The adventure saw the heroes join forces to prevent a supervillain prison break, before heading off to the Savage Land, where they encountered several dinosaurs and...nothing happened...
...until now!
Basically, the next stage of the story would have seen the Avengers ambushed by the Savage Land Mutates, but I just didn't have the appropriate miniatures.
In theory, I could have used a motley collection of beastmen and mutants, but the Mutates are a specific collection of characters and I wanted to do them justice.
Fast forward to the last few weeks and I found myself painting my Danger 5 miniatures from Crooked Dice and watching the first series again when I was reminded that the model I'd bought to represent one of the Mutates could easily pull double duty as a Danger 5 villain.
That character was Sauron.
No, not that one. This one.
Sauron is a mutant with the power to absorb the life force of others by touch, but if he absorbs mutant energy, he turns into a pterodactyl.
If this seems a silly idea, that's because it is. It's so silly that the only other time I've seen a pterodactyl-man is in Danger 5, the silliest TV show in existence.
The model is a Heroclix sculpt which took very little effort to paint, and only a small amount of boiling water to get the wings in shape.
I used another Heroclix model for the wolf man mutate Lupo. The model is actually a DC villain called Hyena, rebased and repainted grey.
Technically, Lupo seems to have some sort of white hood around his head (making him look like a panda) and white briefs (which looks like a nappy) in many images, however, not in all of them and that's enough for me. The original design for Lupo actually had him just as a barbarian type with big hair and fangs.
The final member of this trio of terror is the imaginatively named Amphibius (presumably because he's amphibious), a frog-like mutate.
The model I've used is a rather ropey Kuo-Toa from the D&D Miniatures Game by WizKids. It's spear also needed hot water to bend it into shape, and the model needed flash trimming.
Not a great result. But more than enough for my purposes.
These were more a mini project to do whilst I was printing the next house for my Venice board and I've no idea if I'll return to my campaign. But I am tempted to see if I can cobble together a few more of the Savage Land Mutates.
Acquired: -113
Painted: 506
Lead Mountain: 216
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