Pulp Alley game set in Venice updated Jan 17 2019 with ending pages

This game was played just before Christmas of 2018, and was an opportunity for players to test out their leagues for the up coming Lemuria campaign, set to commence on January 19th 2019.
It was also a chance for me to test out some scenario ideas.

I discuss the scenario in detail after part one...

More aids

Today I will delve into the history, the lore, and the incredible contribution of the magical item pictured above;

 THE 6" MEASURING STICK! 

I will also discuss some of the other incredibly dull things we do to enhance our playing of Pulp Alley.

Some of the aids we use to help stay organized in our Pulp Alley games

Thought I would share some of the things we do to try and make our Pulp Alley games run a little smoother.

 

Have a very Pulpy Christmas!

Something I built this past Friday

So with a Pulp Alley Lemuria campaign looming in the new year, and with half my gaming table occupied by an evil base for an as yet to be determined spy game, what do I wind up doing on Friday, but build an elevated highway! Madness!

Some more layout work

Administration area

Just a few pictures of some of the work in progress. This is really a little bit of a waste of time, as I will just have to remove everything when it comes time to actually build this monstrosity.

What it does do is allow me to try out stuff I have lying around to see what might work. Happy to see that the building blocks might work as quick walls. I had thought about cutting them out of foam board, but the wood blocks would be quick and easy to use. Either way I plan to cover the walls with printed out wall designs to try and cover what they really are.

Since these pictures were taken I have tested out a few more item, a helicopter pad, and a tall gantry. So in other words more pictures to come soon.

A plan for world domination ha ha ha ha.....

Step 1 Plan and build secret lair
Step 2 Build a dormant volcano to house the lair.

Optional Plan might be the other way around....

So another work in progress, hoping to get cracking on a massive build, a 3' by 3' (maybe with an extension) mountain, maybe 2' high. (we shall see)
At any rate I have found the critical starting point, I have found a monorail for the evil villain, (a must have if you have a dormant volcano)

Finally some progress on Venice

With a Venice Pulp Alley game slated for December 15th it would behoove me to finish off some of the half way done buildings. So with that in mind I have been hard at it for the last couple of days!
So while I primed then assembled all the buildings I have (20) I needed to add the windows, door frames etc. On top of that despite having primed the models in various colours, it did not prevent me from having to touch up, and or completely paint some of them.

Then I decided to try and pimp up some of the buildings with brick and stone textured paper. I think the results are not too bad, and the effort was not that bad, but it did slow down production.

Something different

Bad weather, other commitments made for a quiet game day...
However I was joined by one player who could only stay for a short while, so what better time to learn a new (to me) board game. In this case we tried the deck building card game:

EMINENT DOMAIN

Starting some long put off projects

Recently we played a game of Battlegroup, a rule set that I am beginning to like. While setting up the table I did a quick inventory of my collection of trees, and other scenery bits. I have concluded it is woefully inadequate for my needs. However in my review I noticed a plastic container of trees, that I had picked up a year or two ago, but had never done anything with them. Well this week I took care of that box.
But, again, being unfocused I also started some other projects. I started with some CD based terrain items (as per Mel The Terrain Tutor), but after prepping five of them I remembered that I had some funky sheets of moss like terrain, so I paired up a CD with some off cuts of the terrain sheets, and started work on a bog/fell.

Well, remaining unfocused I have now leapt into my WWII collection

Apparently it was time for some reorganization and prep work on my WWII stuff. I have been very gradually moving along my wall of cabinets cleaning up the jumble of 'stuff' in each. First off was my VSF collection, now every nation has it's own shelf, everyone is in proper order waiting to be deployed on the table.

Then a quick stab at my Pulp figures, but more work will be required there...

Then all of a sudden this week I summoned up the strength to work on my WWII collection. Apparently I have a lot of WWII some of it almost presentable!

The basic reorg done, freed up room for more items to be stored once they are completed.