Geeks!

 Another installment of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge draws to a close, ending in just a few days; but I've posted my last figures for it. I don't have time to start and finish any more figures before things close.

So I've ended this year's participation with a charming trio of sculpts from Reaper Miniatures. These are "Modern Townsfolk: Geeks" from their metal Chronoscope line.

They're pretty simple sculpts with sedate poses and not a lot in the way of accessories, so were a pretty nice, quick paint job. The biggest challenge I faced was that when I went to paint the woman's hair, the turquoise base I used was really thin, and capillary action carried it into the lines of her face, which I'd already painted! Some of the detail was lost when I had to quickly paint back over her suddenly blue skin.

The big guy in the middle seems like he was probably based off the Simpsons' "Comic Book Guy," with his shorts, physique and ponytail, so I opted for different colors. I got a real kick out of his soda bottle (painted as Mountain Dew for accuracy), and the sculpting on his face was large and open enough that I was able to comfortably paint his eyes.

In other news...

With the number of games of Majestic 13 I've been playing, I put together a spreadsheet of the monsters in the game, and color-coded it based on what I had figures for (painted), figures for (not yet painted), and no figures for yet, and it turned out that, other than some of the special missions figures, I only needed to buy five more monsters to cover everything in the game. So I've gone on eBay and Etsy and picked out a few more critters.

And with that, I think it's time to update the tracker:

Miniatures Acquired: 57

Miniatures Painted: 79

Terrain Acquired: 0

Terrain Painted: 2

Scatter Acquired: 0

Scatter Painted: 1