Knight-o-rama week 8 (2025, week 26)

We're on the straightaway and hurtling toward the finish line this week to continue our lousy racing analogy from last week. These dudes firing are my favorite archers from the set and I kind of wish there were more arms like these. I could have kitbashed them if I'd wanted to, but I didn't. By this point in the painting process my wet palette was quite ripe with a lot of mostly cured puddles (piles?) of paint that I kept trying to re-activate. The green and white I like are patchy to begin with but re-activating dead paint really makes them awful in these close ups. Luckily, they fare better on the table.

2025 finished mini counter: 104, 2025 goal figs remaining: 41

Knight-o-rama week 7 (2025, week 25)

Rounding the corner and onto the straightaway, we have more archers today, and yet again another casualty of the "for sure there are extra melee arms in this box!" gambit. I mean, lookit that guy on the right. He's totally conflicted! Why the visored sallet for an archer? The body and legs are one piece and I thought that guy looked a little weird with armor on top and not on the bottom regardless, but this combo is just plain weird. 

2025 finished mini counter: 100!, 2025 goal figs remaining: 45

Knight-o-rama week 6 (2025, week 24)

We continue our theme with another four archers. I'd intended to do some of these guys in melee but as mentioned last week, I ran out of melee arms and didn't really want to kitbash these. 

Lots of these guys got a wash of my old Army Painter washes which I like but which made them go a little more satin-y than I'd like. This generally goes unnoticed until I get the close-ups which annoys me. I feel like I did a better-than-average job of removing mold lines on these guys but lots of them had them splitting their face as in the guy on the right. Also notable that some of these heads were really squinty and I only forced eyes onto some of them. They read OK on the table FWIW. 

2025 finished mini counter: 96, 2025 goal figs remaining: 49

Knight-o-rama week 5 (2025, week 23)

This week we pass the midpoint of our heavy-metal theme. At the time of this posting, they've been done a short while but as folks probably know already, I keep a backlog of stuff that hasn't shown up yet. That keeps posting smooth for things like BricksCascade which happened last month and/or when I have time-intensive pieces that would benefit from a longer-than-a-week effort. 

These dudes begin the round of archers that were in the box. I don't think I realized there were quite so many archers when I bought them but possibly that's because I stole a bunch of melee arms for earlier kitbashing expecting that there would be extras (hint: there weren't). One of the dudes coming up looks rather silly as a result but these guys are fine. 

2025 finish mini counter: 92, 2025 goal figs remaining: 53

Knight-o-rama week 4 (2025, week 22)

As promised last week, more knights this week. 

Here we have the remainder of the bill hook dudes and rather than the usual four, we have five this week! I probably would have done more melee dudes but apparently I'd stolen some of their parts for other figs and I was far too lazy to kitbash these any more than I did. Pretty happy with the yellow padded shading and I note again that the Reikland Fleshshade I slopped on the leather to move the tone dried glossy again.

The flocking is a little frizzier than I'd like and less glued down than I'd like. It looks OK, tho. 

2025 finished mini counter: 87, 2025 goal figs remaining: 57