Franken-Castle #101

It's alive! I got Franken-Castle from a tourny at my local store. I was pretty stoked. I got around to painting him, and I think he turned out pretty good. The before.

So here's my custom. I really liked this model to paint. The sculpt was simple, yet Frank has a demanding presence. As well, he isn't overclogged with those clear plastic movement plastics they like to add on. 

With this model, I wanted frank to have a more of "Dying" Flesh instead of the grey he normally does. Never made sense, so I used a mixture of greens and browns to give him a decaying look. For the metals a drybrushing technique. The challenging part that I failed miserably at, was his pouches for teeth. The plastic on my model wasn't enough to wash and dry brush to white so I just painted them solid white and hoped for the best. 

I really enjoyed this model and am really glad to have him in my collection. 

Black Adam #054

SHAZAM! It's Black Adam! Black Adam is pretty awesome, he's one of my favorite villains as of recently. When I pulled this fig out of the Superman set I wasn't overly excited but after doing my research on the Captain Marvel of things, he's pretty bamf.

The Original - I didn't take one myself so I pulled this one from Herominis.com

I did some research on this fig. the soldier BA is choking to death is the gentlemen who designed the sculpt. I looked up said gentlemen and pulled an image of him in uniform from Google search so I could replicate it on my soldier. It's basic camo so nothing to fancy. Here he is!

To begin, BA was removed from his rock base with a hobby knife, and the rock was drybrushed codex gray, to ceramite white, to pure white. The lightning bolts are that see-through plastic, that HeroClix sometimes come with to make them look in motion. I drybrushed the part of the rock the bolts were coming out of to attempt to give a glowing effect. Black Adam was painted Black and highlighted with a 75/25 abaddon black and codex grey. The yellow areas of BA were painted yriel yellow with heavy highlighting of sunny yellow then 50/50 sunny yellow / ceramite white. Adam's eyes we're painted sunny yellow with a light drybrushing to give a supercharged look. His skin tone was painted xv-88 with an elf flesh layer. I washed his skin in a heavy gryphonne sepia to give him a tan look. Adam is from Egypt so I wanted him to be slightly darker. His cheek bone down was washed Devlan Mud for a 5 o'clock. 

The Soldier. He was painted with a military camo pattern xv-88 for the brown, rhinox hide, and caliban green. His skin tone was xv-88 layered with elf flesh, with a highlight of 75/25 elf flesh, ceramite white. 

Hulk #027

HULK SMASH! I had some free time on Saturday so I started working on Hulk from the Guardians of the Galaxy booster. He's a pretty sweet fig, and was pretty fun to paint.

Before:

The original sculpt wasn't painted all that bad. There weren't too many mess ups, or spill over paint areas. I still wanted to repaint him however. WizKids models are very flat and bright. I like my figs to have much darker color. So must of my models are painted with a darker costume design. Bright red brought down to brick red sort of ideal. Same costume color coordination just a less cartoony approach. 

The repaint! 

Pretty quick to paint. Primed him Chaos Black, then gave him a basecoat of Loren Forest. Highlighted with 50/50 Loren and Warboss green. Then a raised highlight of 75 /25 of Warboss to Loren Forest. Washed the model with Biel-Tan, painted the Hair Abaddon Black. The eyes and teeth Cermite White. I painted his pants Perfect Purple, with a Drakenhof Nightshade wash. The base was made with Tyrant Skull dry base with a Codex Grey wash! There it is and he's finished and ready for the board. 

Mistress Death #044

Alrighty! Another weekdown, only 2 to go until this semester is over! So it's taken me a little while to get into painting with the semester wrapping up, but I was able to pull a Mistress Death from a Double sealed tournament from the NML event. I didn't win the Killer Croc LE :( but there will be other chances! Mistress Death is awesome for a range support piece. She's not meant to move around at all and just blast people from down the field, so I was pretty stoked. Her and Madam Web are going to be awesome side by side on my "Chairs" Team.

Once again here's the Original picture of Mistress Death and then i'll post my remake with a little blurb about my painting process on this fig :)

I'm not quite sure why the HeroClix are so terribly painted. Maybe since the game has really taken off this last couple of years, they are required to crank out as many as they can at as cheap as they can.

So here's my finished mini, I wasn't too entertained with painting her since the entire fig is mostly bone. Still a cool piece to own.

So for this fig I stripped the paint off the mini with my acentone from Walmart. It took a little while, the paint was really caked on. After the model was dry, I sprayed the model with chaos black primer. When finished, I drybrushed xv88 onto all the bone surfaces. I wanted the bone to look rotten instead of bleached. After, I painted the stone her chair is on, abaddon black. Then drybrushed the entire model codex gray, and continued to lighten up the drybrushing with wicker white from folkart, ceramite white then finally white scar. When dry I washed all of the bone pieces with Gryphonne Sepia, then the recesses and inside the teath, skull eyes and various random spots with Devlan Mud. For Mistress Death, I painted her solid black and built up a light warlock purple highlight. Washed her with Badab Black and Walah! I'm stoked to play this piece in a tournament, need to play her with Terrax and really wreak havoc. I'm hoping I can get more painting done a little faster and post a little more often. Until next time!

Killer Croc #021

I haven't been painting for very long. Maybe a year or so, when I decided to take the plunge into miniature painting. This is a project i've been more recently working on and finally finished. I only have the end product but was noticing there isn't much customizing in the HeroClix world, and wanted to put some of my stuff out there for people to see. Sure some people customize their clix, however it's nowhere near the other fantasy games.

Here it is! Killer Croc! Here is the original, out of the box paint job. I love the game HeroClix, however I am always disappointed with the paint jobs they supply. The factory paint however does leave lots of opportunity to really make your own custom models shine.

To strip the paint off the plastic without melting it or having it flake, I use a cotton ball soaked in acetone. You can get the acetone from Walmart for about 2-3 dollars for a decent sized bottle. Just dab the cotton ball and wipe away the filth!

Here is my Killer Croc after he's finished. I didn't make a tutorial, but perhaps i'll start to show my process on the next few models, and maybe have feedback to help improve my methods. We can improve together!

I think basing HeroClix gives them a lot more volume and realism to the individual character. I wanted him to look more crocodile than just green. It's hard to tell since the picture is rather small, but wanted to have the browns and blacks like crocodile skin. I also wanted him to be in Arkham orange, instead of the blue pants he came with. The torso I used, that Croc is feasting on, is a Jackal from Web of Spider-man somebody gave me that was missing an arm. He became mod fodder. 

2 Additional pictures, side view and back view.