"All You Have To Do..."

 "...Is stare Death in the face!"

This 28mm scale pre-painted plastic model of Black Mask was produced by “Wizkids” and is miniature number 010 from their DC “Heroclix” Collateral Damage expansion. "Commonly depicted as a brutal and ruthless crime lord in Gotham City who has a fixation with masks", this comic book super-villain was created by Doug Moench and Tom Mandrake, and first appeared in the August 1985 issue of "Batman".

Rather unceremoniously snapped from its 'clicky' base and super-glued onto a plastic 25mm circular base, Roman Sionis was undercoated using plenty of "Citadel" Abaddon Black, before being dry-brushed with "Vallejo" Heavy Charcoal and shaded in "Citadel" Nuln Oil. I then gave his shirt and teeth a little touch of "Two Thin Coats" White Star, and a wash of heavily watered-down "Citadel" Agrax Earthshade.

"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is."

The mass murderer's partially-destroyed metal walkway was given a lick of "Vallejo" Gunmetal, splashed with "Citadel" Nuln Oil, and dry-brushed with (more) "Vallejo" Gunmetal. As I wanted to suggest the place was falling apart, I also sporadically added some dabs of Extreme Rust Wash by "Mig Productions" to it, and semi-blended these in with (another) dry-brush of "Vallejo" Gunmetal.

I was tempted to add a little colour to the ensemble by following the miniature's original colour scheme and making the ladder red. However, this struck me as being a bit too distracting for my liking, so in the end I simply settled for pigmenting his briefcase with a combination of "Vallejo" Heavy Sienna and "Citadel" Nuln Oil.

"Saucermen Studios" WIPs - This Concrete Defence Wall is having all its details 'picked out'

Moving over to my current obsession with all things 3D printed, I've also completed a pair of 32mm Soviet Cosmonauts by "Black Site Studios". Their STL (Standard Triangle Language) file is from the company's Two-Player Digital Starter Set, and before being predominantly painted in "Two Thin Coats" Sanguine Scarlet and "Citadel" Carroburg Crimson, were both slightly upscaled by 1% due to the original sculpt appearing to be a bit more slender in its proportions than the cast resin Eastern Bloc astronauts I already own.

Lastly, I am continuing to progress a test piece of "Trench Crusade" inspired scenery which I recently produced on my "Bambu Labs" A1 Mini 3D printer. This small Concrete Defence Wall is made by "Saucermen Studios" as part of their "Beyond The Trenches Of Despair" Kickstarter, and is being used as a pilot piece for the colour scheme I plan to use for all my terrain "set in a horrifying alternate timeline of World War One."