I have the Power - Painting and Playing Masters of the Universe - Clash for Eternia from CMON
Part 1 - Painting the Core Box Villains
As my first task, I decided to paint the villains as they seem a little more repetitive than the heroes, the game being designed as a 4 vs 1 or 4 vs AI. I have the feeling, however, that one may play the villains vs the heroes in this game, to be confirmed once I take time to dig deeper in the rules. Speaking of rules, I also intend on trying to create profiles for Wasteland Warriors from Wiley Games and maybe even for Monolith Conan.
First, I painted what I though may be the most boring part of the bad guy’s faction: The Hover Bots. They turned out to be quite fun to paint, once I figured out that contrast paints were not optimal for them.
The Shadow Beasts could be user for any primal or post apocalyptic skirmish game. Their old school vibe is very groovy 😉
Beast-Man was a very ‘Matelesque’ miniature, especially when given the original toy colors.
Mer-Man was very fun and his base very contrast-friendly. While we are talking about bases, I want to say using three contrast colors across the board was both easy and quite pleasing aesthetically in the end. Not the best basing work I have done but I feel it fits the cartoony style.
Trap-Jaw original toy colors were quite clashing but I decided to keep it that way, just adding a little metallic tint to his may cyborg implements.
Evil Lyn was a bit uninspired but the very pale skin tone was fun to paint. I only wish it would show better on the photograph.
These are fabulous!
I love where you’ve kept to the original colours, they’re so nostalgic. The ones you’ve changed up look really cool, so bright and fun.
I’m looking forward to seeing the heroes when they’re done.
Thank you for your kind words 🙂 As a kid, I did not play with these toys as it was not as popular in France as it was in the US. But once I crossed the pond, I discovered, via the Robert Howard community of gamers and readers, that Masters of the Universe had originally been planned as a Conan-adjacent series, but failed to get the license. That drove me to dig deeper and eventually backing this game to paint colorful toys. I have now posted the heroes faction and will work this week on a batrep. I missed the… Read more »