October Marvel Collector Corps Crate

The October Marvel Collector Corps crate theme was "Villains" and cost $45 USD, or about $70 NZD. This crate had a lot to live up to after the last one, lets see what we got.

The contents:

Shirt featuring several villains sketches

Comic

Morbius Pop!

Loki Dorbz

Venom keychain

Pin and patch

The shirt isn't too bad but is lacking colour. It is still a high quality shirt though and the grey is a nice change from the more common black ones from other boxes.

The comic is another variant cover. It seems like they were going with a Halloween theme a bit with this box as the cover incorporates zombie villains. The pin is of Green Goblin and the patch has Red Skull.

The figures on offer this time are a Morbius Pop, Loki Dorbz and Venom keychain. This is a pretty solid haul, 3 figures is pretty much what I want out of every box. The Loki and Venom are pretty cool, Morbius is a pretty odd choice though which points more strongly to the Halloween theme. Morbius is also the random drop in this box, he comes in zombie and normal forms.

I've spoken to a couple other people and the vibe around this box wasn't great. Some videos online say the same thing. I think this is definitely down to the Morbius Pop. If either of the pin or patch characters were swapped with Morbius I think people would have been much happier. As I said above, 3 figures is awesome, so I'm pretty happy anyway.

Value: A Pop and a Dorbz come in at $50, so with a shirt the value easily rises over the $70 spent.

The next theme is "Guardians of the Galaxy" which is awesome...

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Week 40 - Printing Up a Dropzone

No painting progress this week, just some prep work in the background. I've got a stack of Zombicide models half way but none done just yet. Instead I've been running the 3D printer pretty much every evening, working towards this:

The one on the left is a product of someone else's file, the right is a card building from the DZC starter. Unfortunately that was all that was available, until I played with the source file. Now there are four designs, all able to be mixed together, as below.

I plan on doing some commercial building designs later, but this will keep me busy for a while. Also I have another commission making time a bit thin. Particularly since it involves these two.

So. Many. Runes...

I promised myself I would never do these models, so many runes. But I think that this time I have a plan, something to make the runes easy. I really, really hope so anyway!

Day 277
335/277 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 20
TNT models - 21
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 11/11
Paint Xtreme Ada-Lorana - 9/9
Paint all Directorate - 44/44
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs. - 4/4
Paint all Toxic zombies - 37/37
Paint all Berserk zombies - 37/37
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 100/150
Paint all DZC Scourge - 36/79
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 68/83
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 12/16

Week 39 - Zombies Moving on to the Finish Line

No post last week as I was hanging out with the TCOW crew up in Auckland. Got in most of a game of DZC and watched a lot of TNT as well.

Painting-wise I have finished up another 15 zombies for Zombicide and 5 models for a Preservers warband for TNT. I'm liking TNT quite a bit, I unfortunately don't get to play a lot of campaign games for it though. Not to worry.

So I've still got 1 more model of the same style for the above TNT group, hard to say when that will get done. It will mostly depend on when I next have those colours out. Just 30 more models to go and I will have finished my requirements for the year, which will be nice. It is looking like I won't have many free weekends between now and New Years so that is probably a good thing.

I have Armageddon Expo up in Auckland in a month, meaning very little time to get a costume together. I think I can do it but with so few available weekends it may be challenging. Time will tell anyway.

Day 270
335/270 Painted/Days passed
Goals:
Commission models - 20
TNT models - 21
Finish painting Infinity Morats - 11/11
Paint Xtreme Ada-Lorana - 9/9
Paint all Directorate - 44/44
Finish all of the Dreadball teams and MVPs. - 4/4
Paint all Toxic zombies - 37/37
Paint all Berserk zombies - 37/37
Paint remaining Zombicide zombies - 100/150
Paint all DZC Scourge - 36/79
Build and paint remaining KOW Elves - 68/83
Build and paint a full Malifaux crew - 12/16