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Miniatures Adventure => SuperHero Adventures => Topic started by: Tomsche on October 06, 2011, 06:53:24 AM
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/the_hobbit_home/P1060137.jpg)
Lets face it, Heroclix models are scorned by the majority of wargamers, even those playing superhero games.
Often they look for hero x or villain y like models, and clearly note that the softplastic mass produced figures are not an option. I am a fan ot the whole shaboodle!
If you look at the sculpts themselves, they are pretty neat and spot on for the majority of the characters around, and sure, there are some scaling issues, but who doesn`t have those in some wargame one time or the other. If these models had been released by some obscure company in metal or resin, they would have been carried on the hands by the gaming community instead of the woes of the soft plastic (which can be straightened if you invest 2 - 3 hours time and go to work with a hairdryer, unless it`s a really severe case) produced by a top line toycompany.
The second issue often is the price, though if you look around a bit on websites like Troll and Toad, you can just pick out the singles for around 0.49 dollar cent... that is the same price range as most hard plastic rank and file troops out there!
No, I`m a fan! I love comics, especcially from Marvel, and with these blokes I can game Marvel set battles, just using more detailed rules then the clix game itself, like SuperSystem of the likes. And the whole lot of ubercommons like thieves, thugs, police agents etc certainly are usefull elsewhere...
And for some who`s who brabble: http://tomsche69.blogspot.com/2011/10/with-villains-like-these.html
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After seeing these Tomsche, I have signed up to your blog (better late than never I guess!). Bring on more bad guys.
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I agree, whilst finding whitemetal heroes is great, in the absence, heroclix are an affordable (and good enough) alternative.
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Nice one!
I can only agree - HeroClix are a great resource for all kind of Superhero models!
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That's a great looking set of villains, I'm sure I've got that constrictor fig in a box somewhere waiting for a repaint...
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And the real easy part is they don`t even need undercoats, making it (at times) easy to see where colours have to go ;D
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Nice work as usual. I've seen some of the HeroClix stuff you painted and it looks even better than in the picture.