Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Ozymandias

Well I seem to have inadvertently broken my streak of painting one Watchmen character each July! Don't expect the final two imminently though!

I started Ozymandias as I was finishing Nite Owl and did the bulk of the work in stints over two weekends, only finishing him once I had completed work on Mesh and Prisoner 01. That said, start to finish was a little over a week.

I am fairly pleased with how he has turned out, and I think it was a case of right model, right time, while I have some painting momentum - I almost enjoyed painting him, which is to say I don't really enjoy the painting process, but do like having finished models to hand. Despite not finding the painting process ttoo arduous for this mini, and accepting I don't plan to finish Comedian or Silk Spectre any time soon, I do like the idea of playing a Watchmen crew in the future, and technically I have a 225 Reputation crew ready with Ozymandias, Nite Owl and Rorschach, but I feel it is better to play them in full as key stuff like Comedian's ranged threat would be missing.

In game terms Ozymandias looks like he is quite a contrast to what I am used to, having very high Defense (I am used to most of my models being easy to hit with Defense 2) coupled with Martial Arts (to counter being outnumbered in close combat) and Acrobat which allows him to Dodge ranged attacks, with a re-roll from Reflexes, giving him something like 89% chance of Dodging successfully if my assumption of probability is correct. I could imagine that if used right he could tie up multiple models by weathering a number of futile attacks, while being potent enough to KO lower-Defense Henchmen without assistance.

In addition to his combat abilities, Ozymandias offers some game management options with Mastermind (helping with Take the Lead) and Great Strategist giving extra Strategy points. So if and when I do play Watchmen, they will be interesting.

Anyway, all in all I have had a pretty successful painting month so far in July, not least due to finishing 6 BMG minis (a quarter of all my painted BMG minis in fact), so the painting side of the hobby has been pretty positive lately for me - I hope it lasts. :)

BMG Painting Summary
BMG characters owned: 132 (added: nothing)
Percentage of owned characters painted: 16.8% (24 models)
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16 comments:

  1. Michael Awdry22 July 2015 at 00:37

    Oh my word that's a brilliant piece of work! May I ask about the gold looking colour, is that an example of NMM painting I hear so much about?

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    1. pulpcitizen22 July 2015 at 10:35

      Thanks for the very kind words Michael. :)

      That is my crude attempt at NMM, but still progress to be made in the technique on my behalf. :)

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    2. Michael Awdry22 July 2015 at 13:54

      I've not been brave enough to try this technique myself, but my word it looks impressive.

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    3. pulpcitizen22 July 2015 at 23:21

      Thanks. :)

      I tend to have more misses than hits, but I think it will help with how I tackle some other minis going forward. :)

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  2. Anomander22 July 2015 at 07:02

    Very nice! Playing Kieron with my watchmen on Monday. If I figure out how to use them I'll let you know...

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    1. pulpcitizen22 July 2015 at 10:36

      Thanks; I am fairly pleased with how he turned out. :)

      I look forward to reading your thoughts on them, so make sure you post some musings. :)

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  3. Terry Silverthorn22 July 2015 at 11:18

    Great work Pulp, will be cool to see them all together & then in action!

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    1. pulpcitizen22 July 2015 at 11:44

      Thanks Terry. :)

      Impossible to say when the muse will strike to get the last two painted. :)

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  4. Simon Quinton 22 July 2015 at 12:17

    Fabulous job made I have to say this is one of the best ones I've seen you paint mate. Take a bow because your due a round of applause for this one!!

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    1. pulpcitizen22 July 2015 at 23:18

      Cheers for the very kind words. :)

      I am pretty pleased with how the painting turned out. :)

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  5. Kieron22 July 2015 at 12:45

    It's nice to see you have something to go to town on since all those mooks you've been ploughing through. The gold is fantastic.

    Any chance you might risk the Watchmen in a tournament some time?

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    1. pulpcitizen22 July 2015 at 23:19

      Cheers Kieron. :)

      Thankfully I was grabbed be enough motivation to get this one done, and was pleased with the gold banding, cape and face especially. :)

      As for a tournament - probably not for the next one, but maybe the one after that....

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  6. Rob Bresnen22 July 2015 at 15:57

    That is proper amazing.

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    1. pulpcitizen22 July 2015 at 23:20

      Cheers mate. :)

      Will have to introduce you to the game some time. :)

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  7. FourEyedMonster25 July 2015 at 08:22

    I love how the purples and yellows contrast each other. Very nice piece! And finally your blog is in my blog roll. I seemed to have encountered a bug as my previous addition did not register. :)

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    1. pulpcitizen25 July 2015 at 10:30

      Thanks for the kind words and for adding me to your blogroll FourEyedMonster. :)

      The colour scheme was based on trying to interpret movie stills as best as I could manage. :)

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