Author Topic: 6 heroclix supers re-painted (Read 8519 times)

fairoaks024 · « **on:** June 20, 2011, 10:07:36 AM »

just finished a batch of supers for a client, ( hi Simon!)

regards

jim

Poiter50 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2011, 10:34:04 AM »

Nice repaints!!

wellender · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2011, 04:38:50 PM »

Really great work! Magneto's cape is awesome.

Colonel Tubby · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2011, 07:31:07 PM »

Brilliant work on all of them!

If I had painted them I couldn't give them back!

Lawful Evil · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:56:29 AM »

These are superb! Its the level of quality I aspire to with my repaints, turning HC into original characters. Did you strip them at all first or simply paint overtop? Could you give us a quick run down of your process if it is at all different the the good ol' basecoat/layering technique we know and love?

Agis · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2011, 06:35:32 AM »

Whoahh! These are superb!

Doomsdave · « **Reply #6 on:** June 22, 2011, 12:58:24 AM »

Excellent work. I wish my HC re-paints were that clean. Itoo would like to know if you strip them first. I tend to just overpaint after cleaning mold lines.

fairoaks024 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2011, 11:24:30 AM »

thanks for all the nice words guys! glad you like them, good news is the customer likes them too

Usually i wash the figures with detergent to remove grease. Then if the paint is realy thick i remove them from the base and strip them with acetone. ( I didn't have to do that with this batch as the paint wasn't too thick).

Any mould lines are cleaned up with a knife and file. any filling is done at this point with greenstuff. ( both catman and black panthers capes needed filling.)

The figures are then undercoated by brush with a slightly thinned matt black.

Painting then follows the 'foundry-dallimore' style. I paint on the shade colour, then a mid-tone and usually 2 lighter highlight shades. It's quite bright and 'cartoony' and suits supers very well.

Then the figure is sealed with 2 coats of varnish. A humbrol gloss and when this is dry a matt finish with testors dullcote.

regards

jim

Lawful Evil · « **Reply #8 on:** June 25, 2011, 04:46:54 AM »

Thanks for the details, its a big help!

clam · « **Reply #9 on:** July 03, 2011, 11:02:06 AM »

Quite surprise how good these turned out. I gave up repainting heroclix long ago - but these here are awesome, Great, great job.

Don't recall the orange/yellow caped guy - who is he? And more important, what colours did you use achieving that orange colour?

Been trying hard doing orange lately, myself - but cant get 'the right tone' - either too yellow or too brown - but this here looks about right. Will you let me in on how you did this?

fairoaks024 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 03, 2011, 07:38:10 PM »

Hi clam,

He's DC's catman.
The orange was done with the darkest shade being GW foundation
Paints 'solar maccharius orange' , the next 3 higher shades
are the foundry 'orange' triad from 'a' up to 'c'
I find it works really well,
Hope that helps.

Regards

Jim

Rob_bresnen · « **Reply #11 on:** July 26, 2011, 09:12:47 PM »

Nice repaints- very good work.

leonmallett · « **Reply #12 on:** July 27, 2011, 04:36:13 PM »

Very nice work. Kudos.

Relic · « **Reply #13 on:** July 27, 2011, 05:47:54 PM »

oh my... gorgeous minis! I "almost" want to start playing with superheroes but.. can resist... mind ..is ..weak..

if there would be good 15mm superheroes I might even try

-Mika

leonmallett · « **Reply #14 on:** July 27, 2011, 08:16:26 PM »

Quote from: Relic on July 27, 2011, 05:47:54 PM

oh my... gorgeous minis! I "almost" want to start playing with superheroes but.. can resist... mind ..is ..weak..

if there would be good 15mm superheroes I might even try

-Mika

Rebel Minis and Superfigs both have some packs of 15mm (generic) supers I belive.

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