From DavidB - 'Bow' 28mm Superhero (5 Points)

For my 2nd submission to the Challenge, I'll present my first Super of the year. His name is Bow and he is my go to stealth, combat, sniper for my super team. he name may be a bit bland, but Hawkeye, Green Arrow, and other monikers were already taken while Shaft seemed to be a little.....

He is a Crossover miniatures Super and is of white metal. Crossover has a wonderful selection of figures and uses separate heads to increase customization and personalizing of your heroes. They have a growing lines of slick looking minions that will be presented shortly in this challenge. For the curious, the heads are special ordered if of minion variety, but bosses and heroes/villains come with three heads and most are easily attached to any crossover mini and work well with GW and other figures. The women are very nicely done and scaled really well.

I wandered into Super gaming because my kids are still resisting historical and are only into fantasy and scifi for the painting. They like supers and zombies and usually both together. I was lucky enough to participate in two Crossover kickstarters and the majority of my hero collection came from them. It helps that Rusti is a very nice guy and supersystem was readily available for one of his kickstarters with samples made of the new heroes and villains.

Bow was kept muted in color and I resisted making him too shiny. I also plan to use him with my commando team in the zombie gaming. His colors are muted green and brown which were coincidentally the colors I was using on my Cadian armor and packs.

I did give him yellow optics for a touch of heroic flair. Red would have been a better choice but as he is a hero yellow seemed to be a better fit.

The crossover minis are hit or miss in the sculpting quality as Bow does seem a bit too stiff for my tastes. still as a design and poses go, most are pretty blank slates which are intended for creative painting of heroic spandex! looking at the lineup, It would be very easy to whip up a Legion of Superheroes or most any other pulp/comic hero you can find. besides Reaper, my kids really like the Crossover miniatures.

From Curt:Great work David. I really like the green tones you went with for 'Bow'. The bright yellow optics are ace  and so is the detail on his compound bow. I think it's wonderful that you're gaming with your kids. Maybe in a few years they might get the historical bug - either way, enjoy the fun!