Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey and YOUR CHOICE!

Knight Models have let out some more info on the upcoming Flash / Arrow expansion for the Batman Miniature Game.

It will have rules for using themed teams like the Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey, Teen Titans and Secret Six.
With a new Deadshot and Captain Boomerang in the image, I expect we will see all sorts of great characters on the way.
Hoping for King Shark, Starfire and Red Robin myself.

KM also want to know which Free Agents you want to see next for the game.
They have a Poll on the Official BMG Faebook group - Arkham City Limits

Head over and place your vote.

- Hendybadger

Arkham City Limits - EXTRA

The Arkham City Limits Facebook Group is one of the official hubs online for the Batman Miniatures Game.
Full of almost 2000 players, loads of models and scenery and even previews.

But now it has extended!
Dan and Drew, two of the head Admins, have started the ACL Extra Blog.
More previews, thoughts, ideas, projects and such that wont get lost in a Facebook feed.

I may even be putting in an appearance or two myself.

Head over and check out A.C.L.E

- Hendybadger

A Killer Frost comes to the ACL

The Arkham City Limits Facebook Group has another preview today for the Batman Minis Game from Knight Models.

Louise Lincoln a.k.a Killer Frost.

This design is from DC's Injustice universe so I wonder if we will see any more of those designs in the future?

To add to the Batman goodness this week, the August DLC packs for Arkham Knight have just been announced.
BURTON BATMAN AND BATMOBILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Hendybadger

HUGE Arkham Asylum Giveaway!

Knight Models are having a HUGE giveaway over on the Arkham City Limits Facebook Group.
To celebrate the group breaking 1500 members, Knight are offering up an entire Arkham Asylum kit!

All you need to do it head over to Arkham City Limits, find the above picture (at the top) and comment on it answering this questions.

Batman has admitted you to Arkham Asylum. Why?

Giveaway ends on Aug 10th.
Good Luck!

- Hendybadger

Batman: Ultra Violent

A friend, Jack Glanfield, over on the Arkham City Limits group has been doing some stunning things with his Batman minis, some UV paint and a blacklight.
As a fellow Schumacher Batman movie fan, he has taken a lot of inspiration from the 90s movies Batman Forever and Batman + Robin.

 Mr Freeze's suit glowing as he goes to take another of Gotham's diamonds.

 Bane switches on his Venom / Titan feed and gets pumped full of raw power.

 The Batman in his experimental 'Beyond' suit calls forth his glowing Batmobile.

 The Riddler is a tricky character. But under the right conditions you can always see his clues.

Batman stalks around the Gotham Museum at night, waiting for Freeze.

Its not just the models that glow. The Star Tech labs sign lights up the area.#

What do you think of the UV Batman look?
If you want to give it a go yourself, you can find the paints online at Visual Bliss.

- Hendybadger

Arkham City Limits - Batman Game Community Update

Adam Reeves Titan Joker crew ready to cause mayhem

With the release of the Batman rulebook from Knight Models, the popularity of the game has shot up!
Along with this, the official Facebook group Arkham City Limits has shot up in size as well.
With all these new players, painters and general Batman lovers, I thought it would be good to do another update on the ACL with the sort of thing that has been posted there recently.

In my option, its one of the best gaming communities I have ever been part of.
Check out all of these awesome projects.......

Ian Morton has gone for the TV colours for his Arrow.

Aaron Emerson has done great work on the Green Arrow, Speedy and the Flash.

Andrew Campbell has gone with a classic costume look on his Nightwing and Catwoman

Andrew Morgan John can do fantastic things with bases. Superman taking off and flying over water.

This Batman crew was Andy Leightons entry into a recent ACL painting competition.

Bear Smith has used a Black Mask body and Superman head t create a killer Frank Miller Joker

These Sarissa buildings have been 'Gothamed' by Chris Dalton

Dan Halstead has finsihed up a great looking Penguin crew

The book preorder models are starting to show up.

Elizabeth Beckley is painting the most stunning Huntress I have ever seen.

The Suicdice Squad hit the table. Repaints and conversions by Evolved Intelligence

These Watchmen were painted by James Hinton as his entry in the ACL painting competition

Kaylee Anderson is going very green with her comic Poison Ivy

Matt Prior's Batman crew with a great Red Robin conversion

Matthew Malcomson is getting ready for the release of a Scarecrow crew with some themed Henchmen and Free Agents

MonNom EstRien is testing out World Works printed tiles

Got a spare Joker? Niels Jochems turned his into a statue.

Phil Atherton has gone for an alternate green and purple scheme for his Joker crew

Damien Wayne is looking as smug as ever. Great work by Simon Lazyfimfim

Do villains fear the Bat? They will now thanks to Stuart Lacy's Yellow Lantern Batman.

Matthew Malcomson has decided to 'reverse' the colours on the Flash

Pete Smith's great looking team  of Arrow, Speedy and Huntress

It's not just DC though. Here's Laurent Parmentier's Avengers

Head over to Arkham City Limits to see even more great work.

- Hendybadger

Arkham Dozen Painting - Take 2

A while back I joined in with a Batman painting challenge on the Arkham City Limits Facebook group.
The plan is to paint up 12 Knight Models figures over the course of a few weeks. They called it the Arkham Dozen.
My first choice was a whole load of characters. But as I haven't painted in a while, I decided to swap out most of them and go for easy to paint Henchmen to get me started.
I have posted my new 'Dozen' below.
All models are mounted on Post Apoc toppers from Fenris Games

A couple of points to keep in mind though....
1- I am NOT an experienced painter. I have only painted a handful of models in all my time gaming and those were quite a while ago.
2-  I am learning to use a new camera my wife bought me so the pictures may not be all that great yet.

So that's the excuses out of the way, onto the models.

Models 1-5. League of Shadows Ninjas. Finished.
I though these would be nice and simple to get me going. I'm quite pleased with how they turned out. I may go back and add a little more to the bases though.

Models 6+7. Arkham Robin and Arkham Batman. Finished.
You can't play the game without the Dynamic Duo can you?
For a first attempt, I like them. I AM going to do second copies of each once I get some more painting experience under my belt though.

 Models 8-11. GCPD Police. Base coated.
These were chose for two reasons. 1- They seemed fairly easy to paint. 2- They will make a fully usable crew with Batman and Robin.

Model 12. Clayface. Base coated.
For the last one I wanted to do something a little bigger that can be used by most of the crews. Clayface seems to be a basic mix of browns so shouldn't be too difficult. He's also very impressive looking.

Extras.
If I get these finished soon, I'm also going to do Arkham Scarecrow and the GCPD SWAT. Mainly because I'm using those colours already. They will both be good crew additions as well.

Next up.
The next batch of 12, if we do it again, will be a couple of characters for the League, some Green Arrow good guys to use with the police and the start of my Joker and Harley crew.

What do you think so far?
Any and all comments are welcome.

- Hendybadger

Arkham City Limits Now Official! Jan Highlights

Penguin and Crew by Jorg Waitforit

I have mentioned the Facebook group Arkham City Limits on here a few times now as my favourite place to go for Batman Minis Game discussion and models.
Well, what was a fan group originally, has now become 100% official!
As of this week, Arkham City Limits is the official group for the Batman game with the full support of Knight Models
They even have a crew painting competition going on at the moment with the top 3 prizes being the special Talia tournemanet only card!

If that isn't enought to tempt you over to have a look, I have picked a few of my favourite images from the last month on there.

Adam Reeves has turned this Blackgate Prisoner into a Joker fan.

Adam has also created Soloman FUNdy

Andy Leighton's stunning Batman and Robin

Brandon Jackson has swapped Jokers knife out for a crowbar. Poor Jason.

Brandon has also painted up Bruce and Damien to take the Joker down

Crispian Woolford is working on a court house for Gotham. Dents building of choice.

Arkham Origins Bane by Edward Hanby

Jack Glanfield has been doing some amazing stuff with UV paint

Jack has also added large bronze statues to his board for that 90's movie feel

Green Arrow by Justin Timothy

Arkham City Batman by Kent Ing

Matthew Malcomson is creating Two Face Mobsters out of Black Mask Henchmen

ADAM WEST leads to cops. Painted by Myk Myers

Robert Zane Solo is working on a very impressive Ferris wheel for Jokers Fun Land

Scott Crowe has added extra vegetation to Ivy and her plants. Helped out by a great mettalic Deathstroke.

Wille Vertanen has DKR leader the Origins Bane Mercs. Helped out by Deadpool as a stand in for Deathstroke.