Ugleb’s Gotham City Gallery

Unlike the Electrocutioner’s disaster in blue, I’m quite happy with the green glow here.  I don’t think I did not go overboard on the first coat and built it up with several lighter glaze layers.

I have been sitting on this one for awhile and decided it was overdue to get done.  I don’t really paint large areas of white all that often, so this was an interesting challenge.  Darkening the folds of his lab coat wthout making it look dirty took a bit of fiddling, I found it was better to shade using greys rather than black washes for that reason.

Ok so I kinda screwed this one up, but I’m calling it done.  I was doing ok until I went to glaze highlight some electric blue glow from the Electrocutioners shock gloves.  I went far too heavy with it! Things got a bit ‘chalky’ and I overwhelmed everything with far too much bright blue.  After some salvage efforts to tone it back down I ended up here and decided to call time and move on.

Ah well, tabltop quality and all that, chalk it up to learning!

The latest addition to the painted collection is Hush, a slightly obscure villain unless you read Batman comics I guess.  He is from a major storyline back in the 90’s which is a good read should you be so inclined.  This is one of Knight Models’ discontinued metal sculpts but I have always liked him.

I secretly hope it will be re-released in resin for 2nd edition with an updated character card, although at this point he will probably get re-sculpted at some point.

Excuse the over exposure of the pic, I had a lot of trouble getting this one to look right because I suck at photography.

I have also been working on a bit of extra scvatter terrain, these are the TTCombat Back Alley accessory sets mounted on pieces of balsa wood.

I have also been working on a bit of extra scvatter terrain, these are the TTCombat Back Alley accessory sets mounted on pieces of balsa wood.

Going from a model that has been waiting two years for some paint, to one I had to get done ASAP.  When this one went up for pre-order I showed the pic to my wife and she told me I should get it right then and there, it really is a cool sculpt.

This is the 80th Anniversary edition of The Batman and so I’m willing to overlook the 60mm base and brow furrowingly delicate bats that may make transporting it to tournaments a scary prospect.  It will look great in my cabinet regardless!

Kicking off 2019 I have decided to make an effort to finish up the stuff I have been putting off and to reduce my pile of shame a bit.  When it comes to BMG, first up on that list was the last model from the Suicide Squad 2 player starter box that I just never got around to – Killer Croc.

The ‘Squad half of the set recently got a resin re-release and tweaked stat cards for 2nd edition which have made the scaly sewer king a more viable option to see some table usage as well, so the time was right to finally cross him off the to-do list.

Feels good.