Avengers Assemble! (Warning this post contains only a few Avengers)

I thought it was about time I posted some updates on here. As previously said before, Summer's usually a bit of a dry season for painting so I've been a bit lax in posting.

Anyways, I've decided to post some of my superheroes that I've painted over the last year or so.

First up is Spider-man and a couple of his villains. I'm not sure if I've posted these already (and too lazy to check).

I'm really impressed with how Hobgoblin turned out. It was the first time in about 10 years that I'd painted orange (and probably the first time I even shaded it). 

Shocker was probably the first time I'd ever tried anything major using yellow. Fortunately the grooves in his suit are modelled in (I've nowhere near a steady enough hand to paint lines) though it was quite time consuming highlighting it all.

Spider-man had grooves like Shocker but much smaller making it trickier to highlight. I might have just phoned it in and drybrushed him, I'm not sure. I was quite impressed with how the blues came out too.

Next up is Excalibur / MI:13 / Captain Britain and his pals.

Bit of a mixed bag with The Black Knight here. I have issues highlighting black. I've not got the patience to do lots of multiple layers and so the highlights usually end up a little too extreme. Also, I had an issue getting his face (and eyes) to look good as there's not much depth to it. On the other hand, I was really impressed in how well the gold came out and the logo on his chest. It only took me two attempts at free hand.

Pete Wisdom next, the model's not very great (it looks like he's got super long fingers) and its not very exciting to paint. I tried to get a glowing / energy effect on his plasma knives but again, its an area I need work on.

Meggan really required me to expand my paint selection, I think I only had a couple of greens before painting her and they were the wrong shade. Whilst I am quite impressed with how her body suit came out, I'm not the biggest fan of the face, skin or hair. I've got a newer, better sculpt so I'll have to improve before I tackle that one.

Captain Britain is possibly one of my favourite pieces. He's one of my favourite superheroes and I think the effort I put in did him justice. The whites were quite time consuming (involving many layers of highlighting up from Space Wolves grey to white) but I'm pleased with the results. The reds came out quite well too (and so they should since I've got more shades of red than any colour, except maybe beige). The blues came out ok too.

Here's a few assorted others:

Morbius fell into the problem of being mainly black and grey. The reds came out ok (due to the aforementioned number of shades I have).

Hard to get a good shot of Ant Man (as he's so small) but hey, he's red and blue.

Ultron was super quick and easy to paint as he's all silver apart from his eyes (which are my favourite colour - red).

Guardian was fun to paint. I basically followed the same principle that I did for Captain Britain. Assessing the images now, he might have even come out better.

Finally, some henchmen to bring things to a close. The problem with my Heroclix collection is that there's not much organisation between the bad guys and if I were to play a game, some of the team ups wouldn't make much sense (though it is based on comic so anything could happen).

To remedy this problem, I decided to get some AIM troopers.

They're painted everyone's favourite colour to paint - yellow.

To be honest, the original models looked quite bad (apart from the guy in the middle) and the factory quality painting was dreadful.  I didn't have much issue painting them myself, though I did have quite a light basecoat to work off of.

Obviously I need to get around to basing them all but I prefer to do that in one big batch.