And yet more of that potassium laden fruit...

 Down to the last two boxes of figures to prep, the two opposing forces under the influence of the wannabe dictators

Below is the Presidential Guard, the six mounted in back (all losing their swords so they are just going to be lived without, then the two multi-based guard units, the individually based guard unit, and the multi-based guard band, mounted command and foot escort, the president's ride - Peter Pig Franklin, then those six to the left that are Anglo-American "advisers" of a sort, and the four figures to the left of the car being the president, is mistress, his bag man, and his right-hand man.

On the right is the German contingent, adding the six picklehaub foot units up front.

With a little luck, maybe this week all of the figures will be primed and ready for painting.  Getting close.

More for the Banana Wars pulp gaming universe

Further progress - and hopefully not too much duplication below, it was 102 outside (39 C) when I exited the garage so my brain might be slightly baked!

On the lower right of the above image are the 12 'units' of unarmed civilians, in front is a half dozen scientists, some mounted civilians and leaders - the British diplomats.  At the top of the image are the four armed ship's crews to the left and behind them the eight unarmed ship's crews.  And then some mounted crew and their support weapon, an automatic weapon and an old artillery piece.

On the left above is the Anglo-American contingent: one tattered army unit, three units of sailors, and a couple units of Marine for the US - and the American ambassador and staff.  And then two anachronistic units of British (Zulu War) units.  And some mounted cavalry and a couple of heavy weapons - and mounted command for both nationalities.  Next up in the box on the right is the Germans, the old fashioned picklehaub wearing soldiers, far from home in this remote posting - where they are violating the Monroe doctrine even!  Good thing the British were invited with an American 'blessing' of El Presidente's wishes.

On the left above are the natives to the front with the native villagers to the rear, at the very front are the four 'stars' of the show - and to their left some additional 'critters' for a scenario, and to the right a couple of rather large skulls.   The right groups are five 'sets'.  In the back center are two groups of US citizens in the process of getting out of town, just in case.  In front are the air folk, a group of unarmed plane mechanics and then a group of armed pilots.  In front of them are a Kelly Gang (yeah, those Australian dudes) and the "Society of the Robe" (middle eastern sorts),  To the right rear is a German U-boat crew and in front of them are some proto-Nazis and some henchmen (Indiana Jones inspired sorts).  And in front of them are two units of Americans sent down to Conyuras (the imagination) on a "secret mission" including a few command figures.  Both the Germans and American force get a heavy weapon each.

This is the archaeologists in the upper right.  The lower right are the nemo-nauts.  And then all those individually based 'characters' and sidekicks, etc.  Lots of variety.  And duplicative of below.

After the Germans are done, these three boxes are the 'rest of the figures'.  The top box are the forces of El Presidente, sort of like the 'royal guard' in The Wind and the Lion film, definitely under-gunned and over-dressed.  The two boxes below are the 'chief lieutentants' who are each vying to take control, one group leans left and the other right.  Yeah, its not a good time to be a president in Central America, especially not where bananas have been the chief crop!

Last is three bags with one passenger car each to be assembled and painted special for this game - and then that Thomas the Tank Engine vehicle to be a steam traction engine and get a repaint.

Yup, progress being made.  But lots and lots of painting to do.

 

The Great and Terrible Schlong of Kong Disaster - or Gorillas Go Banana Wars!

 A few photos showing preparation of figures is underway for a pulp game set in the Banana Wars era.

The first photo shows three groupings: to the rear left is the archaeologist and their diggers, four units of twelve figures each and then six individually based figures that include Indiana, Senior, Marion, and Mutt.   To the right rear are the Nemonauts, two groups of hard suit, and three groups of 'soft' suit figures, plus three individually based figures - but not Captain Nemo, he'd be long dead by the 1930s when the game is set.  The rest of the individually based figures are various male and female figures with most of the men being unique except for one figure duplicated - by choice.  And one of those unique figures is an even better Indiana figure - with his rope.  The women are many unique figures and then two groups of six each that are all the same in each group but the  groups are different.

The next photo shows one of the Kong figures and his mate - or potential mate.  There was supposed to be another shot of the other two but I didn't catch it was a movie instead of a photo so see next photo.

This third photo shows the other Kong and mate pair on the left as well as all four of them together.  Missing from the photos is Rage Kong, a truly massive simian, he will not get primed, just some work on his paint job, a store bought item, used at a deep discount.

This is just one of my projects for the summer - getting this collection fully primed and ready for painting.  A lot more still to get ready.  And a lot of jungle to build.