Avengers and Firey Bases

Cap

The last few weeks have been crazy, sick kids, vacation, sick kids while on vacation!  Anyway, I found a little time in between to work on a fun project for Gundam John.  5 Terminators for him to use as an allied shield wall for his Tau gunlines, to the them of the Avengers.  These were a fun side project that I banged out rather quickly.  They're purposefully "Table Top" rather than my best possible effort.  After starting them, Gundam John pretty much abandoned the idea of using them competitively in favor of a new list special for 6e he has been working on and subsequently mopping up his opponents with.

 But more on Gundam John's exploits later.  This was a great chance for me to use several colors I would not use for my own arm.  The purple for the Hult especially helped to ease me out of my usual earth palette and really add some contrast.  I intend to take advantage and add increase the range of my palette as a result and I am really excited about this.

Spidey

Iron Man

The Hulk

I was really more concerned with theme than actual conversion for this project, so I only made two minor changes.  Cap needed his shield, and a cross wouldn't do so I modified a shield drone down and used that as a shield.  Very appropriate since the main force was going to be Tau.  The other minor change was adding the wings to Thor's head.  Thor looked entirely too much like a Space Wolf and needed something to make it more distinct.  Thank you Dark Angels Veteran kit.

Thor

 

 

Next up on the table are some custom bases for Matt.  I started these last night and they have started out pretty well.  I have no idea what the technique for what I am doing is called, but I think of it as wet dry-brushing....yeah.  Basically, I'm using the dry-brushing techniques most are familiar with, but applying lighter and lighter shades to the stones of the base while the previous layer is still wet. This ends up blending very nicely, while still allowing the layers that were brushed on more heavily underneath to be seen.

 

 There are also some chains and metal plates on the bases that I took a little more care with.  First a light watered coat of Boltgun. I then applied a couple layers each of blue and green wash, allowing each to dry before adding the next.  Lastly I went over it again with the metal to clean it up.  let me know how you think they came out.