Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for me!

Sunday again.  This may be a thing.

Having tried out my colour scheme for the Royal Marines in Skull Tales I did, indeed, get the other Seven painted this week, along with the two Officers.  They'll likely find use in my RPGs before I actually get around to playing the boardgame.  This happens a lot with boardgames with miniatures in them - the minis get more use than the game itself - or at least, they get re-purposed for use in RPG scenarios.

Which way sir?

Deciding I should have painted both Darkclaws from the game at the same time so I didn't get the painting recipe  different, I got the other one undercoated and cracked on with that this week as well.
Did I get the paint scheme the same?

*shrug*

I'm not certain - but it's close enough.

Once I was setting that up to undercoat, it dawned on me that if I stuck with this, I could get the whole boardgame painted up over the next few weeks - burnout notwithstanding, so I picked three other groups of Enemies from the game to get painted as well.

Pirates

Cannibals

Cursed Ones

I've been working mostly with Contrast paints for the basecoats, with a few highlights, and metallics added. The Contrast works well, though I have found that after they've dried there are sometimes areas where the paint 'pulls back' from the undercoat and has needed a touch up.  Or perhaps I need to be using thicker coats in the first instance.  

As with most things, practice will likely help me find the best way for me to use them.

While finishing off the bases I also decided to get a couple of scenery pieces that have been sitting on my painting desk for several months finished off. 

I made some 'pirate treasure' objective markers for a 7TV event last year, and used some smaller Mantic Terrain Crate pieces that I had lying around.  I had undercoated two larger treasure piles at the same time, but as they weren't needed for the event they hadn't managed to get any paint on them at all.

GOLD!

Now they're looking rather better, they can be relegated to my painted terrain box, ready for when they are needed.

There are a few more sets of Skull Tales enemies sitting in my sanding tray, that I'll hopefully get sprayed tomorrow, if the weather holds after work, and I'll get to painting them over the next week.  If I complete them, there will be around 60 more models left to do to have the game fully painted - though most of them will be the 'character' models, so there'll be no batch painting involved and they'll probably take longer.  Still - it would be good to have a 'fully painted' game.  Unlike wargaming armies, at least with a boardgame with finite expansions I can honestly say that it will be 'done'.  Well, unless an expansion gets released to make me a liar (Firefly Adventures, I'm looking at you ... you were 'done', once, but then Inara, Book, and the Tams were released - and I've not got them painted yet - or even opened the boxes ...).

I've got 30 models done this week, and no new arrivals yet.  Kickstarters should be arriving next month though - including Mantic's new Terrain Crates - which will add about 400 to my 'acquired' total.  It's early days yet, but I DO intend to get more painted than comes 'in' this year.  We'll see how I feel once the arrivals start!

Running Totals

Painted: 160

Acquired: 56