Month: January 2024

Miniatures, Workbench

15mm Wargaming: Make Mine (Tiny) Marvel!

I’m still on this weird-ass quest to find the perfect scale, and I’m afraid it’s leading me to this whole new world of resizing existing STL files to smaller scales to see what scratches what itch the best.

Lately, that itch has been tiny super heroes, and that scale appears to be 15mm. I have been taking some regular 40mm files from C27 miniatures and printing them off at 15mm scale on my Saturn, and the results have been really fun.

And really frustrating. The figs not only get super tiny, they’re also super fiddly and really come off the supports alot, even though I’m painstakingly supporting the damned things. Oh well, live and learn. We’ll see how long I stick to it, but for now, the madness shall run its course!

First off the plates was this tiny Captain America:

I was pretty happy with the results, and really happy to see that Speed Paints and a quick highlight look FANTASTIC! Plus, this is a half hour to an hour of a paintjob, so wins all around!

Here’s Cyclops:

One down side is that my focus is getting freaked out by the penny, so I’ll probably start shooting without the scale comparison. Still, it’s fun to see how freaky tiny these guys are!

Time for some Southern charm:

And, finally, my absolute favorite character from Silver Age Marvel, MODOK. I am absolutely smitten with how this little maniac turned out!

Full transparency, I painted these before a medical emergency in November that pretty much knocked me on my ass and is still effecting me. My hand-eye coordination is pretty messed up, and I can’t hold a brush for very long, but physical therapy will help with that. I’m just trying to catch up with projects that I had been meaning to post about prior!

I’ll be trying to get more of these printed off soon, but I’m going to have to find someone to print them for me, since the doc says I can’t run resin anymore. Poo. Still, no use dwelling on that, I still have a mountain of gray plastic to tackle as I get back on my feet from surgery!

Miniatures, Workbench

Marvel Zombies: Black Widow

I picked up the Kickstarter All for the Marvel Zombies: Zombicide game from CMON during a moment of weakness. Okay, more like a month of weakness while watching the stretch goals slip by. Sure, there is already a perfectly good Marvel based miniatures game out there, but I really don’t like 40mm miniatures from a storage perspective, and if I’m going to paint up a mini range, I would rather it be from something more reasonably scaled.

Plus, the mins are actually pretty cool and have pre-textured bases. What would I have to lose, other than half a week’s pay?

The boxes arrived several thousand years later (and before it comes up, I don’t do Kickstarters anymore, they’re kinda terrible for independent game stores). There was, one fateful afternoon, a box on my porch the size of a small Yugo, or perhaps a very large mini-fridge. Inside were an assortment of even smaller boxes, crammed full of little plastic super-heroes.

I pulled out half a dozen, put the horde of zombies in the “who gives a damn” box, and set to base coating. Since I was going for quick over quality (I’ve since changed my logic on this) I sat down and put some paint on a test model. And, lo and behold, she didn’t turn out half bad!

I am having a hard time spotting the mold lines on these models, and the plastic CMON uses is a little on the soft side, so sometimes they can be a little tough to clean up. Still, not a bad first effort, and I’m excited to get more heroes painted up!