This is rapidly (okay it already has) becoming the year of the individual figure. I'll be shifting focus soon as the Commander in Chief of the Indian Army has informed me that there is an uprising on the Northwest Frontier and he really needs the extra three battalions and the battery of artillery.
I've been on a Pulp kick lately and individual figures, as compared to figures that have all of the same uniform, take a little bit more time to paint. Plus, since our Pulp Campaign, "The Search for Charlie" has some interesting characters, they need to be painted with more detail. Sam expects it.
"There better be some well painted stalwart heroes, good looking dames, nefarious villains, and the occasional surprise and nonsense we have come to expect from the Colonel."
In my world wide travels, I have recently discovered the Unmatched series of games. Unmatched is a miniature board game hybrid that has some amazing good hard plastic figures in a variety of genres. I'll post more on the actual game later but I just wanted to highlight one briefly and that is Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze. It is the first Unmatched game that is specifically designed for cooperative and SOLO (!!!) play. And it's a Pulp game with three characters I was not familiar with (with some great research so far on the characters - I love the forgotten characters of the Pulp Era) and one historical figure who is always fun to game. The Pulp threats they get to fight are fantastic but no spoilers yet - unless of course you have the internet and you can look it up.
On with the show. Most of the figures are finished but just need some touch up and I have to finish the bases.
Doctor Jill Trent, Science Sleuth.
I'll be honest, this figure scared the living daylights out of me. I was afraid I wouldn't give the dramatic determination in the animation of the figure, coupled with the classic Pulp beauty hero justice. The actual part of the figure that worried the most were the legs; if they didn't look right, I felt that would ruin the entire look of Doctor Trent. Whew. I think I did it. A challenging paint job but it has paid off. Just some minor touch up needs to be done plus the base. A note on the blue rim of the base. For the board game the characters are color coded so I decided to do that with the painting. There will be separate posts on each character and what they did to defend the world in the Pulp era.
Doctor Trent is standing next to Sam (I hope he doesn't call her a dame), a Copplestone Castings figure to give you and idea of the compatibility.
Okay, here is probably my favorite figure from the game: Annie Christmas from Louisiana. All seven feet of her with supernatural strength.
Annie Christmas. Each pearl on her necklace represents someone she has defeated in personal combat. That pose and fist coming at you looks awesome!
Here is Annie compared to Sam. In the comparison you can see that she is much larger than Sam and represents someone who is 7 feet tall. I don't think Sam is going to call her a dame.
The following figure is a bit of an enigma to me: The Golden Bat. He's a superhero who debut in Japan as Ōgon Batas know as the Golden Bat in America and various other names in other countries. I'm still working on the color scheme though I may have it figured out. The one thing I can't figure out is why his face is a gold skull. I haven't researched him as much but I will let you know.
The Golden Bat still needs work done to smooth out details and add highlights, etc.
And now the historical figure: Good ole Hungarian born and naturalized US citizen Nikola Tesla.
This figure of Tesla just looks so cool.
Just as a bonus I started working on the Genie figure that comes with Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie. I can see a lot of uses for this figure.
Until next time - watch out for those badguys!
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