First Finished Figures of 2025

 I've managed to finish up my first handful of figures for 2025:

First up, we have a five-figure "Mercenary Fire Team" from Wargames Foundry's "Street Violence" range. I went for a simple color scheme with these - olive drab trousers, black T-shirts, red berets. These were slightly frustrating along the way - no matter how many times I went over them, I kept finding little bits of excess metal from the molding process. It was like they kept sprouting new bits! 

Secondly, I delved into a container of figures I'd primed...years...ago and pulled out a pair of Pulp Figures "Sinister Spies." On the website, Bob lists these as "Mr. M" and "Jasper Gutworth," and they're pretty plainly inspired by Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, respectively. 

These painted up fast and easy - from touching up the primer to being finished with basing applied in only about 2 1/2 hours or so. And you can't get away with painting Mr. Lorre without painting his famous eyes, so I committed myself to trying to paint the eyes on both of them, and I think it worked out well. 

I'm anticipating these two shady characters turning up in various Interwar-set games.

Speaking of...

I placed an order yesterday for more Copplestone Castings "Back of Beyond" figures - enough to round out a pair of small forces for the White Russians and Warlord Chinese, expanding on figures already in my leadpile. In my defense, Brigade Games is having a "Winter Blahs" sale, and I didn't need *that* many figures to get myself to 4 units apiece. The White Russians will be two units of infantry, a small cadre of Cossack horsemen, and a crewed field gun. Meanwhile, the Chinese will be two units of infantry, a Maxim gun team and a "Sutton Skunk" - an armored tractor that mercenary Frank "One-Armed Sutton" designed as a mobile mortar platform with plans to sell to the warlords. There's no evidence it ever got past the prototype stage, but Company B offers a Skunk model and it's too much fun not to include. Both of these will get expanded later, but this gives me a solid starting point. Once these are painted I'll start buying Bolsheviks, British, etc. 

Figures Purchased in 2025: 27

Figures Painted in 2025: 7