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Niiice! But the googly-eyes need a bit o' work.

I'm not entirely convinced his eyes look bad.

I don't have any problems with the new eyes.

Good job Graven'.

Looking good!

The auto-adjusting gets me too :p

Faces are definitely showing an improvement! And nice vibrant colours. Keep it up.

Viktor von Domm wrote:His right eye is still a tad wonky....but the pants look awesome!

Cheers, they're swanky pants.

Solar_lion wrote:Very nice Aquaman.. I sure there will be another version once the JL movies is out.

Our hearts go out to you Brits, Sad times indeed.

I imagine so. And I wonder why I didn't gs a beard on to this one tbh.

Yeah, strange and sad days.
Kids.

Theophony wrote:He is looking excellent . I always thought some of the uglier suits heros and villains wore were due to costs of ink colors back in the day .

Artist. "we have a new reoccurring hero in this issue, I envision him wearing dark blue with black accents."
Producer "sorry, we can't afford more blue ink this month, and since he's reoccurring how about we use some of the orange and green we have a ton of?"
Artist. "But he's called the Blue Marlin!"
Producer "Its cheaper to change his name in the text than to recolor him in the blue ink, so call him the Tuna king or something"
Janitor "How about water man"
Producer "how do you say that in Spanish? We need to draw in more of our Latino Homies."

This is also the reason why artists changed around so much.

times like this I want a clapping orkmoticon

Gitsplitta wrote:Niiice! But the googly-eyes need a bit o' work.

Cheers! Yeah, but getting there

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:I'm not entirely convinced his eyes look bad.

Ta!

Dr H wrote:I don't have any problems with the new eyes.

Good job Graven'.

Ditto!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking good!

And thanks once more.

quote=ckig]The auto-adjusting gets me too :p

Faces are definitely showing an improvement! And nice vibrant colours. Keep it up.

Captain cold and heatwave , love them in the tv show.

Nothing better than getting a game in with your boys. Love to see that!

Well, I have been gone a long time, and it is good to see you have been keeping busy.

Theophony wrote:Captain cold and heatwave , love them in the tv show.

and it is then Yeah my boys love the show. I'm a bit meh on it. Just started Season 2, seems a bit more a jolly romp. Time Guardians of the Time Galaxy, etc.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nothing better than getting a game in with your boys. Love to see that!

So true. And you should know Today was designing and building new characters.

DJShadowcat wrote:Well, I have been gone a long time, and it is good to see you have been keeping busy.

Dude, you ain't kiddin'! Yeah, I have another child. Not building a football team - building an army

This and that today, what with childcare and some marking.

The boys are making a team of female post apocalyptic cops (post-a-cop-a-lipstic maybe?) The middle one is annoyed at zombies interrupting her golf game, clearly

Also, enslaved them to paint barriers:


And started on the Legends:

Yes, I know, that's The Dark Knight in there too.
Kids were watching BB/TDK, and wanted him Next up for him is a black wash on the armour. Hawkman, Heatwave and Cold are also due washes next.

Woo, progress. Also, remembered that I have the Quick Response Team to do

Too many toys, eh?

Later peeps
graven

Best problem to have mate.

I'm of the school of if you run out of projects your doing it wrong.

Too many toys, eh?

The only way to determine who's the real wargamer and which ones are wannabes

Looking forward to the minis, and gl with keeping the young'uns involved!

I so need to get the Suicide Squad box put together and painted. so little time in the day.

Llamahead wrote:Best problem to have mate.

Isn't it? Isn't it thought? Trying to get current shelf of shame clear before father's day/birthday

Theophony wrote:I'm of the school of if you run out of projects your doing it wrong.

Well quite. Let's not talk about the contents of my paint desk drawer with kinder star wars toys to make a debris field... damn

CommissarKhaine wrote:

Too many toys, eh?

The only way to determine who's the real wargamer and which ones are wannabes

Looking forward to the minis, and gl with keeping the young'uns involved!

Quite so! The boys have been hassling me to get on with their painting, actually. Weekend maybe, though marking is taking its toll on my life.

DJShadowcat wrote:I so need to get the Suicide Squad box put together and painted. so little time in the day.

So true. Katana is a nightmare, be warned (phenomenal in game though). Goat priest isn't great either to build either. And if you decided you don't need your grin twins (they're rubbish in game) I know a good conversion home for them... Diablo's a lovely model, dreadful in game. Slipknot is really useful, totally underestimated by everyone. Boomerang is superb, dirt cheap. WIllshot is monstrously good, wayyyyyyyyy too cheap. Harley is good, and if you want to play the Squad, you're generally better running her as a Joker boss rather than SS as your team (because heads go bang) and her Charismatic means you can still recruit 3 other squad members as Free Agents (Willshot, Boomerang, Slipknot is my preference). Croc's decent enough, though I just plain prefer the classic one, and Slipknot helps deal with roof rats.
The Leto Joker is a nice model and pretty solid in game: he's not flashy, funnily enough, but really tough (other Jokers are pretty fragile) - his goons are pretty pricey in terms of $ though, so you'll want to flesh out with some basic clowns. I like Panda Guy, personally - stick a grapple gun on him and watch him terrorise the streets Eyeball's not bad, Goat priest is a bit meh. Or possibly mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Harley is, of course, good in the team too

So I'm in a little bit of marking hell. But tis the season, and I get paid for it. Anyway, wasn't going to go out gaming but wife shoved me out the door, bless her. As a result, had a great time Tuesday night teaching one of my mates, antarios BMG. He's a big CW fan, and has Arrow, Flash etc so asked for something along those lines. We played a 200 pt Skirmish game (20 cm deployment, bonus VPs for taking out the enemy boss and more than 50% of the other crew) - the basic game mode, in other words. I tried to keep it very fluffy, so he had Arrow (TV), Diggle and a Female Cop, whilst I ran Dirty cops - Lt. Branden (corrupt Swat boss), SWAT Alpha, Delta and Bravo, a male cop and Agent O'connell (cop with a taser) - in other words, they had failed this city! Objectives were Loot, Ammo and Safe boxes - all about the money.





It was a great game: antarios got to grips very quickly with the mechanics and really liked the street level skirmish style of play (which some people find off-putting, because they expect it to be more... super). He was surprised how much of a slog a melee brawl was, though didn't think it a negative. It was also about driving home the point that this is about holding objectives: despite the fact that he was doing me a lot more damage, I was racking up VP just by sitting stubbornly on high-value targets.





In the end, Arrow took out Branden with his bow and beat down a male cop, whilst Diggle and the female cop (!) managed to just take out Echo (melee SWAT with a door smasher) before he battered Diggle to death against a van. Game went 13/9 to him, and another player hooked; crucially, it was the narrative that won him over (quite right too). We were playing at our local club, and one of our other mates jokily accused me of being a Shill for KM/BMG, which I suppose I am a bit but it was really great to show someone the ropes.

As a demo mode for the game, it was definitely a good setup.I'd done a lot of prep to make it run smoothly: all the abilities had been written out by character on a double sided sheet (one team on one side, one on the other), and all the rules on a single A4. Only had to check the rules once, and it was to double check shooting into melee (and I was right ) If I were to do it slightly differently I might switch out Branden/Cops for a more recognisable character, such as Captain Cold with a bunch of escaped prisoners, but this certainly worked well. Equally, I'd quite like to put together a Bat version of the list so you can, y'know, have a BATrep Something like Batfleck, Robin (Damien) and a detective.

Speaking of Captain Cold...


Face has come out blurry in pic, I'll need to get a better shot. Very happy with him, especially the glinty crystals and his fuzzy shaved head.

And as requested, his partner in crime also:


Heatwave was so much fun to do. Lovely model. Really happy how the scrap sprue worked for slagged metal also.

On a whim, decided to DKR also:


Back is basically done. Having blue washed the armour and grey lined it, needs reinked black. Inside of the cape needs inked on the front also. Little bit of tidying up around the jaw and eyes too. But, going down the ramped highlights has, to my mind, worked. An advantage of having so many bloody Batmen (yet I am still missing... 4 I think?! Origins, BvS, Dynamic Duo, Animated - yup, 4) is playing with lots of different styles.

Working on Hawkman. No pics yet, but lots of layering and blending of browns, oranges and yellows.
That leaves Penguin & Street Demonz, Aaron Cash and the QRT, and the Bat-Pod, which isn't even assembled because I still haven't gotten round to getting a 60mm lipped base for it (it doesn't come with a base, and though it doesn't technically need one, it's notionally on 60mm and so I want one for it). Need to make a couple more walkers, too, because you can never have a big enough herd

Cheers chaps,
graven

Wish I lived near you to play on such a nice board and get hooked into this game. Stupid Oceans

Captain Cold looks.....Cool , also love the work on heatwave .

I NEED to know more about that cargo ship and crane!

Sounds like you had some good fun, as it should be. Wife sounds like a keeper Models are looking good!

Theophony wrote:Wish I lived near you to play on such a nice board and get hooked into this game. Stupid Oceans

Captain Cold looks.....Cool , also love the work on heatwave .

Apparently minituremarket does good deals on the game, too Cheers mate. I am really happy with Snart but the face deserves a better pic

dsteingass wrote:I NEED to know more about that cargo ship and crane!

They're from TT Combat. Those are actually antarios's ones, here's mine:

And it comes with many containers etc:

Hope that helps!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Sounds like you had some good fun, as it should be. Wife sounds like a keeper Models are looking good!

Snuck in there, didn't you? Yeah, she's alright can't really complain, she tolerates an awful lot of geek.

Got an exciting message from KM today, a box is en route across Europe to me as well as an exclusive preview of Harry Potter - alohamora, I say

Sounds like a great game, you know we are not that far apart, could make a pilgrimage one day.

Love cold and heat, really captured them well.

also! That's not a bad idea, maybe over the summer? shoot me a pm or something. Our club is of a Tuesday night, also.
Thanks, btw. The TV sculpts are particualrly nice IMO. The Flash and Reverse Flash are so much better than the New 52 ones, but Diggle is the one that I don't have that I really want (correction - I have his head. I want a suited body, such as a Mr Grin, to make a proper Season One Bodyguard version). Speedsters are pretty pillow fisted in game - good against goons, good against each other, not great for much else.
Had a brain wave - need to find a suitable goblin miniature to be Beast Boy. Any suggestions gratefully received (also, any goblins likewise !

Fantastic! Thank you! I would NOT have guessed MDF at first.

Miniaturemarket does indeed have great deals on the KM stuff time to time. I got the main rulebook for half off because of a small blemish on the cover. They have copies of both versions of the flash/arrow book for $10 in the actual store, also minor imperfections or corner dings. I just lost my only gaming buddy (brother in law is moving to Texas, his wife got transfered and he landed a great job down there to boot ).

Not to be like 50 posts late in my commentary, but...

As a guy who makes just a ton of terrain and usually prefers densely packed tables with a strong theme, I really love the board you made for the zombie game with just the car wrecks and open street. I love the idea of strong themes in terrain layout and to me, a wide open board is just as interesting, just as tactically challenging, as a dense urban theme or an alien jungle theme. Nice work.

dsteingass wrote:Fantastic! Thank you! I would NOT have guessed MDF at first.

I know, right? Amazing stuff. Getting that curve is a bit of a beast mind you.

Theophony wrote: Miniaturemarket does indeed have great deals on the KM stuff time to time. I got the main rulebook for half off because of a small blemish on the cover. They have copies of both versions of the flash/arrow book for $10 in the actual store, also minor imperfections or corner dings. I just lost my only gaming buddy (brother in law is moving to Texas, his wife got transfered and he landed a great job down there to boot ).

That sucks man. Flarrow for 10 bucks is pretty sweet. If you're buddy-less I highly recommend TWDAOW, and you've got that many zombies that you can have a proper full-on Walker Horde. There is a solo campaign starter (Prelude to Woodbury) which is pretty nifty.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Not to be like 50 posts late in my commentary, but...

As a guy who makes just a ton of terrain and usually prefers densely packed tables with a strong theme, I really love the board you made for the zombie game with just the car wrecks and open street. I love the idea of strong themes in terrain layout and to me, a wide open board is just as interesting, just as tactically challenging, as a dense urban theme or an alien jungle theme. Nice work.

Surely not
Cheers matey. Yeah, one of the reasons I like All Out War is precisely because it depends on having open spaces. Dense terrain just isn't as fun for it - or as fluffy, for that matter.

Couple of quickly snapped rubbish wip pics, AK Nightwing

Very, very dark blue, with intial set of what will be mid blue edge highlights done (and then much OSL from the batons).
And Arkham Knight himself

Just getting depth of colour, really. He's going to be in my Deathstroke team colours, hence the split orange helm. Navy Armour, blue-black cloth, orange accents.

Good start on AK and Nightwing.

I'm not messing about with Mantic anymore, the walking dead looks good, but I have my Zombicide, which can also be run as a solo play game, but my kids enjoy it, so I'm safe with my zombie horde there.

^ Fair enough and thanks!

So, Captain Cold is now done:

Huh. Can't see the glow on the rifle, all merged a bit grey.

Lighting's better on this one.

And the Dark Knight returns, again!

Shades of grey indeed


More work on the Arkham Knight's armour:


And finally, playng with osl on AK Nightwing's batons

Not sure if I like it or not. Time will tell as the whole thing comes together.

Hawkman on hiatus, though really need to attend to him. Street Demonz and the QRT this week, hopefully. 13 days to get them done, in theory (because I will be surprised if there's not a Dad-day toy of some sort).

Marking bonkers, new timetable peculiar. Twas ever so, however.

Cheers
Graven

Armor on AK is looking good, we will see how that OSL turns out, I've not tried it myself before, so no advice from me.

Captain Cold looks fantastic graven. One of your best yet.

Some good looking models