Painting Marvel Crisis Protocol With 144Artist

I had a couple days I couldn’t get to the painting table but have still made progress as I was working on the fungus forest piece for the Terrain Challenge.  I finished the details on Loki, Sin and Viper so replaced them with members of the Black Order.  I even got a little yellow applied to Ebony Maw.  Having finished enough piece to fill the Sealant Tray I allowed myself to prime another set of models.  Thanos and his throne were primed black and sprayed with a zenith.

The next night I finally started work on Abomination.  Got good base coats on him but largely ignored the Black Order minis.  Last night I built up Abomination’s highlights and started on the bases of the rest of the minis.  I feel confident I can finish Hulk’s nemesis with another hour of work.

While I didn’t see the need for a third Black Panther figure, I love this sculpt!  The Sub-Mariner in the set is just as cool.  I actually glued the entire thing together before priming.  If I had it to do over I would probably not glue T-Challa to the base until after I finished painting it all.  Since I chose to portray the panther as a spirit animal it wasn’t that difficult to keep things neat.

Considering Abomination dominates every picture he is in and no brush has touched him yet, progress may look minimal.  I’ve actually been working through characters at a slow but steady pace. I even glued together enough to spray with primer, heck, three primers.

It was almost exactly a year ago I began working on the miniatures in MCP Earth’s Mightiest Core Box. I was really stuck in a bad Painters’ Block when I got started.  I am grateful for the inspiration and creativity these little supers have ignited in me in the year since.  It is in my nature to go crazy over something that I enjoy and my reaction to MCP has been typical.  I have been able to acquire most of the characters, a lot of the New York City terrain, and a number of the special scenario packs.  In addition, I’ve just ordered some of iWargame’s pre-marked mats.  More relevant to this blog is how much I have been able to paint in the last year;

169 miniatures making 159 characters (some like Ant-Man have two minis)

4 Apartment Buildings

1 Sanctum Santorum

1 Construction Site

2 Industrial trucks (Garbage and Chemical)

1 Taco Truck

6 Cars

and a bunch of Street Furniture (Street Lights, Traffic Lights, Signs, Mailbox)

I also organized all the game parts and found new storage solutions for the terrain and minis.  I have to admit to being rather blown away by the numbers but excited to see if I can maintain this level of progress and organization over the next year.

Few more days have passed and I have still been able to get a little time at the painting table every evening.

To be clear, I didn’t host a party JUST to play MCP, that was a bonus.  I hosted it to celebrate my friends, the family I have chosen, as well as play A LOT OF GAMES.  The people I surround myself with are as diverse a group as their tastes in games.  We had games of all ages and backgrounds going as well as some play testing going on as I know a number of developers.  My lovely partner brought in the custom made cake Sat so our sweet cravings were solved.  That’s me in the classic Dungeons and Dragons t-shirts.

I arrived at the hotel Saturday morning around 8am to find my friend Chuck had checked in the night before and was already awake and setting up Dune Imperium.  After I met with staff and verified what was being delivered up and when.  I set up a pretty MCP table as a Show and Tell  before joining Chuck because “The Spice Must Flow”  Great board game, with multiple routes to victory that really feels like it came from the pages of the book.  Bonus that there are plastic Sand Worms.

There were morning and afternoon snacks put out as well as hot and cold drinks all day.  We played until about 11pm Saturday night and started up again at 9 am Sunday morning with a couple guys playing a board game in the restaurant as they ordered breakfast.  As many of us had to be at work Monday we closed it all down by 9pm.  Such a great time with such fun folks that I have decided to start saving up to do something similar next year.

The final gallery is pictures of my MCP stuff as it is an MCP blog after all.

I had a three day weekend, here in California, so got some extra time to paint.  My “Waiting For Sealant” got a few more finished minis on it but it still isn’t quite full.

As one only turns 60 once I decided to host a two day game convention for my friends that I called PeterCon60.  Rented a meeting room in a local hotel, filled it with tables and games, and even got in a game of Crisis Protocol.

Since four of us wanted to play we split up the forces with two players on a side.  My Opponents really wanted to run Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club which was made up of Brotherhood characters.  My partner really wanted to run X-Men so that’s what we went with.

We had five Secures we had to roll dice to flip to our side and four fiery tomes to pick up and blast others with. Started out fairly even but by the scoring round of turn three the Hellfire was pulling ahead.  We blasted at each other, threw cars, and even indulged in punching.  Turn five ended with the Hellfire club ahead 16-12 and a good time was had by all.