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Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand

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Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand, Spider-Man

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

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: 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.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand

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…

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand

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.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand

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!

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand

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.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand

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

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand, Cosmic Terrain Pack Boxes

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!

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Daily Bugle Newsstand, Cosmic Terrain Pack Boxes, Spider-Man

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!

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Civilian Cars (as Melbourne Cabs!)

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Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Civilian Cars Melbourne Cabs

Another two steps closer to finishing everything from my MCP core set (at least, the first one!) with my long-delayed completion of the two civilian cars. These could have been painted much, much faster if I hadn’t been tempted into using those little taxi lights that came with the kits, and then decided to kit them out with more-or-less realistic(ish) Melbourne Cab livery.

The problem ended up being a need to create a whole lot of custom decals in order to get all of these markings. I actually got most of them together months and months ago, but I still needed to create the licence plates – and for that matter, I needed to make up enough additional custom decals for other projects to make printing out that sheet worthwhile.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Civilian Cars Melbourne Cabs

So it wasn’t until a little over a week ago that I finally got the sheet printed with the hood decal, the four door decals and then the two licence plates for each. And then it was time to add all of the bastards to the two models!

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Civilian Cars Melbourne Cabs

I think they came out pretty well in the end – they’re an excellent example of models where I really didn’t enjoy the painting process at all, but I’m actually pretty happy with the final result. Of course, with a second Core Set, it means I have another pair of these cars still to paint at some stage. Though I’m thinking that two cabs will be plenty for my modern gaming motor pool, so the second two of these models will just be painted as standard, nondescript civilian cars. Perhaps one in white, and the other in silver grey – the most common and nondescript colours that I see on the roads locally.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Civilian Cars Melbourne Cabs

These two models really did need the impetus of Dave Stone’s of Season of Scenery Challenge to get finished. In the unlikely event that anyone’s interested in the MS Word file that contains these somewhat niche “print yourself” decals scaled for these models, I can likely work out how to make them available, so if you’re keen, please do let me know.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Civilian Cars Melbourne Cabs

As you can see, despite the slightly larger scale of MCP models, they work just fine with other modern models in 28mm scale. Maybe a little large for “proper” scale, but close enough for a game of toy soldiers! I’ve got another pair of terrain models to drop in a couple of days, and wish me luck on getting the very last item from the Crisis Protocol Core set finished by the end of August….