Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Spider Robots (SMG Henchmen)

These Spider Robots are my first painted minis for the Spider-man Miniatures Game (SMG) from Knight Models, companion game to BMG (albeit with many caveats). Theoretically SMG and BMG are compatible, but time will tell (as will those caveats I mentioned).

These are not the most interesting of minis, but I set out to get something painted very quickly and these fit the bill! I tackled them as a 'speed painting' exercise which is something antithetical to my usual plodding approach, so that too was satisfying. Either way, I have started on yet another range (albeit one limited to 15 minis at present).

It will be a while before I get an SMG crew together, and it may require house-ruling allowable inclusions due to the dearth of options (especially for the Goblin Cult which I want to play first); right now, assuming 500 Rep increments, Goblin Cult could be played at 200, 250, 350 or 400 Rep, but not 300, and at 350 Rep (typical for BMG tournaments I have been to) the crew has only two models. Right now with no new releases in 11 months SMG seems dead in the water, but they have updated the rules document for it recently so who knows if there will be more SMG models (as opposed to ports from MUMG)? Well Knight Models do, but of course they are not saying either way.

SMG Painting Summary
SMG characters owned: 15
Percentage of owned characters painted: 20.0% (3 models)


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10 comments:

  1. Blaxkleric14 December 2016 at 04:57

    Having painted these myself I think you've done a tip top job on them, and even got their white markings and individual legs picked out; as opposed to my wash & dry-brushing technique. Excellent stuff :-)

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    1. pulpcitizen14 December 2016 at 10:22

      Thanks mate. :)

      I was able to work quite methodically on them, so that certainly helped. :)

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  2. Wouter14 December 2016 at 07:20

    Luckily I'm not an arachnaphobiac 😃.
    They look great, while it probably wasn't easy to do some detailing on them, the White and red against the black and grey base provide an interesting miniature anyway.

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    1. pulpcitizen14 December 2016 at 10:24

      Thanks Wouter. :)

      They are tiny on an individual basis, so this was a bout the limit of my skills. :)

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  3. JamieM15 December 2016 at 07:01

    Very nice indeed! Those white spots (eyes?) would have driven me potty.

    I didn't even know there was a SMG game out...

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    1. pulpcitizen15 December 2016 at 10:25

      Thanks JamieM. :)

      I think the spots are indeed supposed to be eyes, and they were done at speed so not totally even in size to be honest. :)

      The SMG is basically a 'skin' for the BMG game; no full book, and really not even two full factions playable at BMG equivalents. Not even sure it will last as a purported range. :)

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  4. Kieron15 December 2016 at 09:36

    They are very...spiderery...

    :)

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    1. pulpcitizen15 December 2016 at 10:27

      Indeed! :0

      More importantly, they were flipping quick to paint up! :)

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  5. Simon Quinton 16 December 2016 at 10:58

    Almost missed these very nice dude for speed painting!

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    1. pulpcitizen16 December 2016 at 11:00

      Cheers mate. For not much more than an hour maybe and hour and half at most, I am happy with them. :)

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