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To be fair, the 'plot' of most of the old pulp serials is generally fairly similar.
Andy's Modelmaking Misadventures
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To be fair, the 'plot' of most of the old pulp serials is generally fairly similar.
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More like Dick Barton!
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I probably should try and develop an appropriate style when writing the reports.
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I've already read your post on LAF ;-)
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After the success of the plane out of card project I’d wanted to try something even more extreme, so once I’d roughly formed a truck body that actually fitted on the chassis while allowing the wheels to go round, I got out some very coarse grade sandpaper, and sanded the ‘model’ to death, with the goal of making a vehicle that looked rounded and stylish.
Of course, when you just have a curved shape with no context and no detail, what you get is something that looks like a bar of used soap, so before posting I added some details from wire and bits of card to try and make a vaguely authentic “truck” that can hold its own during a tabletop game.
Some details will be held on with magnets, so the truck can fulfil its alter ego as a racing vehicle in “The Races”. This will require a turret (yes, really) and hopefully a ramming plough. The cunning plan to magnet this onto the ‘radiator’ worked up until the point where I realised the mesh I’d used was aluminium, but I’ll figure out a solution at some point…
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"Rescue the diplomat" Episode 2:
In the last episode:
The Royal Navy Airship Service Police force has to find a missing diplomat and help her get off the Island. Unfortunately, their attempts to do this were interfered with by the Auxiliary police, and as the pilot tries to taxi toward the building where the diplomat is hiding, Lt. Gunning has fired a full magazine into the side of the plane, and it hit something critical, causing it to catch fire and crash.
Meanwhile, Sgt Coulson has driven around to the aerodrome and finds his colleagues, who leap into the car (yes, I know the car is further over in the last picture; shush.)
At the other end of the table, “Commandant” Allen is racing towards the Montaro Warehouse where the diplomat is hiding. Several cards are used in each turn; like ‘chance’ cards on Monopoly, they give instructions, some helpful, some less so. This one says the character, in this case “Commandant” Allen, can’t perform an action. This threw a spanner in the works because steering or stopping the car would be an ‘action’, so instead of sweeping impressively up to the warehouse, she drives smack into the wall.
Coulson manages to avoid the smoking wreck of the plane, and drops off his colleagues. Bryant orders the police to forget the plane, and make sure the Diplomat isn’t captured by the Auxiliary police, so Coulson is charging down the Alleyway alongside the warehouse.
From his hiding point behind the wrecked plane, Gunning watches the RNAS police take position in front of the warehouse.
Colonel Lawrence emerges victorious from the control tower; after four attempts, he’s finally stolen the radio.
Sgt. Williams and Capt. Bryant secure the door to the Montaro warehouse, using the damaged truck as cover, then run inside.
Sgt. Coulson reaches the other end of the warehouse, and kicks his way through the door.
Colonel Lawrence sends his Auxiliaries forward, (as in, in front of him), while he stays behind the truck. The RNAS Police have barricaded the door…
Meanwhile, they run out the back and bundle the diplomat in the car.
Bryant and most of the RNAS police get ready to hold off the Auxiliaries as Sgt. Coulson drives the Diplomat off to safety.
So the RNAS police didn’t manage to get the Diplomat off the island, but at least they prevented her from being captured by the Auxiliaries and can report to her home government that she is safe and well, thus avoiding a diplomatic incident.
However, the question remains; why do the Auxiliaries want to capture a South American diplomat, and what will they try next? Find out in the next exciting episode of the Ascension Chronicles…
In the last episode:
The Royal Navy Airship Service Police force has to find a missing diplomat and help her get off the Island. Unfortunately, their attempts to do this were interfered with by the Auxiliary police, and as the pilot tries to taxi toward the building where the diplomat is hiding, Lt. Gunning has fired a full magazine into the side of the plane, and it hit something critical, causing it to catch fire and crash.
Meanwhile, Sgt Coulson has driven around to the aerodrome and finds his colleagues, who leap into the car (yes, I know the car is further over in the last picture; shush.)
At the other end of the table, “Commandant” Allen is racing towards the Montaro Warehouse where the diplomat is hiding. Several cards are used in each turn; like ‘chance’ cards on Monopoly, they give instructions, some helpful, some less so. This one says the character, in this case “Commandant” Allen, can’t perform an action. This threw a spanner in the works because steering or stopping the car would be an ‘action’, so instead of sweeping impressively up to the warehouse, she drives smack into the wall.
Coulson manages to avoid the smoking wreck of the plane, and drops off his colleagues. Bryant orders the police to forget the plane, and make sure the Diplomat isn’t captured by the Auxiliary police, so Coulson is charging down the Alleyway alongside the warehouse.
From his hiding point behind the wrecked plane, Gunning watches the RNAS police take position in front of the warehouse.
Colonel Lawrence emerges victorious from the control tower; after four attempts, he’s finally stolen the radio.
Sgt. Williams and Capt. Bryant secure the door to the Montaro warehouse, using the damaged truck as cover, then run inside.
Sgt. Coulson reaches the other end of the warehouse, and kicks his way through the door.
Colonel Lawrence sends his Auxiliaries forward, (as in, in front of him), while he stays behind the truck. The RNAS Police have barricaded the door…
Meanwhile, they run out the back and bundle the diplomat in the car.
Bryant and most of the RNAS police get ready to hold off the Auxiliaries as Sgt. Coulson drives the Diplomat off to safety.
So the RNAS police didn’t manage to get the Diplomat off the island, but at least they prevented her from being captured by the Auxiliaries and can report to her home government that she is safe and well, thus avoiding a diplomatic incident.
However, the question remains; why do the Auxiliaries want to capture a South American diplomat, and what will they try next? Find out in the next exciting episode of the Ascension Chronicles…
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Andy in Germany
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As the upcoming house move gets closer, projects are shrinking. This one is a set of markers for "The Races", ready for the day I have a table again…
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Tease.
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Andy in Germany
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Looking forward to seeing the four-wheel-boulder manned by cave-men.
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Punkawallah
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Yabbadabbadooooooooo!
I was thinking the more recent, and race oriented, Slag Brothers from Whacky Races.
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AndyRM
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More recent? Only by a couple of years!
Punkawallah
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I have an uneasy relationship with time, at best.
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It's a flat circle and an illusion, best avoided.