Spring Cleaning for the 2024 Spring Clean Challenge

A couple more of Oathsworn’s Burrows and Badgers minis join my ever growing menagerie.  I still haven’t learned how to play the game but I did back the last Kickstarter so am waiting for more minis.  As usual, the sculpts are characterful and full of movement.

As anyone who has looked at the pictures of my workspace can tell, I work in a wide variety of minis, manufacturers, and genres.  While Marvel Crisis Protocol has dominated my creative energies since January, that doesn’t mean I don’t have a wide collection of stuff to complete.  While I have largely left army and large unit painting behind, I still have some waiting.  The ten Hasslefree Grimm I prepped and premiered last summer are a great example. They aren’t done yet but I am painting them Assembly Line so are getting closer.  The Terrain Crate2 fine details have also been on the table over a year now so they are getting attention.  The first set got done last night so I can start the second set tonight.  Finally, I picked up Reaper’s Tree of Despair during one of the Kickstarts and painted it up almost immediately.  It came with six little vultures that quickly got lost in the mess that was my desk.  Since starting this clean up effort I have found all six, drilled holes in them, and glued in pins for attaching them to the tree.

After years of being lost in the clutter of my desk, the six tiny vultures from a Reaper Bones Kickstarter are painted.  Not only that but they are glued onto the Tree of Despair, ready to decorate any number of my battlefields.  For now I have to find a place to store it.  I finished off the tiny bits from Terrain Crate2 as well as a set of Mantic’s SciFi objectives and a 3D resin printed vending machine.

The Waiting To Be Sealed tray is covered with painted minis and only painted minis.  The Waiting To Be Primed tray only has one mini left from being clear and the figures waiting for paint no longer qualify as a “pile” as they are all standing on the counter top.   Heck, I can even see the surface now.  I also completed three MCP characters that I’ll be posting in that project blog.

Years ago I received a pair of Undead Lego Space Minifigs made by Scibor Miniatures.  This is because I am an even bigger Lego fan than I am a miniatures enthusiast.  I had put them in a box with broken Lego pieces to make a display piece but then forgot about them as they were slowly covered with other stuff.  Now that I have worked down to the oldest sections of my “pile” they have resurfaced and demanded my attention.  My plan is to paint them fairly naturally and mount them floating about a wasteland of broken Lego pieces.  I think I will call it “Everything was Awesome”.  I hope to have progress to share in the next couple of days.

These two fit together so perfectly they may have been designed to hold “hands”.  Seriously, they really fit snuggly and almost didn’t need gluing… almost.  Decided to only pin one of their feet so the other looks even more like they are floating.  Still contemplating the paint scheme for the little spacemen and the base though I know it will be classic Lego Space colors.

I got the dead space Legomen and their base primed yesterday.  I used an all over black base followed by a grey zenith and finished off with a white.  I chose a harsh contrast as I want it to look like it is in space. I really like the look of them with just the primer coats.

Haven’t had much time at the table the last couple of days. I did get the Legomen attached to a stand for painting and started the blue guy.  I have been wavering on which color to paint the second.  The original Space line had four colors of spacemen; red, blue, white, and yellow and I want to stay within those.  White is classic but I feel he bone of the skulls would be drowned out.  I am leaning toward yellow as I like the blue/yellow contrast.  Of course both colors will be faded out when finished.

I went with yellow and blue to reference the classic Lego Space colors.  I want to paint the logo on their chests before I add any more highlights or weathering.  I like how the base is looking as well but it really needs more work to age it as well as some highlights and shadows.  Still struggling with what colors to paint the hook, wrench, and tubing but I have decided on a subtle wood grain for the button at least.  Got a lot of work to do and not a lot of time as I wanton show it at KublaCon next weekend.