From SimonM - "Heroclix" The U-Men (50 Points)

These ten 28mm U-Men pre-painted plastic models are by “Wizkids” and are all miniature number 001 from their “Heroclix” Marvel Mutant Mayhem range. Created by Grant Morrison for the 2001 "New X-Men" Annual by “Marvel Comics”, these villains believe in using mutant body parts to augment their bodies and live in specially designed environment suits to protect them from “an imperfect world.”

However having painted and submitted five identical models to the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge last year (as "the perfect henchmen to accompany Black Manta") I thought this time round their scuba-diving gear would simply make them excellent Pulp deepsea saboteurs or Nazi Invaders.

Whilst painting one of the models though, I did decide to see just how easily these miniatures could be converted, and as a result I created a slightly recognisable squad leader by replacing the relatively straightforward barrel of his rifle with the more complicated weapon of an old plastic "Citadel" Cyberman.

As with the underwater villains I've previously painted, I initially gave all the figures an undercoat of “Citadel” Abaddon Black and then started to 'pick out' all their breathing pipes, air-tanks, weapons and face plates with Ironbreaker. These metallic areas were then heavily washed with the Shade Nuln Oil.

Well at press time this looks to be our last post of the day, but I'm not counting Adam out for another lot!  Great looking frogmen Simon - you seem to have a fixation of shiny black figures.  Nice metal detailing on the face masks and breathing apparatus.  And those look like evil underwater weapons they are carrying.  They remind me of the stories my ex-RN dad told me about Commander "Buster" Crabbe and the Russian cruiser in Portsmouth in the 1950s....

 I notice that this puts you 6 points shy of your target of 500.  Since I am sure that you will easily hit that goal, spend the week thinking about possibly upping it for the rest of the Challenge.