Black Delilah

Here's another clicky repurposed of a HeroClix fig.  She makes for a nice femme fatale or assassin. I am not really sure what she's holding in her left hand, so I painted it up like a syringe full of glowing green...stuff.

 I took these first pics and noticed some problems with the flesh tones.  I have since corrected them by smoothing the colors out.  Here is a quick and dirty picture of the changes.

More Repurposed Clickys (Modern Gunmen)

So much for catchy post titles, huh?  The title really says it all.  These are a couple more Heroclix minis I re-purposed.  I bought my last big batch of clickys from Troll and Toad with the intent of repainting them, selling them, and using the profits on my Post Apoc project.  As of right now, though, I think these two are going to stay in my collection.  I really like these two  figs.

The first one is the Heroclix "Manchester Black" figure.  He had what looked like a banana in his hand, that just wouldn't do.  I armed him with a Mac10, scrounged from a mini in the "pile O' lead".  The stance, and the way the gun is held give the figure a sense of attitude.  He looks like a proper gun toting Hooligan.  I'm not even going to rename the figure, because the name "Manchester Black" is so cool.

The second figure is one of the Heroclix Punisher incarnations.   I love the stance on this fig, and the detail is towards the top end, for clicky figures.  All I did was re-base  and re-paint it.  He will eventually, at some point, hopefully, maybe find his way onto the table as a Hi-Tech gunman, or assassin.

The Professor and Number 19

I present for your critique, the Professor and  Number 19.  The Professor is a genius at cybernetics, and has been refining the technology.  Number 19 is the culmination of all his work to date.  Human from the neck up, and even then; barely, Number 19 is the most extensive body conversion the Professor has done.  The Professor is sort of a Frankenstein figure, as he stand, fist clenched in triumph, as his creation walks.

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These minis are re-purposed Heroclix figs; I've been on kind of a spate of repainting lately, so look for more in the coming weeks.  The Professor is the Bruce Banner figure and Number 19 is the Pretty Boy figure.  The detail on both of them is really good and they painted up very well.  The bases are slotta base that I applied my diamond tread technique to.  I think I am going to repost the tutorial I did  on how to make it.

In the future, the only thing I would do different would be to strip the factory paint job off, in order to get crisper detail.  The loss, due to paint build up, isn't that bad on these two.  On a couple of others in the batch I bought, the loss is really bad.  To the point, that I need to go back and strip the primer I applied, as well as the factory job, in order to try and salvage them.

Dire Wolf

Collectible miniatures are a great source of inexpensive figures.  I like rebasing/repainting them for reuse on the table. Here's a great example.  It's a dire wolf from Horrorclix.  I rebased it on a 30mm round and gave it a new paint job.

Here it is with an old 25mm Ral Partha monk for size comparison.

Horrorclix Scarecrow Conversion

This is a re purposed Horrorclix Scarecrow figure.  I swapped the head with a Mantic Ghoul head; the least ghoulish one in the lot.  He's based on a 25mm slotta base and repainted.  The fig turned out pretty nice.  I like the dynamic pose, and the face has a suitably demented look about it.

I think it is going to find a place in my PA world, as a sort of whacked out homicidal maniac.

15mm Sci Fi Battle Armor

I'm always on the look out for different and unique figs.  Figures that can be re-purposed, converted and given new life always catch my eye.  I was working on a MechWarrior inspired project (more on that later) and I ran across some singles that would fit perfectly into 15mm Sci-Fi.  They are the Salamander and Undine Battle Armor from the MechWarrior Age of Destruction release. 

The Salamander Battle Armor figs come one to a base. I just popped them off the clicky bases, glued them on US pennies, based them, gave them a black wash and picked out highlights.

Salamander Battle Armor

The Undine Battle Armor come 2 to a base.  I finished these off in the same manner as the ones above.

Undine Battle Armor

In the comparison pic, below, you can see their size compared to a Rebel Mini Policeman and a Peter Pig US Marine.  The Salamander suits are in a crouched over walking pose, giving this example the sense of being smaller than it is.

(L to R) Undine BA, Rebel Mini Policeman, Salamander BA, Peter Pig US Marine

All in all they fit the part, and can be gotten at excellent to reasonable prices, depending on how to procure them.  Both of them are still fairly available through online sources for about .49 cents each.  Buying them from people who are dumping their collections (like I did), you can purchase them for pennies apiece.