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I will add to the praise here Prowl-Ar: I've always found your imagination and your unique creations inspiring. I'm too much of a fecklessly pedantic Marvel zombie to deviate from that narrow path, but you really show what's possible when you open up the toybox and go full-throttle. Kudos!

I love the stickers, it ended up looking great!

A Galileo shuttle would be pretty cool. I'm sure most folks on this board would also love to see what you do with Joe designs.

I think given the cockpit constraints, this is a near-perfect compromise. Excellent work.

Kor: "What? This is my happy face."

I'm always impressed with your great, clean-looking decals Luke. 

Yeah I think it's time for a Goblin Queen. Who'd be the other new selection? Maybe S'ym or one of the Marauders.

Re-reading the thread: Looks like BD also suggested this.

My bad! I am too acronymious. Power Man and Iron Fist 

Thanks! I'm glad you like 'em.

4 hours ago, Kotter Comics said:

I'm embarrassed by how few of these characters I know

Oh man, no need for embarrassment here. These are some deep-deep cuts. At one point I thought I was done with PMIF MiniMates, but I decided that I at least needed to do anyone who'd appeared on a cover. And that dragged me down a whole new rabbit hole of obscurity with their related characters.

On The Fwoosh Zach graciously tipped that the 80s set will be X-related!

I guessed either Mutant Massacre or Inferno. Either would be excellent choices for a couple net-new figures.

18 hours ago, thereasonsy said:

The mask and the scarf are tightly connected so get that xacto ready.

My xacto is always ready.

Thanks for sharing Zach, I always appreciate your insights into the decisions that factor into wave selection.

Mostly to keep myself accountable, here's an update:

They're all done save for one part I'm waiting on, but I won't be able to finish the last one until after some pending travel. Latest ETA is the weekend of the 27th. It's got a "sleeper hit" for me, a mate I was surprised to like so much after it came together. I wonder if anyone will share my sentiment, or be able to guess which one I'm referring to? 

Wave 5 will be a freakily freewheelin' fast follow, full of finished figures. It only requires minor updates for three mates, but I hope they improve their overall aesthetic. The wave name would be silly to play HangMate with, so here it is: K'un-Lun.

Wave 6 will include a mate with the most ambitious decals I've attempted to date. Since I have to pair the decals with a paint match, I'm still not certain how well it will land. We'll see...

Wave 7 is in the distant future at this point, but it will mark my last planned wave for the PMIF theme. There will be four net-new customs for me in this wave, including a last-minute QC-ish addition born of some parts serendipity I discovered. Another figure in this wave will require some experimentation with a new paint type that I'll say more on later, if it works. Or even if it doesn't (that might make for a more interesting story anyway).

I am excite.

There was no easy choice here. We, the long-time fans, probably would have revolted if Typhoid Mary had been removed, which arguably would have been the more logical choice based on exposure alone. I would have preferred Bullseye be removed, but apparently this version is an army-builder, and the MMM team may have factored that into the decision.

At the end of the day, I think keeping Mary was the right choice.

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This wave is coming along nicely. Preview:

I wanted to combine "Heroes for Hire" and "Daughters of the Dragon" in some clever way that ultimately eluded me. Somehow "Daughters for Hire" felt inappropriate...

I'm going to do something a little different and just disclose the two-packs. Most of them are going to be updates of stuff you've seen before in this thread, though not for years. Pics will come when they're done.

1. Colleen Wing and Misty Knight

As is my wont, these are indexed on their OHOTMU looks. With a leg swap option for Colleen, since I couldn't find any actual issues in which she looked like her OHOTMU appearance.

2. El Aguila and Thunderbolt

These two will be largely unchanged. I'm going to update Aguila's sword and give him an energy effect option.

3. Professor Alphonse Gamble and an Incinerator

This Dr. Who knock-off and (suddenly more relevant) TVA-related character appeared in Loki season 2, sort of, as the gender-swapped "Judge Gamble." He's getting a facelift, and a teacup for good measure. The Fake Dalek will still look like a Fake Dalek.

4. Crimebuster II and Firefly

The heavy lifting will come here, with loads of paint and decals. As near as I can tell, these are loosely related to characters that originally appeared in Nova. I thought Firefly might be easy to knock out. I was wrong. Dead wrong.

Apart from the new-newness, Colleen will be the most changed/updated. Because this was an abomination:

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Good one BHM!

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First blood has been drawn...

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Nice! No risk for our hapless Mini-effigy so far. And for a quasi-hint, I will observe that this wave's nickname is my most prosaic yet.

Completely unrelated: this wave required the development of new "enhanced" torso and pelvis pieces.

*The veracity of this assertion has not been independently verified.

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It'll be some time before they're baked and ready, but:

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Looking good!