The Project Project

The tail end of a week off brings with it the edge of anxiety of returning to work. It’s not an earned response but it is how I feel so I needed something to distract my brain a bit. I put on some white noise and set about reading through a TMNT fan supplement I found online for Pulp Alley. I can’t link directly to it as I’ve deleted my Facebook account now but if you look around on Pulp Alley fan groups, you’ll be able to find it. It is written by Niels Jochems. The book is a campaign, running to 40 pages with multiple scenarios included.

In it there are stat blocks for the turtles, April and most of the baddies I want to run. Sadly I don’t have any Mouser models. Crooked Dice do some but for now I’ll sub in more Foot Clan. There’s no Splinter or Casey Jones included but I’m sure it won’t be hard to make them up. Pulp Alley looks like a very easy game to make characters in but I wanted to run some stat blocks that had been play tested by people who know the game better than I do for starters. 

I don’t want to spoil myself for the campaign especially as I’ll be playing solo so I’m only reading up to the first scenario to find out what I need. The campaign is designed for two players and includes a mechanic for sewer tokens which I’m not sure will work in solo but seemed like a fun little thing to try and scratch build.

Digging through my box of random things with shapes or textures, I found some cut up rubber glove, the inner texture of which I’ve used for space ship flooring in the past and will work perfectly as the main bit of my sewer cover. I also found some coloured rubber rings from a board game (Zombicide I think) which are used to mark players or conditions… I don’t actually know. I do know that they fit a 25mm round base with a bit of effort. 

1. Super glue the bases to the underside of the rubber glove to make sure that the full base had texture on it. I placed a weight on top to keep the contact firm while the glue dried.
2. Cut round the bases with a very sharp knife to get a good clean edge
3. Put rubber rings on the bases, didn’t bother to glue them
4. Prime dark brown
5. Drybrush with black
6. Add a bit of rust effect (Warpaint Fanatic Fresh Rust) and then wipe off with a paper towel