From StephenS: Mysterio [Solaris] (27 points)

 G'day Everyone,

It's great to be back in the painting challenge once again. Thank you to Curt and all the minions for your efforts in making this happen! This time I'm kicking things off with a visit to the planet Solaris, a fitting destination for my character today.

I present the supervillain 'Mysterio', master of illusion and deception. He apparently has no super powers, but worked once as a special effects engineer and has used this knowledge to become a criminal mastermind. I'm not sure why it takes a superhero to defeat someone whose super power is a smoke bomb, but it's probably best not to think too long and hard about any character from the world of comic books.

 

Mysterio was a recent birthday present from my 5 year old son, so he was thrilled to see it get painted up. My son loves the comic book characters at the moment, so it is almost plausible to say I'm buying the miniatures for him...

I gave it a red hot go trying to replicate the mist that floats around inside his helmet (from the Spider-Man movie), it looks better when held at arms length, like a lot of my painting!

The miniature is a 40mm plastic model from Atomic Mass Games for their Marvel: Crisis Protocol game That should hopefully be 7 points for the model and 20 points for making planetfall on Solaris. 

Cheers,

Steve

From Millsy

What an awesome paint job Steve! I don't normally "do" supers but this chap is wonderful, especially the swirling effect you have achieved on his... helmet? dome? Anyway, wonderful stuff and 27 points well earned.