A thing a week 2025, week 7

Another week, another zero finished figs toward my goal. It's almost like I didn't plan this out enough or something. 

This would be Angeline - Female Paladin from RN Estudio, one of my favorite sculptors. She has a very nicely sculpted face which is why I bought the STL though I'm not a huge fan of all the bejangles on her armor. This one was printed two and a half years ago on my old printer and kicked around on my painting desk for way too long. I pretty frequently get daunted by very busy minis which is dumb because they tend to be high floor efforts. As usual, the 5s and 4s are missing in her skirt and despite my best efforts, the metallics are patchy partially due to the low-res layer lines in this print. I did not realize that the highlight on her hair is facing that much forward and the leaf highlights are pretty washed out. Not my best work TBH, but she's the best color: painted.

This is Daerel the Blademaster from RM Printable and one of the first prints I got off of my old Mars Pro with the extremely brittle resin. Her sword has broken off far too many times and the layer lines are really visible. She's been kicking around my painting table for more than three years and despite my best efforts, I think she turned out pretty OK. Because of the thick layer lines, the metallics are way patchier than I'd like and I did nowhere near enough work on highlighting...anything. Her face and hair are high points which save the effort. Probably there needed to be more purple to really sell it and no, I did not paint a boob window despite being clearly what the sculptor wanted. Not sure if I printed her shorter than normal since her details were pretty torturous, but I'd be willing to give her another shot in the future. That's probably the best thing about 3d printing.

These two are Sypheena from Twin Goddess and another sculpt that I really like. They were printed not super long ago on my Saturn 2 so I'm making really good progress on all the prints I did last year (one to go!) but that isn't helping this year's goals, sadly. These are a speed paint and I wanted to get the lows where they should be (the 5s and 4s) and the tones where I wanted them but that meant that the smaller details and some of the highlights are missing. In particular, their boots are barely painted at all and the green gloves needed more 1s-3s. The yellow came through nice and bright which was also a goal and I put some extra work into their hair which shows. Probably the sides of their noses are too dark but otherwise I think their faces are pretty good. Not bad for around 5 hours of work for the both of them. They'll should show up sometime in the future sporting a higher quality paint job if we are so lucky.

2025 finished mini counter: 29