures of the finished board