Painting Marvel Crisis Protocol With 144Artist

Professor Charles Xavier, founder of Xavier’s School For Gifted Youngsters and a leader of the X-Men Affiliation is painted and ready to float onto the scene.  I did make sure to use the base with a wheelchair accessible curb even though he uses a hover chair.  Charles, here, represents the beginning of a number of X-Men posts as I have been painting a lot of them lately.  I’m even onto X-Force now.

The leader and only current existing member of the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost is ready to wreck havoc in both her organic and diamond form.  Of course she is also a member of the X-Men Affiliation so of flexible loyalties.  As much as 14 year old me loved her original costume, it really was just lingerie and a cape.  Glad they kept the cape as it adds movement to the sculpt but her updated costume is much better for action or even just going outside.

A pair of great poses for one character funl fun to paint.

Another X-Men villain is finished and ready to lead the Brotherhood of Mutants.  In the comics and movies she is the shapeshifting, tactically gifted mother of Nightcrawler.  Obviously I have no idea what she does in game or how shapeshifting is represented by the rules but I am guessing it will be fun.  I’ve seen some wonderful paint jobs online where she appears to be changing shape but decided to keep with her standard color scheme.

…Comes the Shadow King.  For a character that began as a one shot villain in a flashback issue to illuminate some of Professor Xavier’s early history this guy is scary.  A malignant being of psychic force that takes over the minds of lesser beings. Yikes.  Obviously I have no idea of what he does in the game but he is super cool model, basically two in one, that was fun to paint.  I can’t ask for much more from a hobby.

What a great sculpt.  I love how fluid he looks, how he is “appearing” out of the mist, and AMG really nailed the look of the comic book character.  For a guy who wasn’t one of Spiderman’s regular foes he was always cool, if more in concept than execution.  He was on the old cartoons a lot more than in the comics and his big screen version was a lot of fun.  I really enjoyed painting this fellow with the helmet being a source of my sense of accomplishment.

I finished painting the 1st Edition Doc Ock and I have to say it is a nice little sculpt.  It is easy to dismiss the first sculpts for their simplicity or static poses but they are full of detail and represent the Marvel characters in 3D beautifully.  While not as fluid and lacking the movement of the later sculpts, this one looks unmovable with his arms crossed and his tentacles waving menacingly around him.

I won’t lie, I find Carnage to be incredibly creepy, I mean beyond the serial killer thing.  He is one of Spidy’s more terrifying enemies, like a living weapon that killed Gwen Stacy in an alternate reality of the multi-verse.  He is just a horrible creature but oh so perfect for a miniatures skirmish game and look at that sculpt.  Great movement, alternative pieces, solid detail and despite being held aloft by tendrils of Carnage-goo, a stable pose.  I did find some of those details a little fiddly during assembly but nowhere near as frustrating as Agent Venom was.

What a pair these two make both in comics and on the tabletop.  No idea how they play but really like the juxtaposition between the two characters’ poses.  It really illustrates the difference in their abilities and temperaments.

Despite only being supported by the flames of his Iron Fist, Danny is a fairly easy model to assemble.  Fun to paint as well with the clean muscle tone and flaming power effect.  The dragon on his chest is delicate and shallow in casting so I recommend thin paints when priming and painting though, truth be told, that is my go to regardless.  I am finding that Atomic Mass Games’ minis are more like scale model kits than gaming pieces in that regard.