Today a bit of a Mexican standoff is going on between the last two figures to be painted from the Bob Murch Pulp Figures Dangerous Dames 2 set. I love painting these figures.
These two ladies have been glimpsed on my Saturday Painting Table posts of late. Now they’re done and will be part of my Weird War Two collection, which I need to revisit.
First is Mademoiselle Madeleine la Roque, who was a graduate student in ancient languages at the Sorbonne before the Occupation. She may be bookish, but she knows her way around an MP40 and is widely respected in Resistance circles for her planning abilities. I’m thinking she needs some compatriots - perhaps these ladies to form the dreaded and ruthless Communist resistance.
Oberleutnant Anna Hertzog flew as a test pilot before being recruited for special courier duties. She would prefer to be flying state of the art aircraft rather than transporting sinister passengers and secret cargo to obscure Baltic bases that don’t show on any map she’s ever seen. She really needs a model aircraft - I’m thinking maybe this one.
“German flying pig, you have landed in zee wrong moonlit pasture zees time!"
“Ach! French cow, Ii you knew vy I haff landed here and vat horror vas coming, you vud not be so brave mit dat machinepistolen, I am sinking”.
How will this tense standoff end? Gunplay? Reinforcements? Maybe a truce and a bottle of wine? Who knows?
These figures bring my 2014 totals to date to:
28mm Mounted: 10
28mm Foot: 22
28mm Artillery: 1
15mm Vehicles: 4
6mm Buildings and Terrain Pieces: 2
Kilometres Run: 303
Blessings to your brushes!
MP
Ah the cheesey accents begin! You'll be collecting silly hats for the players to wear next.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking one of your French Resistance girls needs to be a Whedonesque Slayer, perhaps with ammo modified with wooden or silver slugs (since the SS seems to have Werewolves AND Vampires in their OrBat)?
It's all about the cheesy accents. Yes, some sort of slayer in the French Resistance would be a good asset. I'm kind of thinking, based on the figures I have and the figures I want, that the vampires would associate with the male bad guys, while the Nazi werewolves, because of the way they are engineered or pheromones or some damn thing, would be susceptible to female control, this allowing a satisfying number of chicks with guns,
DeleteI also now have lovely 28mm wardrobes for the Communist Resistance to drag people into... just sayin'
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You have 28mm furniture?
DeleteAlthough the Storch is very nice, you might want to have a gander at the pulp plane thread on LAF - http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=58045.0
ReplyDeleteThank you Edwin. So many tempting models and good ideas in that thread. Airplanes add an extra dimension of madness to the project. If the Germans get a Storch or something similar, then the Allies of course need a Lysander for special ops in occupied France.
DeleteLOL great job on them both and love the discussion between them even more :)
ReplyDeleteThanks mate. I'm not sure the possibilities for that discussion are exhausted. I'm thinking of a caption competition for this blog's 100,000 hits party.
DeleteHow splendid, a spirited couple of ladies.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michael. They certainly don't lack for attitude.
DeleteNice work Mike, you just need two British airmen to smuggle out and a valuable painting concealed in a sausage...
ReplyDeleteA knock wurst with a little swastika, of course. I believe RSM makes the Allo Allo figures in 20mm, pity they aren't in 28mm as well.
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