Start as we mean to go on

 Or at least to try to go on.

2026 starts off with a short post on a small rpg miniature that represents one of the player characters in my current workplace DnD campaign. Britt's character is a foul tempered dwarven barbarian dressed in greens and brown, wielding a large nasty ancestral axe. The sculpt itself is part of a two-pack by Wizkids from their Critical Role "Deep Cuts" pre-primed plastic range with decent enough detail for such an affordable miniature. I had to rush the paintjob a bit as I wanted to get the fig done in time of Britt's birthday later this month. She'll do I think and Britt was very happy with how she turned out, so job done there I guess. 

A dinky little sculpt, obviously 3D designed so facial details are shallow meaning I did not even attempt to paint her eyes. The underskirt is supposed to be chainmail, but Britt's character doesn't wear armour so I painted it up that light lime green to maybe make it look like some sort of lace-like petticoat or something else feminine. 

Britt has dark skin so I tried to emulate that on this fig. Her character also has braided hair, but the sculpt has straight - am hoping the shallow detail and black hair from 3 feet away will create the illusion of this. 

The little sculpt has a sculpted puddle base but like all the Wizkids plastics is very light weight, so I glued her to a 1" steel washer to provide better stability on the tabletop. Basing materials were simple flock and some other floral stuff, not over the top.

Now that we are a couple months into my game, all four of the players have figures to represent their characters, so perhaps I should start working on my own minis to represent the baddies and their bosses my game group might face during my campaign? (I've been using printed paper tokens for these up until now.) We'll see - Too many projects....

I also managed to get a few sprues worth of WW2 Winter Germans to fill out some missing pieces in my German Bolt Action collection AND off-loaded all the WW2 French models I had collected as tournament przes to a friend who had expressed an urge to start an Early War army, so plus-minus my unpainted pile shrank some resultingly! (Cos I really needed to drop a new army project for 2026 - just too much already unpainted on armies I already own.)

Maybe there'll be another post next month and if there is, unsure of what it'll be on at this point in time?

That's it for the now. Stay safe out there all. 

- Dai