Some good news this week and some bad news this week. The good news: three more against the goal and three abnormally expensive ones to boot. The bad news: I found an accounting error that put my goal count two short. This happens from time to time.
First up we have Hill Giant Lowland Warrior and Hill Giant Lowland Chief both from bones 4. The chief has been kicking around my painting desk since the middle of last year before I got serious about hitting a fig a day. I find big figs intimidating because I generally like getting most of the details right. Big figs have big blends and glazing is a really expensive operation on big blends. I also find that metallics don't look quite right at a large scale not that either of these guys has a lot. The warrior was part of this year's prep trying to get primer on my remaining goal-specified bones 4 figs. I failed, but hey, the last two still-unprimed figs are difficult in my defense. I can't claim these two are speed paints in any way and I do notice that the warrior's back is suspiciously shiny due to the contrast paint undercoat but I do know that both of these guys are painted.
This chonky dude is a
Hill Giant Hunter from bones 4 and he came with a Dire Lion which we saw way back in
Week 33 of 2023. Of these three, I like this guy the best and probably spent the most time on him. Across all these guys I put extra time into the color grades in their fleshtones which really helps separate each volume even on these bigatures. The stitching in the sculpt was super easy to paint and really helps sell the scale of the dude which I really like. I probably should have brought the blue on his details to a higher value and I almost certainly could have done more with the leather straps. Overall I think this is a good effort but mostly, since there aren't really giants in my game, I'm just glad he's done.
2025 finished mini counter: 63, 2025 specific figs remaining: 80-3+2 = 81
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