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Taskmaster is now painted in his unique color scheme.  The oldest heroes are all in the primary and secondary colors as that was the limits of early comic book publishing.  Taskmaster are around once a wider pallet was available and it shows in his baby blue and yellow color scheme.  I enjoyed painting him for that very reason.  Nice pose as well.

With Killmonger finished another boxed set is complete.  He has quite the dramatic pose with an added sculpture of a panther rounding it out.  I have just about finished the Wakandan affiliation with only M’Baku and Chosen of Bast remaining and they are both assembled and waiting for primer as i write this.

Worked on Colossus as well.  I believe the pink base to paint yellow over is a winner.  It even worked for some touch up.  Still have a few more highlights to go with it but I like it so far.  I have a lot of work to do on the NMM but I did get a few layers and outlining done.

Continuing on with my Wakanda affiliation progress I present Shuri.  A brilliant scientist and formidable fighter.  I like that AMG leaned into the MCU look more than the comic book.  Her lion headed blasters are especially cool.

I’ve got Wong, Magic, Bishop, Colossus, and Cassandra Nova on the painting table right now.  I’m going to work on improving my NMM skills with the steel Russian as well as trying out using pink for the base of yellow.

As I seem to have made a good start on a few affiliations it is time to get back to building up my Wakandans.  So here is Okoye built and painted. A very stoic and noble pose for one who looks pretty deadly on paper.  She seems like one who will fit in a number of teams well.

I wasn’t familiar with Agent Venom when I bought Spider Woman but since he was in the package as well I had some reading to do.  Bonus that he can be in the Guardians of the Galaxy Affiliation as well.  Great sculpt with lots of movement and only a little frustrating to assemble.  The speed at which he painted made up for that, unlike Carnage which is a whole future post himself.  I have a feeling that there is a Symbiotes Affiliation in the works as they keep trickling into the release schedule.

Here is the last of my MCU Guardians of the Galaxy.  As much as I love the movie version, I do appreciate the simpler tattoos as I’m not sure I could have painted the others.  Being one of the earlier releases the pose is simple but still emotes  the rage and frustration of the character.  Very easy assembly without the tiny pieces some of the later kits will include.

Dare Devil was the mini that made me start adapting some of the bases.  I just couldn’t see the gravestone he’s leaping from sitting in the middle of the street.  It really makes a big difference and I can see myself going back to add rubble to some of the minis I’ve already finished.  I was going to add some tufts of grass but am having second thoughts.  I love this character and Atomic Mass’s sculpt of him.  I am just worried about the cord from his baton breaking off at some point.  For as delicate as many of the models are, I have been fortunate so far.

With Thor finished Valkyrie couldn’t be far behind.  I love the lore and characters but thought it will be a while before I got to work on any more of the affiliation.  Then I picked up Beta Rey Bill because I love the character and really want to paint the mini.  That’s a double win so I had to get him glued up right away.

Not sure if I just missed posting these or didn’t see the post when I reviewed the older ones but either way, here are the finished pictures of the leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy.  Seems appropriate as I have almost the vast majority of the Affiliation painted now.

Looking back I see I’ve not been posting any of my Work in Progress or On The Table shots recently.  I collected a few together to make up for the oversight just a little.  I’ll try and keep up on these more in future as I always enjoy sharing the process.

Thanos’s more lethal daughter, Gamora, is painted and ready to represent the Guardians of the Galaxy affiliation on the table.  I only just realized I haven’t posted the pictures of Starlord yet either.  Gamora is the last of the MCU characters for the Guardians I needed to paint.  There are others like Angela and Beta Ray Bill I will get to later but I have little interest in Cosmic Ghost Rider as I never read any comics he was in.  I’m sure I will change my mind once I start playing the game.

What a great sculpt.  Wonderful detail on top of a gravity defying action pose.  The way the figure only touches the base details by the side of one foot could only be done in plastic.  I may be an old guy who has been painting minis since they were made out of actual lead but I never had a problem with plastics.  Like any material, I always judged it by the quality of the details, poses, strength of material, and ease of construction.  I love Atomic Mass Games’ plastic kits even if they get a bit fiddly sometimes and this one really shows off the strengths of the material and sculptor.  Nebula is so fun visually that I can see me using her in a lot of lists just because I think she looks cool.

Sticking to the Guardians of the Galaxy characters here is Ronan the Accuser. The sculpt is a mix of the comic character and the MCU version and I rather like it.  He was a quick, fun paint job.  I might go back and work on the energy channels of the weapon but I doubt it.  This guy will look good on the table as is and I frequently say; Finished is my Favorite Color.

I finished painting several of the bases I had added rubble and texture to.  I am quite pleased with how they have come out.  They give the figure an environment to exist within and don’t jar my eye the way some of my earlier bases did. I can see me going back to several of them to modify in a similar manner.  I really have to start incorporating more of the extra bits AMG have attached to every sprue of bases. Cups and cans will add color and texture though I will want to paint them with brand logos on them because I am ridiculous.

With Groot comes Rocket and his arsenal of weapons.  Being small and fragile would lend one to ranged weapons.  As I mentioned in the previous post, I painted the two companions at the same time to better match bases and plant growth.  I quite like the lenses on the “muzzle” of the gun and am amazed at the delicacy of Rocket’s teeth.  The idea that he is so small (Size 1) that in game he always counts as in cover is fun and really fits the character.

As folks can probably guess, the title translates to,” I finished painting Groot”.  Another super fun sculpt that painted fairly quickly.  I painted him and Rocket at the same time so their bases and root/branch all match together. Thinking about this is part f what drove me to start adding things to some of my bases.  More on the results of that soon.  This guy, and all of my Guardians of the Galaxy, were actually finished a month ago but life has gotten in the way of my photographing

With the completion of The Mighty Thor I have now painted at least one of every character from the MCU’s Avengers film, well both of the first two films since Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are already done. I’ve gone a little more blue than the black of the box art but I still like how he came out. I’m really excited to have another version of him as well as Jane’s iteration of the character coming out later this year. I still haven’t played the game but won’t stop painting now. Besides, Namor is almost here…

CP74 Red Skull and Hydra Troopers is finished.  This is my second set of Grunts after Ultron and his drones though Nick Fury Sr and the Howling Commandoes felt similar with three figures on one big base.  I have no idea how to use these in game or even what they do different than characters but it should be fun finding out.  Fingers crossed that I get some game play in this weekend at KublaCon, one of my favorite game conventions in the San Francisco Bay Area.It has an amazing community of minis painters and a great Painting Exhibition.

I have completed painting the massive bruiser that is Juggernaut.  He is on the largest of the bases Atomic Mass makes and he is huge.  He is easily as large as Rhino and Immortal Hulk.  Not sure how he plays in the game but I’d like to see a bunch of these huge guys take each other on sometime.  Wonder when AMG will release an Abomination model.

One of the nice things about Atomic Mass Games is that the bases for the minis look like urban streets and that they include extras with the minis.  While this works well for figures that look like they are in New York City, or any other modern metropolis, the “tactical” items that many of the characters are based on just don’t work as well.  I began to notice this a little while ago but only just decided to make some changes once I built Dare Devil, Spider Woman, and Agent Venom as they all look like they are moving through a graveyard.  While very cool looking, they just didn’t fit the sidewalks and streets that are the current bases.  So I decided to attach sand and gravel using acrylic gloss medium as it is much stronger for attaching to plastic.  With Dare Devil I decided to use the flat base of service doors and some brickwork.  I think this will make for a nice “graveyard path” look.