Female Soviet Super Soldier

Just a quick Heroclix repaint this month.  I took a Heroclix figure of Marvel Comics' Mankiller and painted her to look like a cheesy 1980s-era Soviet super soldier type of character.

Here is a stock photo of what it looked like before the repaint.

 

 Hopefully my next post will be of some of the Doctor Who minis that are currently primed and covering my painting table right now.  Stay tuned.

Large Olmec Head and Living Brain

A couple of quick things for this post:  First is a resin terrain piece.  This is Acheson Creations' Large Olmec Head. 

It was fun and quick to paint up and I think it will look great with some tropical terrain.  I don't really have a specific gaming use for it, I just thought it was cool, and will find an excuse to use it at some point.

My other super quick piece is a re-based Heroclix figure of the Living Brain.  I threw a wash on it and did some highlighting, and thought it looked kinda cool for a funky retro robot.  Even though I am a huge comic book nerd, I know very little about the character this figure is based on.  Just a fun miniature.

More stuff in the works, stay tuned.

Gamma World Player Characters

So this month I quickly painted up four minis to represent the characters in a Gamma World campaign I'm playing in.  After running games behind the DM screen for years now, I'm psyched to be playing again.  Here's the crew:

Golgotha is a "Giant" Android.  Giant in quotes because she could really use a slightly larger mini to represent her 8' height.  This figure is Reaper's "Incredible Woman" (50212) painted with mostly silver and gold metallic paints.

Next up is my character: Proty, who is a Gelatinous Electrokinetic.  This figure is Ganesha Games/Alternative Armies' "Plasmoid Exterminator" from their recent Project Simian X kickstarter.  (The mini was clearly intended to be a Star Frontiers Dralasite.  I have two more of them, which I might paint in the classic grey for that race at some point.)

Amadeus Redbutt is a Simian Mindbreaker, whose player described him as looking like an orangutan.  I used a miniature from Dreamblade called the "Rainforest Shaman." Dreamblade figures are notoriously tough to remove from their bases and I had to sculpt him a new rock stand on.

And the fourth character is Rybot, a Felinoid Android.  I used a Wildcat Heroclix figure and repainted him with some metallic silver accents and pink eyes.

Unrelated to the group, I also rebased a Heroclix Aleph, and then just added a couple washes, and repainted his eyes.  He makes a pretty good evil robot.

 That's it for now.  Happy New Year!

Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I felt like my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were incomplete without their master, Splinter.  So here is the re-based and repainted Splinter Heroclix figure.

I have an Asgard figure in progress so that should be my next post.  Stay Tuned!

A Quickly Painted Yeti

I'm DMing a Dungeons and Dragons campaign right now and the PCs have a potential encounter coming up involving more than one yeti.  Unfortunately, I only have one yeti mini so I grabbed a Sasquatch Heroclix figure out of my pile and painted him in tints of blue.  A quick job of mostly drybrushing, but I figured why not take a pic and share him on the blog. 

He doesn't really "match" my Reaper Miniatures yeti (seen below) but he'll be better than using a counter or paper mini or something. 

This Reaper yeti was actually one of the first miniatures I painted as an adult.  I can't believe it was almost 12 years ago now.  The paint on his chest got a little thick (I was using artists' tube paints at the time) but overall I'm still pretty happy with him.

Hope to post again soon with something I put more time into.  Stay tuned.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I feel like these took forever to finish, but here's what I've been up to: painting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Heroclix!

I've wanted decent miniatures of these guys for a long time.  The old Dark Horse figures are somewhat hard to come by and can be rather expensive on Ebay, so when Heroclix recently put out a set based on TMNT, I had to to jump on it.  I'm pretty happy with these guys. I tried to paint each one's skin with slightly different greens for variety.  I debated painting the bandanas different colors but decided to go with the classic red.  I used this Kevin Eastman illustration for inspiration.

Here's how they looked when I got them. 

I pinned them onto Secret Weapon "Town Square" bases.  I like these bases for superhero-type figures in general and sewer manhole covers really sealed the deal for the Turtles.

I thought I would also share that I played a really fun Land of the Lost themed game using Golgo Island rules and the Sleestak and "Pakuni" miniatures you may remember from my past blog entries. (I can't believe I painted these Sleestaks all the way back in 2014.)  Good times.

I hope to post again soon.  Stay Tuned.

Howard the Duck Heroclix and Archive E'corcist Duck

Here is a repainted Howard the Duck Heroclix mini and one of the Duck figures from Archive Miniatures' E'corcist Duck pack (which apparently also included a priest duck) from the late 70s.

I was curious about Archive miniatures' duck figures.  They always seemed like an odd choice to me, but recently I have been reading the old Steve Gerber Howard the Duck comics (which are pretty great in their own wacky way) and it all made sense.  This "devil duck" that I've had in my collection for a while is clearly based on the comic.

So I grabbed a Howard the Duck Heroclix figure and painted the two of them up.

Here's what Howard looked like before I cut him off his base:

I painted him to match the colors of the original comics run.  The only major difference from the early issues is that he didn't have pants until Disney threatened to sue Marvel due to similarities with Donald Duck.

Here's a before shot of the Archive miniature:

I really struggled with this figure for some reason.  Part of it is likely the coarse sculpting.  The eyes for example are such deep holes that I couldn't do much but poke in some blue paint.

So this figure is actually Howard himself possessed by the demonic side of Daimon Hellstrom.  I tried to keep the colors faithful to the comic.  I did give him red horns which he only has on the cover.  I just thought he looked better that way.

I don't know what I'll be painting next but follow this blog and stay tuned, and you'll be sure to find out.

Alpha Centauri from Doctor Who

I bring you Alpha Centauri that squeeky-voiced hermaphroditic hexapod alien delegate from Doctor Who.  This character appeared in the classic episodes Curse of Peladon and Monster of Peladon.

This miniature is from the Harlequin/Black Tree Design line of Doctor Who miniatures.  The sculpt of the arms/claws isn't very defined and they were kind of hard to paint, but otherwise I like it.  A fun little figure.

Alpha Cenaturi and the Doctor.  I need an Ice Warrior, Jo Grant, and maybe a miniature stand-in for Arcturus, right?


I also rebased and touched up some Heroclix minis that I might use for any number of different gaming purposes.

 A vintage grenadier miniature should be next up.  Stay tuned...
    

Hiro's Shadow Scout / Cyclops Heroclix Repaint Etc.

As I have mentioned before, I don't know the first thing about Yu-Gi-Oh, but I grabbed a handful of Yu-Gi-Oh Heroclix because I thought they were cool looking.  Here is one them: "Hiro's Shadow Scout." I re-based it, and used the factory paintjob as a base coat and repainted it from there.  I like how this weird little figure turned out.

Here's a stock photo to give an idea of what it looked like beforehand.  

I also re-based these three other heroclix minis: 2 Yu-Gi-Oh Kinetic Soldiers, and Remac, a DC Comics Heroclix.  The Kinectic Soldiers I slapped a couple of washes on and changed their "eye" color.  

  I figured all of the above would work well for Gamma World or Sci-Fi types of games.  Really, Hiro's Shadow Scout could be used in almost any genre or setting that includes weird creatures.

Sangan Heroclix Repaint

I'm back with a quick repaint of a Yu-Gi-Oh! heroclix figure called Sangan.  I use the term "repaint" a bit loosely as I basically took the factory paint job as a base coat, added a wash or two and some highlights.  I love this quirky little critter though.  Lots of personality and I thought he would work well in a Gamma World encounter at some point.  (I know very little about Yu-Gi-Oh but I picked up a handful of the series one heroclix, that I thought looked cool, to re-base and touch up.) 

Here's the factory paint job, after I re-based him but before I did any painting.

 

Hope to be back before long with the last of my Low Life miniatures and then some vintage lead.

Gamma World Eating My Time

It's been almost a month since I've posted anything here and it's mainly because I'm running a Gamma World campaign right now and preparing material and miniatures for that has taken up most of my
gaming/miniature-related time.  I just finished rebasing and slightly touching up or throwing a wash on a bunch of pre-painted heroclix and horrorclix miniatures for that game which you can see below.  Now that I'm done with that task, I should be getting back to the vintage lead which is meant to be the focus here.  Stay tuned.