Knight-o-rama week 9 (2025, week 27)

And we're across the finish line (and the crowd goes wild...probably). These five are the last of the archers and have almost OK highlighting. Overall most of this batch was speedpainted (obviously) to the tune of maybe a couple of hours per fig which as I'm typing this, doesn't seem particularly fast. Then again, my normal characters weigh in at like 6-8 hours so that's a significant speedup. It'll also be great if my counts line up which they didn't so it looks like this one's off by one but I trust my spreadsheet more than my maths in these unhallowed pixels and I can't be bothered to go back and figure out where my error was.

While these aren't my best work, I like that they're done and they've been added to my pantheon of baddies that will likely get table time over the years. Next up, some crazy.

2025 finished mini counter: 108,  2025 goal figs remaining: 36

Knight-o-rama week 8 (2025, week 26)

We're on the straightaway and hurtling toward the finish line this week to continue our lousy racing analogy from last week. These dudes firing are my favorite archers from the set and I kind of wish there were more arms like these. I could have kitbashed them if I'd wanted to, but I didn't. By this point in the painting process my wet palette was quite ripe with a lot of mostly cured puddles (piles?) of paint that I kept trying to re-activate. The green and white I like are patchy to begin with but re-activating dead paint really makes them awful in these close ups. Luckily, they fare better on the table.

2025 finished mini counter: 104, 2025 goal figs remaining: 41

Knight-o-rama week 7 (2025, week 25)

Rounding the corner and onto the straightaway, we have more archers today, and yet again another casualty of the "for sure there are extra melee arms in this box!" gambit. I mean, lookit that guy on the right. He's totally conflicted! Why the visored sallet for an archer? The body and legs are one piece and I thought that guy looked a little weird with armor on top and not on the bottom regardless, but this combo is just plain weird. 

2025 finished mini counter: 100!, 2025 goal figs remaining: 45

Knight-o-rama week 6 (2025, week 24)

We continue our theme with another four archers. I'd intended to do some of these guys in melee but as mentioned last week, I ran out of melee arms and didn't really want to kitbash these. 

Lots of these guys got a wash of my old Army Painter washes which I like but which made them go a little more satin-y than I'd like. This generally goes unnoticed until I get the close-ups which annoys me. I feel like I did a better-than-average job of removing mold lines on these guys but lots of them had them splitting their face as in the guy on the right. Also notable that some of these heads were really squinty and I only forced eyes onto some of them. They read OK on the table FWIW. 

2025 finished mini counter: 96, 2025 goal figs remaining: 49

Knight-o-rama week 5 (2025, week 23)

This week we pass the midpoint of our heavy-metal theme. At the time of this posting, they've been done a short while but as folks probably know already, I keep a backlog of stuff that hasn't shown up yet. That keeps posting smooth for things like BricksCascade which happened last month and/or when I have time-intensive pieces that would benefit from a longer-than-a-week effort. 

These dudes begin the round of archers that were in the box. I don't think I realized there were quite so many archers when I bought them but possibly that's because I stole a bunch of melee arms for earlier kitbashing expecting that there would be extras (hint: there weren't). One of the dudes coming up looks rather silly as a result but these guys are fine. 

2025 finish mini counter: 92, 2025 goal figs remaining: 53

Knight-o-rama week 4 (2025, week 22)

As promised last week, more knights this week. 

Here we have the remainder of the bill hook dudes and rather than the usual four, we have five this week! I probably would have done more melee dudes but apparently I'd stolen some of their parts for other figs and I was far too lazy to kitbash these any more than I did. Pretty happy with the yellow padded shading and I note again that the Reikland Fleshshade I slopped on the leather to move the tone dried glossy again.

The flocking is a little frizzier than I'd like and less glued down than I'd like. It looks OK, tho. 

2025 finished mini counter: 87, 2025 goal figs remaining: 57

Knight-o-rama week 3 (2025, week 21)

More knights this week...and next week...and probably the week after that. I like making progress but I've been pretty open about not liking big batches.

These would be the spear dudes and one sole bill hook dude. Not 100% sure why I've only got three spear dudes but I've only got those three so the bill hook dude fills out the rank. These are at least partially painted like their historical intent, at least the color choices. It looks like the wash on the red and the green ended up more satin-y than I intended. Note for future reference.

2025 finished mini counter: 82, 2025 goal figs remaining: 62

Knight-o-rama week 2 (2025, week 20)

Buckle in, folks because we're on this ride until it ends...sometime several months from now. Also note that last week and this week I've again changed my photography setup and things are still a little washed out. 

These are some (most?) of the brigandine guys, one of my favorite and under-represented medieval armors. I also like that they're equipped with polearms (halberds on the right, billhooks on the left if you like). I think a couple of these guys were metallically zenithaled like last week's offerings but some of them weren't because I wasn't sure which was the best approach (spoiler: more work with the airbrush is usually better). I took the effort to pick out the rivets on two of these guys which is pretty clear close-up but doesn't read as easily on the table. I'd intended to do so on all of them but forgot.

2025 finished mini counter: 78, 2025 goal figs remaining: 66

Knight-o-rama, week 1 (2025 week 19)

This week we have two awesome things: four more figs on goal and a brand new theme! I was originally going to call it a mini-theme but we're going to be here for quite a while. These are from Perry Miniatures, particularly War of the Roses Infantry (1455-1487). I purchased these in the heady days of 2018 as an early birthday present and aside from the two that I painted way back in week 43 of 2020, the entire box of 40 (!) of these guys had remained unpainted...until today!--well, until last week when these guys were actually painted.

These are the heavily armored guys who I mostly painted with an airbrush since they were mostly metallic. They're metallically zenithaled top to bottom which made everything go a lot faster. I didn't have any appropriate fancy bases left and (obviously) didn't take the time to build and paint new ones. After a bunch of large miniatures (or, bigatures if you prefer) these were a welcome return to form. These four were done in maybe five hours total outside of assembly and I'm pretty happy with the results.

2025 finished mini counter: 74, 2025 specific figs remaining: 70