A thing a week 2025, week 4

You might be wondering when we're going to start making progress on this year's actual goals rather than working through the stuff on my painting desk. Well, you're in luck! Today we have the second fig from the target categories and many up on the horizon. 

First up, however, we have more moon hunters. These spearwolves are Moon Guard A & B from The Moon Enclave Pt 1 and they're really cool. Anyone following that link and wondering why I didn't print the other guys, it's because long spears pointing up pose storage issues with my current setup. Not that these guys don't but at least the lids on the bins I use aren't as likely to break their spears. Not that they need any help with that since the battle posed guy's spear has already broken off. Twice. And yes, that annoys me.

These guys are painted pretty much exactly like the last guys with the addition of more details like the light fur on their armor and their armor. If you notice some patchiness on their feet and other bits, it's because I was super un-careful when removing excess baking soda after gluing things badly. 

Next up we have Dijoro, Female Kitsune from Reaper Bones and she's been featured here before way back in week 27, 2020. I really like this sculpt, particularly her tricksy nature and really wish I had purchased all my copies in metal rather than in soft white bones plastic. It's worth hitting up that link to Reaper's site and looking at the fine paint job the sculptor did featured there, a level that I will very likely never hit. It's a good reminder that I need to be a little more daring in my painting. Probably the next version I paint (like I said, I have multiple copies) will probably be in a different color scheme as a grey or timber wolf or something so they don't all look the same. When? Someday.

This energetic gal is Robyn, the Foxfolk Ranger from Bite the Bullet, a sculptor featured here before. This is a lot of what I like to see out of sculptors. She's dynamic, mostly accessible for painting, and has a lot of character. I was kind of in a hurry when painting her so I didn't crank through all the details at as high a quality as I might have, but she'll definitely hold a higher quality effort. I didn't do a great job of affixing her to the tree branch she's leaping from and I really should have gone back and fixed that. She will very likely show up here again, though probably also in a different color scheme.

Last up we have Fox Folk Rogue, also from Bite the Bullet and she's why I was kind of rushed on Robyn. Despite having a lot of hard to paint areas, I pushed pretty hard on her details, particularly on her voluminous fur and big bushy tail though she does read a lot better on the table than she does in these close ups. There's more that I could have and probably should have done so don't be surprised if she shows up again in the unforseeable future.

2025 finished mini counter: 17, high quality 4/12