Ruth, my four-year-old daughter, has been very interested in my hobby stuff. She asks to see what I’m working on. She especially liked the egg that came the Wyrd Easter order. So I asked her if she’d like to paint it. Of course, she said yes.
She helped me wash the model, and I cleaned up the seam lines and glued it to the base. She primed it with the airbrush (with some help), and eventually we found a time to actually paint it.
Puppet Dude
I worked on a different model, but Ruth was much faster. She soon asked for another. Luckily I had some random Reaper stuff primed, so gave her a second. This one she said was sitting on the sun. My wife suggested glitter for the basing material.
I picked up this model in when it was initially offered a the Gencon sale in 2014, when I also got Miss Ery. I decided to continue working on the limited Gremlins that were sitting on sprue.
Whiskey Golem
Out of everything on this model, I’m most proud of his eyes. I think they really ended up with a lot of warm glowy life to them.
Whiskey Golem (sitter detail)
Whiskey Golem (sleeper detail)
Whiskey Golem (swinger detail)
Whiskey Golem (drinker detail)
I wish there was a bit more wacky detail on his body. All the gremlins climbing on him add a ton of character, and were fun to paint up. I fear for the life of the swinging guy, though. I’m sure I’m going to catch it on something and the thin plastic will snap. I should have pre-emptively replaced it with wire.
This model is a limited release alternate sculpt for the War Pig that was available during Wyrd’s Easter sale this year.
I wanted to really own the whole Easter thing, so went straight for a neon pink bunny and bright patterned eggs.
War Wabbit
Assembling the rear rider required several sacrifices to the carpet gods — I lost one of his ears (separate ears bits, really?) and a foot, which was replaced with an egg. I dropped an arm and managed to run it over with my chair before finding it, so it’s a little smushed. Fortunately, the whole model came together pretty well.
Pride was the hardest of this bunch to base. His stretching leg is way too long to fit on a 30mm. I considered giving him some kind of log to rock out onto, but decided he should do an awesome kick instead. Just don’t think too much about what his ankle is doing.
Lust
I fear for the bow on this model. I’m pretty sure I’ll lose it about the third time I take it out of foam.
Greed
I regret painting flesh tones on the legs, instead of some colored leggings. Otherwise, a pretty decent model.
Sloth
There’s something about this guy that cracks me up. I like the shovel/guitar thing. The hat is pretty sweet, too.
