A thing a week 2023, week 36

This week we have another mini-theme of Artisan Guild Fighters Guild (plus one). All of these are 3d prints and they're all mostly OK which for my old printer, is pretty amazing (note: it's been broken a while). I printed these in the fall of last year and have only now (well, several weeks ago) gotten around to painting them.

From left to right we have Fighter A Male, Fighter D Lady, Brent of Goobertown, Fighter C Lady. As much armor as these folks have, I don't know why I didn't airbrush them in armor colors. I mean, I did one just like that last year and from the same set. Overall, they've probably got a few too many details but I forgive that because they also have nice dynamic poses and expressive faces. Fighter A has a Obi Wan thing going on which I like. Lady D's mascara is probably a little too heavy. I recall having a really hard time with it. Lady C had a punk rock thing going on so I painted her hair a fun color. To save time, it's the same color as her cloak and whatever she's got at her waist. Brent, if you didn't know, is a youtuber and he shows up a lot in the 3d printing world. His tuft is because I failed to glue the rock down properly and needed to hide gap after missing it with the texture paste. None of these are great paint jobs, each clocking in at around the four hour mark but they're good figs and I'll probably print/paint them again. 

This is Sigfrido Dragonsbane Fighters Guild Hero. He's a pretty complex sculpt and I didn't decide to take him to this level until I was most of the way through painting. Seemed right, you know? I was pretty sure I took the highlights on his cloak higher than it looks in these photos and I didn't realize that the shadows were quite so shiny. I spent a bunch of extra time highlighting and shadowing his armor but none of that is showing up here, sadly. The edge highlighting does, however, and that's good because it took a lot of time. He'll count as a high quality fig for the year.

Last up we have Morgana the Ascended Fighters Guild Hero and she will also count as a high quality fig. I spent a lot of time on her face and not enough time on the fire effect on her hammer of burninating, her hair, and her cloak as is evidenced in the turnaround. It all reads a lot better in person and in retrospect, I I had known I was going to paint her to this level, I would have painted her in sub-assemblies. Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, her winged version will be making a special guest appearance to a printer near me in the future.

2023 finished mini counter: 197/104, high quality: 9/10