The Thing--Repaint

"Sure, sure! I'm just a big, fat, handsome hero! Now outta the way--I got things to do!"
                                                                                       -The Thing, Marvel Comics

Now on to an actual custom of ours: the lovable blue eyed Benjy boy!

The Thing figure is a plastic Hasbro 'Handful of Heroes' figure. These were little plastic unpainted figurines back in the day, sort of like Army Guys but with super heroes. Here's a pic:

The Thing Handful of Heroes (not my photo)

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!

And here he is all painted up nice and fancy like :P Not a perfect paint job, but it definitely brings out the definition in the sculpt.

IT'S CLOBBERIN' REAR!

He almost looks better from the backside than he does from the front... the wash was nicer :)

Hulk V. Thing!

I almost wish I had tried to get a bigger figure... but I already had this guy and he turned out so nicely, I won't complain :P

The Lovable Thing's Army Card

Our version of the Thing is much less powerful than many other fan versions. I wanted our thing to do more clobberin'... Less bruiser and more brawler. As a result, he's based more off of Captain America than he is off of the Hulk. Still, however, two attacks of 5 should make hulk hurt a bit :P His tough keeps him going for extended periods of time, and to give him one more super powered ability, we gave him a boulder throwing ability (inspired honestly by the Lego Marvel Super Heroes game :P)

So what do you think? Is our Thing ready to clobber? Sound off in the comments below!

-BG

The Incredible Hulk--Repaint

"Mr. McGee, Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
                                                                          -David Bruce Banner, 'The Incredible Hulk,' 1977

And now onto everyone's favorite green rage machine, the Hulk!

The Hulk has always been a favorite character in Heroscape. He's strong, he's fast, he smashes everything. In the days of my youth, he was ALWAYS a first round pick... so much so that we made a double Hulk (a 'grey hulk') to alleviate arguments over him!

"I'm always angry."

However, I never felt like the Hulk figure in the game was big enough to cause the sort of damage that he did. I wanted something truly Incredible for a figure! So, for this figure I used an Age of Ultron heroclix of the character.

Incredible rear

Look at that guy! He's HUGE! The base plate I mounted him on is even a full 40mm in diameter to justify the guy's heft!

"Hulk feel small now."

Our Hulk has similar proportions to the Heroscape hulk, but he's very much taller! I personally really like the look.

"Hulk smash friends again in another arbitrary Hulk vs. friend fight!"

The design, again, is Hasbro's design on our new card. I've always liked what a monster this guy was. To save time, I use a shortcut in Super Leap stating that Hulk may use the 'standard rules for flying,' stating he may use the Flying special power. I now see that I should have noted he may use the standard rules for Stealth Flying, but that's a change that can be made to all of these in time.

Green Machine's Army Card

And there you have him! Is this Hulk any more incredible than the original!? Sound off in the comments below!

-BG

Spider-Man--Repaint

"I know I'm not good enough. I never will be. That's no excuse to stop fighting. No matter how much it scares me."
                                                                                  -Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1

And now for a revisit of my absolute favorite Marvel hero: the Amazing Spider-Man himself!

Spider-Man is my favorite super hero arguably ever. Nobody likes Peter Parker no matter what he does, nobody likes Spider-Man no matter what he does, but he still picks himself up, laughs it off, and does the right thing even though he doesn't get a lick of accolades for it.

But onto the figure.

Thwip thwip

A simple repaint of a Marvel Spider-Man figure from heroscape. I went for a more muted red but a lighter blue, to increase the contrast of the character. He sort of reminds me of the costume from TASM 2!

Thwip thwip on the other side

I'm really pleased with how the spider on the back of his suit turned out.

Your Friendly neighborhood you-know-who

I'm pretty darn pleased with the repaint, but there's not too much to say about him really.

The card is the new border, but the same classic spidey sensing design! I now see that my shortcut for saying Spidey can use Standard Rules for Flying was not quite accurate with the original Swing Line 4. Stealth Flying would have been more accurate... but I think we all know how Swing Line 4 works :P

THWIPTHWIPTHWIP!!!!!

And there ya have it? What do you think of our repainted webslinger? Sound off in the comments below!
-BG

Captain America--Repaint

"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- No, YOU move."

                                                                                         -Captain America, Civil War: The Amazing Spider-Man

Here is a Captain America figure I painted up for Heroscape. 

Captain America has always been a favorite of mine. His WWII roots make him all the cooler in my eyes, and his throwback stories are sometimes the best ones in that respect.

We have some big plans with Super Heroes here at the Fellowship, but I personally have found from a hobbyist's perspective it's just WAY too hard to copy Hasbro's machine paint jobs, baseplates, or cards. So, we're starting from scratch: new style, new methods, same Scaping ;)

Captain America from the front

The Figure is a straight repaint of the Horoscope original (and not a terribly complicated repaint.) The baseplate is cardboard with dollarstore gravel flocking over part of it to serve as the road.

Cap from the back

One thing I tried to do differently with the figure, however. For example, I shot for a more muted, 'Old Glory' color scheme rather than the popsicle red white and blue the original figure had. Additionally, as a nod to the movies/modern costumes, the white on the shield is replaced with metallic silver, and is covered in dings and scratches showing it's 75 some years of use.

'Murica

Pose for maximum patriotism (even if it is a blurry shot.)

The Good Captain's Card

We've developed a whole new Card for super heroes now as you can see. It's the same heroscape design on a new, more easily replicated square card. Cap looks about American as it gets... leaping right out of the panel with the constitution in the background. You can almost hear the eagles screaming... or at least those fake red hawk things we were all told were eagles.

So what do you think? Is our new Cap setting a good precedent for our more outlandish super customs? 

-BG

New Central Metropagotham City: A Superhero City Map!

Today, we're still looking at some custom Heroscape bits, but are doing something a little different. Some of us have been playing this game literally since it came out, and at least one of us has been trying to create a decent Super Hero city for almost a decade now (considering that individual's age, that's a substantial bit of his lifetime.)

But only now have we been satisfied.

Behold: New Central Metropagotham City!

*Cues theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey*

The map is a slab of pink insulation foam, carved into using pens, files, and even tin foil!

A Falcon's eye look at the streets

Now, the idea of a map does sort of go against the idea of heroscape terrain: namely that it is modular. However, a city is usually... well, a city! There's not a lot of complexity to it. Also, cities have sharp, hard angles that heroscape tiles just can't supply. So enter: city map!

Thanos shows off Earth's sewage system

The board will be complete with working manholes, but the manhole covers aren't complete. There are two manholes on the streets, and one in the park.

Ain't they 'grate'?!

There are two rain gutters on the streets.

BATMAN:Robin, wanna drag race?
ROBIN: Well, chicks do dig the car...

Here are two cars to see for scale. The road was designed to be a two lane. I may add a second lane in time to better demonstrate that.

'I do love nature' said Iron Man never

A small portion of the cement area is grass, representing a sort of park. It could also be the sight of a fountain or statue, or perhaps even a cemetery!

Just surveying my new world...

Here's a nifty shot of Thanos just chilling out on the pavement. You can see there are some minor imperfections, but for the most part we're pleased with the result.

*Finishes 2001 theme*

So what do you think!? A superhero adventure in store?

-BG

Flocked Hex Tiles--Custom Terrain for Heroscape

Another Heroscape terrain set. A couple years back, Heroscaper Grishnakh--a wellspring of infinite inspiration to me--created a Rise of the Valkyrie master set with flocked terrain instead of the green plastic tiles. Naturally, I couldn't help but take a crack at it myself, so without further ado I present to you our personal expanding set of Flocked Hex Tiles!

An Overview



Here's a closeup of the grass! It varies here and there due to irregularities in the glue. Just classic model train flock on elmers glue. Really gives it a more professional Table Top War-game feel to it and less of a Hasbro box game XD


Some rough terrain. I used some dead moss and crumbled leaves from a place we own up north to add some real-world dimension to the grassy areas. You can also sorta see the moss growing on the base of the ruins.


Here's a shot of the one sandy tile I completed. Definitely subject to change XD


A rocky tile. I was never a fan of Grishnakh's gravel field type of tile, so I created this one. There's gravel interspersed between the hexes, and the hexes themselves are just toilet paper and paper mache


Guilty McCreech takes pot-shots at some Marros


Drake gets mobbed by Marro swarms! I made a statue of Syvarris out of a spare Syvarris, a piece of pink insulation foam, and a spare glyph mounted on a single hex and appropriately painted. Not my favorite piece (made it a looooong time ago) but not terrible.



My two favorite squads line up and take aim at each other! ('murica)

And that's all! What do you think of the idea of flocked terrain? Does it hold up well against Grishnakh's original, or does it fall short?

-BG

Mos Eisley Spaceport--Custom Star Wars Scape Terrain, from Jek the Amigo

"If there's a bright center to the universe, then you're on the planet that it's farthest from."
                                                                                                    -Luke Skywalker, A New Hope

To begin, here is some custom terrain I cooked up for the Heroscape system. Herein I display some neat Mos Eisley Terrain I put together to go with custom Star Wars units for the game.


I wanted to create a nice set of terrain for the Star Wars customs I was intending to make, and decided that there was no better place in the entire Star Wars canon to set up on than the hive of scum and villainy.

Ben Kenobi goes wandering through the Jundland Wastes in an epic quest for Blue Milk, or possibly Jawa Juice. The rocks were from a plastic animal bucket that my Church was so kind as to let me keep when we were finished using it at Sunday School (where I serve.)
I based the rocks in white primer--since the paint just wouldn't hold to the rubbery plastic--and then used a couple drybrushes and a few shading lines to get the desired effect. Using card board for the base and dirt from the side of my road for Tatooine sands, I found myself very happy with the result.
Maybe one day I'll make a set with the white Sandpeople runes on it, like we see in the newest Battlefront game.
 
But gasp! The Stormtroopers ALSO want Blue Milk, and decide to kill Ben to get it.

Ben runs into the spaceport and the troopers run after.
I was very pleased with how the main Mos Eisley building--a used droid shop that presumably has fairer deals than those ripoff Jawas--turned out. Using a variety of low budget supplies--a small cardboard box my miniatures came in, a half of a Styrofoam ball for the roof, paper mached in regular white paper and based the same way I did my rocks, I made an appropriate hideaway for my scum and villainy figures :)

Ben holds his ground!
The door was a plastic Sci-Fi platform kit I picked up many years ago. To get the signature round Mos Eisley door, I took a paper, folded it in half, cut it in a half oval (to make it perfectly symmetrical) and then glued it over the plastic piece and blended it in with the wall. Worked like a charm if you asked me!
The sign above the door is actually a mutagen canister from a TMNT busy books set (back before they made Heroclix as the best alternative for TMNT Heroscape characters) and it says 'droid' in Aurebesh on it.
The attena and generater thingy are pieces from some knock-off lego sets.

Heavy Stormtroopers place their gunners on the roof.
While I didn't want to ruin the asthetic with hexagons, I consider the roof totally playable: just watch where the figures are placed in comparison to the rest of the board!

Ben hops atop a power generator to fight his way to victory!
This was made from more of those plastic Sci-Fi platform kit pieces. I don't remember the gent who dug these up on Heroscapers so many years ago... but they're real nice for Star Wars stuff!!!

Ben is chased to the Munitions Tower.
The tower is made the same way as the shop, only with a salt can rather than a box.
The door is cardstock rather than plastic, as I couldn't get the plastic to curve (and didn't want to waste it. I am, after all, broke!)
It reminded me so heavily of a munitions tower I saw while I was in historic James Town that I wrote the word 'ammo' in Aurebesh on the side. I foresee plenty of Rebel weapons raid scenarios in the future :D

Then Jack Sparrow comes by and kills them all by accident. -_-
But seriously, here is a few Falcon's eye views of the spaceport.

What do you think!? Sound off in the comments below!
It was very fun making terrain that--as far as I know--only one other Heroscaper attempted (Grishnakh) and he did it a very different way. I'm happy with the finished result, but what do you all think? What else does my hive of scum and villainy need? Thanks!

-BG