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Eve Blanchet - Cthulhu: DMD - Fear of the Unknown (KS)

Pesren — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:46:21 +0000

Her work with family counciling is perfect for helping Nub & Yeg solve their sibling disputes over who's turn it is to do the interdimensional chores... it's Eve Blanchet!
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Quite pleased with this; it looks very classy! But it still feels like it keeps my style enough as well. Onto the blog~
Noteworthy paints used: It's interesting to me how AP Speedpaints are capable of doing ridiculously dark/rich tones that traditional acrylics struggle with. In this case, I tried AP SP Murder Scene (ultra-dark red) for the first time, and boy did it do the trick... I imagine I'll need to dilute or mix that one in the future if I wan any actual visible red. I broke out a Scale or two on this one, so Bosh Chestnut (Warm Mid brown) deserves a callout for helping me progress the colors of her skirt. I did however get an oddly satin finish off of it? Wonder if I need to shake it more. Finally, PA Bright Neutral Grey deserves a mention, as I use that ridiculously often for highlights, and for the extreme tips of clothing like her top. I very rarely actually use Matt/Titanium Whites, because with this style, I don't need things to actually be that bright.
Challenges: Theoretically this isn't a tough mini, and I deliberately chose an "easy" one because I worked on a harder mini in Ursa Major before this, and have a very challenging one after this. "Easy" mode notwithstanding, no amount of simplicity on the model makes faces like this easy to do! That should be readily apparent with the process pics, as a lot needs to be subtlely adjusted to get this looking right. Also, her nose was just way too big, so getting a flattering angle was a bit challenging too.
Things I'm proud of: Struggles notwithstanding, this is a really good face result for a small model. It's a simple model overall, but I think I brought something nice out of it that makes her stand out in a lovely way. Though it was a long one, I actually got this done in one long session too, which is really nice for a shelf-quality model like thsi one. This just feels like a really nice job of capturing the artwork & design~

Mom's visiting now and has been for multiple days by time I post this, so a) that's nice, and b) probably about a week moratorium on painting for me. Things will cool down a lot after she heads home, and I'm 47 models done now of my goal to get 50 shelf-quality models this year, so it's nice to be nearly finished!

What's up next: Captain America from Marvel Zombies
Slightly dreading this one! Getting a good comic-y effect on his shield is work enough, but this is one of those models with a bunch of stuff on the base to paint too.

Video Gaming of late: Monster Train 2
Got to do a run with Baron Grael recently, who's one of the absolute strongest Champs from the standpoint of consistency (imo, he and [o]Primordium[/o] are tied at the top). I had a really fun interaction I hadn't run into in the past. A rare-ish artifact that adds +4 Attack permanently to equipped weaponry when a unit dies, already really good for Baron and beefing up all his Graft allies... but what was awesome is I got a late-banner offering of Nine-Lived Nightmare, got Dualism/Endless on it for a blocker with Reanimate 16...

And the kickass thing was any weapon equipped to the kitty got the +4 Attack boost constantly applied every time it died and Reanimated, which is amazing for a unit like that! I ended up with an Organ Harvester with like 90 Attack, the kind of numbers only Railforged can typically manage. Very fun!

Today's Metal recommendation: "Give It Up or Give It All" by Unleash the Archers
With mom visiting for days on end, that means a whole lot of not-listening-to-metal, so my recommendation is what was randomly in my head lately. A very cheesy 90s-era-sounding ballad from Unleash the Archers that sounds like it could be the montage music of a kid's movie. It feels out of place on the album and yet it's a delightful treat... plus catchy enough to be in my head for these metal-less days.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy! =D

Ursa Major - Marvel United: Multiverse (KS)

Pesren — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:40:41 +0000

by Pes !

Oh my stars, what a big mini to dip my toes into... it's Ursa Major!
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I'm absolutely thrilled with this result, so let's get right to the blog!
Noteworthy paints used: PA's Dark Orange Brown is both misleadingly named, and super good despite that. It looks nothing like its swatch/image online, but is instead a very pretty orange-leaning tan color that gets a lot of use for me. Dark Golden Brown is correctly named and quite useful as well since it's one of the darker brown matte offerings that PA has. My AP Fanatic set only had one real orange color in it and it wasn't warm enough for what I needed, so I'd bought AK Deep Orange awhile back and it got some nice use here, as PA Orange Oxide was a bit too dark for the job.
Challenges: So that's a -lot- of fur-tufts on him, and one thing about these big three-dimensional hair tufts is it's really easy to think you've outlined it properly, only to spin the model and find it doesn't read properly in other angles. The sheer quantity of that made the outlining a veeeery tedious process. Other than that, his art had him as a very warm medium brown, which can be a very challenging color to work with when doing this kind of style, and I wanted to incorporate oranges for comic intensity, which just meant this model used a lot of finicky colors. Finally, to try something different than my beloved PA Bone, I tried AP's near-equivalent "Ancient Stone" and the coverage just wasn't that good, meaning his claws were fussier to work on than they should've been.
Things I'm proud of: So when I did Morlun about a year & a half ago, at the time I said it was one of my best pieces at the time. While I'm still proud of that, I think this is another step up for me, because I adore this one. He looks mighty, it uses the high-contrast outlining & highlights, it's cleaner-looking than something like Morlun was, and at least looking at this result right now, I can't imagine improving upon it, sans lots of micro-corrections.

I worked really hard to finish this one in two long sessions, because I knew between family-visit time and the desire to do cleanup/organization, I wasn't going to be painting for a while. This is the kind of model that should have been 3 shorter sessions, but who cares now, the result is everything I was hoping for! There's an extra bit of Pes-satisfaction here, as about 3-4 years ago I painted Sasquatch from Alpha Flight, who's somewhat similar to Ursa Major here. However, I told myself at the time I wouldn't bother with carefully correcting and highlighting Sasquatch's fur, and the results were of course middling. Now I work much harder at it and get a much better result, which is a great feeling!

We had a very crazy week last week, starting with some emergency water loss to the home, and ending with a trip to Kelowna and back to spend time with Ren's dad. We got some very nice times amid the chaos (the water loss bumped our schedule back one day, so we got to spend another day with Ren's mom too), learned a lot about our water system here, and enjoyed some gorgeous drives with autumn colors here... but boy, that was a lot! Now my mom's coming in town at the end of the week too, so things will continue to be "a lot".

My next Marvel Zombies paint is going to be Captain America, which is an extremely difficult paint/model; I've given myself a gentle/easier paint with a simpler CDMD model first, as I feel I need to sometimes do easier stuff between these challenging ones like Nahias and this. The CDMD one turned out really nice and is a very classy-looking result, so stay tuned for that next week while we're here with my mom!

Video Gaming of late: Monster Train 2
We've still got some combos left to go with this, the greatest deckbuilder game ever. Ren completed the final combo with Madame Lionsmane, who we generally find funner to play with than Bolete (who's quite good, just not as fun).

I did a personal write-up of the Champion tiers in the game and their various paths, but I never ultimately posted that on Steam because I didn't want my opinions of the Champions influencing other players. In the guides I wrote, with only a few exceptions, I tried to focus less on whether something was amazing/undertuned, and more on "how to play with this archetype/strategy". What also makes it tricky to post a tier list like that is because my specific category for judging them is "How likely are they to contribute significantly to a max-difficulty run + superbosses fight with average RNG".

For some people, that specific categorization would be meaningless (e.g. they don't play at max difficulty, they don't fight the superbosses, they only care about a Champion's ceiling/optimal play etc.), and the combination of those factors led to me ultimately not posting that or making a guide.

But since this is my personal blog, I can state this unequivocally:
Maneater Madame Lionsmane would be my only like, S++ tier Champion path if I were to rank them. The only one that comes even close in how stupidly strong/easy to use it is would be Mad Scientist Orechi, but he loses that tiebreaker since Unstable is mediocre against the Titans, while using Maneating III just makes a complete joke of the Titans too.

Now, Madame Lionsmane wouldn't be among my Top Tier champs though, as Everbloom is hugely reliant on Underlegion Banner units, and Sporesinger's endgame scaling needs significant support to keep pace with its early/mid-game dominance. But Maneating is insane. Bonus points if you get Maneater in a Hall of Mirrors for twice the destruction!

Today's Metal recommendation: "Arise, Black Sun" by The Hanging Garden
Oh man I'm falling behind on Metal recommends as so much good stuff keeps coming out. I had this on my list for months and hadn't mentioned it. This is an obscenely deep cut, as The Hanging Garden has to be one of the absolute most obscure bands in my playlist, and [user=VioletSquirrel][/user] may be the only blog-reader I know that would like them. Kind of a Finnish woodsy melodic-doom band, and one with a female vocalist who I didn't realize did any screaming until this recent album.

If that's your genre of music, "Arise, Black Sun" is one of those songs that stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it, reveling in its awesomeness. Just a beautiful, haunting, intense song. I've barely had time to give this album repeated listens due to being busy and new great stuff coming out, but this one was an immediate winner for sure.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy! =D

Undead General - Avalon: The Riven Veil

Pesren — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:02:20 +0000

by Pes !

The arm guards aren't actually for protection; they're so the mini sculptor doesn't have to sculpt the Radius & Ulna bones... it's an Undead General!
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Nothing major to say here, just a nice little sculpt and a chance for a bit more TMM practice. Onto the blog~
Noteworthy paints used: A hobby store two towns over surprised me by having GreenStuffWorld products, so I decided to buy one to try it, and I chose Gladius Bronze metallic, as I don't have a lot of Bronze paints. The verdict? Not bad. The color is nice and bright, but the coverage isn't as clean as Scale & Vallejo, which continue to be my favorite metallics. AP SP Highlord Blue is my favorite blue (medium saturated blue) of the original Speedpaint set, as it's a strong blue that mixes well. I find I prefer to use that and darken it rather than use Cloudburst Blue, which was a mediocre offering in their 1.0 set. Finally, AP's Crystal Blue (rich mid-blue) was a real boon here as it was the color I needed to get the kind of glowing blue skeleton color I was hoping for, as some earlier lighter-blue/aqua colors weren't landing well for me.
Challenges: Minimal, this was an easy model deliberately to give myself a "break" between the harder models of Nahias & Ursa Major. It's dumb to say but one of the most annoying part was just the little notches on the ring-base of the mini; I'm not sure if they're meant for positioning or for differentiating models, but it made painting the base ring more annoying than usual. Otherwise the only thing I'd note is I didn't do a good job with the process pics (didn't realize how 'off' the lighting was), and the bronze was much brigher than I intended if the goal was to match the card art.
Things I'm proud of: With all due respect to myself and this perfectly nice model, there's not much I'm specifically taking away from this one. The TMM is perfectly pretty but not my best TMM. I guess the blue is a nice blend? I'm reaching here! It's fine, but forgettable compared to the two models I did before & after it.

Pace is likely going to slow quite a bit. On the nice part of things, I've already completed Ursa Major from Marvel United, and it's amazing; some of my best work. However, it's family-palooza at the moment as we're seeing Ren's Mom, taking a multi-day trip to see Ren's dad, and then my Mom's flying into town to see us/the new place for about a week... all in the span of a week and a half! That's a lot of family and a lot of not-painting time.

Further, Ren and I like to make to joke that doing annoying chores/cleanup is akin to telling a pouting child to eat the vegetables on their place, which we've shortened to "eat your vegetals"... well, it's time for me to eat my vegetals, because I'm going to also be doing a multi-day organization & decluttering of board games and minis. I didn't do this prior to our move (because it was pretty important to keep minis safely in their trays when shipping them this far), but I'm going to be removing a ton of vac trays and unneeded extra boxes from expansions/minis etc. that I don't need.

For one, this is a chance to really get the whole space organized and decide how much storage we need, because we had a huge shelf/entertainment center that broke during the move, so we lost a lot of potential storage. For two, every time it's been time for me to prime a new batch of minis, I've had to spend an inordinate amount of time opening various boxes searching for the unprimed minis, but also the card art, and putting them away... 'next thing I know I've lost a lot of time on that. I'm going to try to instead have everything unfinished all out/semi-organized and in the same place to streamline that.

And the room for doing all of that will be the painting room, so I wouldn't be surprised if I only end up painting another item or two the rest of October. But it will be worth it long-term, at least.

Video Gaming of late: Brotato
We did a double Artificer run, and those ones are a blast (hah!) because we just absolutely load the map up with landmines and let the enemies get chain-exploded to death. I'll never not enjoy that combo!

Today's Metal recommendation: Eh, not today. Very late, I'm already a blog entry behind.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy! =D

Nahias - Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape

Pesren — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:05:47 +0000

by Pes !

Having two more legs only gained 'em +1 Movement, but that rate works well for my homebrew hero "Cedric the Centipede"... it's Nahias!
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Definitely not one I was excited to get going on! The Massive Darkness hero minis are a real mixed bag like that, and this one was tough due to the size, amount of stuff, and fairly banal "armor + leather straps everywhere" design. But we're here, so let's talk about it!
Noteworthy paints used: One Scale color I don't go to very often is Huldra Blue, a very dark & rich blue, mainly because the coverage isn't amazing, which is rarely something I want from a dark/shaded tone. However, here it worked great to blend back the blue-to-black areas of the horse-body, which is something I'll certainly remember in the future. PA Khaki gets a nod, as I love using various PA highlights, and this one that skews yellow-ish is nice for wooden/leather components. Finally, AP Leather Brown deserves a mention... it's a pretty boring brown color certainly, but it works quite well for a leather triad when used over AP SP Hardened Leather.
Challenges: A lot on this one! Motivation to start was something, since I knew this would be a pretty daunting one... these "medium large but full of details" minis can sometimes be the most complex, as most huge minis don't have as many elements. There's some pretty rough mold lines on the model, leading it to look like there was a big facial scar on the early end, and one leather scabbard on top of the model looks particularly bad. The hair was a bit annoying too as there's a lot of it, but the definition is very fine and has some odd angles when trying to avoid the horse-body.
Things I'm proud of: I think I captured this pretty well! I got the snake sigil on the shield done well enough, and was pleased when I got the eye spot on it as well. The TMM is attractive, the horse definition is good, and I really like that there's a clear highlighted-area tracing from the cheek all the way down to the hoof. This model's got some real presence now, and I'm proud of that because I wasn't stoked to do a mostly leather & armor hero after I'd done so for Sir Ronen already.

Man these Massive Darkness heroes are really something. I've got three left to go... one that I'm eager to do, and two that I'm not. The two I'm not are an ugly berserker guy, and Berko, a tiger-striped Shaman that I remember drove Dr. Eric Tanglebones mad when he painted it many years ago. But if nothing else, they sure have some presence to a lot of 'em! Kaylee & Ryff are on my recent shelf and man those are some nice looking hero models~

Boy speaking of MD, I haven't heard a peep out of CMON on the MD2 expansion... their tracker says Q3 2027 and that's a tough one to believe. Even God of War is supposedly ahead of that one, and that one is very low priority for them. Certainly hope it arrives one day though, as it would be nice to tackle the various enemies & bosses again with my practice/skill level where it is now. I've only got like... 4 bosses/elites that I'm actually still proud of from that game, rather than just "this was good for my skill level at that time". Like, as many of the big bosses have shelf-worthy designs, only those 4 are actually on display.

Video Gaming of late: Nioh 2
Well, I finished Nioh 2! Still adored the experience despite a few minor annoyances (to wit: slipping to your immediate death into small puddles of water is obnoxiously easy, and I was bummed that some armor is literally too heavy for any build to wear it without penalties so severe they're not worth the pain). Ultimately went with a heavy-damage & tanking Axe build that really came into its own late-game, often handling what should have been tough bosses pretty reasonably.

I also really enjoyed that late game, I felt strong enough that I could mess around with different magic/ninjutsu to find other strategies/interactions I hadn't considered. Like popping Rage on the Axe for huge damage, but using Catwalking/Sneak to just casually walk behind foes & sneak-attack them for obscene damage.

Ultimately will miss playing that one for a while! There's an extremely robust postgame experience I'm told, but I have a backlog of some -very- good RPGs that will take me forever to finish as-is, so now's not the time to do one of those massive New Game+ campaigns like this one offers. I'll always have the option to come back to it!

Today's Metal recommendation: "Lethe" by Draconian
It brings me no joy to report that Draconian's latest album just straight up did not land with me. The Italian doom/goth/'beauty and the beast' band is one I've enjoyed a lot in their history, but it turns out I really liked the recent albums and got used to the female lead singer they had at the time. For the latest, they brought back their original singer and while fans were excited about that... I'm not feeling it at all. I don't know if it's just her voice aging, or they're trying something new, but the style doesn't land for me.

There's at least one song on the album that I was really starting to enjoy, then she belts out a loud verse and it's just super off-putting to me x_x Such a bummer. Would never have assumed that a stalwart band like that would put out a dud for me, while a 'standard' metalcore band like Future Palace is putting out an incredibly good new album instead. She's not the only issue though, as some songs just feel like they're lacking hooks to me.

Anywho, "Lethe" is the one song I'm buying off the album because it's still got the haunting/beautiful style of song I'm used to from them, and not-at-all-coincidentally, features her singing the least. In a previous blog I recommended "Sleepwalkers" which was from the prior album, and I stand by that one as a great recommend for the band.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy! =D

Healing Cat - Grimcoven

Pesren — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:40:39 +0000

by Pes !

You can blink at it to both establish trust, and expose yourself to being pounced upon... it's the Healing Cat!
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What a fun model this was! Thematically appropriate timing for October as well, I really love this one. This feels like a pretty inspired design from the sculptors... shame the CDMD Animal Allies are comparatively anemic compared to a model like this. Anywho, onto the blog~

Noteworthy paints used: I hadn't tried AP's Ash Grey much as a source of light grey, but I gave it a shot here since I wanted the gravestone to look lighter in contrast to a gray kitty. It worked pretty well! And naturally for highlights it did the trick too. Though all of these animals have the Grimcoven "lament" that's supposed to be crimson, I'm trying to do a themed color for each one (minus the Lament-free sheep), so that was a nice excuse for the purple-to-pink triad I love so much, and using PA's wonderful Dark Hot Pink color. Finally will give AP SP Burnt Moss a nod... a black-green color that's not particularly pleasant, but frequently a choice for me whenever I want a dark greenish base to things, like the ground beneath.
Challenges: Even though the model is a good size, those eyes are still teeny-tiny, so painting cat eyes was easily the hardest thing to do here. Second thing was oddly enough the fancy cross-shaped gap in the tombstone, simply because getting the brush in carefully to hit all the elements and not leave anything exposed took multiple passes! Other than that, this one went pretty smoothly, only needing some touch-ups to make sure some blends looked natural.
Things I'm proud of: I'm really happy about this one. Rather than doing an OSL effect on the tail, since it was a "Healing" Cat, I decided to make it look like its tail was creating a healing energy, rejuvenating the tree, ground beneath it, and making the eyes of the skull glow a similar color. Other people do OSL way better than me anyway, so this felt like a fun exercise. Beyond that, the drama of the lighting on the "light" side is nice and intense, he reads well as a kitty, and I'll never get tired of the purple-to-pink triad. This is a home run for me!

So with all of that happy stuff said, unfortunately I'm always going to have a negative connotation when I see this model... I was working on it when some jackasses set a fire on the mountain less than a mile away from us >_> So we had a bit of a panic in the night, had to go talk to some firemen to confirm we weren't in danger, then proceeded to have an awful sleep with a glowing orange light of fire & smoke above our house. Everything's fine now, but it happened while I was partway through this model, and when I'd re-re-rested later, finishing this (angrily) was the first thing I did in the morning.

Realistically it's the kind of thing that can technically happen regardless of where you live, but it's pretty maddening that so many people are stupid about burning things when there's various wildfires all throughout the northwest.

Though it does remind me of one funny-ish aspect... when we were getting home insurance for the house, they clarified one amusing aspect: the only time they won't insure homes is when there's an active wildfire within a few kilometers of your house. It makes perfect sense why, but it gave the funny mental image of someone panic-calling the home insurance company to get fire insurance while sweating from a blaze a few feet away X) Like, them trying to pretend they're not hot/coughing and playing it cool~

Also random, but we did a bit of board gaming! There's still lots of little things to do here and family visits coming soon, so our routines haven't yet integrated frequent board gaming, but our second game at the new home was Maglev Metro~ I really love that game; it's very relaxing and satisfying to build your route, while trying to coordinate with other players. Those acrylic tiles for your metro lines are just a delight. I was quite excited to play this one eventually when I unboxed it, so yay!

Video Gaming of late: Nioh 2
Years ago I'd played Nioh 2 during a Playstation+ subscription where it was free, only to lose access to the game when they'd taken it out of the PS+ library x_x I loved it at the time but never came back to it because of life & other games. Finally in Canada I came upon a used copy and have been loving it still. Pretty close to the end now; it was amazing how much of it was memorable that many years on from my initial half-playthrough. Just a deligthful mix of action, RPG elements, and tons of cool lore. I don't know how soon I'll look to play Nioh 3 as I have an existing backlog as is, but it's certainly something I'll make time for in the future!

Today's Metal recommendation: "Avalon" by Allt
Allt is one of those odd heavy bands that feels like they sometimes go in very odd directions (rap came out of nowhere on this new album), but I tend to love them. They're one of my favorite "wearing headphones" bands because the depth of sound is so good and intense with them. Despite my affinity for them, their new album was a rough first listen or two for me. The vocalist made some changes to how he sings at times, and there was one song "Nevermind" I hated so much that it was negatively coloring my opinion of the full album.

However, like a good Weezer album, it's grown on me after several listens, and I had them on while painting this model. Avalon is a really intense song that grabbed me early on and has become a favorite, particularly as it has one of the most intense and emotional outros in recent memory. They've always had the ability to add some very interesting and heavy sonic soundscapes into songs, and I'm glad they didn't lose that despite some odd/interesting new choices on the album. Avalon is now up there with Aquila as being one of my absolute favorite "headphones on" song for intensity/beauty.

I also mention Weezer just for fun reasons... during the wildfire panic and after we settled back in, an Allt song came on that made me want to listen to them, followed by one of the happiest/bounciest Weezer songs on my playlist X) I had to skip past that and say "Not right now, Weezer" - that just wasn't the right mood for "do we need to evacuate?!"

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy! =D

Jarek IV - Odalin: Dungeons of Doom

Pesren — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:51:26 +0000

by Pes !

Son and heir to King Akud's thron-.. wait, then why isn't his name Akud IV?... It's Jarek IV!
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An interesting one here... once again an Odalin model is "good, but.." and it has a lot of motion in it, but that makes it a big harder to sensibly do Pes-style highlight/shading. Onto the blog~
Noteworthy paints used: Some real favorites get a mention here today. PA Dark Ivory is such a nice color to have on hand for warm blending, or for slightly gentler highlights than light grey or white. Here it was frequently used for highlights and occasionally for blends. AP SP Bony Matter is a favorite, a subtle brown that can either tint things or just add some great brown-toned shading. Finally AK Grim Brown gets a nod as it's the darkest brown I own, which is nice for a sandy model like this that called for "dark brown lining" rather than my usual blacklining.
Challenges: Definitely some tough angles here... the big majestic cape also has some not-so-majestic tough areas to reach on the side. The card art didn't quite match the model, leading to some confusion when I'd see an element that was missing on one or the other. I don't know if it's the color scheme, or the pose of the model, or some combination thereof, but I really had trouble landing on the extreme highlights in a way that made sense. Finally, a fair amount of corrections were necessary here, partly due to imperfections, and partly because "foldy fabric" sections are tough to get clean-looking, particularly in small areas.
Things I'm proud of: I don't know if this is a "Pes!" brand model per se, but it's a nice looking one at least. I think I overall did well matching the colors, getting the details well-represented, and working past some of the oddities on the model. And I do like the TMM I did on it. Not a favorite, but it will look nice on the shelf for sure~

So hm, these Odalin minis... quite the mixed bag. On the one hand, this is a pretty nice model! Dramatic, full of motion, and the details are all pretty well-represented, even the very subtle patterns on some of the fabric. But like I implied above, it doesn't match the character's art in multiple ways, which I'm not used to in the board game space. Then while most of the things are good, there's some nonsensical things: he's supposed to have layered shoulder armor, and instead the model has these big angular shoulder-pad armor chunks? I did my best to disguise that with shading, but it's weird. It's also just generally rude of them to have a character with facial hair and not reflect that on the model X)

Also the Odalin stuff has a very "sandy" theme to its minis; while I appreciated that this character had a bit of blue/purple, if too many of these continue to have a standard tan/bone Arabian Nights theme to it, then I'm definitely going to have to go off-script in the future. The team behind Odalin already had to send out replacement minis for several models, and now they're talking about doing a full re-do of several heroes in the game... made available to backers of a future game, of course!

So, continued mixed feelings with this company and these models. But if nothing else, this is a pretty nice one for the shelf!

Busy times lately... some new "winter prep" things that are unique to living up north now, big/complicated things like finally getting our phone numbers/plans changed, getting all of our financial arrangements set up, and of course lots of family time. Our home in Virginia's on the market now, but the market is quite slow and we're getting into colder seasons. But I have a right to be frustrated about that, because the House-prep contractors that "take two weeks" to do their job of course took a month & a half instead, completely missing the chance of getting the home ready before the school year started in earnest. Boo~ But oh well, it'll eventually sell and just stop being a thing we have to be concerned about.

Video Gaming of late: Brotato
We know we'll have to move on from this game eventually, particularly because we play it on my Switch 1, and I need to start using the Switch 2 soon. So we're doing our best to just do as many silly/fun repeat-runs of fun combos or favorite characters. Yesterday we did two of our favorite characters, Renegade for me (spams with big quantities of weaker ranged hits) and Curious for her (gets bonuses for unique items and hates duplicates). That one was a blast!

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy! =D