A thing a week 2025, week 43

Another mini-batch this week and like last week, the best kind of painting: high drama, low effort. These would be the Ant Infestation from Bones 6. Also like last week, I can't find them on the Reaper site. In addition to the zenithal we saw last week, these guys also got a dry brush before hitting them with successive high gloss candy coats from Badger Ghost Tint. I base coated them with the same ruddy brown last week's mud men got but afterward I wanted to push them into a redder tint. Unhelpfully I decided this after the first brown gloss coat went on and my attempts to tint with the Ghost Tints worked less well than I'd hoped. 

The bigger fig is the Ant Queen, also sans link. She has separate transparent wings and was separate from her base. That made painting easy but the shift to a harder plastic than the typical Bones variants and the unbelievable warping that came with it meant that assembly was more of a pain that it should have been. Her legs were basically flat going out and had to be bent 45 to 90 degrees to fit into the base. Were I not equipped with the baking soda and super glue trick, this would have been a really big problem. Her transparent wings got a post-assembly hit with gloss Nuln Oil to pick out the texture.

These aren't great paint jobs but they're done and I was on the right track when I kept doing double-takes thinking a bunch of giant bugs were on my painting desk.

2025 finished mini counter: 162, 2025 goal figs remaining: 2