A thing a week 2025, week 11

Two offerings today, both from the year's goal list and both larger than they might appear.  

First up we have Chaos Toad Brawler from Bones 4. He's a big fella, and despite my best efforts, I did a lousy job with his mold lines. Quite a few of these guys have gotten screen time and probably this guy would have as well if he'd been painted. I was going to do some demon dots but decided against given the excellent texturing...that I pretty much failed to pick out. I like the red and did an OK job with the highlights but it doesn't super sell in these shots. The dark carapace, teeth, and spikes don't sell in either these shots or in person, so I got that goin' for me. The black eyes are just as creepy as I intended

This guy is obviously a Zombie Shark and he's also from Bones 4 and also a thing of nightmare. This guy had some weird mold issues which mostly show as noise which is nice but he's really lazily painted. Most of him is a speedpaint base with a drybrush over the top. He's not countershaded which isn't correct and his guts are painted mostly with palette sludge which I guess tracks. The black teeth don't super sell (was going for a megalodon fossil tooth regardless of its incorrectness) but the slop of washes and on the oozy bits and guts and whatnot do which are also not correct. What I did do that kind of works is the base. It's stacked cork (probably obvious) with a bunch of grit and what not on it. I didn't have any sellable underwater vegetation so I spent extra time grunging it up. I had an intent to do a bunch of caustics on both the shark and the base but I didn't do any of that. I like being done and this guys is just that and I'd like to forget all about it since it still creeps me out.

2025 finished mini counter: 42, 2025 specific figs remaining: 97