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Cyberpunk Red Zone Minis

01.18.2026

This is one of those painting posts that has taken longer than I thought due to a bunch of things.

I had no gumption to paint through most of December. Not sure why - I just didn't want to. I had a good run of 3D printing for a week during Christmas, but honestly that has nothing to do with painting time other than a notch that I was doing something fun/hobby oriented.

I glued and primed 20-ish of these minis before my last post at the end of November. I have to admit to myself - I don't like assembling these (brand/manufacturer) of minis. There are always gaps. Huge gaps. No matter how I try to trim things, they never fit. And there's something about the way I attach heads - they look too small by the time they're affixed. The trio of police minis really show this - all the hands or arms had to be glued on, and they all look like crap. I also admitted to myself that it's ok to essentially abandon a mini at that point. Gap filling is not a strength of mine, so I can use these to practice on later. Along with the admission that I don't like this line of minis came the cognizant thought to quit buying them. This was important during Black Friday sales. This line fell under "cool looking minis for a game I don't have/plan on getting" so I'm not going to be missing out on anything by no longer buying this stuff.

While prepping minis, I managed to break 3 (although I only remember 2) when I got a little aggressive with an xacto knife. Brittle resin, maybe? It was female characters of a similar mold - maybe that mold/pose just didn't like me and my knife? Normally a mini breaking would bother me, and I might find some battle-damage equivalent to use it. These just got tossed in a box of bits for now - because you can't just toss mini parts.

Ok, so those are my excuses for the lull in painting update(s). Beyond my griping, I did have fun with a few of them. The cook with the checkerboard pants was fun. I was rethinking those checkerboard squares at least 3 times when I was painting them. The 2 purple-suited guys I like. They were more practice for an upcoming Prince mini, which I'm feeling more confident about after painting these. The dark suited bodyguard is another I like. Traditionally when I try to go all black/dark on clothes it doesn't turn out well. I went with 2 shades of grey contrast paint this time.

From the Monster Fight Club site, here are the sets I (mostly) put together:

Take Up Irons with Scrubs. 2 sets of these, with mixed up heads.
Glitching News with Media Drone Pilot, Media Drone (that I left out), and Hackette.
False Flag with Daring Tech (didn't survive an xacto blade), Influential Fixer, and Solo Bodyguard.
C-Suite with Exec Board Member, Exec CEO, and Exec Director.
The Beat with Rookies and Tactical Response Rookie.
The Message with Combat Tech (also an xacto knife casualty), Exec Manager, and Electronica Rockerboy.
Chopped For Time with Obsessed Paparazzi, Fiona Hayes, and Solo Noodle Chef.

I'm holding off on printing project updates - a pic of a finished print when the garage temperature and humidity cooperate aren't that much fun to look at. Plus I don't see much happening until sometime in March with that. I have some more minis picked out to assemble and paint. This is another line I've never used before, and there's equal chances that these will suck and never see the light of day, or be the coolest Aliens-esque marines ever made. Either way, the odds are good I'll be quiet here for another month or two.

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Star Trek Away Missions: Scottyless

05.04.2025

My last entry for the first third of 2025 is the other box from Star Trek Away Missions: Commander Scotty. The most interesting thing about this box is that there's no Scotty. There were 2 Sulus. This is specific to a batch delivered to Miniature Market, because another Scotty box I ordered from them also has 2 Sulus. There's a box I ordered from Amazon that actually has Scotty. Why didn't I paint that one instead? Dunno, but this way I got some extra Sulu practice.

Specifically, with Sulu, I made a red shirt version and yellow shirt version. While Sulu wore command yellow in TOS, he wore red in the mirror universe episode, which is my excuse if anyone were to ever actually ask.

The paint job on Uhura is, I think, my best. Best ever, not just of the Trek minis or for what I've been posting this past week. Best, as in it ended up best matching in the end what I intended it to look like when I started.

Last in the pics is a combined shot of minis from this round of painting for size comparison, to help show just how much bigger those Away Mission minis are from other/Cyberpunk "normal" size.

That's everything that's was sitting in the backlog waiting to get posted. I'm not sure when the next update with anything interesting will occur, but hopefully sooner than 4 months.

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Cyberpunk Calamity Control

04.30.2025

This time I remember why I picked up a random pack of minis for a game I won't ever play - I like the bald guys in the suits. They're generic enough to be bystanders in any game. Plus, I like suits. Suits are good for painting because you can go into as much detail as your mood at the time warrants. John Wick 100% black everything - it can work. Pinstripes. Fun to try, as are an attempt at almost any pattern. Turned out that when it came time to paint these I was in a matching coat and pants, vest with some color mood.

The other 3 minis were... weird. Woman with skirt and a gun fits the general motif of the 2 bad suited guys. Other 2 women with some kind of armor going on... no idea what to make of those. Maybe that comes from not knowing the game? As it was, these managed to get a splash of whatever color I was painting some one/thing else at the time. That happens when I have no real vision for a mini.

Another round of nothing spectacular, but also nothing horrible.