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Yeah, that base looks great.

Any chance you could grab me a scale shot of that terrain with some DCU minis? I'm guessing the 40mm vs 35mm is too much of a difference for the minis to look good together, but I wonder if the terrain might be worth getting for DCU.

Interested in seeing those marvel figs painted up (Marvel Fanboy here), there is someone at the flgs that is doing demos and I may have to stop by and see his.

Base is looking great, lots of interesting details picked out.

 youwashock wrote:
40% for a ding on the box?

Lucky devil. Waiting for the Amalgam minis to be made now for true crossover madness.

That would be something, I'd kill for a Dark Claw mini... well not kill, but heavily mutilate

@Theo, excited to see those Marvel villains and heroes painted up. I'm also on edge, but luckily I have so much planned hobbywise for 2020, that I'm hopefully not tempted to get that set.

Paradigm wrote:Yeah, that base looks great.

Any chance you could grab me a scale shot of that terrain with some DCU minis? I'm guessing the 40mm vs 35mm is too much of a difference for the minis to look good together, but I wonder if the terrain might be worth getting for DCU.

Thanks, I’ll try and get you a shot later today, but they seem oversized from my recollection.

Yorkright wrote: Interested in seeing those marvel figs painted up (Marvel Fanboy here), there is someone at the flgs that is doing demos and I may have to stop by and see his.

Base is looking great, lots of interesting details picked out.

The game might not have legs, but the models thus far are fantastic. Even as display pieces I think they are worth the effort, might be a little more than I was hoping for cost wise. I’m Marvel all the way too .

Viterbi wrote:

 youwashock wrote:
40% for a ding on the box?

Lucky devil. Waiting for the Amalgam minis to be made now for true crossover madness.

That would be something, I'd kill for a Dark Claw mini... well not kill, but heavily mutilate

@Theo, excited to see those Marvel villains and heroes painted up. I'm also on edge, but luckily I have so much planned hobbywise for 2020, that I'm hopefully not tempted to get that set.

What are these plans people speak of I should look into acquiring one or two of those .

Seriously though, I flip and flop more than a politician when it comes to what to work on. Though these do tickle a certain fancy of mine.

So nothing to show. Lazy weekend here. Got some Christmas decorations up, but nowhere near what we’ve done in the past. Up at 3:15 a.m. due to one of our cats walking across my face saying she wants attention. Snow and ice here have forced schools off for Monday , which affects the kids Finals for the semester and used up all their snow days so now school will go longer into the spring. Wife being a teacher is not happy one bit . Saturday night we had our annual church staff dinner out. Great time was had by all, nice to just chill and talk without worrying about getting projects done, people coming in and interrupting conversations and just talk about all our kids and their lives.

Got a Amazon gift card in the mail from my other job, it just about covered the cost of the Hulk figure for the game, so it will be here on Tuesday. Thanks Amazon Prime . No idea who M.O.D.O.K. is, never read him in the comics, so I can wait on him. Hopefully sleep finds me before I crack this can of Kickstart open and I’m up the rest of the day. I work tonight so I’ll be leaving early because of the weather.

Pics or it doesn’t happen....I get it

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Assembled 4 of the 10 core models, just went with the first four in the assembly guide. Speaking of the assembly guide . They made such wonderful models and clear guides...minus the part numbers . I cannot tell you how hard it is to work with such fiddle bits and not have the numbers listed on which ones go together. This happened to me on both Ms. Marvel and Doc Oc. The upper arms and lower arms on Ms. Marvel I glued together only to find out I had the arms wrong . Doc. Oc, had all the Mechandrites which had separate parts but didn’t know which ones go together without dry fitting them to the keys on his back. The other big issue I had was with the arms on the Red Skull, on the sprue it has the 4 parts of the arms in a row with upper, lower, upper and lower. So intuitively you’d think the first two go together and then the second two together, but it was part 1+4, 2+3 . The sprues have the parts numbered, why don’t the assembly guides?

Bases don’t seem to matter except for base sizes. The smaller sized bases come four on a sprue and you get two identical sprues in the box. The two larger bases are different two each other and come attached to a central joiner. Both types of bases have extra parts which I think are supposed to be used as scatter (looks like soda cans and traffic cones, but the cones are too small in scale). Once again these are not listed as parts so far in the assembly guide, I say so far as I have not gotten through the rest of the models, though these don’t seem to be shown on the back of the box, so I think they are extras.

Speaking of extras, in the forefront of my photo on the ground you’ll see some parts. These are extras, but they are odd extras. You need two of the claw parts for Doc Oc, but they put four on the sprue, two each of two, which again are numbered but no reference point of which ones to use on which area of the model. Also there’s also a duplicate tessaract cube. I mean exact duplicate, complete with red skull hand attached in the same way, so it can’t be used as an objective. Lastly there’s two Spider-Man heads, there might be some difference between the two, but I could not tell.

Anyway, I’ll try and get more done tomorrow, but might be a long day at church due to bad weather here. Though i am expecting some great items in the mail today. Hulk is one item, the other is super secret item that I get to preview . Be jealous , everyone will be wanting this item, and it will be available later.

Interesting. Assembly woes aside, I look forward to seeing how you tackle these.

Interesting notes on the Marvel stuff, thanks for the warning. I really want to pick those up , in the mean time I can't wait to see what you do with them!

Am I reading that correctly: the models' arms come in two pieces each? That seems unnecessarily fiddly.

youwashock wrote:Interesting. Assembly woes aside, I look forward to seeing how you tackle these.

Assembly is really pretty good aside from the unlabeled parts. No major burrs or seams when cut from the sprues. Though as I’ve read other places the joints on some models don’t perfectly fit so gaps are happening.

Heretic Tom wrote:Interesting notes on the Marvel stuff, thanks for the warning. I really want to pick those up , in the mean time I can't wait to see what you do with them!

Thanks Tom, I’ve started thinking about colors and not going all comic book style. With current temperatures it’s looking like post Christmas/New Years for priming at this stage.

JoshInJapan wrote:Am I reading that correctly: the models' arms come in two pieces each? That seems unnecessarily fiddly.

Yes, lots of tiny parts, reminds me of Dreamforge models, just slightly larger.

Well Hulk smashed his delivery driver so now it’s Thursday delivery for him. Other items showing today still. At work for our Christmas party and usual fun now.

I have a nasty feeling crisis protocol is going to hit breaking point with fan patience. The figs look great built. But hey, there's Always Fanboys

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I have a nasty feeling crisis protocol is going to hit breaking point with fan patience. The figs look great built. But hey, there's Always Fanboys

As long as the women have tight outfits and tighter......assets , I think the fanboys will be covered.

The models do look good assembled kind of a bummer though about the arms and directions. Doc oc must be hitting the gym he looks pretty buff. Is that the Red Skull with the tesseract? Very interested in how your going to paint him. Looking forward to more.

FYI, Atomic Mass Games has a digital assembly guide on their website with part numbers. I got my core set assembled and primed the weekend after release....and then I got painters block...or clean canvas block or whatever...afraid Im gonna mess them up. lol.

I couldnt afford Hulk or Modok, but the wife knows I want Hulk for Christmas...we'll see.

As far as upcoming releases, the Black Panther and Thor themed stuff isnt really exciting me....and if I do get Thor and Valk, I want to convert them to match the Ragnarok film...I'm really just stoked for Guardians of the Galaxy.

Excellent work as always Theo! Keep it up! I cant wait to see how you paint these up. (There, I've made my annual appearance )

Yorkright wrote: The models do look good assembled kind of a bummer though about the arms and directions. Doc oc must be hitting the gym he looks pretty buff. Is that the Red Skull with the tesseract? Very interested in how your going to paint him. Looking forward to more.

He might look Swole, but he definitely hit the donut shop on the way to the gym. Yep, red skull with tessie.

Fango wrote:FYI, Atomic Mass Games has a digital assembly guide on their website with part numbers. I got my core set assembled and primed the weekend after release....and then I got painters block...or clean canvas block or whatever...afraid Im gonna mess them up. lol.

I couldnt afford Hulk or Modok, but the wife knows I want Hulk for Christmas...we'll see.

As far as upcoming releases, the Black Panther and Thor themed stuff isnt really exciting me....and if I do get Thor and Valk, I want to convert them to match the Ragnarok film...I'm really just stoked for Guardians of the Galaxy.

Excellent work as always Theo! Keep it up! I cant wait to see how you paint these up. (There, I've made my annual appearance )

Good to know, figured there had to be one out there. Thanks for the heads up.
I know the feeling of not affording one, just got my Christmas gift card which paid for him. Also just got two unexpected checks from doing people some favors at church and them returning the favor, so I might go grab MODOK tonight.
Not many of the upcoming releases excite me, oddly enough the garbage truck is high on the list.

I know it’s Christmas and deliveries are strange, but Hulk was scheduled for yesterday, then tomorrow, then he was at my house when I got home from working at church today .

I’m going to do some more assembly now.

Alright! Banner in the house. Looking forward to him being done.

 youwashock wrote:
Alright! Banner in the house. Looking forward to him being done.

Well, 2 hours of assembly, but core box and hulk are all ready for play.....what, you want paint

Little trouble during assembly, one of iron man’s shoulder pads flew into the microverse , stupid fiddly parts. I crawled around the floor for fifteen minutes with a flashlight to no avail . Of course it’s one of the parts where they don’t give you any spares . I put all the spare bits into a ziplock bag.


Also the super secret item arrived Time to start planning things out even more.
Thanks Super Secret Santa , it’s going to the top of my to do list.

I’m surprised these models have so many parts. Ms Marvel has separate pieces for upper and lower arms? I would think they would be simpler kits. They are very dynamic so maybe the highly 3D poses forces them to be made from more separate parts since nothing is flat or straight. That Hulk model is really impressive.

Excited to see the Marvel heroes!
But it makes me a little sad, that they are so fiddly. I hate small parts and am absolutely capable of ruining a miniature while assembling. And they really don't look, like they would have so many parts. Have fun painting them up!

The Riddle of Steel wrote:I’m surprised these models have so many parts. Ms Marvel has separate pieces for upper and lower arms? I would think they would be simpler kits. They are very dynamic so maybe the highly 3D poses forces them to be made from more separate parts since nothing is flat or straight. That Hulk model is really impressive.

Having finished the other models she is one of the easier to assemble . See the assembly instruction link below.

Viterbi wrote:Excited to see the Marvel heroes!
But it makes me a little sad, that they are so fiddly. I hate small parts and am absolutely capable of ruining a miniature while assembling. And they really don't look, like they would have so many parts. Have fun painting them up!

I dislike it too, but the details really do show. Having such skinny parts with texture on all sides and no mold lines has its costs.

So link I wish I knew about sooner . It’s even kind of hidden on the website, no in big bold letters on the main page, you have to use the drop menu to get to the assembly page.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce432b1f9d2be000134d8ae/t/5dcd9371e3b67a6ab2b73a27/1573753719547/Coreset+characters+assembly.pdf
Here you can see some of the travesties I’m talking about. Crossbones has a helmet piece and a piece that fits the front of the helmet . Ultrons upper thighs are each 3 pieces. Captain America has tiny pouches on his belt, luckily they give you doubles of these .

I’m sure in the painting of these the extra details will help out, but I’m sure there’s someone out there who is substituting heroclix figures.

Also realized that since I had pulled out my Tablescapes boards before for DCU, they will actually probably fit this game better. I’ll unbox them again tomorrow and try it out. PLUS EVERYTHING IS STILL IN VIRGIN GREY PLASTIC , so it’s meant to be Ah true love.


BRING ME X-MEN

Sorry for shouting, we now have the Christmas cold passing around the house .

One thing i found regarding terrain, the 4ground gothic buildings for batman work great with the scale of the crisis protocol figures.

A shame to hear about Iron Man's shoulder pad, we have all been there crawling around looking for tiny miniature bits. It is usually on that crawl that you find the bit you lost three months previous and no longer need!

And when do we get the super secret santa reveal?

spartan059 wrote:One thing i found regarding terrain, the 4ground gothic buildings for batman work great with the scale of the crisis protocol figures.

4 Ground makes some nice stuff from what I’ve seen, not too surprising that the Batman ruff would be close in size as it’s closer to the MCP scale than 28mm scale stuff. Wish local shops carried it, but I think the Dust Tactics terrain I have sitting about will work as well.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:A shame to hear about Iron Man's shoulder pad, we have all been there crawling around looking for tiny miniature bits. It is usually on that crawl that you find the bit you lost three months previous and no longer need!

And when do we get the super secret santa reveal?

True, I found the jug of simple green degreaser that has been holding my metal Escher gang for over a year and a half a shot well as some bits from Test if Honour that fell off the table too.

Super Secret Santa Stuff needs to be approved for showing........IT’S THAT FREAKING COOL . It’s going to be a few days before I can even give it the time of day to properly look at myself and might be the New Year because I work the next 6 straight (yep, Christmas is my next day off ). Plus I need to get approval first, which with our hectic schedules..... who knows.

Oh, last but not least I picked up a lonely M.O.D.O.K. today. He’s still grumpy and in his box, but stifled by cellophane so not much yelling can be heard.

Edit: who needs rest before work , assembled MODOK (tired of putting in the periods ).


Also some scale shots with DUST buildings and tablescape boards.

I think these look good together, the Quonset huts however are far too small as Red Skull would have to be ducking the entire time he is inside.

The tablescape boards will work nice as well even though the sewer lids are different sizes and the metal hatches for basement access are also different the fact that both are represented will help blend them together.

Thanks for looking

That's looking very snazzy indeed. The pic with cars is interesting, if anything they look a little big for the scale.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's looking very snazzy indeed. The pic with cars is interesting, if anything they look a little big for the scale.

They are probably 1:40 scale as I have some 1:43 scale which are just smaller, but still usable. The 1:43 are just too small, the Red Skull stands taller than a SUV in 1:43 scale.

Great news, did some more crawling and found Iron Mans other shoulder pad . Glad I won’t have to buy another starter box , because I would.

Also looks like Sunday-Christmas may be warm enough to prime, so a White Christmas indeed .

Love the glue stick idea, stealing that one.

All looking great, nice little catch up, these superhero games all look interesting to me, but just not on my list yet. So will have to settle for vicarious living on Dakka. All looking great though.

I think most of your "toy" cars about this size are 1:43 ish. And "taller than an SUV" depends on the SUV, I should think both you and I can look across most roof tops at eachother, it is only the Real Deal that are truly tall, for us over here that would be Rangerovers etc. Most of our SUV stock is Audi/VW/Honda/Volvo, and they are not really that tall.

Marvel stuff, terrain and all looking good

Camkierhi wrote:Love the glue stick idea, stealing that one.

All looking great, nice little catch up, these superhero games all look interesting to me, but just not on my list yet. So will have to settle for vicarious living on Dakka. All looking great though.

I think most of your "toy" cars about this size are 1:43 ish. And "taller than an SUV" depends on the SUV, I should think both you and I can look across most roof tops at eachother, it is only the Real Deal that are truly tall, for us over here that would be Rangerovers etc. Most of our SUV stock is Audi/VW/Honda/Volvo, and they are not really that tall.

Yeah, I can see over most vehicles, so it’s believable, just the car also winds up wider than the SUV. Overall not a big deal if they aren’t right next to each other.

shasolenzabi wrote:Marvel stuff, terrain and all looking good

Thanks Shaso.

Have a cold beating my butt right now, but I managed to go prime the heroes and villains. I’m a little concerned it’s too cold, hopefully no problems so I can start painting soon. Pics later if I get enough energy before work.

Take care of yourself. As Count Rugen said, "If you don't have your health, you don't have anything." Or something.

Looking forward to those Marvel models more. They had them in the display case at the local store. Seeing them in the "flesh" really drives home how large they are. Ultron was particularly impressive, a model I would gladly buy on its own. Have you seen the Thanos they plan to release?

 youwashock wrote:
Take care of yourself. As Count Rugen said, "If you don't have your health, you don't have anything." Or something.

Looking forward to those Marvel models more. They had them in the display case at the local store. Seeing them in the "flesh" really drives home how large they are. Ultron was particularly impressive, a model I would gladly buy on its own. Have you seen the Thanos they plan to release?

I have seen Thanos , and the Knight Models type gigantic base. They have gone full Warhammer 30k Primarch bases with him and the base the size of a city block . He looks great, the throne is not necessary to me though and just a tool to jump the price up.

Primer glopped up some details, but painting will commence.

Who first

HULK IS STRONGEST THERE IS!

I guess we have our....choice.

When it comes to Hulk I heartily recommend VJ Livery Green for really vibrant highlights.