"Pulp Figures' Black Sun Range Debuts " Topic

Black Sun will start off as a historical range and then take a turn into Weird War Nam.

The first 4 sets are available now. Scale:28mm. Price $17 USD per 5 figure set, unpainted.

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I particularly like the guy with the "thumper."

Bob, they look great. How many different historical sets do you plan on making?

I don't know. Depends upon sales I suppose. I've almost got Vietcong #3 and U.S. Helicopter Pilots & Crew ready for release.

What would you like to see?

How about some montagnard?

More VC and an RPG gunner and RPD gunner, more American some with M-14s.

All of the above Bob.

ARVN?

NVA, Co Cong, and LRRP. (I almost typed LARP) And of course the Green Berets. Evading pilots. HMGs. Hmoung.

Bob, you mentioned about making helicopter pilots and crew. The question I have is does any company make a Huey helicopter for Vietnam in 1/56?

Some good looking figures.

Disco Joe -There are lots of plastic kits out there in 1/48th.

Vince, not a fan of 1/48. I would rather have 1/56 plus why release pilots and crews because most kits already include the crews. I know you can't answer the second part of my statement which would be up to Bob as to why he is making them.

Re: 1/48 I have three Huey kits (none built – maybe someday) and only one Model (Revell I believe) had any seated crew figures (pilot/go-pilot) and no gunners.

Another reason not to do seated crew is that TAG and West Wind both make them already.

You can also find standing crew from West Wind and Baker Company.

Very few aircraft kits have figures these days, and buying resin/metal scale figures is expensive. Also they are generally designed for ground dioramas so have silly poses. I'd welcome someone making 1:48 scale figures just sitting in the cockpit flying the aircraft fop all periods. There are a few available, but the range is pretty limited.

Vigilant: I'm about to buy some of the new Eureka Mad Maximizing figures to crew an interwar plane!

I have the Italeri Huey and the crews are designed to fit that model in particular (which has no crew figures). With a little playing around they fit other helicopter models as well.

To my best knowledge there is no 1/56th Huey out there. Please inform me if you find one.

Can we get some more information on your Weird War ideas?

The range is set in 1969 and begins in a lost Cambodian ruined city, built on the ruins of an infinitely older Lemurian city. U.S. forces trying to cut the Ho Che Minh trail find themselves lead to this city where the Vietcong had situated a massive supply dump. However, the VC have mysteriously disappeared. There turns out to be a multiverse portal where modern intruders are side stepped into the dimension next door, a dimension that on the surface appears the same as our world but is not. Modern Earth is left far behind.

Here we meet others who have come before. The Nazi Thule Society made the trip 30 yrs before and now, led by a Commandant (played by Peter Cushing) they have a Lizard Man army armed heavily with German equipment. There is also a ferocious tribe of sub-human cannibals from 50000 years in Earth's past, some equipped with modern Chinese weapons. Throw in bizarre examples of flora and fauna, the still active Vietcong, and physics that do not line up with the physics of our reality and you have the core idea.

The goal of the game, besides battling the baddies, would be to get back home.

I love the concept.

I'm going to assume that the Nazis married lizard women and started having pure Aryan lizard children in the mid-1940s. By the late 1960s, those children will be in their mid-20s, and form the junior officer corps of the lizard army.

The thought of high-level Nazis being henpecked by their Gorn-like wives amuses me.

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That's crazy. I love it!

Any place for Mudmen in Black Sun, Bob ??

Love the Viet Nam figures. After watching the Burns movie on the war, I am interested in trying some games. In the past, the war was too close to me. But for the grace of God, I missed Khe Sanh (by a .24 grade point).

Now with so many wars in between, I can now consider it. The attack on the Embassy at Ten has always intrigued me. Could be done with limited figures.

Love the imagination for the Black Sun universe. Sounds like anything can turn up there, even Chick's mudmen :) I have been doing similar campaign on Skull Island which is a time-space continuum vortex with all sorts of things turning up. No Nazi lizard men, however. Although Imperial ones did turn up on Venus in the Space 1898 series.

'Any place for Mudmen in Black Sun, Bob'

The first set is close to finished, so yes indeed!

And the first pic of 'The Frogs'. Chinese equipped allies to the Vietcong.

Fish-Minh?

Some of those VC could go with my Vietminh.

After the fact: I just purchased the Aircrew figures and I am using them for Jolly Green crews. Switching the M-60 to a minigun.

IMHO Black Sun aircrew figures are way better than Old Glory or what comes with most kits. Revell Jolly's come with no crew.