Now that school is back in session and I’m back at work, it’s been an adjustment. For the past several months, I was looking for things to fill my time. Now that I’m back at work (and working more hours), I’m finding it difficult to make time for all the things I want to do.

I’m slowly dwindling my pile of forgotten minis, getting them painted and ready for use on our gaming table (which I’m sure we’ll use any day now). I ended up chucking a couple of them into the trash, because after priming them, it became apparent that they would be a pain to paint and probably would still look terrible because of the poor quality of the mini.

I think I’m down to less than 10 minis at this point, which is amazing. Which also doesn’t count the three boxes of CR minis I bought during a Kickstarter last year. BUT – they are 3D printed, and are much better quality than the ones I’ve been painting, so I’m hoping that means they will go faster.

I got a few more completed last week – one has had to return to the paint table for touch-ups, but the rest of the batch is done and now resting comfortably in foam, awaiting their turn on the table.

First up is a fun one – it was meant to be some sort of dragonborn PC mini, but when I went to paint him, I realized his head was missing. So, he is now some sort of reptilian BBEG, made even more scary by his headless state. 😀

After him was another fun one – if only because they weren’t human and I got to paint something besides flesh tone for skin. I think this guy was meant to be a PC mini as well, but I wanted to paint him red and make him look more like a demon, because I don’t own many demon miniatures. I think he turned out great.

Then I moved back into humans – this wizard? mage? sorceress? was interesting. I like her pose and all the details on her belt and belongings. Her pointing hand, however, is a blobby mess. Not sure what happened with the sculpt here, but at least she is done, so – win. 😀

Lastly, yet another fighter PC mini. However, I do like the flaming sword and I bet he gets a lot of use once we are back to in-person gaming. It was also fun to try my hand at painting the flames. It’s not a fabulous job, but it’s not bad, either. I did also have some time in the last month to watch a few tutorials on painting eyes, and I think it made a difference. I didn’t have any minis turning out cross-eyed, and I didn’t have to spend hours trying to hold my shaky hand steady, so again – calling it a win!

I’m currently working on a set of matching guards, another ranger, a dwarf fighter, and some sort of beholder-type thingy. Once they are done, I can move on to the remaining few minis from the forgotten pile. It’s been a learning experience – I’ve been painting for years, but I’ve made a few changes that have definitely made painting more enjoyable for me, and I hope, resulted in a better quality paint job than I was capable of before.

My husband and I are (still) debating whether to invest in a resin printer and start resin printing minis ourselves. There are so many great quality 3D files out there – I’d even love to just be able to resin print my Hero Forge minis. We’ll see. 🙂