A thing a week 2026, week 36

This week we have the end of Bones 5 and a coupla bonus figs because I needed them painted. First up we have our two bonus figs played by Donna the rogue ranger Ferret lady the sword version of which we expect to get a lot of screen time as a PC and Dreadmere Ranger done with a minimum of OSL. The non-sword Donna glued slightly badly and I didn't notice until after she'd dried and I'm way too chicken to try to pull her off to re-glue. I like this sculpt a lot, particularly the sculptor's restraint to not festoon her with too many geegaws and bajangles. Our ranger guy was mostly a speedpaint and looks like and oldskool sculpt. The gloss is less bad in person.

These are the last three of my Bones 5 list:  Siobhan Redraven, Blood Wolves Swashbuckler, Inari Windsong, and Petey, Pizza Dungeon Dragon. I'd intended to bring Siobhan to a high quality effort but she fell short and I didn't feel like fighting it. I do like the result and would consider getting a copy for a second attempt. If Inari looks familiar, it's because we saw her in Week 41 of last year in metal and this copy has exactly the same sculpting issues as the last one. Petey was the mascot of Bones 5 and should you care to, you can read the fun Scooby-Doo type comic near the bottom of the campaign page. Even though he's red in their campaign material, I thought green would go better with the red pepperoni. I got super duper hungry for pizza when painting this guy.

Bones 5 seems to have been a pretty big step up from Bones 4 both in quality and in sculpts. My Bones 6 efforts should follow shortly and so far it looks like another step up. 

2026 finished pizzamini counter:  205

A thing a week 2025, week 41

Still working through the blown out shots here, obviously. Some day I'll learn how to use this dang thing. In other news, we've got four more figs on-goal and they're all metal which I continue to like.

First up we have DHL Classics: Fighting Women from Reaper and I am here for their big 90s hair. I am also here for their practical armor and pseudo-reasonable poses. The middle gal could use a hat, tho. I had intended to do a bunch of non metallic metal on these three but obviously didn't. As most of them are metals, I did spend additional time in the shading and highlighting which is really blown out in these shots. Similarly, their faces and hair got extra attention even though it's hard to tell here. They read well on the table, just not in close-ups.

This would be Inari Windsong also from Reaper and we'll be seeing her again since there's a non-metal clone in Bones 5. I spent quite a lot of time with this fig trying to get her arms to look weird. There's some weird sculpting on both of them and I was only able to do so much with the paint. In these close ups her abs are way more defined than they are in person and I put extra effort into smoothing out some of the blends on her cloak. For the non-color-theory-nerds out there, she's in a secondary triadic and I really couldn't find another place to put an orange accent. Her face could probably use a little more work around the eyes. One bad thing about metals is you often get weird artifacts around eyes that make fine detail work difficult. 

2025 finished mini counter: 151, 2025 goal figs remaining: 2