Reaching the Zenith!

Wow! It's been ages since I posted anything. The past month have been pretty quiet for some reason. Been in a bit of a painting doldrums but starting to get back into gear now. I have been gaming quite a bit, but even that's mostly been board games. But now I'm looking at a reasonable stretch of weeks that I'll be able to get to the club, so hopefully I'll post soon about a couple of new games I've tried recently: Strange Aeons and Clash of Empires. I'll play a couple more games, though, before I do a review proper. But for now, here's another Reaper superhero called Zenith. I quite like the colour scheme on this one. It seems a bit unusual to me, but it works!

There's something in the air!

Just completed another Superhero from Reaper. This one is called Twister and is clearly an air elemental hero, a companion for Inferno that I already painted. There are an earth and water figure, too, but I haven't got my hands on them yet. Both the blue and white were just a base colour highlighted up by adding white. In the case of the white/grey it was VMC Light Grey with white added until it was just white. The blue was VMC Andrea Blue with white added and a final highlight of VMC Sky Blue. I thought the base needed a bit of dressing so I added some newspaper pages swirling in the gusts. It's not brilliant but it'll do! I wasn't sure of the brown hair either will the whole thing was finished, but now I think it looks just right.

Up and at them!

Rainer Wolfcastle: Up and at them. 
Dialogue coach: No, "Up and atom". 
Rainer Wolfcastle: Up and at them. 
Dialogue coach: Up and *atom*. 
Rainer Wolfcastle: Up and at them. 
Dialogue coach: [frustrated] Better. 

A couple of weeks ago a colleague at work introduced me to SuperSystem. I'd never heard of it before and the idea of creating your own superheroes? Well...who could resist? A good deal of my University grant and loan money was spent on comics and I've always liked the genre. So I had to get some figures for it. I looked at Superfigs first, but it seems you can only source them from the US, so I thought there must be more lines out there somewhere. Enter trusty old Reaper miniatures! The Chronoscope line has several suitable figures, all bearing that mark of quality sculpting. So first up is Inferno, the female version of the Human Torch:

I haven't varnished her yet, as I'm actually in the market for a new varnish, not being satisfied with recent attempts using brush on and spray Humbrol Matt Cote. So the pictures aren't the best, but they'll have to do. Not entirely convinced about the fire, but I think it's as good as I can get on a first attempt. Still toying with adding an icon to her suit, too, but I can't decide what!! Perhaps when the team is done I'll think up one for them all, like the X-Men, or something.