“I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go!”
Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Here we have a page where all you mooks and lugs can view our material related to 1920s/30s pulp adventure gaming.
Weird Fantasy Terrain
If you're going to do fantasy battles, why restrict yourself to normal-looking trees and such? If you want to fight a battle in a pine forest, go do…
The Workbench This week, 30 October 2020
No posts for a month? Sorry! The irony is that I've been gaming more regularly than ever, as our little COVID-compliant pod of gamers are now meeting…
Forge of Ice Serpent Idol
Painted this guy up fairly quickly over a couple of days, after getting it a few weeks ago from Forge of Ice. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the…
The Beast on the Moor
Rummaging through one of my boxes of random figures last week (as one does...) I came across one of the random Reaper fantasy figures I'd picked up…
Loot from Forge of Ice
Forge of Ice is one of those one-person companies that makes all sorts of cool stuff, and after knowing about them for several years I finally got…
A Graveyard (Much Delayed)
File this one under "long neglected projects finally finished", I guess. I've finally based, painted, and finished the last of the Renedra…
Hovels & Gardens
With the clock running on toward Trumpeter Salute 2018, I need to get serious about producing the new scenery the linked pair of games I'm running…
BSC 2018: Correcting some too thin errors
As I am fairly new to 3D printing, I am learning a tonne about what not to do. One of the biggest issues I have discovered is that things that look…
BSC 2018: First print of 1956 PANG
The new printer board for my 3D printer finally showed up, so I got to printing the first print of my 1956 PANG. It was less than a full success. As…
BSC 2018: PANG print layout
I finally got around to laying out the 1956 PANG for the first printing. As you can see from the pictures below, I am trying to remove the need for…
BSC 2018: 1956 PANG first printable draft
Build Something 2018 continues and I have been pretty quiet for the last week. Part of this is because I am waiting on the warrantied printer board,…
BSC 2018: 1956 PANG continued
Well, Build Something 2018 is well underway at Lead Adventure. You can follow all the entries, including at least two other 3D printed things, over…
Lead Painters League 11 Gallery
I posted my Round 1 entry for the recently concluded Lead Painters League 11 (run over on the awesome Lead Adventure Forum) way back in mid-April but…
Warbases Church, Part Two
More progress on detailing the lasercut MDF church from Warbases that I started previously. Stonework & Doors Buttresses and a double row…
Review: Warbases MDF Vehicles
Warbases started doing vehicles in lasercut MDF and cardboard (greyboard) a few years ago and I was intrigued right away; a lot of 28mm vehicles are…
Trumpeter Salute 2017 Photos
I headed over to Vancouver for my annual pilgrimage to Trumpeter Salute again at the very end of March. My girlfriend and I decided to tie it in with…
Lead Painting League 11, Round 1: Old Saber-tooth’s Clan
The Lead Adventure Forum runs a great painting contest about once a year called the Lead Painter's League. I've participated before but not for a…
Trumpeter Salute 2017 This Friday!
Bit quiet around here but I've been busy painting up a storm for my Trumpeter Salute 2017 game! "The Faithful of Dagon" will feature several…
In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle…
Several years ago now I did a whole banker's box full of jungle terrain, but it was all fairly low-lying stuff, thickets and bushes and that sort of…
Trumpeter Salute 2016 Photos
Finally got my Trumpeter Salute 2016 photos off the phone and onto Flickr a few days ago. The full collection is over on Flickr but here's a few…
Heading Home From Trumpeter Salute
Heading home from Vancouver and an excellent, exhausting weekend at the Trumpeter Salute show! Good to see most of the Trumpeter regulars, many of…
Off to Trumpeter Salute 2016!
Heading off to Vancouver today for the always excellent Trumpeter Salute wargaming show this weekend. I've finally gotten around to setting up the…
Links of Interest, 26 April 2015
A few links to get us through the weekend! I have a moderate font-collecting addiction. Dafont is my go-to source of high quality free fonts, but…
The Thugee’s Bronze
This sculpted bas-relief is by Bob Murch of Pulp Figures fame, and is included in his Mad Guru set of Thugee. I own most (possibly all, I've lost…
The Workbench This Week, 29 May 2014
Quick overhead snapshot of the painting bench recently. As you might have guessed from recent posts, I've been in a "clear the decks" sort of mood,…
Lost Luggage Turns Up!
More months ago than I care to admit, I bought some really neat pulp-era 28mm luggage in resin from Slug Industries. I prepped and primed the first…
Lizards & Lunatics
Had two small orders come in last week. I have been saving money for an epic bike vacation to Europe in a few months (Vienna, Austria to Nantes,…
A Motor Yacht, Part Four
Just to prove that there really is progress being made around here, despite the relative quiet on the blogging front, here's a fairly bad late night…
A Motor Yacht, Part Three
Slow but steady progress on the 28mm pulp motor yacht. I hit it with a light coat of grey primer, to better show the seams and bits that needed…
A Motor Yacht, Part Two
Part One is here, for those of you just joining in. The project is a small 28mm motor yacht for pulp gaming, based loosely on real motor yachts from…
A Long-Neglected Project Gets Dusted Off
Back in the long-lost days of mid-2009 (OK, four years back...) a contest called "Build Something" was held over on the excellent Lead Adventure…
The Dread Thuggee, A Pulp Alley League!
First, on a quick administrative note, the Warbard was offline for part of last week due to an attempted attack on the Wordpress installation that…
Blank League Roster for Pulp Alley
As a followup to last week's posting of four of our Pulp Alley Leagues, here's the blank PDF version of the roster I created. Pulp Alley is of course…
Four of our Pulp Alley Leagues
Although things have been quiet on this blog (too quiet...) we have been gaming fairly regularly! In fact, this long weekend is the first weekend in…
Links of Interest, 3 September 2013
Quiet around here recently; I've been gaming regularly through the summer but not doing a whole lot of painting, scenery building or much of anything…
Added Peril & Weirdness in Pulp Alley!
Sunday's five-player Pulp Alley game set a number of "firsts" locally, as our biggest-ever Pulp Alley-powered game with five players and about thirty…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Finished
Finally have the Sarissa CityBlock 28mm lasercut MDF buildings to a table-ready state, including another hand-painted advertising sign on the side of…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The Third
Progress continues on my seven Sarissa Precision buildings, albeit at a slower pace than I'd intended! Basecoat and drybrushing is done on all…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The Second
Having assembled my new Sarrisa Precision lasercut buildings, it was time to consider adding some extra details to really make these buildings "pop"…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The First
In my last post (two+ weeks ago!) I mentioned I'd bought a bundle of Sarissa Precision's lasercut 28mm CityBlock buildings to bring our pulp gaming…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Nine
Second-to-last round of the 7th Lead Painters League over on the Lead Adventure Forum, and it's more Pulp Figures for me, with a cadre of suspicious…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Seven
Round Seven of the LPL is up, and here's my entry. These guys are 28mm U.S. Navy gunboat sailors from Pulp Figures. I used the famous movie The Sand…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Four
Last week's LPL entry moves from the Lost Worlds of Round Three to the mysterious corners of the Indian subcontinent with some 28mm Thuggee cultists,…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Three
More Pulp Figures goodness from last week's LPL round. This crew of underdressed primitives was started sometime last year, finished over the winter,…
Awesome Junkers Aircraft Poster
Via the excellent Dieselpunk, an great 1919 poster from Germany, advertising civilian air travel with Junkers aircraft. "Air Transport With…
Lead Painters League 7, Round Two
Round Two of the ten-week Lead Painters League over on Lead Adventure Forum didn't go so well for me, but at least the Blood Bowl dwarf team my…
Chinese Warlord Cards & Blinds
Corey recently started painting up a Chinese Warlord force from Copplestone 28mm figures to extend our Russian Civil War gaming in a more Back of…
28mm Pulp Baggage Review
Phil of Slug Industries (and Adventures in Wargaming, his personal blog) has recently released a set of 28mm pulp luggage. Cast in resin, you get six…
A Pulp Alley Game
We've been playing a lot of Pulp Alley recently; this photo is actually from ten days ago, not our most recent game, but it's better than any of my…
The Tome of Madness
This is not a new project, just something I remembered while waiting for glue to dry on my current scenery and decided to revisit. In September of…
First Game of Pulp Alley
I picked up a copy of the recently published pulp skirmish rules Pulp Alley sometime last month, and we finally got a game of it in today. Pulp…
GottaCon 2013, Friday
Spent the morning doing a few bits of last minute prep for my Russian Civil War game, mostly putting the finishing touches on the field gun and crew.…
Look, Up In The Sky…
...it's a bird, it's a plane... well, actually, it's a flying stand to get my existing SPAD and Nieuport fighters onto the table properly! Flying…
1920s Atlas Scans
The website Hipkiss' Scans of Old Maps has the 1920 London Geographical Institute's The People's Atlas scanned as fairly high quality images. It…
Ainsty Crates
Painted up the first bits from my December Ainsty order, the rifle crates and tea crates. The rifle crates are really nice pieces, with well…
Renedra Tents Painted
As a diversion from painting Russians, I've painted up the first part of my recent Renedra plastics order from J&M Miniatures. I ordered two…
Pulp-era Aviatrixes
"Aviatrix" is the feminine version of "aviator", but of course you knew that already. This fabulous pair is courtesy Kemon's Flickr stream, which has…
Happy New Year, Have a Pulp Travel Sticker!
I haven't posted any random pulp graphics for a while, so here's a 1920s/30s style British India luggage sticker featuring the Taj Mahal. I'll…
US Marines in Interwar China
Dusting off my sadly-neglected blog this Canadian Thanksgiving weekend to post a link to a very cool trio of old movies shot in the early 1930s by…
Pulp Atmosphere
Urban pulp is often about the dark alleyways, the gritty industrial districts, the shadowy corners, the threatening figures in fedoras and…
Airships for Lenin!
A bit later than the Russian Revolution/Russian Civil War-era Russian history that I usually post about, but it overlaps so beautifully in our pulp…
A Zeppelin Baggage Sticker
I haven't posted one of my "World More Pulpy" graphics in ages, but here's something that's been lurking on my harddrive for ages and needs some…
Cannibals on a Rope Bridge
It's been one of those weeks around here, hobby-wise and otherwise. I overdid a black wash on the Armstrong-Whitworth armoured car and am having to…
Red Airships!
I am, as mentioned in the last post, neck-deep in prep for my Russian Civil War game less than a week away at Trumpeter Salute 2012. Nevertheless,…
Spectacular Zeppelin Model
Bit of a quiet week here on the Warbard. I've been burning up all my available hobby time painting Russian Civil War figures. There's two dozen…
Zeppelins From Foam
This has minimal bearing on the 28mm pulp gaming we usually do that might involve a zeppelin, but it's such a cool and masterful technique I have to…
Autogyros, Pulptastic Cars and Such
Via the excellent x planes tumbblog, this rare cabin-equipped autogyro, the Pitcairn PA-19: ... and via the equally excellent Dieselpunk, this…
Fiskars Circle Cutter Review, and Markers for M&B
Back one of the before-Christmas sales, I picked up a Fiskars circle cutter on deep discount from one of the local art supply stores. It's been on my…
Belated GottaCon Report
Never did write that post-GottaCon post, did I? Ran a very good game of .45 Adventures, lots of dinosaurs and mayhem. Four cars started the…
Templates for Cards
Because I happen to have a stockpile of them around the place, several years ago I started using pre-punched Avery business card sheets as gaming…
More Autogyrations
Via Flickr user kitchener.lord, some still images of interwar autogyros recently posted. Most of what kitchener.lord posts is interwar…
Pack Up Your Dinosaurs
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave…
Autogyro!
Second-pulpiest flying machine (after, naturally, the dirigible) the autogyro is barely seen these days but carved out a niche for itself in the 20s…
Hairy Apemen!
Missing Links? Yeti? Sasquatch? Some other sort of yet-undiscovered ape-man? The result of Mad Science? Any or all of the above? Hairy Apemen from…
Pulpish Links of Interest, 13 October 2011
A miscelania of links, just so I get back into the habit of posting here! Adventures of the 19XX is a pulptastic webcomic, full of zeppelins,…
Unofficial .45 Adventure 2nd Edition Character Sheets
These are my unofficial draft versions of character sheets for Rattrap's .45 Adventure 2nd Edition; they use a vaguely period typewriter font for a…
Jurassic Pulp II: Rex Stomps Back!
Back in October 2009, near the beginning of this pulp craze of ours, I ran a game I called "Jurassic Pulp", inspired by that T Rex vs SUV chase scene…
Werewolf! Where wolf?
Ten whole days since my last post. Egads! Here, have a werewolf. This big hairy brute is from the Strange Aeons miniatures of Uncle Mike. He's a…
Pulpy Painting & Prep
I generally do figure prep (taking off moldlines and flash) and basic basing in fairly large batches, prime the whole batch, then tuck most of them…
Great War Resources
Having recently picked up a copy of TooFatLardies' Great War large skirmish rules Through The Mud and the Blood, I went looking for further reading.…
Half-Timber Barn WiP Part II: Thatched Roof
Picked up a cheap towel to use as thatching. Here it is in a quickie late-night photograph, glue still wet on the roof of the half-timber…
Half-Timber Barn WiP
Something for the English Civil War/Thirty Years War table, as well as for pulp games set in the quainter parts of the UK or Europe! All those crops…
LPL5 Week 10: Gunga Din (1939)
The final round of LAF's Lead Painters League 5 was another bonus round, this one "A Scene From The Movies", with bonus points for two teams and a…
Zeppelins. We like Zeppelins.
There's zeppelin on the curent banner for this site, and we're notorious pulp gamers, so it should come as no surprise that zeppelins are amongst our…
Another Review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition
Another review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition has come out, this one in The Ancible #9, a free-to-download PDF magazine. I hadn't actually grabbed…
A Few Bolshies!
These guys started out as a Lead Painters League entry, but didn't get finished in time, and besides, I'd already run too many groups of riflemen in…
LPL5 Week 7: The Lewis Gun
"Whatever happens, we have got/the Lewis gun, and they do not" — with apologies to Mr. Kipling, of course. My LPL5 Week 7 entry was more Brigade…
LPL5 Week 6: White Russians!
No, not the (very tasty!) drink, but White Russian Rifles from sometime in the Russian Civil War; the figures are 28mm from Brigade Games and very…
LPL5 Week 5: Hunting von Lettow-Vorbek
Week Five of the LAF's Lead Painters League having just ended, here's my entry. This was one of the bonus theme weeks; the bonus theme this time was…
.45 Adventures 2nd Edition, A Review
.45 Adventures 2nd Edition Rattrap Productions released the much-anticipated 2nd Edition of their .45 Adventures pulp adventure rules a few weeks…
LPL5 Week 4: No new entry, sorry!
With getting ready for Trumpeter Salute taking up almost all of my gaming time the week before the convention, I didn't manage to get a new entry…
An Egyptian Souvenir
OK, I've never actually been to Egypt. But it's a classic in pulpish destinations (and the closely-related Lovecraftian/Cthulhuian destinations!) and…
LPL5 Week 3: Lord M Hosts a Weekend
My Round Three entry for LAF's Lead Painters League, more Pulp Figures sculpts. This time it's the upper classes, with the PGJ-14 Upper Crust Swells…
Trumpeter Salute 2011 Photos & More!
Took a fair number of photos while having a great time attending Trumpeter Salute 2011 this last weekend, and a surprising number of them actually…
io9 covers WW1, interwar, and WW2 European pulp
io9, source of much pulpy goodness such as the Tozo comic, has turned its attention to European pulp, covering the period from 1914 all the way…
Photos from the Amulet of Fire game at Dak’Kon
I have finally got the pictures from the Amulet of Fire game at Dak'Kon. This is the second time the game has been run (the first was GottaCon in…
Trumpeter Salute Countdown II
Amulet of Fire characters all converted to .45A 2nd Edition. With a certain amount of cut'n'paste magic in Open Office, but whatever. Grade One mooks…
Prepping For Trumpeter Salute 2011
Alongside the Lead Painters League over on LAF, the other thing keeping me amused this week is getting ready for Trumpeter Salute 2011 over in…
LPL5 Week 2: Command On The Frontier
More goodness from the Lead Painters League, this time my Week Two entry, titled Command On The Frontier. The frontier in this case being the…
LPL5 Week 1: Lord M’s Household Staff
LPL5 Round 1 is over and Round 2 begun by the time you read this. The LPL format, for those of you not familiar, is ten week-long rounds, with…
A White Russian, And Other News
A bit quieter around the Warbard right now; I'm having most of my gaming time sucked up by the Lead Painters League 5 and real life; Corey is however…
An LPL3 Archive
As discussed in my last post on entering LAF's LPL5, here's all ten of the images from my 2009 LPL3 entries. I finished somewhere in the bottom third…
Lead Painters League 5!
[L]ess than a week left until Round One of the Lead Adventure Forum's famous and awesome Lead Painters League opens; I entered in 2009 in LPL3, sat…
Shoreline Part 2 (Sort of…)
Found, buried in my harddrive, another couple of forgotten work-in-progress shots from the first round of shoreline/riverbank construction back in…
The Caribbean’s Hidden Paradise!
Visit the Caribbean's Hidden Paradise, Costa Guano! (View Larger on Flickr by clicking the image) More pulp graphic lunacy via Inkscape and the…
45A 2nd Edition Demo out!
[R]attrap Productions has just released the demo PDF of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition! There's a 22 page set of demo rules which include the full…
Shoreline or River Bank Terrain Pieces
Two feet of riverbank/shoreline, the original two from summer 2009. On the right, a 28mm hunter and a 28mm sabre-tooth tiger on a 20mm by 40mm base.…
1920’s Egypt in colour
Egypt, much in the news today as it was in the 1920s when these pictures were taken, is the focus of this photo collection: Egypt in the 1920's in…
Tozo – the Public Servant: a Tintin-esque comic
The Tintin series is a great resource for all sorts of pulpy goodness, and in that, vein, comes Tozo - the Public Servant. Just take a look at the…
Dirt Roads from Caulking
A graphic tutorial I whomped up for the heck of it, as usual in the incomparable Inkscape. Caulk Roads Graphic Tutorial 1 of 4 Caulk Roads…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part Three: Inspiration
A necessarily brief, personal and idiosyncratic tour through some websites with noteworthy archives of 1920s/30s posters, postcards, luggage tags and…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part Two: Fonts
This is the second in a series of posts (three or more) aimed at introducing gamers to some of the resources out there they might not be aware of for…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part One: Inkscape
Everytime Corey or I post player aids, faux-vintage ads, building signs, faux magazine covers or similar to forums or elsewhere, there's always…
GottaCon Gone
I only made it to Saturday's sessions at GottaCon - busy Friday night and working Sunday - but it was good. Had a decent RPG session Saturday morning…
Convention Checklist
Under 24hrs to go until my Gottacon game... checklist time. Figures, Scenery & StuffGlue drying on the bases of the last figure needed.…
A Classic Lost World Image
Via x-ray delta one on Flickr, this image (no source is given) is a classic "Lost World" illustration! I want a 28mm miniature of the guy on…
One Week Until GottaCon & “Amulet of Fire”!
Next Friday GottaCon 2011 opens here in Victoria, and a week today, Saturday the 5th, is my pulp adventure game, "The Amulet of Fire". I've just…
Mesa we will see you again?
Large terrain pieces are the lifeblood of any good gaming table and in a fit of boredom late one night at my old job (after my work was done for the…
Old Signs for your Pulp Gaming
Old Signs for Pulp Gaming Inspired by my brother's Fake Pulp Adverts post, I thought I would share one of my projects. Over the past few weeks I…
Random Pulp Fake Adverts.
I've posted these on various forums, but never collected them into one place before. For your amusement, a batch of fake 1930s ads - grab the full…
Pulp Music Online
So, you're writing a classic interwar pulp scenario to play with your favourite rules. Or you're just reading one of the great pulp stories for…
The Amulet of Fire
After running last year's .45 Adventures convention scenario at least six times, it was time to retire it. Few things worse than a bored gamemaster,…
Building A 28mm Tent
There's been previous versions of this tutorial posted on Lead Adventure and the Speakeasy, but I figured it's worth reposting here. After killing…
“Fighting Tales!” Magazine Covers
Some graphics inspired by interwar pulp magazine covers. Done in Inkscape primarily, with some of the photos manipulated first in GIMP. For…
The Seagull
The 1933 PopMech "Seagull" boat. In 1933, according to Popular Mechanics, there was the Seagull, which "...skims water at seventy miles an…
Links: Pulp Wargaming
Some links of interest to pulp wargamers. An ongoing project; I'll bump it back to the top of the posts when it gets updated and…
Pulp: Styracosaurus for .45 Adventures
Rattrap Production's .45 Adventures has an excellent supplement called "Valley of the Thunder Lizard", filled with dinosaurs, dino-men, Neanderthals…
Pulp Vehicle Cards
A while back, I made up a set of eight vehicle outlines, designed to be printed on Letter-sized business card blanks or regular cardstock and used…
Pulp Gallery On Flickr
I have a set over on Flickr for all my pulp wargaming photos - check them out. Some…