Merry Christmas to everyone, and thanks for stopping by to see my Blog. I hope you all have a fantastic new year. I have been working on some new figures and will post them as soon as the mad Christmas rush dies down. Have a good one, and don't over do it. See you all soon.

This is a mad little project I have been working on recently.
It occurred to me that I needed some scenery for my games, and to photograph my minis with, but all the ones on the Internet in 28mm scale were quite expensive. When I found a Polly Pocket car in Tescos for £1.15 I had to buy it. Now My supers can hide behind it, or just pick it up an throw it at each other!

Here's how I did it...

1. This is a toy Polly Pocket car.
2. I took the car apart by drilling out the joints. I peeled the stickers and then primed it with Games Workshop spray primers.

3. I painted the car with Vallejo paints and Games Workshop Foundation paints. I used GW washes to add shading.

4. I reassembled the model, then painted on the details and the edges of the windscreen.

5. And here is the finished model again. It was fun to make. I will have to see if I can get any more...

The US marshals service has special responsibilities for enforcing federal warrants. When the felon in question has super powers they call in their own 'Super team' headed up by Marshal Law. He is super-strong and super-tough, and specialises in taking down super-powered felons. Amongst the teams other duties are escorting super-powered individuals to trail or between prisons, and protecting judges, jurors and witnesses in court cases involving super-powered people.



This mini is Harby, a Hasslefree figure. http://hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=980
I had to do a minor conversion as he carries a gun in his left hand, so I clipped it of and sculpted a new hand out of green stuff, which was really easy. Fan's of the genre may be interested to know that the mini Harby also comes with a chunky spare right arm and head which look surprisingly like a certain big red superhero from hell.

Also, for more information on the work of the real US marshals, check out their excellent website. http://www.usmarshals.gov/

This is Amazon, formerly a princess of a mysterious island, turned man-hating super villain. Don't let her good looks and scanty costume mislead: she is deadly and dangerous!

This is from Urban mammoth, a cool scifi range. normally I don't like using to many models with guns but this one I couldn't resist. Very nice pose, a chance to practice my skin tones.
http://www.urbanmammoth.com/acatalog

Surge is a hero who is getting a bit long in the tooth now, having had a career that spans three decades, but he is showing no signs of slowing down. his former side kick, Lighting Lad, has launched his own hero career as Blue Lightning, much to Surge's annoyance. Surge is super-fast, but can also generate a considerable static electrical charge, which he can discharge from his fingers to stun opponents.

This figure is another from the Superfig range.

I have just finished reading a brilliant book, Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman. It is essentially a Super hero novel, and is fun, fast paced and a great read. It is humorous in parts but deals sensitively with the genre, rather than spoofing it, which would be too easy. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the genre of Super heroes and villains.

This is the Prestidigitator. He claims to have traveled to the fabled Shangrila in the Orient and to have studied under many great gurus and swamis. Quite why this man then ended up in a run down suburb of Birmingham, England, living a life of petty crime is a mystery. He is a known associate of the Aston Villain and Shocking Pink.
This miniature is from a range of pulp era figures that I would recommend to anyone keen on the genre.
http://www.pulpfigures.com/catcode.php?range=Gangland%20Justice&code=PGJ&number=13&custID=1959321381206126443

The Enigma is a famous TV reporter by day, and by night an avenging crime fighter. He conceals his face with a featureless fleshy mask that has made him the terror of the criminal underworld (a cowardly and suspicious lot).
This mini is Doctor Hugh, a Heresy model based on a certain TV Sci Fi time travelling doctor. http://www.heresyminiatures.com/hsf015.htm
I filed down his face, and covered it with green stuff. The hat is sculpted from pro-create.

This is the super hero Wild Fire. She is a bio-engineered warrior from the 23 century who slipped back through time after a cataclysmic event in her own time-line. Part Cyborg, part speedster- all hero.


This one is an urban wars miniature, from urban mammoth. I have used a number of their minis. They are nice comic book figures, but unfortunately they all have big gun
http://www.urbanmammoth.com/acatalogs.

This is Shocking Pink, a delightful page 3 stunna turned super villainess. Really she is only in it for the celebrity, and hasn't got a genuine bad bone in her.
This mini is a very simple conversion from a Mark Copplestone mini. She was carrying a gun, but I clipped it of, suck a blob of green stuff on her fist, and then shaped it into an energy blast. The paint job might not be much cop, but I think the over all effect is pleasing.
The mini is found in FW5, (bikers) blister pack. http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=FW

This robot is one of a legion of robot warriors made by the criminal master mind Doctor Apocalypse, with help from Doctor Otto.

Again this is a Copplestone Castings mini, but this time there was no need to convert. Find him and his fellow robot legionaries a
FW 15 (Terminator Robots) at the same site as above.