A thing a week 2025, week 4

You might be wondering when we're going to start making progress on this year's actual goals rather than working through the stuff on my painting desk. Well, you're in luck! Today we have the second fig from the target categories and many up on the horizon. 

First up, however, we have more moon hunters. These spearwolves are Moon Guard A & B from The Moon Enclave Pt 1 and they're really cool. Anyone following that link and wondering why I didn't print the other guys, it's because long spears pointing up pose storage issues with my current setup. Not that these guys don't but at least the lids on the bins I use aren't as likely to break their spears. Not that they need any help with that since the battle posed guy's spear has already broken off. Twice. And yes, that annoys me.

These guys are painted pretty much exactly like the last guys with the addition of more details like the light fur on their armor and their armor. If you notice some patchiness on their feet and other bits, it's because I was super un-careful when removing excess baking soda after gluing things badly. 

Next up we have Dijoro, Female Kitsune from Reaper Bones and she's been featured here before way back in week 27, 2020. I really like this sculpt, particularly her tricksy nature and really wish I had purchased all my copies in metal rather than in soft white bones plastic. It's worth hitting up that link to Reaper's site and looking at the fine paint job the sculptor did featured there, a level that I will very likely never hit. It's a good reminder that I need to be a little more daring in my painting. Probably the next version I paint (like I said, I have multiple copies) will probably be in a different color scheme as a grey or timber wolf or something so they don't all look the same. When? Someday.

This energetic gal is Robyn, the Foxfolk Ranger from Bite the Bullet, a sculptor featured here before. This is a lot of what I like to see out of sculptors. She's dynamic, mostly accessible for painting, and has a lot of character. I was kind of in a hurry when painting her so I didn't crank through all the details at as high a quality as I might have, but she'll definitely hold a higher quality effort. I didn't do a great job of affixing her to the tree branch she's leaping from and I really should have gone back and fixed that. She will very likely show up here again, though probably also in a different color scheme.

Last up we have Fox Folk Rogue, also from Bite the Bullet and she's why I was kind of rushed on Robyn. Despite having a lot of hard to paint areas, I pushed pretty hard on her details, particularly on her voluminous fur and big bushy tail though she does read a lot better on the table than she does in these close ups. There's more that I could have and probably should have done so don't be surprised if she shows up again in the unforseeable future.

2025 finished mini counter: 17, high quality 4/12

A thing a week 2025, week 3

This week we have some wonderful wolfy warriors who are both underrated and underrepresented in the fantasy melange. So imagine my surprise when these guys showed up in one of the many subs I've been gifted from MyMiniFactory. All four of these are from Dragon Trappers Lodge and we shouldn't be surprised if a bunch more of them show up here in the inforseeable future.

These are markswolves and axewolves from The Moon Enclave Pt 1, particularly bow variants A and E and tomahawk variants C and D. The paint scheme I chose is both easy and challenging at the same time. I liked the mental image of a group of black wolves loping through the forest on a secret mission so black was an easy choice. It meant that I wouldn't spend a lot of time picking out individual details in their voluminous fur but that selling it at all would be a challenge. I did some basic drybrushing up from a Speed Paint basecoat which seems to work OK though they could use more highlights.

Because their fur didn't take all that much time, I could spend more on the other details--and they have a lot. It probably doesn't show in these high res photos but most of their details are very small. I meticulously pulled out whatever I could and hit the metallics with a Nuln Oil wash at the end. Their eyes are particularly difficult so none of the usual heroics on these four. The bases came out particularly well this time around and as usual were mostly painted with palette sludge.

2025 finished mini counter: 12