I am re-reading my old collection of The Saint books by Leslie Charteris. They are superb and The Saint Closes The Case is great inspiration for a pulp game; a mad professor whom the Saint kidnaps, the Saint's girl (Patricia Holm) kidnapped by Dr. Rayt Marius (the evil genius), an electroncloud machine which the British secret service and a foreign Crown Prince are trying to get hold of! Also, a big shoot-out at the end and Norman Kent, the Saint's lieutenant goes to meet his maker in saintly style.

The shoot-out takes place at the Saint's house in Maidenhead. Marius' henchmen are lining the hedge shooting in (the police are on their way), there's a car with the engine running outside, two boats in the river at the bottom of the garden and a stand-off in the house with the Saint, Norman Kent, the Crown Prince, Rayt Marius and a British Secret Service agent. Patricia is loose in the house with a gun and the Professor is down in the cellar, shot dead by Norman Kent. Norman Kent has the professor's notes on how to build an electroncloud machine. What a scenario!



I bought these figures after seeing them on 28mm Victorian Warfare. They are from Mutton Chop and are superb. Sid James and Charles Hawtrey to the life! All I need is 'Babs' Windsor!

Just started painting 'The Lost World' contingent:

From left to right that's Lord John Roxton, Margueritte Krux, Professor Challenger, Veronica Layton, Professor Summerlee and Edward Malone.

I've also started the rest of Tintin's companions, left to right: Professor Calculus, Bianca Castafiore, Thompson, Captain Haddock and Thomson.

Work in progress shots of the dockyard:

It looks like the Ovaltine van and Cockermouth Mountain Rescue have arrived to help build the lighthouse.

Although at the beginning there were pirate ships in the harbour, they've now been replaced by steam MTBs.

I say, Carruthers, someone's pinched our wheels............

So they have Pinkington-Smythe, so they have........................

At last, some figures on the board...........................Tintin and Snowy make their first appearance.

And that looks like Sam Baker at the back, probably about to rescue Florence from the slave traders. I think I got the statue out of a Kinder egg!

This is the start of the dock area, based on MDF with battens filled with polystyrene. The stone effect is just pencilled into some foam card.