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Marvel Crisis Protocol: Black Panther

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Painted Marvel Crisis Protocol Black Panther Model

Another addition to my Marvel Crisis Protocol collection today – King T’Challa himself, Black Panther. This Black Panther figure is actually in one of my favourite poses from the Crisis Protocol figures I’ve painted so far – not perched atop a huge tactical rock/explosion/girder/magic effects, but crouched down low and ready to go. I’m much more a fan of grounded poses for miniatures in general, let alone for transport and storage!

Painted Marvel Crisis Protocol Black Panther Model

The sculpt has some veeery fine, shallow lines on it – the kind a comic artist would draw in and then a 3D modeller who doesn’t know much about painting minis would then add in when working from their reference pics – so not the best for actually painting in details, but then weird little flaws like this are par for the course with MCP models. You can juuuust see them if you look really closely. So don’t look closely and they shouldn’t be so bothersome. I guess.

Painted Marvel Crisis Protocol Black Panther Model

His base has him standing on some shattered ground, so I integrated the rest of the base in with some state and then placed him on the edge of some dirt with a little grass – still something quite urban but a change from the typical concrete streets the MCP models are standing on.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Beast

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Marvel Crisis Protocol: Beast

Another Crisis Protocol model today! Today we have the blue-furred Hank McCoy, aka Beast! I first encountered Beast in his original X-Men run as a kiddo when given random old comics, and then again later on when I started reading X-Men in the 1980’s (and for some reason Beast had gone from Hulk-style kinda thick-set to blue and furry?)

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Beast

I know that Beast has had other looks – Google shows him with a weird cat face, there’s pictures of him with glasses (because I guess, smart = visually impaired?), and pictures of him looking like Frasier Crane for some reason. This particular figure came with an option for a bespectacled head and also a book in that fist-hand. I went for the non-specs version because this is how I always picture Beast, and the non-book version because he’s in this game to fight people – not read them a bedtime story featuring calculus.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Beast

As per usual with these bases, I added some smashed slate to help blend the sculpted rubble in with the plastic base. The figure did look pretty plain, though – so I added a lot of rust to the damaged scaffolding in order to add some reddish/warm tones to counter point all the blue.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Beast

Rather than blending, I went with predominantly drybrushing on this model in order to give his skin/fur a rougher texture – more akin to fur than a perfectly smooth blended surface would have been. I also did a little bit of careful stippling to help it along.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Beast

I want to get a decent number more of these Crisis Protocol figures painted this year, though in practical terms that could end up just being one or two figures a month with all of the rest of the things I’m painting at the same time. I’ve got another two in progress on the desk, and another two in partially-assembled pieces on the desk, and another three assembled and sitting on the tray – so who knows how productive the next months will turn out?