Aquaman--28mm Foot and Mounted

"I don't talk to fish."
-Aquaman, New 52

With the WIP out of the way, allow me to show you the finished product of his majesty, the Aquaman!






















The only major difference between my WIP version of the exiled Aquaman is some paint on the figure, the ballast, the hot glue/water, and the tentacles lifting up the road.




















The only other thing was my attempt at a foam effect where the tentacles and the road are bursting out of the water. I use some cotton ball shreds for this effect, and it's honestly waaaay more effective than I had originally anticipated, and I used it for the mounted Aquaman as well.



I painted up mounted king Aquaman and slapped some 'Flying Graysons' posters on the wall for good measure. Not quite so excited with this figure as I was with the exiled/foot Aquaman, but the reception towards this one has been much more positive, and who am I to argue with my gaming group XD



You can see the foam effect adopted towards the rear of the stingray.

The Army Card we use for our games is right here:



And there we have it! Son of the land, king of the seas! What are your thoughts on these conversions?

-BG

Aquaman-28mm Foot and Mounted

"Permission to come aboard?"
-Aquaman, Aquaman

I never intended to like Aquaman. Being a Marvel fanboy for the most part, my love of DC really extended only to Superman and Batman. And Alan Scott, for some reason.

Never been sure why.

At any rate, this made Aquaman the best meme in superhero history, where there is no greater enemy for him then pollution killing off Flipper and co. I loved to laugh at Aquaman.




















Then this stupid Aquaman movie made me like him. I think I'm legitimately a bit bitter as to how much I like Aquaman now. So here are my two--I originally had three planned so be glad it's only two--Aquamans: one on foot in his now-classic 90s costume, the other a more modern, mounted take on the character with the orange jumpsuit astride a giant sting ray. Cuz why not.



















90s Arthur Curry required very little in terms of modification from his Hypertime heroclix self. I created his baseplate to look as though the pavement was being ripped up by some octopus thing in the sewers, tentacles courtesy of Brightest Day heroclix Aquaman, with smeared on hot glue for a water texture.



King/Modern/mounted Aquaman was not so simple. The sting ray was a toy I purchased at hobby lobby with their sweet sweet 40% coupons, and mounted onto a thick peanut baseplate with hot glue to represent water. There is a wall between this water and the ballast made of card stock to indicate a harbor of some sort.

The sting ray was already painted by me before I received Aquaman, so it is finished while he is not yet in the photo.

Aquaman himself is a Brightest Day heroclix with a trident stolen from some third Aquaman and a beard sculpted on, as well as some hair extensions.

I shall show them off as finished products next time!

-BG

Optimus Prime--28mm

"I am Optimus Prime"
-Optimus Prime (duh)

Optimus is the best Transformer ever; the one character that is unarguably a pop-culture icon and tremendous character, and not just a toy. If I could pick a fictional character to be president, it would be Optimus.

Gushing concluded, then, let's look at the figure.

The figure chosen is the Optimus Prime figure I showed off last post.
As noted in that post, there wasn't a lot of modifications necessary to make the figure look like the iconic character: just some modifications to the sword, the faceplate, and then filling up the screw holes in the body.



The tones I chose were washed out to demonstrate Prime's age and experience. Prime has always struck me as a very old and very sad character, being the leader of the heros' never-ending grind against an unstoppable evil in a several-million year war. Thus, the reds are dark, the blues are greyed, and both are scratched up with silver.



Even the eyes turned out fairly sad looking... I feel like it caught the character I was going for.



His army card is here (excuse the pink markings on the left. You'd just cut that off when printed.)



Well, what do you think? Penny for your thoughts, Autobots?

-BG

28mm Aubot Project WIP 1

"Autobots, roll out."
-Optimus Prime, Every Transformers Iteration Ever.

Seeing as to how warmly my gaming group received by Bumblebee figure, I wanted to continue on with my transformers project. Knowing that some of my audience--on another platform--has requested WIP shots, I decided I would post some here as well. Enjoy!

I'm not what you would call a purist when it comes to Transformers. When you grow up on Simon Furmans's 'Armada' comics and TF Animated, you're a bit of an alien to both Bayformers and G1. As a result, you'll see a variety of Transformers styles in this project. For the most part, you will see a Bayformers aesthetic, this being because the Bayformers designs are most recognizable by the members of my group, with them being most familiar with the films and Transformers Prime.

But enough bloviation. A picture is worth a thousand words.



The first shot is of my figure for the Autobot Hound, a character I'm tackling for no reason other than the fact I love his actor and his aesthetic. Had I known how much greenstuff it would take to give him his signature beard, potbelly and belt, however, I wouldn't have tried it. It took about two inches to patch up the holes in this 'Bulkhead' happy meal, with Bumblebee for scale. The result is pretty nice though, so I can't complain too much.


Far less extensive has been my work on this Optimus Prime happy meal. I cut the sword off his ugly gun and put it on his knuckles, where it belongs. After that, I patched up some holes and gave him a new facemark, as I feel the facemask is the most prominent feature of Prime's face, and the original sculpt had it sunken in. It's a happy meal, so I didn't expect perfection, but that had to be fixed!

That's where I'm at with the modding. Painting time!

-BG