Robot Knock Out

The Worlds Smallest Rock 'Em, Sock  'Em Robots are in red and blue plastic.  Each has a removable yellow base, no boxing ring.

I like the crude robot look, they would work well in Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow universe, or any sort of pulp, 1920s to 1950s era adventure.

Here they are in fighting position.  I suppose you could put them on a piece of copy paper and have at it.

A quick upper cut and Red Robot is knocked out.

More data on the set.

Use the QR code if you are interested, or the website.

I have several different sets of tiny toys by these guy and they are very well done, high quality and durable.

Here he is with a robot I got from Tractor Supply, it's a dog crew toy, except at my house.

Their catalog is pretty big, even robots like to read it.
 

Luna, Arc, or Mir?

Pegasus Luna from Destination Moon.  This scene, however is more like that from When Worlds Collide.

The Arc, a similar space ship to Luna, and one Pegasus also makes, lands on a new planet, and on the landing space it's covered in snow.

This model is supposed to be 1/144 scale, but I think it works just fine for 1/72 scale adventure gaming.

It's larger than a V2.

Here a team of Soviet Cosmonauts exit the rocket!

Pulp Heros

Airfix HaT Tarzan.

Edgar Rice Burroughs lived in Los Angeles, and he wrote Tarzan.

African from Eagle Games.  Shield in the colors of Tanzania.

In several of the Tarzan books he travels with and lives with members of the fictional Waziri tribe.

Little girl from the Imex Pioneers set.  She is playing with a metal hoop.

I use her to help wrangle the horses.

This action hero is actually two different figures.

The upper body is a horse mounted cowboy and the lower body is also from the Revell Cowboys set.

Supplies

The concept was that several teams would converge on an island in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.

Each team would be a "national" team, composed of "troops" from the same country.  I intended each player to get a few dozen army men from a single country and convert them to a civilian team.

The team could use any weapons or equipment except, no explosive weapons, no crew served weapons, no flame weapons, no motor vehicles or flying machines.  They would be dropped off at the island and ferry from the ship to shore in whale boats.

A week later they would be picked up the same way.  Their mission was to document the flora and fauna on the island.  Take photos, drawings, samples, specimens for later examination.

The only access was across a reef to a narrow beach at the base of a cliff.  Everything would have to be carried up the cliff.

I got several boxes of supplies to make a supply dump for my team.  I anticipated teams from the UK, Soviet Union, France, perhaps, Italy, Germany and the USA.  My team was from "Hollywood."  The time period was just after World War Two so each group could be composed of combat veterans and have the needed skills to live in the wild and function well in an emergency.

The teams were given a year on paper, to gather supplies, train their teams and coordinate transportation to the South Pacific.

My team transportation and supplies.

Pack Train

A while back I wanted to do some pulp action wargaming.

Everyone said you can't do that in 1/72nd scale.

All the good pulp stuff is in 28mm.

I realized after looking through my collection that that assertion was simply not true.

First off, I wanted a horse and mule and donkey supply train.

My force was going to do an expedition into a lost world.

Not unlike that where King Kong and dinosaurs are found.

Since you gotta carry supplies in a trackless wilderness, I elected for pack animals.

I pulled horses and mules and donkeys from Pegasus, Airfix, Atlantic and others.

Then I painted them up.

Here is the whole train.

Musings

I am taking apart my old phone system.  Electronic stuff often has neat little bits inside that can work for wargame scenery, walls, and even as old computers.

Each handset has a speaker inside.  The Germans in WWII tried to make weapons out of loudspeakers.  Might be a wargame project in there for WWWII.
 

New 1/72nd Caesar Miniatures WWII Germans.

When looking for Pulp ideas, old magazines are a great source of ideas.  The giant battleship bicycle is certainly not something that springs immediately to mind.  That would have required the entire steel and rubber production of the United States from 1916 just to build one.  Compare it to the buildings and troops in the front.  Makes the Maus look rather anemic in comparison.

Flying Monkeys

While at a local art supply store I came across these flying monkeys.

These are monkeys like those from the movie The Wizard of Oz.

Four of them for $3, made by a company called Accoutrements, http://www.accoutrements.com/.

I have no idea what I will do with these figures, the fez would imply that they are domesticated.

These monkeys are about the size of the ones in the movie. They fit pretty good with 1/72nd scale figures. Maybe they will end up populating a pulp island fortress.