A thing a week 2025, week 46

Fun stuff this week and two exceptional metal sculpts from Reaper. Both of them are way bigger than I thought they were and thus aren't super likely to get any screen time. Luckily, they're both high quality works (spoilers) and will look fantastic in my display case.  

First up we have Kosumi, Frostfang Huntress and it looks like she's missing from Reaper's site which is going to make it hard for me to find another copy. She's painted like a red wolf and despite the enormous time spent painting fur strokes, they're mostly invisible in these shots. Also missing in these shots is most of the subtle tone and temperature variations between her hair and her dark fur. And as a sad trifecta, the texturing I put on the leather is also missing in these shots which makes me sad. There was a really bad mold issue on her left muzzle which I cleaned up mostly OK but leaves her with a weird expression. I'm not unhappy with this effort (about six hours all told) but there's more that I should have done, particularly in highlighting her volumes better. Probably making each of my sad trifecta stand out more would be good, too. 

This is a Rageclaw Slayer from Reaper and I did find the link for him. I had no struggles with mold lines on this guy thankfully. Instead, my sanity strained under the immensity of the non metallic red that I picked early on. It went through many iterations and color swaps until I landed on this maroon to magenta transition and for better or worse, my brush strokes are really apparent. The last time I did a serious NMM was way back in Week 37 of 2020 and it took something like 50 hours for the two gals. This one guy was around 20 hours by himself so it's not like I'm going particularly faster. The golds are much improved in the intervening half decade (also: the shooting) while the main armor is harder to judge since they're in different color schemes. Probably my darks need to be darker and there's a level of refinement that would be an improvement but ultimately I'm pretty happy with this result. 

These two will close out this year's goals both in figs and in high quality works. So I got that goin' for me.

2025 finished mini counter: 174, 2025 goal figs remaining: 0, high quality figs remaining: 0