Workbench Wednesday - Batman Minis, Deep Ones, Orcs and Neave!

A miscellany of items currently in progress! 

Professor Pyg and his Dollotrons from the Batman Miniatures Game by Knight Models - looking awfully like ghosts at the moment! I'd originally zenithal-sprayed them but when it came to painting them it just wasn't working very well. I then decided to drybrush them all light grey followed by white. I started painting the bases on all my figures a while back whilst basecoating them, so that's why they look particularly odd right now! Professor Pyg is a relatively new Batman villain - he's your classic mad surgeon archetype, trying to create "perfect" humans. Since arriving in the comics he's gone on to appear as a sidequest in Arkham Knight (which this depiction comes from) and in the Gotham TV show.

The Electrocutioner, also from the Batman Miniatures Game. He's a minor villain and sometimes portrayed as a mercenary - this miniature is how he appears in the Arkham Origins prequel game as one of the assassins that have been hired to kill the Batman. He's in an armoured suit and has electroshock gauntlets that Batman eventually "borrows".

Malifaux Silurid Slaves, aka Swamp Deep Ones - I love these Catfish-themed Deep Ones by my favourite sculptor, Paul Muller. They're sadly OOP now that Malifaux is strictly plastic only, which is a shame! These aren't far off being finished.

Warhammer Orc Slaver - it being Orctober, I decided to pull this venerable mini out of the lead pile! I imagine him working for a small group of Hellknight Anti-Paladins I've been slowly working on over the years, keeping their servants in line!

Neave Blacktalon, Stormcast special character, almost finished! Loved this figure from it's first preview and picked it up a while back, only to have a cat chew off her axes! A kind soul on Instagram sent me some replacement axes which are also from the Vanguard. I've recently removed the little spiky back piece she had behind her head as it just seemed a little over the top. Just a few little touch-ups to do - this is how I'm going to paint the other few bits of Stormcast I have.

I do have a load of other stuff Work-In-Progress, these are just a very small selection! Hopefully I'll be able to show you them completed soon!

#6MMRPC - Batman Miniatures Game - completed figures so far...

A nice group shot of my completed BMG figures so far - It really shows size of the Bane figure! Hopefully I'll finish more soon.

Comments and suggestions are most welcome - thank you for reading!

#6MMRPC - Batman Miniatures Game - Bases

I thought that I'd give some close-up shots of the bases. I decided that I needed a bit more on them, other than the lovely grass tufts - to that end, I had a look online for newspapers from the Batman films and wanted posters

TDKR Bane's base - this is a wanted poster for Batman, which I thought suited the figure very well after the final events of The Dark Knight. I saved the image to my laptop and then pasted it into a Word document and rescaled it to a number of different sizes, which I then printed to see which would best fit the base. I cut out the best one with scalpel, distressed some of the edges and then applied it to the base with slightly watered PVA.

This was a newspaper with a headline along the lines of "Harvey Dent Joins Race for DA" - I followed the method noted above and glued it to the base.

This was another newspaper - in this case, the headline was "BATMAN saves whole family". Once the glue on them was dry I then washed them with Army Painter Strong Tone (very similar to the old GW Devlan Mud), followed by a later wash that I refer to as a "shit wash" - it's a pot of greyish-brownish watered-down paint that I use to finish off the gravel/sand on my bases.

I hope this inspires some interesting ideas for basing! Comments and suggestions are most welcome - thank you for reading!

#6MMRPC - Batman Miniatures Game - Mobsters

These Mobsters are part of the reason I decided to start collecting figures for the game - I love the poses and the retro style of the suits and weaponry! I was immediately reminded of the wonderful opening sequence of Batman: The Animated Series, with the bank robbers in the darkness. I once again used Google image search to find interesting colours to paint the clothing - these look like pretty well dressed criminals!

Comments and suggestions are most welcome - thank you for reading!

#6MMRPC - Batman Miniatures Game - Black Mask Thugs

The first two Black Mask crew members - I'm enjoying picking out colours for the clothing on these figures - Google image search has been my friend when picking these out. The green tufts are new for me - they're from an order I placed with Gamers Grass, which is a company I would highly recommend to any wargamer! The prices are fantastic and the product is top notch.

Comments and suggestions are most welcome - thank you for reading!

#6MMRPC - Batman Miniatures Game - Bane

This is the first in a number of posts regarding the wonderful figures from Knight Models...

The first Batman Miniatures Game figure I purchased, approximately 2 years ago - Bane, as portrayed by Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises. I loved the treatment of the character in the film and the miniature captured him perfectly. I had originally only planned on getting him from the range, but a friend offered me the Black Mask starter crew at a very reasonable price and I was unable to resist. I then added a bunch of other figures to them...

I followed the costume in the film as much as possible, finding some great reference pictures (stills from the movie and also pictures of the various 1/6 scale action figures) and mixing paints to match them. One thing I would say about my experience with the Knight Models figures so far - the casting leaves something to be desired, especially for figures which are on the premium side of the price scale. The hands, for example, were fairly miscast. With regards to the bases, I wanted to go for a sort of scrubland feel across the collection, so they'd fit my terrain collection nicely. I also added some detritus to some of the bases - more on that in a post in the future.

Comments and suggestions are most welcome - thank you for reading!