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

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

Terrain for pulp Alley’s The Hollow Scenario - Part 2

On to Part 2 of the board for the Hollow:

 I thought that some dead trees would be perfect to go on the board. 

After looking into making some from scratch & realising that I would like at least 15 trees to be on the table, I soon discounted that idea !

 Next I had a look at what was  commercially available & the ones that I thought were the best value were the Woodland Scenics tree armatures, the pack I found had around 25 trees in it for £21, so at about 84p each isn’t too shabby. 

They are plastic with a wire armature inside & come flat, so that they can be bent into shape. There’s quite a lot of mold lines & casting points on them & they are a right pain to clean up, but when they are cleaned & twisted into shape they look pretty good. They were then glued to washers & sand added.

To paint the trees I sprayed them with Halfords Matt black primer & slapped some black Brown over the undercoat.

I added a touch of light green & field grey to the basecoat for the 1st highlight adding various light greys for successive highlights. I probably could have spent longer faffing about cleaning them up & filling gaps, but I really couldn't be bothered! 

For the plot points in this scenario there’s a Rock with a name on it, a Tree with some initials on, a Random Bloke, a Granny & a Grave Stone. 

To make the rock I used some blue foam & cut it to shape  

I glued it to a washer added sand to the base, undercoated it & painted it in various shades of grey

I needed a tree next, but not one of the ones that I had used for the Dead Woods, this needed to be more imposing, so I decided to try to make one, I had done tree stumps before & used similar techniques.

For this I twisted some wire to make a basic tree shaped armature & the covered it with some superglue that had gone all thick & gloopy, that bulked out the armature & smoothed all the twists. 

Next I covered it in a layer of Milliput to get the basic shape & finally covered it in brown stuff & scored on the bark design. 

When I made the tree, I tried to make it look like it was alive. 

The tree was painted in similar colours to the other trees. I decided to add a rat to the base of the tree as well. 

That will do for this post, so I will finish this all off in the next post.