Hole in My Head Protocol
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About the Project
I need a new game like I need a hole in my head. However, Over the past few years I have found that I really enjoy painting Atomic Mass Games' Shatterpoint models, and it's also my current favorite miniatures game by a fairly wide margin. So, with AMG scaling Shatterpoint back to just a few releases per year, there's a hole in my hobby budget that needs to be filled. Or at least, that's what I'm telling myself...
Related Game: Marvel Crisis Protocol Miniatures Game
Related Company: Atomic Mass Games
Related Genre: General
This Project is Active
What Have I Done?
Until now I’ve avoided Marvel Crisis Protocol. In the distant past I was an avid Heroclix player, so I had the initial “what do you mean I have to buy models of characters I already have” response, but I’ve since relaxed on that front (not to mention I sold my Heroclix collection some time ago). More importantly, my partner and I have really been enjoying Shatterpoint, and the promise of a similar game is hard to resist. So here we are.
I picked up an original Core Set for a song — all the paper and cardboard is out of date, but it was worth it for the models and terrain. That would be a good starting place but of course I had to get a few more sets as well…
I decided to start with some of the more colorful characters.
As usual I’m using a mix of techniques for these: black primer, a heavy drybrush in an off-white (Army Painter Ancient Stone), speedpaints for the base colors, then a much lighter drybrush for highlights. There were a few cases where the speedpaint did some excessive coffee-staining, which had to be touched up in traditional paints using a more-or-less triad approach.
