A Vote For Count Binface

 Is a vote for sanity!

In the fine tradition of British electoralism's open free-for-all approach (so long as you have the ready cash to pay for a deposit you will absolutely lose), there is a man who has a character called Count Binface. He has a 24 point manifesto which includes knighting Wallace and Gromit "for services to wensleydale", which, honestly, made more sense than basically any of the big three party's manifestos. He teamed up with Troublemaker Games last year to have a 28mm scale figure of himself made, the profits of which would go towards NHS charities. So, of course, I bought one, and today, I painted him up:

Count Binface - the perfect Poundland Cylon

That cape, which is silver on the outside and black on the inside, is exactly what the real-life Count Binface wears

I freely admit I can't really think of anything that'll see this miniature hitting a table for a game, but it's a fun miniature and it was a lark to paint - grey, black, and silvers! The strange thing underfoot I painted up as if he's crushing some kind of empty fire extinguisher or pressurised gas canister.

After finishing ol' Binface, I picked up my Bad Squiddo Games snake priestesses, and painted them up to go alongside my Song of Blades and Heroes snake cultists:

I did a little bit of translucency on the priestess on the left, but just went for a more opaque blue overall

I'm quite pleased with the snakes!

At some point I need to think about who these snake cultists are actually supposed to be fighting, honestly. But that's probably about 1,500 miniatures away at this point!

Oh - speaking of painting - my uncle K sent me a voucher for Christmas, and after much umming and ahhing I used it to get myself some new paintbrushes, as the ones I was using until today are, to put it mildly, knackered. So I splashed out and got myself some nice new ones that came in an interesting cardboard pot:

I've never used them before but they're pretty good!

I like them. They have a nice triangular bit towards the ferrule which is perfect for holding onto, the brushes have a nice point and hold it well, and they take and apply paint well too. There's 15 in the pot, including some good drybrushes and sizes from teeny tiny to good for quite large areas. Worth the voucher spend honestly.

Painting Points:
Today: 3
This Week: 17
2025: 39

Tapping Into The Warp

Today I opened my third eye and, in order to make sense of the howling insanity of the empyrean, painted a couple of wyrds for, variously, 40K stuff and Necromunda:

On the left, a Bad Squiddo mini who will now work as either a Daemonhost or a psyker in an Inquisitorial retinue; on the right, a Troublemaker Games mini who is now a Necromunda Wyrd

Cwen the Wys is a name I've used a few times in various TTRPGs and even a LARP; it seemed appropriate for this unsanctioned psyker in the Underhive

The combination of ashen-grey skin tinged with an inhuman red, and the bright green glow of the eyes and mouth, and the pose - which is fantastic - all combine to make this mini one of the more obviously dangerous psyker figures I own

I'm really pleased with how the psyker/daemonhost turned out. It's a very simple palette, a very simple paintjob, and the combination of pose and paint have given me a really quite scary little mini who wouldn't look out of place in any 40K game. She'd even work well in a Chaos force or as an objective, or similar. A fantastic figure from Bad Squiddo Games as per usual, props to the sculptor Shane Hoyle.

The Necromunda Wyrd will make for a great and very useful Hired Gun for any Outlaw gang, and is quite intimidating in her own right - I messed up her eyes a bit but they're red, with either running black mascara or some kind of ichor (your interpretation) drooling down her cheeks. And she is, of course, in a quite appropriate combination of tattered overcoat and semi-uniform style blue dress. 

Next up is probably the Count Binface model, and perhaps the Bad Squiddo snake priestesses to go with my slowly growing Song Of Blades And Heroes snake-worshipper band.

Painting Points:
Today: 2
This Week: 14
2025: 36

A Little Rest

I've been painting at quite a rate of knots of late, so today - which was quite busy for a variety of reasons - I just settled down to spend a couple of hours on a single miniature. I backed one of Bad Squiddo Games' reasonably recent Kickstarters and picked up a few figures from that for a variety of reasons, and this one was one that I wasn't totally sure how I was going to use, just that I needed it:

The photo's terrible, but the boots, gloves, and corset are all a dark purple with a gloss varnish on

I really need a lightbox

I ended up basing her to fit with my sort of 'Fantasy TTRPG' stuff, so she might end up seeing service in anything from Rangers of Shadow Deep to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay or even a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Who knows! I really like the purple palette, and the way the cravat really leaps out. The little bird reminded me of a magpie (and indeed is painted as one in the official paint job), but I figured I'd lean a bit more into the sort of black feathered corvid feel to give her a bit of a gothic edge. 

Tomorrow I'll probably finish off the Troublemaker Games psyker that I'm working on, and might make a bit of progress on some more of the Bad Squiddo Kickstarter minis. As a side note, I've also plumped for a sandy base for K-9, which means he'll end up palling around with the AdMech I suspect.

Painting Points:
Today: 1
This Week: 12
2025: 34

Some Small Creatures

Nothing particularly major today, but I did take the time to immortalise some pets in miniature form:

Kiki and Binx (the cats that currently live with my partner P and I):

Kiki (l) is from Bad Squiddo Games and Binx (r) is from Troublemaker Games

The poses quite nicely reflect their personalities, although both are very cuddly in reality

Cookie, Mushi and Nimh (the first three rats we ever had):

Cookie was the most keen to explore and escape which is why she is the mutant with six legs - to get around faster!

Nimh actually had darker ears, so after this photo was taken I gave them a black wash

The cats are based for my 40K stuff, and can be familiars or even objective markers, while the rats are absolutely destined for Necromunda.

Painting Points:
Today: 5
This Week: 17
2024: 216 (367) - I have now done more than one PP per day for the whole year and it's not even over yet!

Butterfly Syndrome

This morning a parcel popped through my letterbox and added to my pile of opportunity, so today's hobbying has consisted of looking at some Night Goblin characters and assembling the new shinies:

It's Count Binface! And a techno-barbarian, a sci-fi cat, and a psyker sort. I have no idea what I'll do with Count Binface, but the techno-barbarian and cat are going into my random Inquisition model pool. The psyker's going to end up as a Necromunda Wyrd I think.

The models are all from Troublemaker Games and the Count Binface model supports the NHS by giving money to various charities that support our ailing healthcare system when you buy it.

Personally I like the techno-barbarian (I think she's a riff on Aloy from the Horizon computer games series honestly) a lot - she's very action-packed in her pose. She'll be fun to paint... when I eventually get round to it, anyway.