A thing a week 2025, week 28

We finished up an in-person campaign recently so we needed new player character figs. I took the opportunity to clear more of my painting desk so we have only one shot on goal this week. 

First up: our shot on goal. This is an Angel of Shadows from Reaper and mine is in the soft white bones plastic. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to do OSL on this one since she's carrying a lantern but being mostly a speed paint it mostly didn't come through in these shots. It's better in person FWIW. She's the only one this week toward my 2025 goals and I probably could have adjusted this shot a bit. 

This is Desyra Littlebow by Tabletop Terrain and a sculpt that I kickstarted at the end of 2022. I liked the sculpting of her face and her pose but was sold on some pretty nice renders that masked some of the sculpting sins. In particular, I hate her shoes. No one should be running through a forest with a bow in platforms. There also seem to be some proportion issues and I really wish she had some sculpted tone on her arms rather than looking all the world like wet noodles. I still spent a crazy amount of time on her and despite my misgivings, will count her as high quality number nine on the year done in about a dozen hours over the last few months. 

Next up we have Tabaxi Bandit from Vae Victis. The player (naturally) wanted a weapon that wasn't in the modular set that the STL came with so I kitbashed a fancy spear on him from a completely different kit. I kept the saturation on his hood and short cape but kind of lost the highlighting which I'm not super happy about. Not sure how it went so glossy in these shots, either. The highlighting on his sleeves looks better and I really should have used a lower value off white on the stitching. I was originally going to go with black claws which IMO would have been better. He was done in a few hours. 

This is Landsknecht Girl also from Vae Victis painted (obviously) in Ironlily colors. Occasionally I run into a sculpt that does a lot of the work for me and this one is one of those. The details are nicely separated and nothing is particularly fine, indistinct, or close together. The highlighting here is pretty minimal though I did edge just about everything I could. Overall it sells the piece as higher effort than it actually was. I maintained deep separation between all of the major elements and took the extra step to highlight her breastplate since she only had the one piece of metallic armor showing. She was done in something like six hours and is probably one of the more complete pieces I've done. And if you think the black lininig is heavy in these shots--it isn't and sells well on the table. She'll count as high quality number ten on the year.    

2025 finished mini counter: 112, high quality 10/12, 2025 goal figs remaining: 35