Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

Doctor Doom makes a second appearance with today’s post as we draw March’s models to a close. This time we have the versions that came from the Marvel Zombies Kickstarter.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

Obviously, you can see that Doom comes in both Survivor form as well as Zombified. Not sure why he’s used bandages to fix up his armour here, but I guess they had to differentiate him in some way.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

The living version was a pain in the arse to paint due to the bright wall RIGHT behind the bottom of his cloak. The way I eventually got around this was by heating up the figure from the ankles up, bending him forward, doing the brick painting and drybrushing, then laying in the base green on the cloak, before reheating it to bend him back to standing up straight.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

Obviously, the Zombie version of Doom has a pretty messed up cloak. It’s a little hard to see here, but I added some buff into the final highlight on this version around the edges and tears, as well as some adding in some light scratching lines. Otherwise the painting on these two was all pretty much the same as on the Marvel United figure from my previous post.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

The details on the book are somewhat engraved into the sculpt, though I’m not sure what the text was supposed to say, so I turned it into “Doom”.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom, Marvel United: Doctor Doom

To finish up, a 3-shot of my trio of Dooms. I’m pretty happy with how all three of these came out in the end, and of course happy to have another Marvel character crossed off the “to-do” list across a couple of games. 🙂

Marvel United: Doctor Doom

Marvel United: Doctor Doom

A few months ago, I finally completed the team of the Fantastic Four for Marvel United. Now I’ve painted their arch-nemesis, Doctor Doom!

Marvel United: Doctor Doom

I have to admit, I was mentally blocked a little on old Viktor here, and he took a lot longer to get to the point of that final stretch than I would have liked. I think it may at least be in part because I started him before my little hiatus, and so it took a bit longer to get motivated to get back to him.

Marvel United: Doctor Doom

If I’m being honest, the other thing that worked against getting him finished without a delay is that huge, smooth cape of his. Unlike normal 28-32mm figures with finer, more prounounced details, the large, open. semi-flat spaces on a cloak like this really do call for a slightly different approach. So I guess it’s a net positive again in being forced to work outside of my comfort zone.

Marvel United: Doctor Doom

The colours I used here for the cloak were AK 11146 Dark Green for the base, blended into AK11145 Lizard Green and then AK11142 Deep Green – with Army Painter Air Zombie Flesh worked into it for the final highlights. Shading was done with Vallejo Panzer Aces 308 Green Tail Light and a touch of black, and the richer tone of the tunic was achieved with a glaze of thinned Citadel Lamenters Yellow – a colour that I do indeed lament being OOP (though 2 Thin Coats may have a replacement?) Browns were VMC 875 Beige Brown highlighted with (old) VGC Bonewhite and his nipple plates were painted with Citadel Air Balthazar Gold highlighted with Citadel Canoptek Alloy. And yes, I did write all that down as reference for the eventual Crisis Protocol model that will one day be released!

Marvel United: Doctor Doom, Fantastic Four

And finally, for a bit of fun, I thought I’d take a couple of group shots with Doom firstly being threatened by the Fantastic Four, and then one with him simply being flanked by them!

Marvel United: Doctor Doom, Fantastic Four

There are still two more models from the same boxed expansion that Doom and the Four came from – The Silver Surfer and Super-Skrull. Surfer is an interesting problem, since the figure came pre-painted in a nice, hardy silver – but with the factory mould lines. Skrull on the other hand, is just a bit uninteresting to me, so he’ll be a model I need to force myself to paint down the line for sure. Being the last left from the box will likely have to be my motivation for that one!

Regardless of any of that, Doom is now painted, and I’m happy with how he turned out!