Vampyres

More baddies for Perilous Tales games.

These are from the Dracula Has Risen set from Pulp Figures (a gift from Adrian) plus the dramatic Dracula figure from Bad Squiddo (a gift from Andy).  But before you think I've double-counted (ho-ho), I will note that there are other aristocratic vampires in literature and film.  So from the right we have:

• Countess Dolengen of Gratz - Bride of Dracula (from Stoker's "Dracula's Guest")
• Lord Ruthven, from John Polidori’s 1819 short story “The Vampyre”
• Count Orlok aka Nosferatu
• Count Dracula himself, and finally 
• Renfield, an asylum patient who has come under the influence of Dracula in the original story

The Dracula Has Risen set also included Professor Van Helsing and a great tombstone and bat combo that will be a perfect "Bats!" peril marker.  Copplestone Casting's Ghost from Adrian completes the set.

Mum's Army

This is the Women's Home Defence set from Bad Squiddo games.  Women's Home Defence was an unofficial organisation founded by Dr Edith Summerskill (nicknamed 'Flossie Bang Bang'), the Labour MP for Fulham West, in December 1941.  No uniform was worn just an enamel badge.  Recruits underwent weapons training and many became Home Guard Auxiliaries when allowed to do so. 

I've painted the figures up to represent the women of Dad's Army.  Captain Mainwaring's wife Elizabeth was famously never shown in the series except as a bulge in the top bunk in their Anderson shelter but she did appear in the 2016 film.  Also included are the romantic interests of Sergeant Wilson and Corporal Jones, and the spinster sisters of Private Godfrey.

Left to right: Mrs. Marcia Fox, Mrs Mavis Pike, Mrs Elizabeth Mainwaring, Miss Dolly Godfrey and Miss Cissy Godfrey.

I hesitated to dub them Mum's Army as I think only Mrs Pike was a mother.  However, of the male characters of "Dad's Army", only Sergeant Wilson has a son - and that was not acknowledged - so it seems fair enough.

Rolling, rolling, rolling

I've wondered about dice towers in the past, mainly when I was under a table trying to find my die (why are they always sixes when they don't count?!).  I finally succumbed to one from TTCombat that was so decorative and such a bargain, that I couldn't resist.  

The kit comprised two and a half A4 sheets of MDF plus some cardboard for detailing.

And the finished result looks like this:

I made a few mods, obviously.  I cushioned the internal pieces that roll the dice to reduce the noise.  The edges of those pieces where they slotted into the external walls were supposed to be covered with a plank as a repair but I filled and sanded the holes instead.

I also printed out tiled flooring for the courtyard and main balcony.

The main balcony was supposed to have just two windows but it made no sense to me to have a big balcony without a proper access so I fitted a door and two cut-down windows instead.

The final modification was to add a couple of pieces of MDF to support the roof element so that it could be a piece of scenery when not in use as a dice tower.