A thing a week 2025, week 42

More miniatures this week but instead of finishing out this year's goal, we've got a handful of small batches this week and for a while. This might be because I'm doing something complex with the last two figs or I might feel need to crank through a bunch of same-y figs in a set of mini-batches. Tune in to find out!

These four dudes are mud men from Bones 6 and I can't seem to find a link on the Reaper site. these are the best kind of painting: easy. Aside from mostly not dealing with their awful mold lines, they were primed, zenithaled in a ruddy brown then hit with various washes to darken down their details. I made sure to use glossy finish washes/paints to indicate that they're wet because they're made of mud. In this case, the gloss is doing the work for me rather than making me sad. If I had to guess, from prep to painting to coloring their bases, they were done in less than two hours. 

This guy is actually a Clay Golem from Bones 5 but I painted him in exactly the same scheme as the mud men because a) I could, and b) it'd be easy. I didn't even color his base differently because I figured he was made out of the same stuff he was standing on. When I'm doing encounter design I like having a heavy or boss version of the bads to make it a little more interesting so even though this guy is technically a different kind of thing (construct vs. elemental) I figured he was better off with the little guys. 

2025 finished mini counter: 156, 2025 goal figs remaining: 2