Citadel Ryza Ruins: Hatches (Season of Scenery ’24)

Citadel Ryza Ruins: Hatches

No, I’m not dead (yet). I’ve just been busy. Got called back to Azeroth for Pandaria Remix (if you know, you know) and I’m good. The war room got so overwhelmed with junk over time that I couldn’t even photograph my monthly round-ups on the table anymore – especially with that game of Pandemic set up for three weeks. Combine that with work… and more recently a pretty intense week-long clean-up and rejigging/upgrade/clean out of the war room (still tons more boxes and crates in there to sort out, but the table is like 90% clear and we even got a rank & flank game in last weekend!) Anyway, I’ve been checking in on the odd blog post when I can, and in Faust’s latest post that I was reading yesterday, he mentions that Dave Stone’s annual Season of Scenery challenge was on again – which I’d missed due to not being super active.

Citadel Ryza Ruins: Hatches

A couple of hours later, while moving some stuff from one place to another, I spotted these five hatches in a litlte plastic tub along with some other stuff. I might ave separated them in order to have them for glue onto other pieces, or another project (typing this now I think I might(?) know what I’d intended to use them on….)

Anyway, I had that “I could paint these quickly” thought, blu-taced them to a spray stick, sprayed them in three different primer colours, let them dry, sprayed them in “proper” base coat colours (Desert Yellow, Gunmetal and Copper), gave them another hour or so, and then just worked on them on and off over the rest of the evening while farming bullion ingame, ending with spray varnishing them around 10:30pm in the cold outside. Nice to have that “started and finished in a day” feeling – even on something as simple as these pieces.

I figure I’ll be back posting regularly in a month or so (maybe two). Still got lots on to do in Azeroth, and getting my posts between the previous one and now in order will take a bit of time to figure out (that I don’t really have). If and when I finish more terrain stuff, I’ll just try to post them up as they come. See you then!

Marvel United: Beast and “First Class” Iceman

Marvel United: Beast and "First Class" Iceman, X-Men, Avengers

AKA Hank and Bobby go to White Castle. After a little delay in posts via being generally tired and all of those daily posts, we have the final figures of April’s output. It’s the Blue version of Beast from the Marvel United X-Men Core Set along with the “First Class” version of Iceman from.. the X-Men First Class box..

Marvel United: Beast and "First Class" Iceman, X-Men, Avengers

I will at some stage have the many many other X-Men figures painted, and there are indeed several more versions of Iceman to come from both United and Zombies – and a Crisis Protocol version has just released, but is hard to get for a reasonable price here in Aussieland right now – but this is what I have finished so far. With two more weekends left in May, there’s a chance we’ll see some of the other Icemans, but no guarantee. The other First Class X-Mans will be a bit later, no doubt.

Marvel United: Beast and "First Class" Iceman, X-Men, Avengers

Anyway, Beast was painted in much the same way as the other versions, though he does seem a bit darker in these pictures. Maybe it’s the contrast with Bobby? Icy-Pole Man was painted with a good white prime, some thinned contrast (or Xpress, or Speedpaint maybe?) and then a drybrush to re-icy him again.

Marvel United, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Marvel Zombies, Zombicide, CMON, Beast, X-Men, Avengers

I’d be remiss if I didn’t provide a group shot of all four of the Beastie Boys. From our left to right, we have Ad-Rock, MCA, Mike-D, and Zom-B.

Marvel United: "First Class" Iceman, X-Men

One of the reasons Icy Boy was chosen was so I could use his base to test out some new ice and snow products I picked up recently.

Marvel United: "First Class" Iceman, X-Men

Some of them were more successful than others, but a good chance to refresh on something I’ve only done a few times and good to see how some of them interact with each other.

Round-Up post will be soon, but we have a boardgame still set out on the table out there, so I may have to sneak a few May Models in front of the Round-Up post. We’ll have to see what happens there!