Archon Studio – Masters of the Universe Battleground: Wave 6 – Evil Horde Faction: Leech, Scorpia & Mud Monster

That post title long enough for you? It’s been pretty much a year since I finished or posted anything from Archon Studios’ MOTU game. The main reason for that being that I wasn’t really enjoying the models I had chosen to paint next. Both of thee models have strangely closed poses, despite being nicely details, well cast, multipart plastic models. Leech isn’t too bad – but he’s not good, while Scorpia is just fucking awful with her awkwardly-posed crossbow aimed at the floor and blocking off painting much of the model. I more or less followed the box art with some research in looking at the toys to reference what I was doing. Since I don’t know anything about either of these characters, I found some odd contradictions on what Scorpia looked and acted like. Turns out that there was a recent-ish animated “reimagining” where the Netflix writers basically rewrote the character in the tiresome way that they always seem to treat legacy IP these days – I’d go on a rant here, but instead I’ll…