Marvel United: Beast and “First Class” Iceman

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Zombies: Beast

I mean, you knew this one was coming next – surely! Yep, that’s right – we have the blue X-rated version of Chewbacca in both his Survivor and Zombie version from the Marvel Zombies X-Men and Kickstarter Extras sets.

The fur on these sculpts is certainly more accentated when compared to the Crisis protocol version – this allows for both easier painting but unfortunately makes the model look more “noisy” and less visually clear in these photos. This isn’t helped by the sculptor’s (or designer’s) choice of giving us the bespectacled version of Beast – so more crap interfering the readability of his face.

There was a bit of extra messing around on the bases, since there are a number of sculpted books, pages and flasks scattered about, so it took a little more care than the usual rubble.

For the books and pages, I just used some text-strip decals that I got from a KS ages ago. While they’re obviously set up to be useful in 40k, they’re a pretty handy thing to have in your back pocket for this sort of occasion. Trying to add in text lines would of course be doable, but more time than I’d like to spend – and getting row after row of them to be straight would be a nightmare.

That aside, they’re really a pretty solid pair of sculpts that weren’t too bad at all to get painted. I may go back to both beasts and darken just the front of their Wolverine-style hairline to be more in line with the comics (as noted by Faust in the last post) but otherwise, they’re done and I’m good with ’em!