Marvel Crisis Protocol by Lawnor

One of my plans for the 4 day weekend was to finish Jaws of the Lion, and then start Aeon Trespass: Odyssey.  However, I seem to be having an allergic reaction to something in my gaming room.  It’s happened the past 2 days, and it happened all last weekend.  last weekend I was dog sitting so I was blaming it on the dog.  I’ve never had an animal allergy before, but I’ve never spent more than a few hours with a long haired dog before that.  The dog is long gone, but my itchy eyes and runny nose keep coming back.  I didn’t have this issue when I was gaming in this room before Christmas.  Well, the weather is really good so I’ve had all the windows open all weekend.  Let’s hope that clears whatever this issue is.  I’ve decided I don’t want a third day of my face attacking me, so I’m skipping ATO and spending the whole day painting instead.  Let’s get Doctor Handsy finished.

Tentacle Steel & Lenses

Base: P3 Pig Iron.  Undercoat the lenses of his glasses too
Pin Wash GW Nuln Oil only in the gaps between the segments
Paint the lenses on his glasses with a drop of A.MIG-0093 Crystal Red.  I used 2 coats, but 1 was probably enough.
Layer Highlight 1: Pig Iron mixed with VGC 720063 Chainmail Silver
Layer Highlight 2: Chainmail Silver
Layer Highlight 3: Chainmail Silver mixed with VMA 71.064 Chrome
Layer Highlight 4: Pick out a few careful glints with pure Chrome

The next big colour is the glow.  This was a trial and error paint job.  I had a good idea as I’ve done similar things before but there was definite experimentation here

Undercoat: White or you’ll never get the vibrancy you need
Base: P3 Cygnus Yellow
Wash: P3 Heartfire over all of it
Wash: P3 Ember Orange only in the outer ring of each light
Undercoat a small circle of white in the middle again (Or a dot on the smaller lights)
Reclaim with Cygnus Yellow over that white on to the slightly darker areas.
Try a little wet blending between the different shaded until you’re happy or afraid you’re just going to ruin it.
Final Highlight: Cygnus Yellow mixed with a little P3 Morrow White at the brightest point of each light

Getting there.  Just tidy up tasks and he can go sit on the Done shelf.

Glasses Frames: VMA 71.054 Dark Grey Blue

Hair

Base: P3 Beast Hide mixed with P3 Battlefield Brown
Wash: Battlefield Brown
Layer 1: base mix
Layer 2: Beast Hide
Layer 3: Beast Hide mixed with P3 Hammerfall Khaki
Glints: Hammerfall Khaki

There’s no avoiding it any longer.  It’s time to start on the red and blue guys.  Looking at them, I decided that it’ll be easier to paint the gold on Captain Marvel first.

Base: Darkstar Royal Gold (I should perhaps have undercoated brown first)
Targeted Wash: GW Seraphim Sepia
Layer 1: Royal Gold
Layer 2: Darkstar Braid Gold
Layer 3: Darkstar Fine Gold

The red seemed like the next best colour.  Red can be a bit thin so let’s put it down before I do anything else that might make it harder to get an even coverage.  If I’d been thinking ahead I’d have undercoated Captain America’s bellow with a light grey before starting work so i can get a good coverage of white there later.  It turns out I didn’t need to though as what i ended up doing went down well enough.

Base: VGC 72.012 Scarlet Red
Pin Wash: GW Nuln Oil between the segments on Spiderman’s quilted top.  I should have taken the time to gloss varnish him first, and then matt varnish him after.  It should have kept the wash more contained to the crevasses.  I had the end in sight and just wanted to avoid slow down so I didn’t do this.
Layer Highlight 1: P3 Khador Red Base
Layer Highlight 2: Khador Red base mixed with P3 Khador Red Highlight
Layer Highlight 3: Above but with more Highlight
Layer Highlight 4: minimal highlights of just Khador Red Highlight

That just leaves the blue as the one last big task.  I had an idea where to start, but wasn’t sure if it’d pan out.  I think it did ok, but perhaps I could have pushed the highlights more on Spiderman?

Pick out the trim on Spiderman with P3 Thamar Black
Base: VMC 70.899 Dark Prussian Blue (I love this colour.  It’s a deep warm blue)
Layer 1: Dark Prussian Blue mixed with Warcolours Marine 4 (I’ve based with this colour before.  It Almost glows)
Layer 2: Marine 4
Layer 3: Marine 4 mixed with Warcolours Marine 3
Layer 4: Careful selected application of Marine 3

At this point I have only applied base colours to that shield.  That’s a whole job to itself for later.  I have a plan.

It’s too late now to start another colour, but it’s early enough for a movie.  I’m 9 evenings and 1 whole day in.  I went to bed and watched Nope for the first time.  I can’t cope with horror movies.  They show me things I can’t unsee.  I can still see Karen Gillen taking a bite out of a light bulb and I only saw the trailer for Oculus a few years ago (2013.  Was that 10 years ago and I’m still squirming???).  No thanks.  I also have issues with the whole alone in the dark thing afterwards.  I’m a wuss.  Every now and then I try some, and I like some, but I’ll usually only try them at home when i can stop them at any time, and have the time for a comedy afterwards.

I’ve heard good and interesting things about the Jordan Peele movies so I’ve been slowly working through the three of them recently.  If you’re like me, then you should know these movies are safe.  They’re horror toned, but everything bad happens off screen, or out of focus or in the distance.  He’s also not trying to give you nightmares.  He’s a story he wants to tell and he seems to make them viewable by everyone and not just those who love nasty horror movies.

I’ve watched all three now and they’re really good.  They’re about a concept, and have an element of a mystery for the viewer to solve to them.  Don’t do any research.  Don’t watch any trailers.  Enjoy them blind and you’ll have a better time.  I knew some of the twists and still had a good time, but I’d have enjoyed it more if I was trying to figure it out with the characters.  “Get Out” is like a reverse murder mystery.  The murder hasn’t happened yet, but you know it’s going to.  But how and why and by who?  “Us” is more of a traditional (but still safe) horror movie, at least to begin with, but it’s more high concept with an interesting situation.  Just don’t think too hard about the backstory because it doesn’t work.  “Nope” was great.  It’s got elements of SciFi and Western to it, while being set in the modern day.  There’s something in the sky above their horse ranch that serves Hollywood, and it’s all about them figuring it out and the choices everyone makes.  It’s currently 3 days later and it’s still demanding space in my head.

Anyway, this isn’t a movie review site and I’ve still got Monday to type up.  Tangent over.