1920s/30s Gangsters

[GordonY]

Is that World Works building Maen?

I find myself in need of buildings like that after having picked up a couple of painted street gangs yesterday at less than the price of bare lead.

Some not very great piccies of them here http://www.kirriemuirwargames.co.uk/forum/index.php?a=topic&t=658#p1 , not a bad deal at £15. 

Gordon

[Sunray]

Neat idea Andy !

Gets my vote.  An armed civilian range perhaps? Many of the gangster/law enforcement types could be painted up as Resistance or Gestapo agents.  Loads of potential. In another thread, I relate to converting 1/148 N gauge civvie figures to secret service types.

Sunray out

[Maenoferren]

Hi Gorodon, yes they are the World works Mayhem range, I have a whole host of them, some with ineriors and some like the ones here which are basic scenery to hide behind or on

[GordonY]

Right I'm off to get some of those buildings, plenty ink in the printer. 

Gordon

[ziparoo]

I'd definitely be interested in this type of range.

I've got a shed load of individually based characters and monsters that I use for Labyrinth Lord. Its a lot easier to run battles and explore a dungeon on a sheet of graph paper with 10mm than 'battlemats' and 25/28mm IMHO. Could easily see myself doing the same for Pulp adventures.

Perhaps we can expand this request to include Pulp as well? Guys with aviator goggles and lugers, heroines, etc - that type of thing.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Its not as bad as a guy who is converting Baccus 6mm stuff to do western gunfights......

IanS

[nikharwood]

[bump] 

Just nudging this one - since my posts on this [& I still would love to do full Gangster games] I've become addicted to Strange Aeons & this type of range would be spectacular 

Anyone else want to vote for this one - I'd love to see these in the Top 10 

[republic of tolworth]

Well I'm still very keen on the idea. I think if some are made generic 20-30s types they can be fitted into lots of ranges.
This means increased sales if they are bought for ww2, gangsters, Irish civivl war, SCW, VBCW, PULP, WW1 in fact it's one hell of a list that these figs would fit in with.



VOTE NOW.

First passed the post or AV, either way

[Blaker]

Yes, yes, I vote on this range.  Yes the Gangsters could be used in various periods and scenarios - even a Dungeon Crawl - hint hint maybe an expansion   

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi

Count me in too, Useful for IWI, SCW, VBCW, etc.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[ronan]

I would use this too !

[Hurrah]

Certainly gets my vote.

1920's fuzz from both sides of the Atlantic, hoodlums and thugs of various flavours and generic civilian types would all be of use to me. Be it prohibition wars, the Hooverville clear outs, defence of the Shanghai concession, resistance and insurgents of various kinds, VBCW or against the minions of Cthuluh or some other alien incursion.

[hamsterking]

Ideal inspiration can be found in Dashiell Hammet's novel "Red Harvest" and his short story "The Big Knockover". Both contain Gangster type mass gunfire action scenes.
And both incidentally are great reads.

"Red Harvest" contains the following great lines of dialogue:
“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”

[Leon]

Lots of interest in this one, only problem being as Clib says, not a lot of sales per figure sculpted.  Still, one to consider if we could get some kind of pack together for it.

[nikharwood]

I think some smart consideration to how you might market these would be the seller: there are plenty of other nations who would wear trilby hats, suits / long coats, and tote tommy guns / rifles / pistols etc - these really would be suitable for gangsters, pulp, AVBCW, resistance, Cthulhu etc

It might be that the only sensible way of selling these though is in a pack of figures that is varied: would this be feasible in relation to a mould etc at the planning stage? Design them to sell as a variety pack...15 different figures?

I also think that there might well be existing figures that could be converted for this range - rather than starting from scratch...plenty of figures with the right weapons & a different hat sculpted & a greatcoat added...job done! Simples. Etc. 

[Leon]

It might be that the only sensible way of selling these though is in a pack of figures that is varied: would this be feasible in relation to a mould etc at the planning stage? Design them to sell as a variety pack...15 different figures?

There would need to be some kind of add-on sale from elsewhere I think.  Just 15 individual figures on their own would require a few hundred packs to be sold before we broke even!   

[Blaker]

Could be a Dungeon Expansion Pack      - you know the hidden treasure of a famous Gangster in well guard/patrolled underground hideout (dungeon)  Six already suggested a stat for machine/tommy gun.