A thing a week 2025, week 39

Two more right up the middle this week and the two remaining bigatures for this year's goal. First up we have Nolzur's Young White Dragon. Astute viewers might note that this dragon is indeed not painted in white which is a notoriously difficult color to paint in. Indeed. I checked my collection of painted dragons and I a) indeed did not have a green one, and b) have a set of green paints/inks that I actually like. The decision was pretty easy from there. 

This week's offerings are (obviously) speed paints. I've typed quite a lot about my feeling about the Nolzur's line of figures and these have all of the issues that I usually rant about. The good news is that these are the last two and I very likely won't buy new ones. I didn't do a good job with the gajillion awful mold lines but I didn't want to not take advantage of all the texturing work that the sculptor left. 

This other guy is Nolzur's Young Red Dragon and painted in the intended color scheme. He's maybe a little more on the orange side but I clearly didn't do anything about it. 

Both of these guys are pretty simply painted. Since the Nolzur's lines  are "pre-primed", I started with a simple airbrush basecoat. From there we got a speed paint and/or contrast paint step to darken some stuff down followed by various levels of drybrushing. A few details were picked out like their bajillion claws and teeth and spikey bits and the bases were basecoated/drybrushed very simply afterward and that was it. Both were done in about five hours all told over several days. They look OK for the time invested but they're the best color: painted.

2025 finished mini counter: 143, 2025 goal figs remaining: 10