6 heroclix supers re-painted

[fairoaks024]

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



regards

jim

[Poiter50]

Nice repaints!! 

[wellender]

Really great work! Magneto's cape is awesome.

[Colonel Tubby]

Brilliant work on all of them!

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

[Lawful Evil]

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]

Whoahh! These are superb!

[Doomsdave]

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]

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]

Thanks for the details, its a big help!

[clam]

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]

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]

Nice repaints- very good work.

[leonmallett]

Very nice work. Kudos.

[Relic]

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]

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.