{"id":3213,"date":"2019-06-17T05:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2019-06-17T05:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:56:22","slug":"my-name-is-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=3213","title":{"rendered":"My Name is Mud!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A local comic shop had a pretty spectacular sale on gaming items recently, and I was pleasantly surprised to see they had a few of the original metal Knight Models Batman figures on the shelf. I couldn’t resist picking up a few (at a deep discount), and so I present…Clayface!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At last count, there are about 72 different Clayfaces running around the DC universe. (I may be off by one or two, but suffice it to say there are a lot.) The original was Basil Karlo, a B-list actor who went crazy when he learned he wasn’t going to be in a remake of a horror film he starred in, so he wore a mask and tried to kill all the other actors who starred in the remake. The second Clayface was Matt Hagen, an Indiana Jones-type adventurer who was exposed to some kind of weird protoplasm that made him malleable and able to assume any form. The third Clayface was a guy named Preston Payne, whose touch dissolves flesh, so naturally he goes crazy and falls in love with a mannequin. The rest of the Clayfaces don’t matter. Trust me. They just don’t fucking matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My favorite version of Clayface is from the Batman Animated Series. That Clayface\u00a0was based a combination of the first and second Clayface, i.e. he was Matt Hagen, who was a great actor who became disfigured in a car crash. He began using an experimental, protoplasmic face cream developed by Roland Daggett, an unscrupulous big-pharma type who used Hagen to commit crimes in exchange for more of the cream (kinda like a heroin dealer, or so I’ve heard). Finally, Daggett’s men poured a ton of the protoplasmic cream on Hagen, thinking it would kill him. Instead, it turned him into Clayface. (This version of Clayface was also voiced by Ron Perlman, which pretty much ensures he’s the coolest version of Clayface that was, is, or will ever be.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As far as the miniature itself: it’s BIG. And metal, and all stretched out in a lunge, which means he’s unbalanced. I immediately tossed the ridiculous 40mm slotta base he came with and rebased him on a 40mm MDF base. Unfortunately, that was too small and the model kept tipping over. So, I based the 40mm base on a 60 mm base for stability. Then I set about painting him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s really not a lot to this model, paint-wise. Aside from his face, he’s all brown. I used various brown paints and washes to make him look as he does, which is pretty much like a turd. I considered applying some gloss varnish to make him look like wet clay, but decided not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To give you an idea of how big he is, here is the Knight Models Clayface next to a Heroclix Clayface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here he is next to a Heroclix R’as al Ghul. (Weird that I don’t have a repainted ‘Clix Batman yet.) The KM version seems much more\u00a0true to\u00a0scale when\u00a0compared to a normal-sized human (R’as). As with Killer Croc<\/a>, the ‘Clix version looks kind of puny by comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have other Knight Models to paint, and I am still laboring away on another Forgotten Heroes entry before month’s end.\u00a0Returning to true Piper form, I will be submitting another hero who absolutely should<\/em><\/strong> be forgotten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Miniatures Purchased: 58<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miniatures Painted: 121<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total: +63<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A local comic shop had a pretty spectacular sale on gaming items recently, and I was pleasantly surprised to see they had a few of the original metal Knight Models Batman figures on the shelf. I couldn’t resist picking up a few (at a deep discount), and so I present…Clayface! At last count, there are […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miniatures","category-super-heroes","tag-knight-models","tag-super-mission-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","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=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}