So, I’ve had the Umbrella Academy board game for about a year now, and figured I should probably try and play it a couple of times to justify the expense. Flicking through the rule book, I saw that to play with my wife for the first mission I’d only need to paint the characters we were using and Hazel and Cha Cha, so I set about getting on that:
I mean there’s also Allies and whatnot, but starting small makes me feel like I’m more likely to achieve my goal.
Being that the board game is based on the comics rather than the Netflix series, one benefit is that the colour schemes are fairly limited, so it’s pretty quick to get thing finished when I can actually stay awake long enough to get some painting done (working late at work the night before my week off when the clocks went back the day after absolutely wrecked my sleep schedule, resulting in my falling asleep after putting the kids to bed the first four or so nights of my week off, which is usually my painting time).
One down side to them being based on the comics is that it’s a comic written by Gerard Way, so black features heavily, which can be a pain to paint. The psychotic pair’s suits are really a very dark grey, and I’m starting to wonder if maybe I should invest in some sort of Contrast or Speedpaint Black for future miniatures…
Painting these two brings the Tally to:
56 vs 192 = -136
Now my board game looks like this:
Only about a million to go!
