Friday 1 January 2016

From SimonM - 'The Man Without Fear' - Curtgeld (20 Points)

"You can do anything if you're not afraid."
This 28mm plastic “Wizkids” model of Daredevil is miniature number 36 from the Marvel “Heroclix” Critical Mass range. Blinded as a child by a radioactive substance which fell from an oncoming truck, Matthew Murdock’s remaining senses were heightened beyond normal human ability and gives him a type of sonar super-power. Taught martial arts by a Ninja sensei known as Stick, ‘Hornhead’ was created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, and made his first “Marvel Comics” appearance in April 1964.

Having removed the figure from its ‘clicky base’ and super-glued him to a “Games Workshop” 25mm circular one, I covered up the vigilante’s pre-paint by applying an undercoat of “Vallejo” Heavy Red before giving the majority of the miniature a wash of “Citadel” Crimson Carroburg. The lawyer’s baton was picked out using a combination of “Vallejo” Dark Vermillion and more “Citadel” Carroburg Crimson. Whilst Daredevil’s face was painted with “Vallejo” Heavy Skintone and “Citadel” Reikland Flashshade.

Daredevil WIPs - Having undercoated with "Vallejo" Heavy Red, only the model's face and baton needed painting
Admittedly a simple model and paint-job, I immediately thought of this figure as soon as Curt stated his ‘Tip to the Croupier’ for this year’s Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge would need to be based upon a risk-taker, daredevil or gambler. Well you can’t get more of a daredevil in my books than ‘The Man Without Fear’ himself.

Awesome! As you say, Simon, you can't have a better example of a daredevil than the Man himself. What a quintessential 'superhero' pose - very dynamic. The washes you chose really made this figure 'pop' from the simple red basecoat. I also like the little historical background to the Daredevil character. Lovely work and thank you so much!

27 comments:

  1. I did wonder if anyone would do, Daredevil! Nice one Blax!

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    1. You know me and super-heroes, Ray... How could I resist!?! :-)

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  2. Well done Simon! Good work on the sharing. Cheers, PD

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    1. Thanks Peter. A simple start to what should be a load of super-hero related painted models.

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  3. Nice work Blax - great first entry :)

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    1. Cheers Tamsin. Nice and simple to begin with :-)

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  4. Great job Blax, I like your style!

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    1. Thanks Sean. You can;t go wrong with super-heroes in my books.

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  5. Great figure, properly muscle bound

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    1. Cheers Martin. The wash did all the work tbh.

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  6. While not a Superhero fan. I can appreciate this figure for the painting. What a shame I am not into superheroes I feel I could enjoy this more if I were.

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    1. I'm a bit the same. For some reason supers just don't click with me. Having said that, lovely shading Blax and that red is spot on so my son tells me :-)

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    2. Cheers Gents. I appreciate Super-heroes are an acquired taste. But I love 'em. However not all my AHPC submissions will be so eclectic. Plenty of Sci-Fi, Pulp and "Frostgrave" planned too.

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  7. Great little devil you've done there!

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  8. I can't help but feel that I wished I had come up with this idea. Well done.

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    1. Thanks Sean. I assure you, you post plenty of things where I wish the same :-)

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  9. Simple and effective! Maybe we should try hitting more people with radioactive stuff...

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    1. Cheers Barks. Well it certainly worked for Stan Lee ;-)

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  10. You really worked the mini to produce a great finish

    Ian

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  11. Very nice work on Ben Affleck Simon!

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    1. Thanks Fran. Hopefully mine came out better than Affleck's silver screen performance ;-)

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  12. Nice job on giving depth to such a monochromatic costume!

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  13. Very good work on DD! The red is very nice on him!
    I'd much rather game history or scifi skirmish, but my kids really like the Supers....I really have to collect some heroclix and see what we can do with them! ;)

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