'The Cosmic Cube Wars' - WIP - Part One

Tombstone WIP - Plenty of henchmen and goons will be accompanying Spider-Man's foe 

For the next couple of months I plan to finally make a significant dent in my quite considerable plastic mountain of "Wizkids" superhero miniatures, and in order to keep my momentum going I thought it would be useful to have an aim to such a time-consuming project. As a result I've been working on a gaming idea that the "evolving, sentient being" known as the Cosmic Cube is basically up for grabs and whoever claims it as their prize will have mastery over all of time and space.

Unsurprisingly numerous super-villains, even some who exist outside the "Marvel Worldwide" universe, believe they're the only candidate for such omnipotent power. Whilst plenty of super-heroes, aghast at the prospect of criminals such as the Joker, Tombstone or Torquemada being the cosmos' overlord, have set themselves the formidable task of opposing such plans. 

Alloy WIP - Lots of different metallic paints have yet to be applied to this giant-sized model

All rather unoriginal and contrived I know, but such a plot should encourage me to paint up plenty of "Heroclix" models over the coming weeks and provide me with the opportunity for some large-scale tabletop battles using the "Age Of Sigmar" rules by "Games Workshop". Hopefully there should be a few fortnightly BatReps as well...

One of the first super-teams I've already started painting are the Metal Men by "DC Comics". I already own most of the pre-painted Magnus Labs robots. But felt the team would be incomplete without them being able to fuse together into the much larger entity known as Alloy. It's still early days for the formidably-sized gestalt. Although I have managed to lay down a few coats of gold and red (Mercury) on the huge figure's limbs.

Nightmare & Mindless Ones WIP - The majority of the demon's behemoths just need to be shaded

Alongside the giant "Wizkids" sculpt I've also primed and based on 40mm circular bases a load more Mindless Ones lead by "the evil ruler of the Dream Dimension", Nightmare. I've already previously painted up two of the extra-dimensional monsters as part of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, so these additional seven cyclopean creatures should form an especially tough 'bodyguard' for Doctor Strange's arch-foe.

In addition I'm hoping the inclusion of the "demon from the dimension Everinnye" as an excuse to slowly introduce the rules for magic into my "Age Of Sigmar" games. It would certainly be fun to have the one-time servant of Shuma-Gorath confront the Sorcerer Supreme in a duel of the mystic arts...