But on with the painting. One of the de-based heroes that needed painting. It was called Martinex. I had never heard of Martinex and had to look him up to know anything about him. Should have taken a before picture, but I didn't. The sculpt wasn't really going to lend itself to conversion to a regular-looking person very well, what with a number of not-very-natural-looking angular features all over his body like all-sticky-outy and square-shaped abs and pecs and rather pointy knees. I considered taking a knife to the sculpt to round out the angular parts, but I couldn't bring myself to do it like I did to thin down Mr. Hyde, So, having been eyeing some futuristic minis lately, I decided that I could make Martinex into a guy with some futuristic body armour on so that I wouldn't have to cut anything away. One attribute I took away from looking up the info about Martinex character was he was of African descent, so I painted him accordingly to keep that connection between his former life as Martinex and his new life as an as yet unnamed man sporting body armour.
It was a couple of hours painting, but I think it turned out rather well. The light green undercoat - supposed to be his beneath-the-armour suit - doesn't show up too well in the picture, but if one squints and holds their tongue the right way...but that's okay.
Anyone interested in the 'before' can Google "Martinex Heroclix" and you'll get a number of images.
