While the absolute majority of players enjoys painting their MCP models there's definitely a few "Warriors of the Grey Plastic" and while it's fine to do that I want to give a tip for a very easy and comparably cheap way to have your models look better than that. The most common reasons not to paint your minis are: they won't look good, I'll clog up the details, they are too tiny and my hand too big, it takes too long and painting is too expensive for me. This method should solve all of these (more or less). What you need and how it's done: Chaos Black Spray Primer from Citadel (Games Workshop) I absolutely don't like Citadel paints for their terrible pot design and overinflated prices. But their Primer spray I trust with my life. You barely have to shake it and if works in basically all weather conditions I have encountered here (haven't tried it below 0 degrees Celsius yet). Other sprays can absolutely work fine but need to be shaken a lot t...
Today we start a new irregular series looking at some characters that aren't used a lot and see where they can shine anyway. Starting with Roberto Da Costa, Sunspot: Sunspot has two glaring weaknesses that mostly keep him out of rosters. 1. His 3 physical defense with no defensive tech at all means he's pretty easy to get off the board 2. He is a four threat that isn't over the curve making it very hard to justify him over characters like Shang-Chi and Beta Ray Bill for competitive rosters 1. Is something we'll just have to live with or find some ways to protect him and while 2 is true, he is a lot more fun to play than those two in my experience. The key to Sunspot carrying the weight of his 4 threat is getting to use High Energy Conversion as much as possible as it can be a very good throw. And how you achieve this is by a very careful management of Flare tokens. Don't sleep on the fact that any movement for Roberto caused by your opponent (pushes, throws, pl...