Painting Marvel Crisis Protocol With 144Artist

I really like this set of minis.  Classic movie monsters were never my first choice when buying comics but I liked them.  Heck, I loved the old films so was psyched to get to work on this set.  AMG has really done a great job on all four of these. If I could afford it I would pick up the Ruins of Dracula’s Castle as a display base.  I don’t care what any of them do in game, I just love that they are in the game.

So with Man-Thing and Eva Bloodstone done , it is time to increase the population of Movie Monsters in my collection.  No better place to start than with Vlad Dracula, the Prince of Darkness.  Such a great sculpt with movement and wonderful details.  I just love the bats flying about him.

Ghost Rider was one of the first Marvel characters I became aware of and even though I never really collected any of the titles he appeared in, I read a lot of the stories.  He was simultaneously scary and cool to a little kid.  Such a great visual with the flaming skull and wheels.  I tried to paint the chain glowing within, like lava.

Exodus is another character I only have a passing knowledge of.  He started up about the same time I got bored with where Marvel was going in comics.  I have little memory of what he did in the comics so have absolutely no idea what he does in the game.  He has that overly complex costume design of the 90’s but was fun to paint.

I loved this character in the MCU and the comics.  I found it interesting to see a rather two dimensional character from my childhood become something far more interesting than a Green Arrow copy.  I quite like how my yellows came out on him.

So Eva Bloodstone and Man-Thing have been painted for over a year at this point but have only just ben edited for posting.  Two more really fun sculpts with all kinds of organic details on Man-Thing. I may add more weathering to the stone column he is leaning against.  There is certainly lots of opportunity for weathering the figure.

My New Mutants affiliation grows with the addition of Sunspot.  He looks like fun to play.  He was fun to build and paint so anything else is bonus at this point.

As I noted so long ago in my last post, life certainly gets in the way of hobby time.  In May I found myself having to move house. Fortunately it was to a much bigger place even though that gave me some new challenges and a great deal of work.  I had finished up and photographed more minis before I packed everything away so plan to start back by posting those.

Thanos was one I wanted to enter in a painting exhibition so really pushed myself on the Non-Metalic Metal of his armor.  While I think it is among some of my better efforts, I really have a long way to go before I feel capable let alone competent.  I do feel this is a strong piece and some of my better work on MCP minis.  I’m just impatient to improve.  I will post pictures with his throne in the near future.

Here’s hoping I can start posting progress regularly again. I even have room to set up a game or two now so more pictorial possibilities.