Supervillains: Flameskull Gang and Drones

The Flameskulls are a gang of high-tech criminals that wear glowing, holographic skull masks. Among their many gadgets---and definitely the most famous---are their skull drones. These drones also project a hologram to appear like flying skulls, and they have built in weapons and electronic warfare capabilities. The mastermind of the gang is Gray Matter, seen here in her flying technochair, surrounded by a swarm of skull drones.

The five gangers are built primarily from Wargames Atlantic Cannon Fodder, except for the heads. Their skulls are from the Citadel Skulls box while the four Drone skulls are Wargames Atlantic (which are a little larger). I once again removed the front parts from the Cannon Fodder rifles to make them a reasonable size and remove the "bayoneted lasgun" vibe.

Gray Matter is another figure from the "Sentinels Tactics Miniatures: Minions" box; the character is listed as The Broker. Once again, it's soft PVC, and the sculpt isn't great. I stuck a giant's skull from the Citadel Skulls box onto the front to tie it into the gang's aesthetic. Then, I just drybrushed and washed most of the figure in greys to hide the doughy sculpt and imply that she's hidden in the shadows. It works well enough, but I'm not entirely pleased with the finished product. A series of mistakes led her to be placed on a tall spaceship stand, which I installed into a custom-designed 3D-printed base; it was a lot of very unnecessary frustration, but it did lead to the idea for the drone swarm surrounding her.

• Skull and hands base: Vallejo Game Color Bonewhite (72.034)
• Skull and hands glow: Citadel Technical Tesseract Glow 
• Main basecoat: DecoArt Lamp (Ebony) Black (DAO67)
• Drybrush: Vallejo Basalt Grey (70.869)
• Light drybrush: Vallejo Stonewall Grey (72.049)
• Wash on everything but the skull and hands: Vallejo Game Color Wash Black (73.201)
  

The bases, either flat or textured, had a base layer of Vallejo Heavy Violet (72.142), then a drybrush or stipple of FolkArt Imperial Red (4669).

The "drones" can also be used in D&D as undead Flameskulls, the namesake for the gang, or as floaty magic skulls in anything that uses my skeleton horde.