"The Uncanny X-Men of my youth!" Topic

Hi all.

I just posted my Heroclix repaints of the Uncanny X-Men (circa early to mid 1980's) over at Dead Dick's Tavern. I'll be using them soon in Supersystem 3.

angrypiper.com/gaming/?p=1296

Lots more pictures there, so drop by and let me know what you think! Comments welcome, there or here!

They look great. Those are the X-men I read and loved, really the best version of the team.

If you are having trouble with paint rubbing off while painting try hot gluing the figures to a paint stirring stick from a hardware store. Then you won't be handling them when you are painting and can put the sealant on them before you need to touch them at all.

Those look great but make me feel old. There were only four X-men in my youth and they wore a uniform!

I remember these five from my youth:

Nice work on those repaints :)

Thanks for the kind words!

Pictors: Thanks Scott. That's high praise from a pro painter. I totally agree that this was the best roster of the team, and the next few years following Giant Size X-Men #1 are among the best comic stories ever. I'm trying to amass enough clix Hellfire Club guards to recreate Wolverine's classic sewer infiltration, but that's a scenario for another day.

I've always held the miniatures when I paint and it's a hard habit to break for me. But I almost never have an issue with paint rubbing off during painting, except with those TSR miniatures. I'm talking about the ones that were in boxed sets like these:

The miniatures themselves aren't great. The facial sculpts are particularly bad and the scale is all over the place from figure to figure. And for some reason, maybe it's just me, but they "feel" different from other miniatures of the period, which makes me wonder if they used a different alloy for casting than, say, Ral Partha.

Could just be me.