2025 Personal Painting Challenge (Man vs. Pile of Shame)

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**kabaakaba**

good work! Your pile of Shame have no chance with this lot of progress.

**kabaakaba**

God-Emperor... I looking for this commissar for at least a year... Nice work over him. My favorite commissar. I hate that I sold him with all other forces...

**kabaakaba**

JB wrote:
kabaakaba wrote:
God-Emperor... I looking for this commissar for at least a year... Nice work over him. My favorite commissar. I hate that I sold him with all other forces...

Thank you, he is one of my favorite commissars too. Games Workshop released a commemorative event only plastic commissar in 2023 that has a similar pose, but it doesn't quite have the panache.

I have the current plastic commissar and he is nice, much better than that big hat monstrosity that GW sold before.

I have every non-named commissar, some painted some in pile. Except this one.

**kabaakaba**

3ed steel legion commy in gasmask with bolt pistol
4th Ed commy(this missing one)
Old krieg commy
New krieg lord commy
Commy cadet
Commy with power fist
Lord commissar with power sword
Commissar with tactical rock and funny hat
Current commissar(upscaled one)
Commemorative one.
There also 1st and 2nd editions but I never liked them.

And there is 4 named Yarik, Gaunt, Raine and Shand(commy with axe from hell's last).

**kabaakaba**

JB wrote:

"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." - the opening of the American soap opera, Days of Our Lives.

It's been a moment since the last update, but I have been building and painting minis. I just have not finished any of them until now.
Because the other projects made me tired, I pulled some old Reaper minis out of my bottom drawer and painted them.

These are metal dire rats sculpted by the fabulous Sandra Garrity for Reaper Miniatures. Since I bought them decades ago, Reaper have started producing them using Bones USA resin as well as metal.
I checked their website and found three different listings for these models:

Metal -- 2889: Dire Rats (4 pack)

Bones USA -- 7036: Dire Rats (8 pack)

Bones -- 77016: Dire Rats (currently not showing as available for sale)

I spent about half an hour looking through pictures of rats on the internet to figure out how to paint their eyes, mouths, ears, feet, and tails. My wife is a big fan of pet rats, and I wanted to be sure that these models would like right before she saw them painted. Pink is a popular color for rat details, but it looks like the feet and ears are pinker than the tails. The feet also have fur on top so the pink color is a bit covered/muted.

For scale, I included a metal GW Lord Commissar. I painted him years ago. He is reading to the rats, and they appear to be very good listeners. I guess his voice is very nice.

These four dire rats bring my painted model count for 2025 up to 380! Now, I need motivation to finish the boring batches of projects started earlier.

Congratulations on your progress.
Nice commissar and his ~~cadets~~ listeners. Rats looks very natural.