As opposed to freight liners, Tramp Steamers do not have a fixed itinerary or published ports of call and trade on the spot market. The term Tramp for Tramp Steamer came from the British meaning of ‘tramp’ as a vagrant and was first documented in the 1880s. Tramp Steamers appear in a lot of PulpContinue reading “Mischievous Mariners and their Tramp Steamers”
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Representing Classic Jungle Pulp Heroes in 7TV Pulp games
It doesn’t matter if your fancy is John Clayton (Lord Greystoke) or James Bradley (Jungle Jim) or even just plain George and his “mate” Tookie there is a place in 7TV Pulp for you. Let’s start with Tarzan first. There are endless options with a standard 35 star rating cast. The obvious choices are TarzanContinue reading “Representing Classic Jungle Pulp Heroes in 7TV Pulp games”
7TV Pulp Heroes
Pulp fiction comes in a variety of genres and just as the story lines are varied so are the heroes which populate them. 7TV Pulp has divided these genres into Amazing Tales – for skirmishes on fantastic alien worlds featuring space adventurers, weird science, deranged inventors and gadgeteers. All aboard that homemade rocketship for aContinue reading “7TV Pulp Heroes”
Retail Therapy
Today we needed to go to a specialist medical appointment which turned out so well he didn’t want to see SWMBO again! YIPPEE! Seeing we were near her old shopping stomping grounds we decided to go to Southland, a large shopping mall, for some retail therapy. Half a new wardrobe latter and we came acrossContinue reading “Retail Therapy”
Deadzone Plague Zombies 4
Can the Plague Zombies catch the Zomboat! After 40 more zombies I am zombied out again! I will give the plague a miss for a little while and get back to painting some pulp figures.
Mid Year review
In January my plan for this year was to try and achieve the following: Finish my 28mm Modern asymmetric war games rules; Read at least 10 new Books; Do at least three projects that require more “green stuff” modelling; Sell/give away at least 10 lots of stuff that I am not using and will beContinue reading “Mid Year review”
Win a prize – no this is not spam and neither is the prize!
I have four 20mm S model French H35 tanks to give away that I will never put together or use. I have tried to give them away to my normal gaming group but there were no takers. So I have decided to run a competition for blog followers – “What did you just say”! TheContinue reading “Win a prize – no this is not spam and neither is the prize!”
Deadzone Plague Zombies 3
Ten more Plague zombies to enter the Deadzone arena. I am finding the zombies hard to photo properly so I apologise for that. What are those zombies Wait a minute is that a Nazi submarine I see in the corner? I don’t see any shockwaves! I think there heading to an Oasis Maybe they areContinue reading “Deadzone Plague Zombies 3”
German Seebattallion figures.
The Ainsty River Launch posted on yesterday needs some crew, and what better than Bob Murch’s Pulp German Seebattallion figures. Bob Murch’s Pulp Seebattallion Officers PGS 01 Firstly I chose the officers pack with five figures. At this stage I do not intend using the Ships Captain with cigarette (in white), as I have anotherContinue reading “German Seebattallion figures.”
“Ainsty Castings” River Launch
The Ainsty River launch comes in two versions: The first is with binnacle controls (a type of joy stick throttle) or: The one that I purchased with cabin. I plan on using this for Pulp type games and will finish off the project tomorrow. Shown with cabin detached. For size comparison against the U-boat. TheContinue reading ““Ainsty Castings” River Launch”
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