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.
Fantastic set of miniatures Keith, your painting has brought out the character in each really well.
Thank you, Dave, although as I said, my iPhone hides nothing and my failing vision doesn’t help much either. Still, that’s one more board game with painted miniatures off the list!
Some very cool miniatures there mate, I totally agree with you that the look to the Animated series was probably the best there’s been (though Adam Wests bat mobile is still the best one of them ever!).
One of the blogs that have been sent to me… The Bovine Overlord, has loads of lovely painted supers on it, and has got me wanting to paint up some heroklix too, perhaps I made a mistake in saying we should visit more blogs!!
Cheers Roger.
Thanks! Agree wholeheartedly on the Adam West Batmobile. In fact, I’m watching the entire 1966 series on DVD (physical media forever!) and I think it might be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. When I was a kid, I thought it was cool, because I didn’t know better and the humor went over my head. Now I’m in tears every show.
I’ll have to check out the blog. I always look forward to Forgotten Heroes every year, but I’ve been hankerin’ to just repaint some supers lately.
One of the best lines I ever heard came from an Adam West Batman, when the announcer said…..
“Meanwhile, at the abandoned trapeze factory…” Bl**dy brilliant!
That and the one where Batman lectures Robin on putting on his seatbelt before taking off in the Batmobile!
Cheers Roger.
There are just so many moments that leave me in tears. Chief O’Hara says something like: “Begorrah, Commissioner! The Joker’s paintin’ smiles on all the statues in town! What are we gonna do?” And Gordon, who is the fucking chief of the police for the entire city, says “I wish I knew, Chief. Only ONE MAN could possibly end the evil clown’s tyranny”, and then he reaches for the Bat Phone. Dude, you have an entire police force at your disposal and that’s your answer every episode? Hilarious.
Fascinating post, which provides much more of an insight into this Batman boardgame than I’ve seen elsewhere. Your painting of the miniatures has definitely helped bring it to life, and whilst the game itself probably isn’t my cup of tea, I always enjoy a post packed full of super-heroes. Good stuff.
Supers are fun to paint, and while I’m glad you got insight into the game, I haven’t actually played it (like most of the stuff I own), so I cribbed my answers from Boardgamegeek and other such sites. Thanks as always for coming by, Simon!
Nice to see some painted Miniatures, Keith. And if you’re watching the original Batman series, the Yvone Craig batgirl was one of my first crushes. The sparkly purple and figure hugging costume definitely contributed to this.
Talking Forgotten Heroes, I have plans for this year’s entries – one smaller figure and one figure that, if it goes according to plan, will be epic, both in scale and (hopefully) execution. Obscure Marvel character? Check. Bigger than Big Wheel? Check. Constructed from a ‘box of scraps’? Check. But who could it possibly be? Guess you’ll just have to wait to find out…
Julie Newmar, Jez. That is all I need say.
As you know, I love Forgotten Heroes and think it’s the greatest painting challenge in the world. I always look forward to seeing what you (and everyone else) do every year. I will happily take part in it until I am blind or dead, whichever comes first.
I’m thinking of hosting a new challenge this year in March…more on this soon.