A thing a week 2022, week 9

This is Sir Rictus the Undying from Reaper Bones 5 and no, I don't have a link for him but I understand he's sculpted by the legendary Bob Ridolfi. He's not a super complex paint job and you can tell that I super shortchanged the cloak but hopefully it's not the first thing you notice because a) the cloak is on the back, and b) all the weathering. I didn't put bronze on him specifically to weather it (actually Vallejo Metal Color Gold) but I'm glad I did because it gave me an opportunity to weather the metallics in two ways. After the basic paint job I grunged him up real good and I think it helped the fig overall. More to the point, I didn't really sweat a lot of the details and in a couple hours all told, I think this is an acceptable outcome.

These four critters are Bones 5 Barrow Rats and like Sir Rictus I did not spend a lot of time on them. I wasn't super sure about painting their boils because it's kind of gross but that's what was on the sculpt so that's what got painted. I use rats fairly often in play so these will likely get a lot of screen. In fact, I probably need like 10x more which I'm pretty sure I can 3d print and have already sourced STLs for. So don't be surprised when you see a batch of them. These guys were done in a couple hours all told which is right around what I expected. 

This is Reaper Bones Danar, Human Assassin and speaking of screen time, he got a lot of it as a player character in the first campaign since I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2016. That campaign ran for a year and a half (or so) and he was present at every session. I recognize that both of these things are unusual so I'm glad that I finally got this guy painted. This isn't a great paint job and if I'm honest, it's not a great fig. The mold lines were a mess and the sculpt didn't give me a lot to work with. For those not in the know, Bones figs are made out of a soft plastic which really defy the sane handling of mold lines. It's also why his sword is bendy. Overall, I'm not entirely unhappy with the four-ish hour paint job and finally getting his due.

These two are Aechelon with various equipment (Thunderclap not present) and are 3d sculpts from The Dragon Trapper's Lodge. In addition to being somewhat modular and coming with a fantastic flying steed, lionfolk are not well represented in the miniature world and they feature prominently in my worlds. I printed these guys out quite a lot smaller than I realized back when I cared about such things, so their details were a little painful to get right as you can see from their inconsistent eyes. I did what I could, though, and while I should have pushed the contrast on their metallic bits, I didn't and it shows. Some day I could see reprinting and re-painting these guys as a serious NMM challenge. 

2022 finished mini counter: 43/100

A danger of kobolds, week 4 (2022 week 8)

Rounding out our theme we have team shield. Yes, there's an axe guy in here. He has a shield. Team shield. I rather liked these guys and like to think they're the clever kobolds and less likely to be killed to death by any wandering band of murder-hobos in the area. I don't know that this is actually true but it's not a particularly high bar because: kobolds.

At this point I've more or less exhausted the interesting thing I can say about this batch so I'll finish with this. I'm glad I had the opportunity to re-paint the danger I did so very long ago and I really like the new figs added to the group in Bones 5. They were done in roundabouts 25 hours total, so just over 1 hour each and I think they came out well.

2022 finished mini counter: 35/100

A danger of kobolds, week 3 (2022 week 7)

Two down, two to go. This week we have team axe. We'll ignore the fact that there's at least one axe in next week's offering and at least one of these has a club rather than an axe, but hey, they're kobolds. They're not really sticklers for details, ya know?

2022 finished mini counter: 29/100

A danger of kobolds, week 2 (2022 week 6)

Last week we had team spear and this week, these five are team ranged. Yes, I'm counting the caster dood as ranged for this purpose. 

The first time I painted the mage-y kobold, it was many hundreds of figs before when I painted this one and I really wasn't interested in any way to paint any writing freehand. I was sad about this, tho, so this time around I polled my pals on discord for something I could write on his scroll a) clearly, and b) easily. I thought "DIE!" was good, but "RUN!" seemed better so that's what I went with. I didn't particularly think all that hard about how to put the letters on and in retrospect they should have been sketchier because kobolds. I think they work and I really, really need to do more freehand so it's less scary. 

2022 finished mini counter: 23/100