Painting Marvel Crisis Protocol With 144Artist

I have to confess to knowing little about Ben Riley, one of Peter parker’s clones before picking up the mini.  I have since remedied the situation and have to say it is a very interesting story arc.  I love the idea that somewhere in the Marvel universe is a backup Pater Parker. lol  A fun figure to assemble and paint all in all and I look forward to seeing what he brings to the Web Warriors.

He’s no Andy Serkis but MCP’s Klaw is painted and ready for action.  Very unique sculpt but then it can’t be easy to represent a character made of sound waves.  I find his game card a little perplexing but I am sure a few games with him and it will all be perfectly clear.  For now he can join my plethora of painted characters.  Maybe he will see the tabletop come January and my birthday convention/party.

While I’ve read the Ghost Spider, or Spider Gwen, comics I’ve not followed this storyline where she bonds with the symbiote but I love it.  I wasn’t crazy about the optional guitar so didn’t use it but it will find a way out of my bits box eventually.  A wonderfully fluid pose that wasn’t as fiddly to assemble as I had feared. As with the majority of MCP minis, so far, a really joy to paint.

Another character I can only recall seeing a few times over the decades I read comics.  She is another fun sculpt that assembled easily and was fun to paint.  Looking at her card it seems she has some nice powers and re-rolls but I will really have to run her in game to see what she can do.  Nice to have my Winter Guard painting caught up.

My Winter Guard affiliation is growing with the addition of Crimson Dynamo.  I only have scattered memories of either him or the Winter Guard but the mini is a fun, solid sculpt.  He looks tough, hard to move, and capable of a solid hit.  I will have to see how he is in game. He was fun to paint and I’m pleased with the way the reds came out.

Now that I finished painting Angel, my collection of the Original X-Men is complete.  Of course some of them look very differently than they did in the sixties but then neither do I.  Beast is a good example but Angel became Arch Angel after encountering Apocalypse and those steel wings look very different. I’ve almost finished painting that model as well so he should be popping up on this blog soon.

There were a few minis I had called done that I knew I would have to revisit.  Not the least of which was the first Captain America I painted as I hadn’t addressed his shield.  The Iron Man from the first core set needed some clean up and more highlights while Amazing Spider-Man really needed the black lines of his costume popped out.

With AMG’s NYC Apartment kit getting harder to find I have had to get creative in my searching as I can’t meet the majority of prices I’m seeing on eBay and the like.  I mean, the kit is expensive enough at original retail but now I see them going for way more than I can pay.  So I look for assembled or mostly assembled kits that folks are unloading as they as often keener to get rid of them than max their profit.  So the fourth apartment for me to paint is one of those.  It came with all the roof details and fire escapes unassembled but those are easy enough to get done.  Apparently I’m not the only person who sees the benefit of using this to store smaller terrain in.  Not only is the roof of this building not attached but there is a transparent acrylic “floor” attached to the interior of the third floor which is also not attached. So here is the starting point for my next building.