Tag: The Thing

Miniatures, Workbench

Marvel Zombies: The Human Torch

Trying to catch up on my backlog, and I swear I would get through it if I would just stop buying more miniatures…

But we all know that isn’t happening, so I’m just going to put my nose to the grindstone and hope to at least make a dent!

I started the Fantastic Four figures from CMON’s Marvel Zombies version of Zombicide back in the spring of 2024, and it’s been slow progress, as shaky health and other, far more distracting miniatures jockey for favor with my attention span.

The Human Torch is next off the list, I’m not as happy with this outcome as I would like to be, fire is just tricky when it’s the whole damned figure. Still, it works, and I’m sure I’ll stop being as critical of it when I get more distance from the monotony of painting it.

He does look pretty sweet posed with the Thing, though! I’m not sure if it’s still canon with the Fantastic Four, but it was revealed in the early 2000’s that Ben’s nemesis, the Yancy Street Gang, was Johnny Storm just pulling pranks the whole time. I hope in my heart of hearts that is still the case!

Miniatures, Workbench

Marvel Zombies: The Thing

When I was a kid, I thought Ben Grim was the coolest Marvel super hero in the world, and then I discovered the X-Men, and all that went out the window. Still, I devoured almost all of John Byrne’s run on Fantastic Four when I was a kid, so it was a lot of fun for me to get to work on this pretty spiffy miniature of the Thing from Zombicide: Marvel Zombies!

Right off the bat, the quality of these Zombicide sculpts is hands-down some of the best work CMON has done. The detail is pretty nice, and even the plastic quality appears to be a higher grade. That’s pretty good news for sure!

There’s quite a few Fantastic Four characters in this box to get to, so I had best get to work!