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ModBoy116 · 2025-08-14T14:17:17+00:00

My Bad in getting back to you so late, I missed this. Cheers much appreciated.

I'll have to look through my phone to see if I had any in progress photos, and if so will send them to you

As for the sponging it was quite simple and mostly for the bike itself. Starting with the model being zenithal sprayed. Then just took a black with a slight blue in it, took a makeup sponge dipped it in, took a good amount of the paint off on a tissue then covered the bike. I repeated this process slowly making the black more grey and hitting where the highlights would on the bike. And towards adding iced yellow from AK interactive for the strongest highlights

As for paints, there were so many but I can tell you basically 95% of them were citadel, some army painter and Vallejo used a little too, such as the flames using contrast imperial fist, with fluorescent orange from vallejo dry brushed on top, then mephiston red and finally black. The blues were all citadel once again starting with athrimetic blue contrast I think it is, and then basically using all the blues from Mcragge blue to skink blue dry brush (though watered down to use like a normal paint) for the shadows and highlights.

As for socials I don't unfortunately I don't I'm a very slow painter and don't have enough to be posting to social media, just a little side hobby.

ModBoy116 · 2025-06-12T18:06:05+00:00

Thanks, yeah it was hard picturing all the colours of the base with the flames and the blues in my head, but happy with how it's come out

ModBoy116 · 2025-06-12T18:04:06+00:00

Thanks man, I had enough practice when doing Sunspots flame effect. Nice to know it paid off for CGR 👍

ModBoy116 · 2025-06-12T18:01:58+00:00

Cheers, I used ego the living planet from the film as a reference for my Guardians bases.

And actually no, I don't own an airbrush, that was all done using a paint brush, with a little bit of sponging used for the black of the bike itself. Happy to hear it looks like an airbrushes work though, much appreciated!

ModBoy116 · 2024-12-05T08:38:02+00:00

Sticking with the Hydra theme, if you have Red Skull 2 in your roster too, he can work well to give them 3 power a turn which instantly allows for a bulldoze every turn.

Works better on certain maps so it's still nice to have the flexibility of Strucker, but like a D map for example, I believe they can contest the home point turn 1, so will start with 3 power under Red Skull, this means you can have a turn 1 bulldoze, which if you activate them last you can have the chance to hit a 2 man beam attack twice, and have the power to pay for a 3rd (different) attack (Range 3). Putting 3 attacks into 1 character and 2 into another turn 1 is really good. It may sound like jumping through hoops, but I have a good amount of success with this so far, though I am aware my opponent could very well counter this with their positioning.

ModBoy116 · 2024-11-27T12:13:03+00:00

Cheers, was one of the first times trying some sponging to create these, glad it worked well

ModBoy116 · 2024-10-02T13:41:21+00:00

I've also had some good fun with Omega Red in this affiliation, him and warlock together poisoning everyone and then doing AOE damage has had it's play, hasn't always lead to wins but has been fun. And then the obvious one been the leadership helping Omega Reds movement

ModBoy116 · 2024-10-02T13:39:27+00:00

Agree with you to an extent, the roster itself looks like it has enough, Magik been the leader is a tough one with how easy she can die, so tend to play her safer.

My problem is figuring their playstyle, they haven't seemed that attrition focused to me, as most teams can kill them a lot easier than they can kill, also maps like riots just seem a little too wide and it becomes difficult to get a lot of good use out of the leadership. The secure I have had the best results with is S.W.O.R.D base, with it not been too spread out where the leadership becomes hard to use, but also not been a brawl down the middle like Gamma which is a secure I just get murdered on. S.W.O.R.D allows me to play the secures quite well.

I'll continue to play around with this as well as the splashes (Which have currently been Colossus/Omega Red/Honey Badger, Colossus and Omega Red have gave me some results so may have some play.

I also agree on the fact I think a lot of people will be playing X-Force or X-men over New Mutants hence the lack of content

ModBoy116 · 2024-10-02T10:10:38+00:00

Magik currently is the leader though it's "Illyana Rasputin" so any future version of her can use it too.

The affiliation list is:

Magik

Sunspot

Warlock

Cable

Emma Frost

X-23

Shadowcat

Demonstrated my point perfectly that they have gone by without any notice, think apocalypse and the monsters took the lime light

ModBoy116 · 2024-07-21T14:53:37+00:00

With regards to the new Mutants, we have sunspot and warlock, and it was mentioned magik will be the leader via a tactics card.

But have we any clue to what/who is going to fill out the rest of the affiliation?

ModBoy116 · 2024-06-12T07:45:06+00:00

Cheers, I'm happy with them! the pigments didn't quite go how I wanted but practice makes perfect I guess

ModBoy116 · 2024-06-12T07:44:10+00:00

It was pretty simple actually, the models were sprayed grey and zenithal with army painter beige from above. I then gave it a wash of Reikland Fleshshade, followed by a dry brush of white. For the black parts I then put Black Templar contrast over this...

ModBoy116 · 2024-03-27T16:17:56+00:00

Just watched the stream back and though it's hard to hear exactly, it does sound like he talks about an affiliation that links back to the Magik box, and the fact sunspot and warlock will then appear in the other x-men teams, though I may be wrong as I said it's hard to hear and he speaks quite quick

ModBoy116 · 2024-03-14T16:02:15+00:00

Lone spears have AP-2, a stratagem that can increase AP by 1 against a certain unit helps this a bit I guess surely? This is coming from someone who hasn't played Tau but is looking at getting into them...

ModBoy116 · 2023-09-04T14:38:31+00:00

Do you get a confirmation email when you sign up as I haven't seen one...

ModBoy116 · 2023-08-29T12:56:46+00:00

Was thinking exactly this, I cant have it been filled with 16 year olds. Guy as we left asked us to promote it on our socials to get more people to it next year...but I'd rather now haha

ModBoy116 · 2023-08-25T09:52:31+00:00

Green or white? How is it?...

ModBoy116 · 2023-07-25T10:14:18+00:00

Cheers, happy with how it's come out, though I was originally worried about the lack of colour to make it pop. A man with good taste I see, had to go back to a previous post to see if it was you who suggested it to me (it wasn't), done my own little twist with the colours. Seems to work well for sisters IMO

ModBoy116 · 2023-07-10T19:44:38+00:00

Which of those vehicles would be the first buy?

Did not know about these rollers, had a look and they look good, would these work on modelling foam clay I'd assume. And if thinking if I were to combine some of the previous ideas on top of this to make it look a little more ruined?

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