Figure Painting Total - June 2024

 I picked up some more figure from Black Site Studio with their June sale.  I also bought some figures directly from the people who have the molds for the Starship Troopers figures.  We enjoyed the Fallout TV series.  I picked up the figures since they are good for both Wasteland Warfare, and Fallout Factions – a new skirmish game that I might get sucked into.

While I came close, I was not able to work on painting anything this month.  I was able to get another 6 dice for my Dust Tactics Core box, meaning that it is only missing 1 die now.

 

 

Bought

Unmatched – Slings and Arrows – 6

BSS – Camp Counselors – 2

BSS – Horror Pack B – 6                (Candyman, Jason’s Mom, Hannibal, Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, Mummy)

DLB – Manhunt – 2

DLB – DeGraw Cleaning Crew – 3

Fallout – Hollywood Heroes – 4

SST – Arachnids – Cliff Mites – 5

SST – Arachnids – Firefries – 5

SST - SICON – Heroes – Sniper – 1

SST- SICON – XM-550 CHAS – 1

 

Painted

 

 

 

June total – 35 figures bought, 0 figures painted

Running total 2024 – figures bought 196, figures painted 7

Scrappy-Doo - menace or misunderstood?

 I am quite surprised at the love and acceptance for Scrappy. I can only assume that these viewers started with the series at Scooby-Doo and Scrappy Doo or later. For me and my friends, who started with the New Scooby movies, the reruns of Scooby-Doo, Where are You? and then the Scooby-Doo/Dyno-Mutt Hour and then Laff-a-Lympics, we were already fond of the standard formula.

The change in Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, both in replacing the main 'normal' characters characters of Fred, Daphne, and Velma with Scrappy, as well as crossing into actual supernatural villains was a bit jarring. Even bringing back Daphne in later seasons didn't help. While we loved Daphne at the time, we didn't realize we needed Velma's competency for success.

Scrappy was loud, brash, over confident, unrealistic in his abilities, and a bully. He was like the friend you have who gets you into fights because he couldn't keep his mouth shut when in dicey situations. He was the friend who 'helped' build a deck on improper footings, or took out a load-bearing wall, while assuring you that he knew what he doing.

Flim-Flam compounded this with many similar traits in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.