About a year ago I was blogging about a Weird War Two project that captured my crazed imagination. As part of that project, I mentioned that I was agonizing about whether or not to paint swastikas on some newly purchased figures from Bob Murch’s Pulp Figures line. That dilemma, and the rest of the figures, got shelved for a long time, but was finally resolved when I finished and based these chaps over the holidays. On the suggestion of Panzer Kaput, I opted for a simple cross, since I can’t abide painting a swastika and I think, had I painted them, it would make the images illegal in Germany, or so I recall from the Lead Adventurers Forum. Seeing as I am blogging them now, I will count them towards my 2014 totals.
So here we have four menacing chaps with machine pistols.
Two officers who are painted as vampires in the service of the sinister and shadowy SS Gruppenfuhrer Strasser. They don’t need weapons. Those red eyes have hypnotic powers and are just generally creepy.
Lesser ranking types, suitable for guard duties and managing roadblocks, check points, and other strategic entrances to Schloss Bad Guy.
Sinister fellows with Lugers. I especially like the fellow on the left with the matinee idol hair.
Finally, Herr Klopp of the Gestapo, Count Strasser’s link with those upper echelons of the Nazi Party under his sway - wheels within wheels and all that. His attache contains another bundle of cash diverted from the Reich’s coffers for Strasser’s secret projects.
The more I paint of Bob Murch’s figures, the more I like them. Getting these guys finished has given me fresh energy to revisit my Weird War Two project. I have a few more Nasty Nazis in the pipeline - more werewolves who will be part of another renegade Nazi organization, a rival to the SS Vampyr Boys, and a box of Warlord UK Commandoes. Slow steps. I am still not sure how I will get these fellows on the gaming table. I need to revisit the Savage Worlds rules and take them for a test drive.
These figures get my 2014 totals to:
28mm Mounted: 2
28mm Foot: 15
Thanks for looking. Cheers and blessings to your brushes,
Michael
Fabulous effort Mike. These poses all have a bit of pulp to them made better by your bringing them to life with your brush.
ReplyDeleteGreat work!
My they're good and those red eyes are truly terrifying.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. The black cross was a nice compromise. Everyone knows what it is supposed to be without it being actually there. And from table top distance, could you really tell? They look great. Suitably sinister.
ReplyDeleteThose red eyes are eerie indeed!
ReplyDeleteVery nice work sir.
Some great work there Padre, look forwards to seeing them in a game
ReplyDeleteI think Bob Murch's figures are great. He's a great guy to talk to as well. I'm sad he moved from Cambridge to BC a while back. Had he stayed, he'd be in our back yard... and he'd have made figures that looked like us, Padre!
ReplyDeleteWas Bob with RAFM at one point? That would explain what he was doing in Cambridge. I've never met him but he seems nice ... included a little note with my order.
DeleteI like the top quartet: Erhard, Gerhard, Bernhard and Deihard von Swastika - I mean von Creutz...
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ion. I think those names are quite apt, I'll try and remember them.
DeleteVery nice figures Padre :)
ReplyDeleteGreat work! Love the Officers with pistols!
ReplyDeleteThank you all for the kind comments. I'm glad you liked the red eyes on the two officer chaps. These were great fun to do. Hopefully I'll have some ladies with werewolves to show off soon.
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