Marvel: Crisis Protocol

Man I’m really glad I didn’t try to paint this model a year ago. I’ve learned so much since then about painting black, faces, blending that the things I was able to accomplish here I would absolutely have botched or not bothered with a year ago. The only real critique I have of her is I’m not thrilled about the face, but I’m not sure yet what about it I could’ve done better. Whenever I have moments like that I always suspect that I will return to that model later after learning some other lesson and it will be immediately obvious to me what I should’ve done differently.

I’m really, really happy with the black on the outfit. I think the highlight placements feel really natural and the amount of highlighting gives it depth while still keeping it looking like the color black. I also really like how the sword and the blue magic and portal effect came out. I worry that had I tried to do this with a different paint brand, it wouldn’t blend as nicely and at least a portion of my progress as a painter is tied to the paints cheating for me. There’s something about the Scalecolor paints that just kind of blend together even though I’m just doing layering. I often get questions if I’m doing wet-blending or glazing or something along those lines and really the closest I get to any of that is I’ll go back in and soften transitions with a mix if the transitions look too rough, but for the most part the paint is just cheating for me, giving me a better paint job than I likely deserve.

So overall I’m really happy with how Magik came out. She was a fun model to paint and I think she looks really striking on the table top.

The nice thing about collecting an entire game is when they invent a new faction by dropping a single model as it’s leader, you’ve already got everything necessary to play that faction. Very excited about Nick Fury dropping. Really excited to have little grunts running around getting annihilated by a thrown street lamp.

Still to be painted/released:

• Nick Fury

Planned Repaints:

• Black Widow
• Taskmaster
• Winter Soldier

I’m updating things enough that I think I’ve outgrown the project format here at OTT. I have some new updates for my blog over on https://moriartisminis.wordpress.com/ if anyone wants to keep up on this project (or others) going forward.

Thank you so much OTT community. I really appreciate the feedback and support I’ve gotten on this project.