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My month's work: all three Moorwraiths, ol' metal Rami, the Lucky Effigy, and my white whale: the Lucky Emissary. I've had an image in my head of making this into a 50mm diarama of the Lucky Emissary as, essentially, the Bayou's version of Santa Claus, delivering 'shine at speed. Specifically, to Ross Jebsen, because I love the model but have no interest in playing Ulix. It feels good to get that off the shame pile and into the display case (and on the table. @Caedrus all told, comes to 32ss.

After a busy last half of last month I'm excited to get back to painting regularly. Seeker and the Explorers starter is all ready to go, but my focus will be a few Bayou models that I keep putting off, including the Emissary, which ye see indeed be me White Whale, yarr. Well, now that I finally finished Gracie recently, that is. I've had an unconventional "art project" idea for that Angry Bacon Hampster Wheel for a while now, I just keep putting it off, so this is a perfect challenge to push me to take the plunge!

Finished up the Urami models I mentioned. In the process of trying to enjoy the undeadness of them I ended up trying out painting with mostly washes over a zenethal for the base coats, which really ended up working out for these colors, I think. @Caedrus Ends up being 45ss for the 6 of them so far this month.

For July, I'm going to paint more undead and try to enjoy them. Not a huge fan of painting undead stuff, or skin in general, so I tend to take shorcuts on them where possible. Starting off with some Kirai pieces for a friend, already in progress, and then probably more to Seeker. WIP:

Thnak you! Maybe you are? What corgis..? 😛 I kid, I kid. I needed something to cast the shadows for the Umbras to rise out from (or take the Bocken on walks, they're dangerous and shouldn't be left to their own devices) that would fit on the bases without crowding the models out, and with my love for themes, I needed a way to work Ein into this Cowboy Bebop themed crew, with no canines in sight. Two birds, one shadow-y, stone.

@Caedrus Finished up the all Umbras I didn't quite get the final touches on last month (along with the Operatives) and kind of glad I did, since this is probably the most contrast heavy crew I've done. Given the light/shadows theme of the DUA/Umbra, I tried further darkening the darkest darks (using Black 3.0 even, which turned out pretty well, though it does mean those parts of the minis aren't varnished, and the effect is better in person than in picture) and brightening the brightest brights (rarely use pure white anywhere normally, but with this crew it's around a bit more. Had a blast with them, but definitely looking forward to not focusing so hard on the contrast extremes (and keeping this crew the most contrasting will further contrast them in contrast to my other crews). All told for all the Umbras +2 Operatives, 66ss.

@Caedrus I'll be taking a mulligan for May, tried to batch paint too many things and got close-but-not-quite on all of them, but June will have a sizable update fairly quick!

I'll be aiming completing the DUA/Umbra keyword with the Operatives, Mr. Moredrake, the Daeva, and the Nocturnes and Brocken next week when the box comes in to my FLGS.

Wasn't sure I'd be able to finish up the bases due to the 2nd vaccine shot hitting me pretty hard, but managed it tonight! Here's Ivan, Gibson, Corvis, and Eva for 39ss @Caedrus