Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

Doctor Doom makes a second appearance with today’s post as we draw March’s models to a close. This time we have the versions that came from the Marvel Zombies Kickstarter.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

Obviously, you can see that Doom comes in both Survivor form as well as Zombified. Not sure why he’s used bandages to fix up his armour here, but I guess they had to differentiate him in some way.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

The living version was a pain in the arse to paint due to the bright wall RIGHT behind the bottom of his cloak. The way I eventually got around this was by heating up the figure from the ankles up, bending him forward, doing the brick painting and drybrushing, then laying in the base green on the cloak, before reheating it to bend him back to standing up straight.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

Obviously, the Zombie version of Doom has a pretty messed up cloak. It’s a little hard to see here, but I added some buff into the final highlight on this version around the edges and tears, as well as some adding in some light scratching lines. Otherwise the painting on these two was all pretty much the same as on the Marvel United figure from my previous post.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom

The details on the book are somewhat engraved into the sculpt, though I’m not sure what the text was supposed to say, so I turned it into “Doom”.

Marvel Zombies: Doctor Doom, Marvel United: Doctor Doom

To finish up, a 3-shot of my trio of Dooms. I’m pretty happy with how all three of these came out in the end, and of course happy to have another Marvel character crossed off the “to-do” list across a couple of games. 🙂

Marvel Zombies: HULK (Zombie Version)

Marvel Zombies Zombie Hulk Miniature Zombicide CMON

Today we have a rather well-known character from CMON’s Marvel Zombies games. Hulk! I’ve only painted the Zombie version here, as the key part of Hulk’s costume is simply his shredded-but-stretchy (purple!) pants.

Marvel Zombies Zombie Hulk Miniature Zombicide CMON

Generally speaking, I like to keep my characters’ costumes relatively consistent between the Marvel Zombies, Marvel United and Marvel Crisis Protocol versions, but of course, clothing and costume variations will always offer some colour variations as well. With Hulk on the other hand – aside from those purple pantaloons, the rest of his outfit is his …skin.

Marvel Zombies Zombie Hulk Miniature Zombicide CMON

This has led to a bit of an issue with getting these done – with two versions of Hulk for Crisis Protocol that need to be built and gap-filled (oh, so tedious), one version for United that needs to be cleaned up and also needs to be gap-filled, and then two living and one zombified for Zombies (also needing clean-up prep)… well, it’s a bit of a mental barrier. Not to mention painting a series of them trying to get consistency. But then I realised something. Something obvious. Zombie Hulk only needs his pants to match the others – not his skin tone. Because he’s a freaking zombie!

Marvel Zombies Zombie Hulk Miniature Zombicide CMON

So then mentally… um.. freed. I was able to get to work on this big boy and get him done. To make things easier for myself, and because the colour worked well, I used a paint by AK interactive called ….Purple for his purple pants. Highlighted with that greyish-toned off-white that I can’t 100% identify because hand oils erase the paint names and numbers on AK dropper bottle labels. And yes, this section will serve to help me in the future in case I want to double-check. For his skin tone I went with some pale, off-whites to highlight and a more olive green for the shading, rather than the richer greens I intend to use for the living versions of Hulk. It also gives a colder tone (unusual for green) against the rich warm tones of the purple pants and red blood and gore.

Marvel Zombies Zombie Hulk Miniature Zombicide CMON

The AIM agents’s discarded helmets work as a nice little opportunity to add some additional spot colour to the figure, though there’s a lot happening on the model anyway between all that green, purple and red. It does tie him nicely with certain other models in the game at least…

Marvel Zombies Zombie Hulk Miniature Zombicide CMON, Betty Ross

I thought for the final shot I’d have a comparison so you can see what an absolute unit he is for the game – and who better to pair him with than Betty Ross? There’s actually a rule in the “Hero” version of the game where Zombie Hulk will revert to a much-more defeatable Bruce Banner if a hero has a bystander with them – calms him down for a brief moment. I like little thematic elements like that in my dice-rolling miniature boardgames.