A Crisis Protocol Core set model today to open February’s completed work – The big bad of the second Avengers film – Ultron! I have to admit that I don’t know much about Ultron as in my comic-reading days back in the late 80’s and 90’s my Marvel focus was much more on Spidey, the X-Men (and spin-offs) and the Punisher – so while I know and have a basic knowledge of most of the heroes from that era, villains are a bit more vague. I’ll have heard of most of them, but not necessarily know much about them. Ultron is one of those villains.
An early touch point for the painting of my Ultron model was the rather excellent rendering painted by The Solo Meeple, though in the end mine turned out quite a bit brighter than originally planned. I also found the panel “gaps” in Ultron’s armour where the red-orange glowy bits to be really shallow impressions at best across much of the model.
When I sprayed this guy, I ended up with a bit of texture from the black primer – it was around the same time I varnished Red Skull and had a similar issue. Lesson learned – don’t spray when it’s too hot – even in the shade! I hope that’s why this happened anyway – so I can consciously avoid it happening again. It does give his, err.. skin? armour? carapace? a slightly pitted look (especially when blown up in these photos!), which I guess can work for a metal villains but I do like the smooth look much more. I was satisfied with how the rubble on his base worked out, though. I added some weathering powders to give it a bit of colour beyond (not-quite-50) shades of grey and help define it a little from the silver metal man standing on top fo them. I might actually need to go back and add a little more brown to them, though not too much as it is supposed to be urban rubble… whadda you think?
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Australian summer plays havoc with miniature painting, but that’s still nice work on Ultron!
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Thanks Dave. At least Ulton looks fine in hand – not perfect, but certainly not terrible!
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Looks excellent mate, I think the rubble looks perfect, and wouldn’t add anything to it, as there is enough definition between the rubble, and the robot.
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Chers Dave – I wasn’t thinking too much but just a little more to add to the definition between the two. 🙂
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Awesome work. Agree that the rubble doesn’t need any more work.
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Thanks mate. I’m still tempted to add just a little more colour to it, though! 😀
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Very nice mate! Temp (high & low), and humidity both mess up your undercoats, but I’ve actually had some interesting accidental effects!
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As long as it happens on the right model, it’s all good. The effect is ok on Ultron here as he’s a metal man, though I would have preferred a smoother metal man in this case!
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Very nicely done! 🙂 All looks good to me, figure and base! Interesting point on the primer/undercoat but I always brush paint mine and never have any issues. I’m surprised more people don’t brush on primers given how temperamental spraying can be.
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For me I find that the sprays are much hardier and don’t suffer from streaking. When I brush on I find that it wears off really easily. Usually I don’t have issues with the sprays, but I’ve been on a streak of mediocrity lately I guess – but even then it’s only two out of how many models I’ve done recently…
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A wonderful rendering mate.
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks Roger! 🙂
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Looks good.
A few selective patches of browns blended into the base I think would work.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Yeah, that’s the plan. Not too much, and a little around the feet to increase the distinguishing of them from the rubble. Cheers, Pete!
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Aye, it’s always either too hot, too cold or too damp to spray models isn’t it? On the other hand brushing it on takes foreeevvveeer so we battle on with the rattlecans. The end result looks excellent though and that’s all that matters right?
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Ultron looks great, mate! I don’t know him super well either outside of the Avengers movie he appears in. GW does a good job of putting a temperature range on their spray cans but humidity will throw that right out the window unfortunately. That is why I use the old fashioned brush technique for varnishing. I like the bright orange parts on this mini and I agree that a wash on the base will help up the contrast a bit further. He looks great as is though too!
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Fantastic
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Nice work, I think he looks great. Ultron is one of the big beneficiaries of the rece t balance pass, getting better attacks, less clunky superpowers and a few immunities to conditions that didn’t exist when the core box was released. My friend regularly terrorises me with Ultron in Steve’s Avengers; not his natural home, perhaps, but highly effective. Having to play around The Age Of Ultron card is also quite tricky.
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Thanks for the mention Azazel😁. He’s certainly nice and bright and looks great. Love what you’ve done with the base, I really must try harder with bases, yours are way better than mine.
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