From: SanderS - Protocol gone Critical (120 pts)

Hoi,

If I am being honest I was actually saving these figures up for O'Grady's Gulch as I have painted these figures for a friend who's the owner of our FLGS. You have to paint something for someone else at the Gulch if I am not mistaken, but since I am painting stuff for 3 other people I can just as well enter this lot for regular points right now.

So a while back Martijn said: "Would you like to paint a set of Crisis Protocol for me?" I let the idea play around in my head. "If the figures are nice, sure why not?" I said, boy was I in for a surprise: there's really a LOT in the box!

Not only are the rules and usual gaming aids included in the box, there's plenty of scenery in there too! So a bucketload of plastic was awaiting me and of great quality at that. There's really good instructions to go with the 10 figures (including plastic scenic bases), two cars, a kiosk selling the Daily Bugle, some street-furniture and plastic rulers.

It took me far too long to get everything painted, the procedings were interrupted by the spell of correcting tests I spoke of earlier, but now it's all done.

The goodies!

From left to right: Black Widow, Captain Marvel (no idea really who she is), Captain America, Iron Man and Spiderman.

The cars are next. Basically there are two vehicles of the same type included in the box, but there's a small Cab-sign so you can paint one, like I did, as a taxi. 

 Next up are two streetlights and stop-signs. I know one should read STOP not HALT but I couldn't paint that right so I ended up with this.

The garbage disposals, stop those presses Threepio! 

My favourite scenery piece must be the kiosk! I embellished it with cut out comics of which I tried to find as many as possible, that featured the actual "heroes" supplied in the game.

I am no big fan of Marvel or DC, I have seen some of the Batman and Spiderman movies and some of the recent Netflix series, but that's about it. I am however a SW OT purist so some Star Wars references were in order.

The Baddies

From left to right: Baron Zemo (who?!), The Red Skull,Ultron, Doc Octopussy and Cross-bones

My favorite mini of the entire bunch (so including the Goodies) is Red Skull, I am extremely happy with the energy cube he is holding (energon? Oh no wrong franchise yet again!)

I almost forgot to show the rulers, they are cast in sturdy grey plastic as well and were a pain to paint well, since they either represent arcs of laser/e fire .
or movement. The latter (shown on the bottom of the picture) are the range rulers and the smallest one shows a heavy set figure running fast, the middle sized one shows the hulk jumping over some buildings and the last one shows a hero flying through the universe (Flash?) and even cutting a planet right in two.

Counting out the points is a real pain here... at the Minions pleasure to redact I'd go with the following:
- 10 figures of 28mm scale = 50 points
- 2 vehicles in 28mm = 40 points
- the scenery and rulers together is hard to measure well but doesn't really exceed the 6"cube much so I'd say 20 points?
Totalling in 110 points.

Spidey says: May the Force be with you!

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By Paul:

WoW! That is quite the labour of love - must be a very good friend!

And you've pulled it off beautifully with crisp, clean colours that look spot on!  The terrain is fantastic too. Miniature comic books?  Seriously?  Awdry level awesomeness.

In addition to the figures I'm awarding 10 bonus points for the fantastic details across this whole project, for a total of 120 points.

Very impressive work Sander, your friend will be thrilled