A thing a week 2025, week 40

We're on the home stretch now, folks, with these four on-the-goal figs. Also of note, these four are all metals which I prefer and were pretty good fun to paint. These shots are a little blown out. Hopefully I can get that resolved for next shoot. 

First up we have Mal: Catfolk Warrior and Nicia, Tear of Vengeance from Warmachine: Protectorate a game that I notably don't play. We saw Mal way back in Week 34 of 2020 painted in oils and many iterations of my photography journy (I swear they look better in person). When I get the opportunity to paint the same figure multiple times, I usually paint them in different color schemes so Mal gets his orange cat energy on in this iteration. In retrospect, his armor should probably be in blue but in my defense, originally was going to paint him black. Nicea was purchased in 2020 on steep discount and I didn't notice that a) she was in like a million pieces, and b) that she has a dumb sword-gun thing. I like her pose and sculpt beyond that but the dumb weapon means she'll probably not get any screen time. She is the last of my unpainted 2020 offerings. 

These two are Chosen of Sekhmet and Daughter of Sekhmet and I've been looking forward to painting them for quite a long time. Kitty people are common in my world which I'm pretty sure I've typed before, but getting figs for them is surprisingly difficult. So when I found these two with spears and in metal I could hardly believe my good fortune. I thought I'd covered up all of the contrast paint basecoat but these shots prove otherwise. These two were otherwise in my happy place: not too big, not too detailed, and well sculpted. At some point when I'm buying figs again, I'd super like to pick up copies of these two.

2025 finished mini counter: 147, 2025 goal figs remaining: 6