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I think I feel that way any time I try to paint white or black without picking the simplest/cheatery way of doing so.

I suspect that there may have been some burnout as well. I was really driving myself to get them done before the month ended. I wound up doing all of them except the fox in a single sitting, start to finish. So, that certainly didn't help things. I'm going to try and take things slowly for what remains of the month. I would hate to burn myself out right before the next challenge starts.

Oh, and there will definitely be more Dark Mariners. I have a starter and another blister. I've also got some scantily clad ladies that I'l eventually be getting to.

Alrighty, here's a pic of all of my Burrows and Badgers adventurers.



click for larger, zoomable version in the gallery. Now, this is everything I have from the line except 4 pieces. Those 4 pieces were freebies that were included with all of the pledges that received physical goods. They are: a mole friar sticking his head out of a mole hole, a mouse knight sarcophagus, a sleeping mouse adventurer, and a broken badger statue. Someday I'll get to those. Right now I just don't have the desire to paint those up, especially the sleeping moue since he's absolutely tiny. Like, smaller than the bat, tiny.

I said I was going to keep things simple today. Here's what I painted up, a Bones Barrow Warden I picked up a couple weekends ago.



Good 'n simple. I never noticed that his shield was a giant skull until I had him in hand. He's actually kind of big for a skeleton. He stands a full head taller than a Mantic skeleton and in terms of girth, he's almost as big as my Dark Mariners. I bet the metal version was pretty heavy, too. Someday I will pick up the Barrow Warden Guardian, which comes with an alternate helmet head.

Wow I need to go check mine and see if his shield is like that, crazy to miss. Looks good too. I was gonna use them as undead wights for KoW but they got bumped to ogre sized bases so i dunno.

Use 'em as Undead Ogres (trolls). That looks great. I wonder if I have that Skeleton? Was it from the Bones 2 core pledge or one of the billions of $50 add-ons?

Great work on the anthromorphic group, Barz. The Otter Landsknecht would have to be my own favourite of the lot, along with the silver fox. (Though the Beagle wins cutest face!)

Skelie looks nice.

Never realized about the shield either, until you pointed it out, and hell, I had one sitting by my computer for months too!

If you ever have the urge to order stuff from Reaper, let me know. We can pool our resources and save on shipping, as there's a few pieces I wouldn't mind getting!

Thanks, guys. The Barrow Wardens were in one of the $50 expansions if I remember correctly. I like these particular figures because they look like something you would fight in Castlevania. Even moreso the Barrow Warden Guardian, who unfortunately doesn't have a Bones figure. I really wish more companies did not-Castlevania figures. Symphony of the Nihgt on have all have really great enemy designs that would look great on the tabletop. Someday, when I find heads I like, I'm going to convert some Stormcast into Axe Knights.

I've resisted the urge to order from Reaper, but they do have some helmets I might be happy with for my Axe Knights. We'll see. Maybe we can put an order together next month.

When it comes to the animals, I have a hard time picking a favorite. I think maybe the silver fox, but I really like the pug, tok.

I did some assembling and priming last night while I was working on the skelly. I have about four figures now ready for paint. With luck, at least two should go very quickly. One is a Soviet, one is another animal (a frog in this case), one is another Dark Mariner, and one is an Infinity figure. Chances are, all four will be done by this weekend.

I should totally have you come babysit all weekend so I can paint and you can help do Japanese homework!

Yeah, I don't think we'll be doing that.

And to show that I'm in a very productive mood right now, I finished two more minis today.

Soviet officer in NBC gear from Eureka minis.



Why do I have him? What am I going to do with him? Who knows. I just like the looks of those old 80s NBC suits.

The other figure I painted today was the Dark Mariner. This guy is called a Cavern Crawler Raider.



These guys are light infantry and are used as foot soldiers on land and in boarding operations.

The Burrows and Badgers adventurers look great! Really characterful minis.

EDC

That NBC guy is really neat. No shame in owning him, even if he never sees the tabletop.

The Deep Wars guys are turning out great. They are really interesting models, and your paint jobs really pop. I love the pink/purple octopus guy.

When my dad made that order from Eureka Miniatures (he was buying some of their Toy Town figures for himself and grabbed the NBC guy for me), they threw in a freebie figure, and my dad gave that to me along with the Russian.

What did they give him? A frog with a musket.



If you remember from a while back, I had painted up a frog with a drum for my mom. This guy's from that same line. So, I suppose I'll have a rifle wielding frog to hang out with my other animal adventurers.

Bizarre. Nice work!

How does that work in an animal that spends most of their time wet?

M.

BOOM.

I painted this guy up this afternoon.



For those unfamiliar with this guy, this is Boomer, a Hobgoblin merc from Deadzone. I thought he would be a bit more annoying to paint up, but he actually painted up very quickly. The only hassle I had with him is that his left arm snapped off right at the elbow when I was trying to remove the arm from the sprue. I'm not sure if it was supposed to separate that way, but I don't think so. It snapped off again when I accidentally dropped him during painting. I suspect that left arm will snap off again in the future as well.

Boomer looks much cooler than I remembered. I may have to revisit Deadzone sometime soon.

I really like your colors, stand up model there.

Thanks. I actually didn't really like Boomer until I had him in hand. He's much more fun than I had originally thought he would be. I wanted him to work with my Marauders, so I basically just used the same colors. I had no idea what color a Hobgoblin's skin is supposed to be though, so I totally guessed at that bit.

Tonight's plan is to work on a Ragik and my fourth Dark Mariner.

The animal adventurers might just land themselves in my Herd army eventually. Really fighting not to get into the Deepwars figures with the models you've painted. I know theres enough aquarium supply places near me to get some cool terrain too

Hey, you guys want to see a figure that's almost impossible to effectively photograph? Man, taking pics of this guy was a serious pain. My camera didn't want to focus on anything except the barrel of his gun and the camera's battery was dying.

Anyway, Ragik w/ Spitfire!



I really like the redesign for the Ragiks. I liked them before, but the redesign just made them look so much cooler. Since he's wearing different gear from my other Ragiks, I decided to change up his color scheme more, cutting down on the tan and making the greens more dominant. The redesigned Spitfire is a nice piece of kit as well. Its trimmed down design makes it look like an actual functional weapon, rather than the massive, boxy things Haqqislam had before. I hope they stick to this look for them.

Nice work on this one. That's an Infinity model, right? I don't really like the anime aesthetic (ironic, right?), and I'm not anxious to start a new game, but the stuff you, highlord tamburlaine and Grimdork post occasionally tempt me.

Yep, he's an Infinity figure. I love the anime aesthetic, so Infinity hits most of the right buttons for me. This guy is from the Haqqislam faction, Hassassin sectorial.

I'm happy to expose people to other lines. It seems like most people just want to paint 40k, so they miss out on some really great minis. Infinity has some of the best sci-fi minis around, I'm happy if I can get more people interested in it.

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Nice work Barzam, looks good to me. I like the colors.

As it turns out, those were the same colors I used on my previous Ragiks. I just changed their distribution a bit and favored the greens over the tans this time around.

Alright, I couldn't resist. I've been working on a new Dark Mariner tonight. I was going to save the photos until I was finished. He just has his shield and base left to do. But, like I said, I couldn't resist posting something. So, here's a little teaser.

Creepy!

A face only a mother could love.

That's one of the Vanguard warriors right? They're pretty nice and chunky models.

Yep, that's one of the Warriors. He's definitely chunky. He's bigger than any of my other Dark Mariners. I think he's on a 40mm base while the others are on 30s. His resin base insert doesn't give hime that much extra height, but he kind of towers over the others. His stats make him out to be a heavy hitter, too with Q3, C4. I may have to get another Vanguard Warrior at some point.

Here's the finished Vanguard Warrior.



I love how he's practically exploding out of his armor. I really need to get more of these guys. There's a really neat looking plasma gunner I'd like to get someday.

EDIT - thanks to FRP's sales, I just snagged myself a Fortune Hunters Angus McBain and a Dark Mariners Vanguard Warrior Commander. For those who aren't familiar with the line, Angus McBain is basically an undersea 40k Dreadnought. He looks like this.

I don't know if those will be the colors I use for him though. Now, hopefully FRP won't decide "Whoops, we're actually out of stock on those" in the next couple of days. Angus was all of $2! Hell of a deal!

Two dollars? Fudge, nice.

Cool undersea squiddudes too!

All looking great Barzam.