Forward progress on pulp items

Built a crane for my seaport, just used a bunch of blocks of wood and a few bits and pieces, still need to do some final touches - and, maybe, add some sort of means for movement, perhaps some toy tank treads if I still have them and can find them.

Painted all dozen pieces of pier I built. Debating wheter to add details glued in place or have them on stands. Probably the latter since I plan to use piers for many periods of history.

Again using bits of wood - and a little sawing this time - I created two warehouses for my pulp seaport. Thinking these will be banana warehouses. Going to add some more bits as machinery.

Forty-seven of fifty jungle trees based with a couple of tall jungle tress built as well as four of the smaller ones. Many more to assemble as time permits.

Three figures at the base of the two tall assembled jungle trees. Obviously the trees are not painted yet.

Finished the Nemonauts. That is his granddaughter in the center, his daughter with the gray hair, and his grandson. At some point I will post a backstory to go with these figures.

A dozen of the crew of the Naughtylust in their land based outfits.

Another dozen crew in their underwater capable outfits. Note the bases are textured differently.

All 27 of the painted Nemonauts. There are more crew if I want to add them at some point.

Two shots of a couple of the painted Kongorillians next to the painted Nemonauts for size comparison.

Painting Tallies for the last few years

Have every expectation that I will exceed one thousand figures this year but not sure I will exceed the 2021 total. Certainly hope to get to 1200 at least. Seems since I've been tracking this my montly average is right around 109 figures. So, if I hit the average, that would get awful close to 1300 figures. Hmm, so maybe - just maybe - hitting that 2021 number isn't completely unrealistic, only somewhat so. 2020 = 240... 2021 = 1475... 2022 = 1255... 2023 = 1265... 2024 = 1216... 2025 = 880 year to date

The Kongorillians are painted!

The King himself

The Prince perhaps? Unrelated to the king by blood however

"Hey, Kong, can I be your queen?"

"Hey, maybe Prince, can I, maybe, be your princess?"

And a quartet of Kongorillians.

Getting Back on Track for the Pulp Collection

Now that the introductory game of Robin Hood is behind me, I'm back working on my pulp items, today I assembled what should be all (most?) of the piers I will need for the seaport - and I expect the same piers will do double duty in pirate games.

Began with this pile of material - from various deeply discounted going out of business sales or from thrift stores for super cheap. There was some additonal material from the same sources dragooned in along the way.

That is nine linear feet of seaport using the piers I assembled today. Still need to color them and then add details but I might make the details 'modular' since some will be too modern for pirates.

Just the same from the other end.

I built four of these largest sections - and very purposefully did not do a 'precise' job because I want the port to look a bit run down.

I built another eight narrow and lower piers. The rip-off jinga blocks will get stained to try to preserve the wood grain.

I have a solid supply of parts and pieces to enhance the scratchbuilding tramp steamers and other watercraft. That is all for now, back to working on hardscaping project in the morning, some serious heavy lifting.

A moment of inspiration...and a 'tragedy' avoided

Tinkering with set up.  A thought.  HO cars - 3D prints, might they work?

Umm, I think so.

Yeah, looks like.

And to think, I almost sold these!
 

A jumble of buildings

 

Explanatiions later.

Jungle Cruise building arrives

The building with El Presidente Jorge Tonto Castaneda and his wife Mariposa Gorda Castaneda - note I have swapped out the wife figure.

With a rule to show it is 8" long at 1:100.

A detail shot - nice touch.

And more.

One end.

And the other.

And here is a side-by-side with one of the desert buildings: