CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS! PT 2
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About the Project
So for the briefest of times i was up to date but then something terrible happened, more models arrived!!! So time to fire up Marvel Pt 2!
Related Game: Marvel Crisis Protocol Miniatures Game
Related Company: Atomic Mass Games
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
“Grrrrrrr”
Next it’s the eminently unquotable Black DwarfNow in a rare and bizarre moment of creativity I decided the for some unfathomable reason I wanted to have the red and blue sash hanging from his belt as per the film version of him.
So out came the brown stuff, some palette paper and a scalpel. Basically rolled out a strip, cut it down (keep your blade wet) and stuck it on.
Brain matter beige drybrush. Then realised I hadn’t painted the base so painted that and dry bushed that!
Finally a base today, Matt coat and done. The sash looks a little ropey but happy enough to leave it on. I could always come back and replace it later but for now, we move on!
“You call ME, boy? I will unfurl one thousand years of Kree justice on Xandar and burn it to its core! Then, Thanos, I'm coming for you!”
He kill planets but can’t win a dance off, its Ronan the Accuser!Although the box art Is nice for Ronan I prefer his on screen look and whilst the model isn’t a direct sculpt there is enough similarity to recreate his colour scheme. So that’s what I’m going to attempt!
So mainly black then!!
Forgot to add the drybrush step but it is a simple brain matter beige. FYI sometimes on black the drybrush can get to heavy. If this happens I find a quick drybrush with the base colour Over any problem area will tone it down.
Quick base tidy and a Matt coat and hand done. FYI I tried to get a flow effect by slightly overbrushing the purple ink from the recesses. Top tip, don’t bother, looks rubbish so I just painted over with silver and walked away!
“He'll die alone. As will you.“
Now for the other half of the Vision kicking duo, it’s the wife of Corvus, Proxima Midnight.
Cheeky drybrush I want her skin tone to be closer to the movie than the box art so the face has a 1/4 blue tone / medium where as the hair is 4/1 blue tone / medium
After a Matt coat she’s ready to cause havoc with her other half!
“Stonekeeper, does this chattering animal speak for you?”
He’s so cool he flies standing up! It’s Ebony Maw
So far so good, unfortunately it goes a little south from here. The tabard stripe down the middle caused me no end of grief. I wish now I’d gone with my initial feeling and avoided bloody yellow!! Crucially I started having doubts and went to heavy with the wash and it dried to heavy. My mantra is always use medium, I ignored it at my peril and ended up having to go back in to try and calm it down but have to say I’m really disappointed in how it’s finished up. I think the best thing to do now is get it finished, leave it and come back to him at another time and try to correct him!!
Drybrush step, photos may go a little off as I kept going over and over bits trying to save them!
Matt coat and base tidy and he’s finished, for now…
“Give up the stone and she lives”
After a brief sojourn it’s back to the world of Marvel Crisis Protocol and first up, its the guy who spent most of the Infinity War rofl stomping Vision, it’s Corvus Glaive
just realised the body doesn’t quite stand out enough from the cloak so decided to go in with a blue ink to give it a subtle variation
In a shocking twist I’ve decided that brain matter beige may be to stark for the cloak so decided to do a uniform grey dry brush followed by an ash grey dry brush. I then went with a brain matter beige just on the highest points of the cloak and the staff. I then went in and touched up the gold where it had been dulled with the grey.
Oops forgot the eyes!Followed up with a 50/50 dark tone / medium wash, Matt coat And a gloss varnish on the black panels. He is now ready to kick Vision in all over again!
“I assure you. I am not as easy a mark as an old man without his stick or a talking woodland beast.”
And now the othe half of the deadly daughters, it’s Nebula
Drybrush time
Matt coat and the other half of the deadly daughters is done
“I am going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.”!
Next up it’s the first of the daughters of Thanos, the deadliest woman in the galaxy, GamoraNow on the box art she’s painted in her comic book style and I have had enough friends recently cursing and swearing about painting white armour on storm troopers that I definitely wanted to avoid that route. Besides I prefer her onscreen look so I’m going to go for a more blue / black theme as per below
Apologies, due to the onset af drunkenness I forgot the drybrush shot, you know the drill by now!
- Quick tidy and a Matt coat and she ready
"BOW TO THE WILL OF MODOK!"
So, slightly daunted by the idea of painting effectively a big giant face, its time to get stuck into MODOK.
Firstly, a f#@k up! i was toying with the idea a of painting the main body in yellow and in a weird burst of curiousity i mixed yellow with a silver to see if it would give a metallic finish. Tip for you all, it doesnt, just a strange greeny yellow so scrapped that idea and went back to gold!
A small drybrush on the hair and face only, in case its not clear i drybrushed the gold and purple earlier with a shining silver
And with a tidy up of the base and a matt coat the big giant head is done. took a lot longer than i thought he would (damn those teeth) but really pleased with how he came out, looking forward to wtching him murderously rage across the tabletop!
