She really gets in your head…

So, the joke in the title only really works if you’ve seen the most recent Deadpool movie, this miniature being what I immediately dug out and started prepping when I got home from the cinema after seeing:

It then took me months to actually get her finished despite being basically three colours, but inspiration strikes where inspiration strikes I guess. 

She’s teeny tiny, and so zoomed in like this the paint job looks extra scrappy, but on the tabletop she’s perfectly adequate, I assure you. Considering going back and giving the X on the front of the Cerebro helmet some more love, but on the other hand done is done…

Like Danger she’s a mini that isn’t really needed at the moment (that being a couple of teams of archetypical X-men and X-foes to get started), but being keen to not have even more half painted miniatures knocking around she got finished regardless. It’s been so long since I read Grant Morrison’s X-Men run that I can’t even think who else I’d need to paint to accompany her to make a thematic Super Mission Force Team…

Either way, the Tally now stands at:

7 vs 24 = -17

Do you know what happens when a Toad gets hit by lightning?

I’ve finished another mini for the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, to accompany Blob that I previously painted, Toad:

He’s another early Heroclix sculpt, so some of the details are kind of rough, but honestly I think that they have so much charm that I love them regardless.

For all my claims of rough sculpting though, look at that surprisingly defined musculature:

I can only assume that as well as eating flies Toad has a particularly structured workout regimen.

This brings my total of finished Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to three of the four needed for a regular sized game of Super Mission Force (including the Scarlet Witch that I painted way back when), although my initial plan is to paint up a couple of alternate groups - one being more ‘mooks’ like Blob and Toad, and another being ‘Magneto and his children’, with other key characters that can be swapped in as needed before then spiralling off into weirder foes as they take my fancy. 

This is probably why this project is taking so long though, I should maybe have painted individual minis in isolation as they took my fancy (as I generally have with the rest of my superhero stuff), but I can’t help getting carried away with something like this…

Finishing him brings the Tally to:

6 vs 24 = -18

Next - more!

Danger…

 … Will Robinson? Wait, wrong robot, it’s actually this robot called Danger that I’ve painted:

I think my first exposure to the character was actually pulling this mini out of a heroclix booster (as I ended up buying a bunch for cheap from the Works when the game first went away) and my first thought was that… she looked a bit dumb. Then many years later, I read more comics and my X-Men fandom increased, and I thought… well, that she was still pretty dumb, to be fair. It’s the danger room, but walking around in a robot body? Then I read X-Club by Simon Spurrier, and honestly Danger’s still kind of dumb but in a way that I’m actually also fairly fond of…

She’s generally portrayed as being a metal frame around some glowy internal bits, like this:

So I went at her with the only pot of contrast paint that I own, to sort of sink into the recesses, and also make a quick and easy glow effect. This was fairly quick and effective, and is the main reason that she is the first ‘goodie’ that I’ve finished for my X-Men project rather than one of the more iconic characters!

As well as finishing her, I also nipped into GW with my wife to grab the new mini of the month:

As a Death Korps Engineer can definitely find a home in an inq28 warband!

So, no great change to the Tally, which now stands at: 

5 vs 24 = -19

With six days to go until Salute…