A thing a week 2026, week 38

With Bones 5 safely in the rearview, it's time to burn down Bones 6, Fo' Realz this time! These are my missing wolf pack as noted in Week 24 of last year and I'm super stoked to have found them. These are pretty much the same scheme as the previous guys with washes and drybrushes and whatnot with some extra work to put the grey wolf patterning on them. I think they turned out well. These are the best kind of paint jobs: high drama, low effort and I'm hoping for more of these in Bones 6. 

2026 finished mini counter: 217

A thing a week 2025, week 44

Mini-batch again this week, wolf edition. I love wolves and I'm particular to solid color wolves and not just because they're easier to paint. I thought I'd ordered another group of these as an add-on during the kickstarter but I couldn't find them if I did. 

The texture on these guys is pretty good and they're molded in a hard plastic which is a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, it holds detail pretty well. On the other hand, it warps sometimes badly (note the yellow guy) and makes mold lines on fur even harder to deal with so I mostly didn't. These guys got a normal zenithal which mostly doesn't show through because they're so dark. A slapchop-like drybrush with a heavy body acrylic white followed. The basecoat was Army Painter Speed Paint 2.0 Grim Black which is probably my favorite of the 2.0 line. After that they got a couple rounds of drybrushes followed by washes to bring up the contrast before I handled their details. I did what I could with their teeth and note that this is where mold lines were the worst. I also note that I forgot to hit them with my typical gloss Reikland Fleshshade but that's probably OK. Their bases probably took more actual effort mostly because I insisted on painting with palette sludge as is my wont.

2025 finished mini counter: 166, 2025 goal figs remaining: 2