Gunslinger: Doc Muldoon

Here's a wild west gunslinger by the name of Dr. Chauncy Muldoon. Armed with a dashing derby and a pair of Colt Single Action Army revolvers, Doc Muldoon is a steel-nerved surgeon on and off the battlefield. Like White Hat in the previous post, Doc Muldoon is built entirely from the Dead Man's Hand Gunfighter sprue. Doing his entire outfit in brown may have been my mistake, but he turned out pretty nice anyway. 

This year has been odd for my mini-painting so far. Everything I've done has been either a superperson or, now, a gunslinger.

Supervillain: White Hat

Most of the supervillains I've been building and painting have been "all-new," based on the miniatures I had available. This fella, on the other hand, is at least 14 years old; his original picture is in a document last modified in 2008. Below is the original version I made of White Hat, in a now-seemingly-defunct version of Fábrica de Heróis (an online, Flash-based superhero designer that originally created characters in the style of Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series, etc.)). I've wanted to make this guy for a while, but I only recently got the parts needed. I think he turned out really well, especially given the color scheme.

White Hat is a cowboy-themed supervillian who started out his career by pretending to be a hero (a white hat). He's a sharpshooter and has been known to take jobs as an sniper and assassin on the side. During his time masquerading as a hero, he utilized a number of trick bullets, but as a villain he's just as likely to use normal bullets.

The model is entirely built from Great Escape Games' "Dead Man's Hand: Gunfighters" box of plastic, multi-part models. There are only enough parts to make ten models in the box, but the quality is pretty good, and it looks like the bits could easily be used with a lot of other kits. There is a head in the box with a bandana covering the face, but it didn't look great, so I switched to a Lone Ranger-style domino mask; the contours molded into the face really made it easy.

White is a difficult color to paint, but I did my best. Paired with the orange, grey, and black, it's a striking color theme.

The model is based with desert crackle paint because (a.) it looks more appropriate, (b.) it hides the integral puddle base the model stands on, and (c.) he can be used in Wild West genre games now.

The Dead Marshal

Another superhero character, though a figure that would also work just as well in a Weird West setting, is "Dead Marshal." A Reaper Bones "Undead Outlaw," he was painted up in simple maroon and grey, with white bones poking out here and there.

With a traditional backstory of a lawman returned from the grave to punish evildoers, Dead Marshal is over 140 years old, still fighting crime in the modern era. While in Supersystem he had other powers, the only power of the Prime version of the character is that he returns from the dead 24 hours after he's been killed, over and over again, without exception. He just pops up as whole as ever somewhere else (but usually in The City these days).