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Supers Unlimited - Shadow Axis villains

Following on from my large build project, I picked 5 figures from the batch to paint. I ended up selecting enough to do an 8 Level team of "Shadow Axis" villains for Pulp City.

Immolator, Big Brain, Blackthorn, Alpha Male and Mayhem.

The casts required very minimal cleanup, with all of these being a single piece. Simply glue them down to the base and primed white.

As with a lot of my painting lately they were done with a combination of Army Painter speedpaints and traditional paints and washes, depending on the figure and my mood while doing the model. Alpha Male, Immolator and Mayhem were particularly fun to do as they provided an opportunity to try out some really different skin tones.

According to his game card, Blackthorn is able to create trees that get placed on the table. I found two spooky trees and a stump in my "Haunted Manor" box from Mantic Games. They were a touch too big to put on 30mm bases and I don't think they' have looked very good. Since I'll likely only ever play Pulp City against myself, I think I'll be fine with it.

This past week I also unearthed all of my Pulp City game cards and unbuilt models collected over the years. I'm really looking forward to painting more of these minis. They're so vibrant and characterful, they make great small projects after something larger, or are nice to do even as single figures to get something done start to finish in a single session or two!

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