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Today we have the final model from my Marvel Crisis Protocol Core set – the final piece of the puzzle. The Daily Bugle newsstand.

I always knew roughly what I wanted to do with it – I wanted to plaster the windows with headlines and/or advertising – much like a real newsstand or newsagents’ window.

As mentioned with the Taxis, it wasn’t until a a bit over a week ago that I finally got the decal sheet printed. Not only did it have the decals for the other models, but also the selection of Daily Bugle newspaper’s large “front page” sheets. The sheet also has decals for another building that I hope to finish very soon, but that’s another post to come…

Paint was pretty straightforward once I finally got going properly. The sign was done by dipping in and out over a couple of days along with the base colours on the doors, windowframes, roof and such. I then spray varnished it before coming back to add the decals and the first bit of shading and such before spraying again to seal all of that and coming in with the grime and streaking and weathering.

As with the Kazumi Ruins, this thing technically narrowly missed the end date of Dave Stone’s of Season of Scenery Challenge as I completed it last weekend. I’m still happy if Dave wishes to include it, but no stress if not!

The roof was weathered by wet-brushing in some shadows along the edges of the lip, then some stippling before adding a wash/glaze over the top of it all to represent accumulated grime.

Extra points if you can figure out what the magazines on the newsstand are!

As a little bonus, here are the “boxes” from the Marvel Crisis Protocol Cosmic Terrain Pack – a set that I started, then restarted, and now have three-started again as I wasn’t happy with the previous versions. These desert-y-themed boxes come from the middle set, but they work well enough like this. And they’re small boxes, so the hell with repainting them! These were done during the SoS!

And here’s the boxes on and around the completed Daly Bugle Newsstand, along with Spidey there for scale and laughing at JJJ’s attempts to discredit him!

A couple of the (almost) final models for Dave Stone’s of Season of Scenery Challenge – we have the Pimpmobiles from the Second Edition of Zombicide – which slot perfectly into games of First Edition. While we have some approriately-scaled toy cars that we prefer to use over the cardstock pieces provided by the game, the toy cars don’t feature the “gameplay” element of being able to place individuals in the seats as you can get in and out of cars in the game. There are two general types of cars – Police Cars and also “Pimpmobiles” – the topic of this post.

These Pimpmobiles can be searched and often have slightly more powerful (especially in the early game) “custom” weapons in them. I bumped these up in the painting queue since we do use these ingame, but they really started to look incongruous as plain plastic alongside the painted player character figures and now painted zombie models as well. So I went with “loud” looking vehicles and even created some douchily-appropriate custom licence plates in Photoshop.

I’d be lying if they weren’t inspired at least in part by the custom car creators in the older Saints Row games (back when they were good). And I mean – Pimpmobiles, right?

Posting these suffered a couple of delays due to not being able to play Zombicide for the organic “in action” photos I wanted for this post due to Marouda catching the plague. (Yes, that one). Still can’t play or do anything together, so I went out and just took some pics an hour or so ago.

Of course, I still need to paint the two Police Cars that I also picked up, and I’ve only just started working on those.

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Category Archives: Modern Wargaming

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand

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