"The Paris of the East," The Whore of the Western Powers." In truth, Shanghai was a little of both. The fifth largest city in the
world, a teeming mass of more than three and a half million people, divided into three distinct governmental areas - the Greater Shanghai
Municipal District, the International Settlement, and the French Concession.
Each division of the city had its own government,
its own utilities, its own police and fire departments, its own customs, and its own laws. But all shared the same problems.
Crushing
poverty for the lower class and the pangs of the Great Depression; Opium dens and a fashionable new drug called Heroin; the machinations
of gangsters seeking to outdo the American counterparts they so admired; foreign governments working behind the scenes to bend
the city to their will or bring it crashing down.
But there is more afoot in our version of Shanghai. For behind
the glitterati of the "Chinese Hollywood," beyond the grime of the underworld, beneath the streets of the burroughs, ghettoes, and
slums, dwell powers far beyond human understanding. This is Shanghai in 1930. But it is a world not entirely our own. A world where
Pulp Heroes and Villains walk in reality, where the Martian Invasion of 1889 and the piratical raids of a man called "Nemo" are as
real in the pages of history as the American Revolution or the Battle of the Boyne.
This is a world where myth and reality meet.
Where good and evil struggle for control.
Where the very fabric of reality is threatened. And only a very few individuals truely understand
the immensity of the truth: everything is a lie, concocted to cover the greatest disaster in human history.
Whether you choose
to follow the strictly historical path, or delve into our own form of weirdness, you're sure to find what you are looking for in the
dark alleyways, glimmering nightclubs, and opium soaked backwaters of Shanghai, 1930 - 28mm Miniatures for gaming the world of the
Pulps.
Our first miniatures in the range, sculpted by the talented Curtis Fell, are currently in the production phase. We hope
to have them in production by August of 2009, but this depends upon our caster's time commitments. In the meanwhile, photos of the
various greens are being posted, regular as clockwork!
