I’ve been outside this evening taking some photos of models I’ve finished recently. When I came inside and started moving photos off the camera to crop, I noticed quite a few photos that I’d taken for posts before my little break. So I’m going to share a couple of these first. As it happens, there’s so much stuff between the stuff I still hadn’t shown, game mats to review, and the models I’ve painted in my month off from blogging I’ll have to go back to posting every two days again just to have a chance to get through them! I guess I could post up models 10 at a time or something, but I much prefer to show them in smaller numbers, which is closer to how I actually get things painted – in groups of 1-4 at a time – outside of the occasional whole-unit batch like the BFSP Dwarves or the Spartans from last January.

More stripey trousers and swirly tattoos. On one hand, it’s just what I do with Slayers. On the other hand it does get a bit boring after awhile, so I’m tending to try and figure out ways to make them a little different in each pair. Here we have slightly wider and slightly narrower blue stripes than usual. CREATIVITY!

As far as the Marauder Slayers go, this pair is pretty good. Not overblown, and enough individuality that each of them is a unique enough character.

Once again this pair’s tattoos look a little faded in spots, but they still look nice enough in person.

This guy seems a little more aware of his station in life than most of our miniatures…

Having displayed this pair, I’m left with one final Marauder MM16 Slayer to show off. Expect to see it very soon!

As I steam (or limp) towards the end of my collection of metal slayers, we have two of the last four Marauder ones – unless I find more in a baggie or box that have been there for years or buy some more off eBay in that never-ending search for “at least one of each sculpt”.

I think I might have gone a little too faded on the tattoos on this pair, particularly Mr.Redstripes.

The second model seems a little goofy to me. Goofier than normal, then. Or worse proportions than normal. Still, put him in a crowd or view him from standing-gamer height and he looks fine.

I gave his kilt (or short skirt) the same tartan that Rowdy Roddy Piper used in his heel heyday against Hulk Hogan during the first Wrestlemania. I’ve used it before on a WarZone figure that I evidently never photographed – I’ll have to fix that shortly. Anyway, it’s simple and effective from a distance. Probably the reason that Hot Rod used it back in the day.

And here’s the pair of them. One more pair to go and the Marauder Slayers are done! Then it’s full-pelt into the ’93-94 Giant Slayers, then the character models, then the AoW characters, then…. well, that’s still to be decided…