If you have been following this blog, you will have noticed that I have been bitten by the Pulp fiction bug. Slowly, I have been collecting and painting figures and terrain to run games for my gaming group. While much of the supporting items have come from various different companies, the vast majority of figures are from Pulp Figures out of Canada.
My most recent painting task was to finish my islander minis. Specifically, the Melanesian Island Warriors. I ordered a pack of command characters and a few packs of Warriors with spears.
I went with the least clothed figures (except the command), for no other reason but to keep them easy to paint! As with all Pulp Figures, these are very clean and detailed. All the detail is easy to pick out, making the figures very painter friendly.
Most of the figures have only the most minor amount of flash. Some are a little trickier with a flash line across the head (but never through the face). However, nothing too serious.
The spears and shields are separate and must be glued on. There are different styles of shield (wicker or wood). If one desires, you could actually buy repeat packs and just attach weapons in different ways, giving a large possible combinations for larger armies.
I would normally paint the figures and shields detached and glue them together later. However, these figures are so easy to paint and the color pallet is all brown tones. That being the case, I glued everything together and mounted them on their bases and hit all the models with a coat of brown spray paint to get things started.
Once the spray paint had dried (OK, a few weeks later….), I painted all the tan details on all the models. Once this was dry, I added the sand basing materials. From there, I just hit the whole miniature with a dark brown wash. I then hit all the flesh areas with a a mid shade of brown and a slighting lighter one after that. I did the same with the tan areas (two levels of dry brushes). I added some black on the hair, eyes and some of the the shields and highlighted all these areas with grey. The character models also included some green and red. In each case I painted a base color, did a wash and hit with a highlight. Drybrushed the bases with tan and added some green flock-static grass mix. All done!
I was quite happy with the outcome and now have some islanders for gaming. I would give Pulp Figures five spears out of five for their models! If you play pulp, check out Pulp Figures, you will not be disappointed.
- Mantueffel