The Hollow Re-Skin - Wrapped Dead Body!

 For one reason or another, I Didn't actually manage to make it to the lats Pulp Alley games day, so I thought that I would still take along the Hollow Scenario slightly tweaked for the Old West Pulp Alley Games Day.

So no street lamps this time, the lights will be patches of light shinning through the clouds.

I also decided that the graveyard could be a Native American Burial ground. For this I needed some Burial Scaffolds & a wrapped body.

I thought that the body would be the hardest & this would be best to make first (if it didn't work I could scrap the whole Idea!)

I whittled a bit of balsa to look like a body, next I covered this with a clean washed baby wipe covered it in PVA 7 glued it to the balsa dolly, then i used some thin string to look like it was tied up

After this had dried & I was happy with it I got my pack of Blue Stuff out, I hadn't used this yet as I had bought it & not got round to using it? 

Anyway I melted it in hot water, as per the instructions (I had also made a little jig from Lego, so that i could keep it all square) & pushed in the wrapped body sculpt & waited for it to cool off.

When this was ready I removed the sculpt & mixed up some Brown Stuff & Pushed it in the mold.

I did this 3 times so that i had 3 bodies, I must say I was quite impressed with the Blue Stuff molding stuff, it worked a treat. Whether it would be any good for more complex sculpts, I wouldn't like to say............

Terrain for pulp vs Alley’s The Hollow Scenario - Part 3, The End

 This is the Final part of  my wittering on about putting together a board for The Hollow Scenario.

The last three plot points were quite easy to sort out:

For Grandmother Brunt I’m using the Witch miniature from Gripping Beast, I've already got her painted, also there's a log Cabin that I've already painted up as her house.

Egon Van Ripper plot point will be a Silver Bayonet Canada Harvestman Agent (another previously painted miniature) from the official Northstar Miniatures range. 

I really like this miniature & I’ve not had chance to use him in a game yet.

For the Gravestone, I used a Citadel one from the old Plastic Skeleton sprues & put some tufts around it, to make it resemble being hidden. 

And of course, there’s the Big Bad, the Headless Horseman. I am going to use the converted Front Rank Archduke Charles figure that I converted for The Silver Bayonet scenario The Headless Rider.

I’m also using some other bits & pieces of scenery, some of it scratch built & some bought (even some Snapdragon stuff!!) such as rocks & a patch of rough ground.

 Below is a couple of pictures of the finished board

Terrain for pulp Alley’s The Hollow Scenario - Part 2

On to Part 2 of the board for the Hollow:

 I thought that some dead trees would be perfect to go on the board. 

After looking into making some from scratch & realising that I would like at least 15 trees to be on the table, I soon discounted that idea !

 Next I had a look at what was  commercially available & the ones that I thought were the best value were the Woodland Scenics tree armatures, the pack I found had around 25 trees in it for £21, so at about 84p each isn’t too shabby. 

They are plastic with a wire armature inside & come flat, so that they can be bent into shape. There’s quite a lot of mold lines & casting points on them & they are a right pain to clean up, but when they are cleaned & twisted into shape they look pretty good. They were then glued to washers & sand added.

To paint the trees I sprayed them with Halfords Matt black primer & slapped some black Brown over the undercoat.

I added a touch of light green & field grey to the basecoat for the 1st highlight adding various light greys for successive highlights. I probably could have spent longer faffing about cleaning them up & filling gaps, but I really couldn't be bothered! 

For the plot points in this scenario there’s a Rock with a name on it, a Tree with some initials on, a Random Bloke, a Granny & a Grave Stone. 

To make the rock I used some blue foam & cut it to shape  

I glued it to a washer added sand to the base, undercoated it & painted it in various shades of grey

I needed a tree next, but not one of the ones that I had used for the Dead Woods, this needed to be more imposing, so I decided to try to make one, I had done tree stumps before & used similar techniques.

For this I twisted some wire to make a basic tree shaped armature & the covered it with some superglue that had gone all thick & gloopy, that bulked out the armature & smoothed all the twists. 

Next I covered it in a layer of Milliput to get the basic shape & finally covered it in brown stuff & scored on the bark design. 

When I made the tree, I tried to make it look like it was alive. 

The tree was painted in similar colours to the other trees. I decided to add a rat to the base of the tree as well. 

That will do for this post, so I will finish this all off in the next post.

Terrain for pulp Alley’s The Hollow Scenario - Part 1

 

With the upcoming Third Pulp Alley Games day & the theme being Gothic Horror, I decided to put on The Hollow Scenario. 

This is another one of those scenarios that I’ve always wanted to have a go at & never got round to sorting out. 

It’s a theme is hunting for the Headless Horseman’s head, with the board being in darkness apart from under a circle of street lamps, but there is only a 6” diameter circle of light under each one. 

The first thing that was needed was the street lamps, (this had been the main reason that I hadn’t played this scenario before) I managed to find some on Amazon for around £5 delivered from China, the only problem was that when they arrived 4 out of the 10 were broken.

I was offered a partial refund which I accepted as these were an easy fix & I had no intention of trying to get them to light up.

So I pulled out all the cables & glued a length of wire through the hole where the wires had been & glued each piece together.

To paint them i just gave them a quick dry brush with Black Brown & added some rust spots

I finished them of by glueing the Lamp Posts to clear 25mm bases to keep them from falling over. 

The represent the sphere of light I found some 6" clear discs for £5 (on amazon again), I would have liked Yellow ones but they would be about 5 times the price!! these didn't have a hole in the centre, so I drilled out a hole so that I could drop the Lamp Posts in.

Next up I had purchased The Renedra Ramshackle Church, when I had originally purchased it I was disappointed that it didn't have any interior detailing & the rear door was a bit short.

To overcome this I scored the inside of the walls to look like planks & added some internal window frames, I also decided to put some broken beams under the bell tower to give it a bit of support as I was going to leave the roof separate.

I had removed the rear door & the sill & stuck the whole building to a sheet of plastic that had been scored again to look like planks to raise the building up a bit. the sill was glued back onto the plastic sheet & the door glued onto the floor. I added sand & a few Card roof tiles around the edge of the building.

 I Painted the whole like old wood (hopefully that's what it looks like!) all the paints were Vallejo & I basecoated with Concrete, Old Wood for the 1st highlight & Light Mud for the 2nd one & I used a bit of Decktan in places & washed it with the ubiquitous Military Shader from Army Painter.

The roof is painted with the Quagmire Triad from Foundry.