This may be the last contiguous week of this theme but as I expect to be running a Sci-fi mini-campaign next month, expect there to be a fifth installment somewhere near. I've been working through my backlog of figs printed/prepped over the last N years that have been cluttering up my work area. Like last week, I've also been futzing with my photography setup so expect worse pictures than usual.
First up we have
O-REN and
Kimiko from
Titan Forge. O-REN was printed on my old Mars Pro and Kimiko was printed on my newer Saturn 2 not that it's particularly easy to tell the difference. They're both painted in pseudo-analagous color schemes and both sculpts are great despite their various negative space issues. One clever thing about Kimiko's sculpt is that it's higher detail at face level which I appreciate intentional or otherwise though it strongly implied that I should pick out the ribbing on her parasol. If that sounds tedious, it's because it was. Probably her hair could have been slightly darker overall. O-REN by contrast has far fewer details and I took the opportunity to do another unnatural hair color. Because I can. I probably could have painted her shirt a different color but clearly I didn't. I like both of these so don't be surprised if they show up again in the future.
These two are
International Women's Day Free Figure from
Wargames Atlantic, an absolutely free download. I've heard quite a lot about Wargames Atlantic but as I don't play a lot of wargames, I hadn't had any reason to purchase their figs. Browsing their catalog on myminifactory, it looks like they have a bunch of fantasy stuff too so possibly more of their sculpts will show up here in the future. For these, I quite like the sculpts except that their eyes are sooooo tiny. The huge amount of detail picked up speed paints exceptionally though seriously slowed down subsequent highlighting attempts. I mostly kept to edge highlighting. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry so didn't spend as much time as I could have picking out details. Regardless, I think this is a pretty good result for the couple hours of effort I spent.
Last up we have
Jenny Silverleg from Titan Forge and
Female Mercenary a free download from Moid. Jenny's been here before, way back in
Week 43 of 2022 in a previous Sci-fi Showdown. When I painted the first one, I was in a hurry and noted that the sculpt would hold a higher quality paint job than I'd done. This year I got to prove it! In addition to several hundred figs' experience difference, adding several more hours of effort paid off well and yes I know that her leg is golden and her name is silverleg. The gold fit better with the synthwave color scheme. The female merc didn't get the time that Jenny did and I think it shows. I had a
heck of a time getting her glued together, her head in particular which is why her neck looks weird. I like the sculpt well enough but was in a hurry like the Wargames Atlantic gals so kind of phoned it in. Both of these will likely show up here again at a later date.
2024 finished mini counter: 154/208
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