Category Archives: Pulp

COPPLESTONE CASTINGS, Jolly Good Chap

This is my second jolly good chap from Copplestone Castings‘ set by the same name (you can see my first jolly good chap here).  I prepped and primed the model three or four years ago, but it sat in a to-do box ever since.  I came upon it again a couple weeks ago while looking for something else.  On a whim I decided to see what kind of results I could get during the short time my son was napping.  This is the result of that painting session, which lasted about two hours.  Simple and effective (but I think I should fill in the wall of grass a little more, and trim back some of the large strands a centimeter or two).

The Jolly Good Chaps set is part of Copplestone Castings’ Back of Beyond and High Adventure catalogs.

Jolly Good Chaps, from the Copplestone Castings catalog (BC10)

Interesting piece of trivia: “back of beyond,” an emphatic phrase used in reference to a location far removed from the world, comes to us from Sir Walter Scott’s The Antiquary (1816):

The laird o’ Tamlowrie and Sir Gilbert Grizzlecleugh and Auld Rossballoh and the Bailie were just setting in to make an afternoon o’t, and you, wi’ some o’ your auld-warld stories, that the mind o’ man canna resist, whirled them to the back o’ beyont to look at the auld Roman camp.

PULP CITY, Night Fright

Pulp Monsters has just announced the release of a new character model for their Pulp City game, Night Fright.  From their website:

Night Fright will make all Necroplane Villain players happy. He comes with his Supreme skyboard, Leech. Watch out for their box companion, Doom Train!

Night Fright is based on a concept by Melvin de Voor, sculpted by Paul Muller, and painted by Olek Kidawa.

I think this is one of the best things they’re ever produced, and have put the model on my to-buy list.  Hopefully I’ll have enough of their other models painted one day to actually give the game a try.  It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.  Pulp Citizen’s enthusiasm for the game, as expressed in his posts on the DP forum, is encouraging as well.

You can read more about this model in a thread on the Pulp City forum.

Latest Dabblings

German Mercenary

German Mercenary

This is a work in process.  It’s one of the German mercenaries from Mark Copplestone’s Back of Beyond collection.  I still need to add some details to the model, clean a few things up, and finish the base.  This is my first attempt at using the “new” round bases (the Warmachine ones with a small basin in the center) for my models, and unfortunately I overloaded it with sand.   I hope I don’t make this mistake again.


This is the first goblin I finished for my northern war host, one of my major projects for this year.  It’s a prototype, so it took me a while to finish.  There are several things that did not turn out the way I had hoped, but I learned a number of things along the way.  I especially don’t like the dark tin/copper color of the armor plates, and will try brass for future models.  Hopefully I will get better results with my next attempt.

This is an old Grenadier model available through Mirliton in Italy, by the way.