2025 Painting Log

One small silver lining to the US tariff situation is that the recent removal of the de minimis exemption spurred me to put in a bunch of “beat the tariffs” orders and get some stuff from overseas that I had been dragging my feet on ordering. One of those orders was with MEP Miniatures, who were an Indy of the Week back in January.

I painted these primarily using the Dallimore triad method (apologies if I should be calling that something else). For the hazmat suits I drybrushed up through three shades of yellow using Reaper’s NMM Gold triad, then did the details with Grim Black Speedpaint and the gloves in two shades of blue. The androids were done entirely Dallimore style, starting with the shadow tone, working up through mid-tones and then the highlight shade by just applying paint with the brush — I only used washes for the hair, and the only drybrushing was a final highlight in Ancient Stone.

I have a scenario in mind for these, with the 3 androids facing off against the 5 hazmat workers. I’ll most likely use 7TV for the rules set, and I’ve got some special rules in mind for the two corpses: the human corpse will cause a fear effect if a human model comes within line of sight of it, and the humans will be able to study the android corpse to get a bonus against the much tougher androids. I don’t have anything for the East Wolds Robotics sign — maybe that’s an evil robot pigeon who is secretly controlling the whole operation.

I’ll do a battle report if I can manage to actually get it to the table.

2025 models painted so far: 228, for 13 different games