Gene Hunt & Alex Drake For Pulp Alley

 The next Pulp Alley games day is going to be Detective Duos, so I thought that I would like to do Gene Hunt & Alex Drake from The Ashes to Ashes TV series.

Problem was no-one makes the 80's version of Gene Hunt or an Alex Drake, so I looked at whats available & went with the Geezers Shut It range of figures from Killer B Games.

They have the 70's version of Hunt & a Female Figure called 'Sporty Girl' which I thought would be a good donor figure

Gene Hunt & Sporty Girl from the Killer B Games Website

I had found the picture above online & decided to try to make the Killer B Games Miniatures 

look like the characters in the picture!

Gene Hunt was the easiest to convert as all he needed was the tie, the lapels on the coat & shirt trimming down to be a bit more 80's. 

I also had to lengthen the coat & add a belt, I did this with some Brown Stuff & a bit of Green stuff to tidy it up.

The 'Sporty Girl was more of a challenge. The edges of the shorts needed trimming off to make them look like the jeans.Then the top of the socks needed trimming back & a trainer details cleaning off so that I could make them look like the boots.

The bottom of Her hair also had to be cut back as well & the hand on the hip, detached from the hip.

The next Job was making the leather Jacket, this I fashioned from Green Stuff, followed by Green Stuffing some Hair.

Then it was a case of basing them & Flinging paint at them.

I also picked up a Policeman with Truncheon to use a Level 1 Backup, but I didnt do any converting to this figure just painted it up.

 Overall I'm happy with how they came out.

Small Warehouse finished

 It’s taken some time to get around to painting the Warehouse, but it’s finally done. 

I've the same colour palette as with the other rendered buildings. 

The Doors Still open & close, Just! 😂

For the mossy roof i used a mixture of AK Interactive mossy deposits & Vallejo Slimey Grime Dark & normal paint just dabbed on

Scratch built 28mm Scale Small Warehouse/Workshop

 I decided I needed another building, this time a small warehouse or workshop for the docks, with sliding front doors & a wrinkly tin roof. 

I started the same way as any other building with foamboard walls & a card roof

I doubled up the roof though with a mounting board inner that fits between the walls & a thinner outer that just sits on top of the walls.

This was so that when the wrinkly tin roof panels are added they sit reasonably flush with the roof

The base is a sheet of plasticard with milliput rolled out and stamped with bricks. The brown bricks are standard grey/yellow milliput with a bit of brown stuff added, i really like the colour & wished i done the same with the forecourt

The building was the 'Rendered' inside & out with a mix of powder filler & PVA to get the right consistency, then rubbed smoothish with fine grit sandpaper (same as the last building!)

The Wrinkly tin is made from beer cans & I used my fancy new Green Stuff World Corrugator tool  (rather than the old block of wood with nails glued on it that i used to use!)

I will carry on with the build in my next post

Lead Adventure Forum Build Something Contest Building Revisited

 I originally planned to make this building in February 2024 for the LAF Build Something contest. 

I had it all designed & the walls cut out.

Then i thought it would be a goo idea to put the impact driver bit through the forefinger of my left hand & of course it went septic & I couldn't use it for about 6 weeks, which stopped any hobby related modeling completely.

So nearly 2 years later I thought that I'd better get off my arse & finish it 😂

I finished cutting out all the windows & doors, then got all the walls glued together. 

The Doors, Windows, Head & Cills were all added next, then followed by the Yard floor & some paving round the front.

Then built the roof & Chimney, adding barge boards & Fascia's

Then using a mix of powder filler & PVA rendered the building

I wasn't entirely happy with the yard floor so I cut It off & made it the same as the Garage floor.

I needed to a Lamp to go above the doors so this building could be used as Police Station, I had already glued magnets into the walls to allow it to be removed.

I had been given a 3d printed Lamp already & needed to make a gallows bracket for it sit on.

I cut a piece of metal from a coffee tin, drilled a couple of holes in it & glued in a bent piece of paperclip. I then bent more paperclip to look like a scroll work infill

The building was all painted in various shades of Beige Brown & the roof a slate colour, with the doors & windows in Black

I will hopefully be using this with the Tenement Building & Quay in the upcoming Pulp Alley UK Games Day

Pulp Nastiez Big Boss

 Thought that I might as well paint up the Robo-Adolf from Copplestone Castings, A quick simple Job of Panzer Grey body & black rubber arms, with a very pallid Complexion

Pulp Nastiez

 Just done some more Evil Weird World War 2 Nastiez, for Pulp Gaming. 

3 Officers of The Black Sun: Projekt Nekromant

I got a couple of figures from Lucid Eye & used the Heinrich Gross from K47, that I've had since the first edition! I’m glad I don't have to pay the new hiked up prices!!

The two figures from Lucid Eye have had hand swaps from the North Star Plastic Frostgrave Wizards, the open hands & the wizards staff (maybe should've used a fancy spear for the Spear of Destiny)

I'm Hoping to use these in the upcoming Pulp Alley Uk Games Day in February 2026, the theme being Modern Magic (1920 to now) 

Quay For Pulp games

 I've recently made some raised quay pieces & wooden jetties for my scenery & I finally get some where to moor the boat. I can use these for a fictitious Channel Island. 

The raised quay bits were made from the  same plastic fascia board that I used for the Adobe Walls.

 

I dis a test piece from a off cut, I just scored some stone blocks with a sculpting tool. I was happy how it turned out & then made some 12 inch long ones.

They were then painted in a reasonable stone colour & done.

The Jetties are made from wooden coffee stirrers & the posts from wooden dowels, the type that you get with flat pack furniture. Then the usual old wood paint mix chucked on.

A few pictures below with figures on

And some black & white ones

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.