Bronze Meddling Wave 16: Kung Faux Fighting [p. 26]

[Freaqualizer]

1 hour ago, elhonez said:

Yikes!

Guessed: H, T, X, O, A

__ __ __     __ T __ __ __ 

Hangmate:

Can we get an E, Pat? 

[elhonez]

Survey says... WHAMMY! (I think I'm mixing up game shows). This one isn't easy! Which will prove to be ironic when the name is revealed.

Guessed: H, T, X, O, A, E

__ __ __     __ T __ __ __ 

Hangmate:

[buttheadsmate]

I have my eye on I .

[elhonez]

BHM is a man of great vision.

Guessed: H, T, X, O, A, E, I

__ I __     __ T __ __ __ 

Hangmate:

[buttheadsmate]

Myopic actually 

I'm thinking U & I'm guessing BIG STUFF .

[elhonez]

I'll stay mum on any full guesses, but BHM has granted our little fellow a stay of execution:

Guessed: H, T, X, O, A, E, I, U

__ I __     __ T U __ __ 

Hangmate:

Edited June 26, 2023 by elhonez

[cylonchaney]

How about a "D"?

[elhonez]

Interesting...

Guessed: H, T, X, O, A, E, I, U, D

__ I D     __ T U __ __ 

Hangmate:

[buttheadsmate]

K .

[cylonchaney]

Well quite obviously it's  Bid Stubs, the team that fights crime at auctions. Pretty obscure. 😆

 

PS Don't count that as a real guess.

Edited June 26, 2023 by cylonchaney

[elhonez]

Aha!

Guessed: H, T, X, O, A, E, I, U, D, K

K I D     __ T U __ __ 

Hangmate:

[buttheadsmate]

15 hours ago, buttheadsmate said:

 

 I'm guessing BIG STUFF .

F

[elhonez]

K I D    [S] T U F F

Well played BHM! You had gotten it half right before. So what is "Kid Stuff?" Unfortunately it will have to wait until I get a shipment of Vallejo paints (I am missing the last couple of colors I need), so the ETA for the photo is Saturday.

Edited June 26, 2023 by elhonez

[elhonez]

Paints arrived early! I might be able to get them over the line by Thursday, we'll see 

[NerdyTrev]

Power Pack? Teen Brigade?

[elhonez]

Or maybe it's Thor's goats?

Just... kidding?

I was actually able to finish all the painting last night. So I'll be able to take pictures tonight or tomorrow night (PST).

[elhonez]

Edited January 22, 2024 by elhonez

[cylonchaney]

Wow! Those look great!

[luke314pi]

Fantastic! 😮

[buttheadsmate]

Those are superb, the best thing I've seen in many a long day . I have been saying for years that 'Western mates' would be a seller .

On 10/1/2010 at 8:46 AM, buttheadsmate said:

Seriously .....these are outstanding & any negative comments I've made about the Max line are regarding the vehicles*. If they don't sell well I'll be surprised very surprised but I won't be surprised if very soon we might see some 'Western' Minimates ! How politically correct is it these days in the US for Cowboys to be fighting Red Indians ? Like I said I'm serious .....I don't know. There can't be many kids that haven't set their Cowboys up against the Sioux,Cheyenne & Apache hordes & even I might drag a few out of their packages to have a re-enactment of a 'homestead attack' or 'river crossing ambush'. I'm getting quite excited just thinking about it.

*Max vehicles of Stage-coaches .....Wagon Trains...........Western Rail Road Trains

..... maybe a War Wagon Probably the saddest theme tune in movie history ........be warned this is more irritating than me ........

That was 2010 .

 

Absolutely brilliant .

[NerdyTrev]

As an obsessive fan of Atlas/Marvel Westerns, this makes me innumerably happy.

Please, Zach, let's at least get an official Two-Gun Kid. He's an Avenger!

[elhonez]

Thanks everyone! I had a lot of fun planning this wave. And I agree with you BHM -- this genre still has a lot of legs. I clearly doubled down on the "kid" theme, but that meant I left a lot of heavy hitters on the table like Phantom Rider, Red Wolf and Masked Raider/Rider.

If I ever get around to the other two waves I planned -- "Slap Leather!" and "Owlhoots" -- I will feel that I've finally wrung this one dry. At least from a bronze age perspective. I know a lot of these characters have more modern designs now from various revivals.

[cylonchaney]

I'm not that much of a comics guy but this has got me thinking I'd like a Lone Ranger custom.

My favorite show as a little kid.

And once again, great work!

[elhonez]

Progress.

I've *finally* solved for my inadequate decal-making setup, and it's going to unblock a bunch of customs. However being that I'm always hesitant to run a sticker sheet in the printer for just one or two new decals, and being true to my obsessive nature, I'm going to be banging out decals for about 30 characters, which will unblock about 13 "waves."  Well, apart from parts scrabbling, x-acto knifing and painting.

So when it rains it will pour, but I still have to knock out those decals and I'm really, really slow at that. My goal is about .5/day, so maybe come December I'll have early photos to share. In the meantime, I will probably photograph a "box set" I have ready to go, which is just a minor revision of something I've already shared.

[cylonchaney]

I feel your pain regarding decal sheets. It takes willpower sometimes not to waste a whole sheet for one sticker you really want to see on your figure. LOL