Golden Villains

A very quick post this time. Proof, at least, that I'm still here.

This is a companion piece to my my 'Golden Heroes' post from April 2022. These are the last of my collection of Golden Heroes miniatures from the mid-80's. I dug them out of the stash and gave them a long overdue clean-up and a fresh coat of paint. As I mentioned in my original post, the miniatures from Citadel's Golden Heroes line were never the greatest sculpts. 'Characterful' is the usual term (wargames shorthand for "never mind the odd proportions, the awkward poses, the big heads - look at the personality"). Okay, well I have nostalgic soft spot for them and they were a lot of fun to paint.

So, in no particular order we have:

Vandal. A street-level super-villain with a distinctly 70's Punk vibe...

...and his sidekick, Skin 'Ed. He's a right nasty piece of work. I think his weapon was originally sculpted to look like a katana, but I didn't think that fitted in with the 'look', so I bent and flattened the end, cut a notch in it and made it into a bloody great big metal crowbar.

Last but not least, here's street-level super-villain Half-Bot. He was part of a semi-secret government funded cybernetics program, until they pulled the plug, leaving his cybernetic enhancements only half completed. Unable to gain further funding, he turned to crime. He hates the name Half-Bot. Technically, he isn't a robot, but that's what the Media dubbed him and it stuck.

Till next time...