Ice Ice Baby

 So, another X-Man joints the roster:

If I’m being frank, I actually prefer an Iceman that’s made of… well, ice. I don’t have one of those though (and the last time I stocked up on Heroclix, the store I was buying from didn’t have any either), so here we are. On the other hand, I actually quite enjoyed the series of comics where the original X-Men are brought through time to the modern day (which I really didn’t think I was going to), so maybe this is that time transplanted Iceman, and I can still paint another one at some point in the future…

Also, he’s done before the rest of the team because… well, there wasn’t a lot to paint once I’d gotten his snowy body to a point I was happy with, then his boots were pretty quick to layer up to done!

8 vs 204 = -196

(although I just discovered that the box of Dragoons I bought at Salute is actually missing a couple of sprues, so it’s actually currently 4 different to that)

What’s next? I’m away for work next week, so am planning to take my usual hotel painting kit along with some more X-Men (as their shared colour scheme means I can take fewer paints), so here’s to hoping I’m not so exhausted by the evening that I can’t get any painting done!

Danger…

 … Will Robinson? Wait, wrong robot, it’s actually this robot called Danger that I’ve painted:

I think my first exposure to the character was actually pulling this mini out of a heroclix booster (as I ended up buying a bunch for cheap from the Works when the game first went away) and my first thought was that… she looked a bit dumb. Then many years later, I read more comics and my X-Men fandom increased, and I thought… well, that she was still pretty dumb, to be fair. It’s the danger room, but walking around in a robot body? Then I read X-Club by Simon Spurrier, and honestly Danger’s still kind of dumb but in a way that I’m actually also fairly fond of…

She’s generally portrayed as being a metal frame around some glowy internal bits, like this:

So I went at her with the only pot of contrast paint that I own, to sort of sink into the recesses, and also make a quick and easy glow effect. This was fairly quick and effective, and is the main reason that she is the first ‘goodie’ that I’ve finished for my X-Men project rather than one of the more iconic characters!

As well as finishing her, I also nipped into GW with my wife to grab the new mini of the month:

As a Death Korps Engineer can definitely find a home in an inq28 warband!

So, no great change to the Tally, which now stands at: 

5 vs 24 = -19

With six days to go until Salute…

Do you think Blob…

 …chose his own Codename? Or is Magneto just really blunt?

So, I’ve recently had a reorganise of my painting tile and stripped back the amount of half-painted miniatures on it in the hopes of reducing option paralysis, so it’s mostly the X-men minis I prepped a while back at the moment, which has allowed me to get Blob to a finished state.

The aim is to get four X-men and four Brotherhood of Evil Mutants characters painted so that they can start getting used in Super Mission Force, so that’s one down, three to go (and there’s still another five possible options on my painting tile).

Just for fun, here’s the piece of art that someone posted on Facebook while I was mid paint job that reminded me that Blob sometimes has a yellow belt:

Poor Rogue…

Finishing him brings the Tally to:

4 vs 23 = -19

Next: more mutants! Although I really want to start on some Alamo miniatures. And am fighting the urge to start a Napoleonic project, damn you Richard Sharpe…