{"id":2752,"date":"2018-10-18T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2018-10-18T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:55:28","slug":"what-time-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=2752","title":{"rendered":"What time is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, while unwisely browsing eBay’s listings, I stumbled across this Ben Grimm miniature:<\/p>\n

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Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I ask you again: What time is it?<\/p>\n

I think we all know what Mr. Grimm would say.<\/p>\n

Knight Models is a Spanish company that makes those terrific (and hugely overpriced) miniatures for the Batman Miniatures Game. (I splurged and bought a Killer Croc<\/a>, because I really liked it.) For a brief time, they had the license to produce Marvel miniatures, too. I very much covet their Hulk model, and I would love to get one. But man, are they pricey on the secondary market! Most eBay listings for the KM Hulk start at around $75. That’s a shitload more than I want to pay for ANY miniature. (I don’t pony up that kind of cash to GW; I’m not about to give it to someone else, either.)<\/p>\n

This miniature of Thing was listed on eBay for $25 with free shipping. It was mint in the box. I bought it. I’m glad I did.<\/p>\n

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First off, he’s huge. At 75mm, he’s way bigger than a Heroclix Thing. (I find the Heroclix “big guys” to be kind of small, but YMMV.) More on that below.<\/p>\n

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He’s a three-piece casting: the legs, body and left arm. The miniature required some filing and filling with green stuff to fit together properly. Not a big deal, but it was an essential step. I primed him black.<\/p>\n

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I based him on a 40mm Micro Arts Studio urban base and gave him his first basecoat: Citadel\u00a0Ratskin Flesh\u00a0for the orange rocky skin, and P3 Exile Blue for his speedo.<\/p>\n

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Here he is completed. I highlighted\u00a0 his skin with Citadel Macharius Orange and a drybrush of Fire Dragon Bright, before giving the cracks a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone. His trunks were highlighted with Vallejo Prussian Blue and Reaper Dragon Blue.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the Fantastic Four from the early Clobberin’ Time Heroclix set. As you can see, Thing doesn’t look too bad.<\/p>\n

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But HERE is the Knight Models Thing with the rest of the Heroclix FF. Much better, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

I plan on using the Knight Models Thing in any supers game where his large size doesn’t obviously conflict with other models of similar scale; in other words, I wouldn’t use this KM Thing in the same game I use a Heroclix Hulk (that would just be dumb) Instead I’ll use the ‘clix Thing for that.<\/p>\n

There are presently two Knight Models miniatures I desperately want to acquire: the Hulk and Solomon Grundy, both seemingly impossible to find for sale at a reasonable price any longer.<\/p>\n

I’ll keep looking, though…<\/p>\n

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Insanity Pile Progress<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Miniatures Painted Thus Far: 41<\/span><\/p>\n

Miniatures Purchased: 1<\/span><\/p>\n

Total: +40<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last month, while unwisely browsing eBay’s listings, I stumbled across this Ben Grimm miniature: Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I ask you again: What time is it? I think we all know what Mr. Grimm would say. Knight Models is a Spanish company that makes those terrific (and hugely overpriced) miniatures for the Batman Miniatures Game. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[60,57,27],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miniatures","category-super-heroes","tag-knight-models","tag-super-mission-force","tag-supersystem-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}