A few months ago, I finally completed the team of the Fantastic Four for Marvel United. Now I’ve painted their arch-nemesis, Doctor Doom!

I have to admit, I was mentally blocked a little on old Viktor here, and he took a lot longer to get to the point of that final stretch than I would have liked. I think it may at least be in part because I started him before my little hiatus, and so it took a bit longer to get motivated to get back to him.

If I’m being honest, the other thing that worked against getting him finished without a delay is that huge, smooth cape of his. Unlike normal 28-32mm figures with finer, more prounounced details, the large, open. semi-flat spaces on a cloak like this really do call for a slightly different approach. So I guess it’s a net positive again in being forced to work outside of my comfort zone.

The colours I used here for the cloak were AK 11146 Dark Green for the base, blended into AK11145 Lizard Green and then AK11142 Deep Green – with Army Painter Air Zombie Flesh worked into it for the final highlights. Shading was done with Vallejo Panzer Aces 308 Green Tail Light and a touch of black, and the richer tone of the tunic was achieved with a glaze of thinned Citadel Lamenters Yellow – a colour that I do indeed lament being OOP (though 2 Thin Coats may have a replacement?) Browns were VMC 875 Beige Brown highlighted with (old) VGC Bonewhite and his nipple plates were painted with Citadel Air Balthazar Gold highlighted with Citadel Canoptek Alloy. And yes, I did write all that down as reference for the eventual Crisis Protocol model that will one day be released!

And finally, for a bit of fun, I thought I’d take a couple of group shots with Doom firstly being threatened by the Fantastic Four, and then one with him simply being flanked by them!

There are still two more models from the same boxed expansion that Doom and the Four came from – The Silver Surfer and Super-Skrull. Surfer is an interesting problem, since the figure came pre-painted in a nice, hardy silver – but with the factory mould lines. Skrull on the other hand, is just a bit uninteresting to me, so he’ll be a model I need to force myself to paint down the line for sure. Being the last left from the box will likely have to be my motivation for that one!

Regardless of any of that, Doom is now painted, and I’m happy with how he turned out!