The core box villains are quite varied and offer a solid base on starting a Cabal affiliation, with Red Skull, Zemo and Crossbones.
I already showed Crossbones fighting three Black Widow in an earlier post and he is by far one of the easiest miniatures of the set to assemble and paint. I used two different kinds of washes (blue and black on his pants and vest so as to create a slight variety in black shades.
Red Skull, Cabal leader, was rather easy to assemble but required greenstuff work on his coat to hide the assembly seam. Painting was very straightforward for his garb, the only challenge being the cube and its coat/facial reflection, which I feel quite good about.
Baron Zemo only true assembly challenge was his right wrist, as it required some resculpting of the bracer.I went with a classic Zemo look, complete with the spotted snow leopard fur. Contract paints were use for the jacket, pants and top/headgear.
Doc Octopus offered a solid assembly challenge, requiring some greenstuff work on his body assembly seams and a series of dry assemblies to ensure tentacles were indeed in the right place.Again, contrast paints and layers of highlights were used for the body, with all metallic parts painted using Leadbelcher, Nuln Oil Gloss and highlighted with Vallejo ChromeLast but no least, Ultron was a challenge of small fiddly bits to assemble but has a very dynamic pause and proves to be one of the best sculpts of the set. I went for a straightforward GW Leadbelcher base, washed with GW Nuln Oil Glass and worked back up with GW Leadbelcher and Vallejo Chrome. For the glowing components, I applied red contract paint, followed by orange and white highlights.Debris are (clean) cat litter.
