Black Flash

While waiting to start my new Scarecrow and his militia crew, I started work on the Black Flash.  The Black Flash was a promotional model, available to people who pre-ordered "The Flash/Arrow" BMG supplement.    The Black Flash is not a model that can be hired to a crew.  He has a chance to appear every time a speedster uses a power that has a paradox.  If you cause a paradox and roll double sixes then the Black Flash appears and joins your opponents team.

Once I read through the book and learned how the speedforce works in the game, I though it was an odd choice for a promo model.  Everyone who fields a speedster should also have a copy of the Black Flash (which would be more sales to the company, no?).  It is just a  little weird to me to release a model that you need to have when using speedsters, but then not sell it.  Why not do a classic Jay Garrick with the WW1 style winged helmet alternative Flash model?  


 I tried using the layering technique that I talked about in my last post with the black costume.  I had to use a two coats of Nulin Oil to bring the grey back down to more of a black.  All in all it was a fun model to paint.

The Black Flash is an interesting character.  He is the speedsters version of the Grim Reaper.  Because the Flash and other speedsters are so fast they can out run Death, so the speedforce has its own embodiment of death to collect the souls of speedsters and return them to the speed force, the Black Flash.

 Kevin