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Skurge, lapdog of the Enchantress is painted and ready to hit the table.  I only had limited exposure to the character through the comics but fell in love with with the Executioner when Karl Urban played him in Thor: Ragnarok.  He’s such a fun actor that he made Skurge likable which isn’t my memory of him from the comics.  He is the first of my remaining Asgard characters I’ve primed in preparation of getting the new set.

Lockjaw is painted and ready to teleport all over the place.  What a great figure.  I’m already a huge fan of dogs but one this big is a dizzying idea.  He’s got a convoluted and sometimes contradictory backstory.  Sometimes he”s a dog who was mutated by the Terragen Mist and others he is a man mutated into a giant dog. Either way, I love the mini and look forward to expanding my Inhumans Court.

Crystal, princess of the Inhumans and Medusa’s sister is now in my collection.  Really one of the most dynamic poses in the game and despite being a little fiddly to assemble she painted up nicely.  I like how her control of the four elements is visually described.  Reminds me of the Last Airbender and Kora.  She does have her own giant animal sidekick after all but more on him next post.

Queen of the Inhumans, Medusa, has been finished and is ready to throw down.  Throw somewhere anyway.  She looks like a formidable character so I look forward to adding her to a team as well as running Inhumans.  We will have to see what happens this weekend.

I am ending 2024 with the start of my Inhumans affiliation and their leader, Back Bolt.  I always liked the Jack Kirby created team when he was writing them I never loved them.  Their various guest appearances in other comics were interesting but didn’t excite.  I know they have had a bit of a rebirth in modern comics so I may have to seek out some reading material.  The miniatures are fun and I love Lockjaw.  I’m now looking forward to getting ahold of the new Inhumans’ Court set in 2025.

With the completion of Arch Angel my X-Men First Class is finished.  I find the concept of one character changing into the other, like Ant Man, very interesting.  I’ve got a chance to play some MCP coming up soon so imagine I will be trying out the X-Men so might get a chance to play Warren Worthington.  Until then, what a great pair of sculpts!  I love them both and they were fun to paint.

To continue in the spirit of the season, I’ve been working on terrain.  I photographed the first two hydrants I worked on as well as the five I just finished.  I’ve completed a fourth apartment building as well.  It still needs some details like fire escapes, roof details, electrical boxes, graffiti, and a sign over the store window but I’ll to all those soon enough.  I’m hosting a two day “convention” to celebrate my 60th birthday in January and so want plenty of terrain and minis for MCP.

I better get those street tiles worked on…

Between End of Quarter, End of Semester, End of Year, and several Holidays (not the least of which being my 60th birthday next month) I have not had as much time at my painting table as I would have liked. I only have a few finished MCP characters waiting for sealant and only a couple close to done.  I did work a bit on the previously owned Apartment building that I have dubbed #4.  My creativity knows no bounds.  While the floors may all separate, I tried to paint the brick with them assembled to keep a consistent look.  As I was doing so it became clear the initial assembly needed some revisiting as pieces were coming apart, so I have glued all the corners and left them to dry wound up in rubber bands.  I hope to get to this and some Inhumans over the weekend.