A thing a week 2023, week 33

One more bads post and then we'll switch gears. Luckily (?) these are slightly better paint jobs so we got that going for us and if there's a theme for today, it's "big stuff." These weren't painted in the same order they're shown here so let's see if my counts add up when we catch up!

Kicking off first we have a Reaper Bones Hill Giant Huntsman's Dire Lion. This is my favorite kind of paint job: high drama, low effort. The Hill Giant Huntsman will follow along at some point. This guy came with Bones 4 and sat around primed for an embarrassingly long time until now, err, many weeks ago since I'm pushing a pretty big bow wave of posts right now. I didn't realize just how shiny his fur was until looking at the photos so, yeah, that's not fantastic. If I'm feeling frisky I'll dullcoat him but I probably won't. 

Following the big cat we get a big dog. This is also an animal companion to another set of figs, in this case the Bones 4 Frost Giant Raiders. I painted him like a red wolf before I learned that he was supposed to be from the frozen north (or south, I guess) and if I'm honest, this is not a good paint job. I got the markings mostly correct but at the time, I just wanted to be done. He was painted at the end of a fairly long session and my back was really hurting. IIRC, he was done in like an hour or so. 

Next up we have The Thing In the Well from Bones 5. I don't have a link handy as it doesn't seem to be on their site yet. I wanted this guy as a boss encounter for a future dungeon and he's both big and pokey and making a mess of one of the Bones 5 boxes so I painted him. This is not a great paint job and it was mostly done with the airbrush and followed up with some messy washes and the most minimal of detail work. I think it's a good effect but mostly because it's big. These kinds of figs tend to get used sparingly so not having a great paint job isn't the end of the world. He'll count as the second large fig for this year's challenge.

Last up we have a Nolzur's Adult Remorhaz. I think this was a gift and has not only been painted somewhere in early July, but has already gotten some table time. I don't know how often I'll be able to use a remorhaz on the table so I'm glad I got the chance. Like most Nolzur's mini products, he had lousy mold lines, a very gloopy prime that obscured otherwise nice sculpt details, and hydrophobic patches that didn't want to take the contrast paint basecoat I did because my airbrush station wasn't setup. Overall I think it's a good result mostly owing to color choices and we had a memorable encounter where it chewed one of the PCs in defense doing itself significant harm. Good times. He'll also count as a large figure for obvious reasons.

Blacklist Fantasy Series 1 Dire Bear. Honestly, this is kind of a lousy bear looking a heck of a lot more like a werebear than a dire bear. He was painted mostly with the airbrush with a light coat of a Vallejo Model Air brown over the  top of a zenithal. A quick drybrush and picking out of details rounds out the work and it looks like I forgot to put Reikland Fleshshade gloss in his mouth. Nothing like a "glamour" shot to highlight your mistakes. 

This guy is a Chaos Toad Savage from Bones 4. He was also mostly painted with the airbrush but with extra volumetric highlights over the scales. A wash, some details, and demon dots were most of it though the rockery he's standing on took longer than I care to admit. This guy was a mess to glue. He was in parts and was warped to the point that I had to clamp and torque and swear a lot to get him together. The demon dots are too regular which isn't great but overall I think it works. 

2023 finished mini counter: 173/102, 3/5 large