The last few weeks we've been in slapchop mode with a various added techniques. That begged the question: how fast can I do an actual slapchop and how good are the results? Well, now I can answer both.
These four are Female Sector Enforcer 2 from Velrock, one of my favorite sculptors and I printed them this year. That has the downside of not being a 2025 fig goal but completing them means they're not kicking around my prepped pile. I picked these for this experiment since they're both sci-fi and armored sans faces which usually tie up a lot of brush time. Inspecting their armor, you can convince yourself (as I did) that they're mostly three colors.
Starting with a fairly muted zenithal in warm tones, I did a two-step directional drybrush with an ancient pot of Reaper skintone followed by a very light highlight of Golden Heavy Body Titanium White. This gave a better treatment of the volumes and the second step picked out all of the exposed edges with a very nice edge highlighting. After that, it's a careful but single coat of my favorite contrast paints which is why there are two in primary colors and two in secondary colors. Each of them is three colors two of which is shared across the group. I picked out zero details.
Overall, they look pretty OK and were done in less than two hours for the group of them. Notably, they read a little better on the table than they do in these close-ups and the satin-y finish of the Contrast paints is working for us this time. These might have been a little better with additional thinning of the Contrast paints or swapping for Speed Paints which are in general thinner, but I'm not unhappy with the result. This sculpt can certainly take a higher level effort, so don't be surprised if they show up again sometime in the unfroseeable future.
2025 finished mini counter: 141
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