I think I'll grow tired of these subject lines in the near future but no promises.
Errands and other things kept me from painting until a bit later in the evening but I made very good progress on the piercers (archers). Even though they're all in the same pose I have to take the time to make the hair/beards different colors. It's a quirk of mine and I like the way it breaks up the army. So all the beards are done and the belt pouches except for the detail since that's a color I'm using later in the paint job. I also touched up the primer (again) on the bits where it rubbed off.
I can see these getting done by the end of the week,easily. I'm pushing it out because tomorrow is paint night and I'm not sure how much time I'll get to paint after all that. I will be working on the lesser earth elemental so with any luck that additional figure will be done. That would be spiffy.
I did take the time to prime up the next figure so I can move on quickly. She really needs to be painted in 2 parts so the pieces are set up separately. I was pondering colors as I was priming her. I see a lot of white on this one for some reason.
I also started assembly on the last figure. He's going to need epoxy to hold his appendages in place. There's no pegs of any kind so it's all face-to-face assembly. That doesn't hold well with superglue and I'm just not up to pinning them. I'll mix a little epoxy and get that done quickly enough. The odd thing tho is that this figure is very much like the mancatchers in how he's designed so I can use the same color scheme and painting order to get him done. The hard work is already completed (decided what colors go where) so I can just fill in the pieces.
I keep all my colors on notecards for the army figures. That way if I need to paint more later I know what colors I used where. The unique figures don't get cards since if I ever do paint them again they'll be different. Why would I paint a unique figure again? Some special army sub-lists remove the 'unique' flag from figures.
I'm actually quite pleased with how these are looking but I'm getting darn sick of painting them. I don't think I'll be choosing dwarf figures for paint-and-take at ReaperCon this year.
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