A while back, I said I wanted to paint the miniatures from the Gotham City: Under Siege game shown here, and I did, although it should surprise no one that I haven’t played the game. Apparently, it’s a cooperative boardgame where the players take the roles of Gotham’s heroes and you work together over the course of four acts to thwart the evil schemes of Batman’s villains.

The game comes with fold-up paper buildings, which I guess function as the board. They look nice, anyway.

I have the expansion to the game, Masterminds & Mayhem, which contains new rules, schemes and villains, but sadly no new miniatures.

Speaking of the miniatures, here they are: Catwoman, Batgirl, Robin, Batman, and Commissioner Gordon and Officer Montoya, representing the GCPD. All are done in the signature Bruce Timm style from the Animated Series, which I love.

First: Catwoman. The easiest one to paint by far. Not that the others were difficult, but she came together in about half an hour.

Meow. The mold lines on these miniatures were a bit obnoxious and tough to spot. I removed more than one after painting and had to paint over it again.

Next: Batgirl. I like this miniature a lot.

My iPhone misses nothing. Not even that stray paintbrush bristle clinging to her cape. Ugh.

Gordon and Montoya. Very cool figure, but a pain in the ass to paint. Since they’re both on the same base, it’s tricky to paint one without accidentally getting paint on the other, especially because they have the annoying habit of leaning together.

Montoya’s shotgun barrel is bent, too. Not much I can do about that.

Robin, the Boy Wonder. The Batmobile is not included with this game. Neither is the cop car above.

Yellow remains a painting bugbear for me. You’d think after 40+ years of painting I would have figured it out by now.

And finally, the Caped Crusader himself.

Painting this miniature put me in the mood to repaint some Heroclix, something I did a lot of, but has since fallen by the wayside. I still have a freezer bin full of Heroclix I plan on repainting, much to the annoyance of Mrs. Angry Piper, who would like to have the freezer space back. Why do I keep Heroclix in the freezer, you ask? Because they snap right off the dials easier when frozen, with little risk of breakage. If you want my extensive thoughts and advice about repainting and rebasing Clix, check out this post here that I did all the way back in 2016.