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!

Marvel United: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Marvel United: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Yep, we’re doing this again. So here we are one more time again. Jessica Jones and Callisto. Why not have them combined into the same post with the last pair? Fair question – it’s because they’re for different games, and this way it’s much easier for me to search out specific models. Basically the same paint colour schemes here, except Jessica has changed her grey t-shirt for a white one. Why? Matching the card art for the two games, mostly – and because a change of t-shirt doesn’t matter or really add a lot to the time or difficulty of painting a model in the same costume/clothing. It certainly helped both of these ladies get to the front of the paint queue in that there were only two models for each character for me to paint – nothing for Crisis Protocol yet, nor any Zombie versions.

Marvel United: Jessica Jones and Callisto

Something that’s pretty amusing is that in Marvel Zombies, Callisto is a Bystander – an NPC who is effectively an equipment card, and not a playable character. In Marvel United, she’s an enemy boss. A character that 2-4 players have to team up against in an attempt to defeat her. Same character, wildly different power levels and we’ve lost to her in the past as a MU boss character. We haven’t played with Jessica in MU yet, so not sure what she’s like, though she is an absolute beast in MZ (she took out Zombie Hulk, Wasp and Cap when we played on Saturday night)

Marvel United: Jessica Jones, Luke Cage Power Man, Iron Fist, The Punisher

I realised when I was taking the photos that Jessica has several Netflix peers painted, so I thought a small group shot was in order. No timeframe on Daredevil or Elektra getting painted yet, though!