The Dude and his Kitty

I'm certain I'm not the only hobbyist that has a stack of partly painted or assembled miniatures sitting on shelves or in boxes. My stalling point is generally post-conversion - I'll have an idea for a figure (and often a gaming need), but then plans change and I end up with a converted figure waiting to be painted. Sometimes they wait for a few weeks. Sometimes it's several years!

Today's figure was built sometime in late August or early September 2018. I had a spare head from an Imperial Guardsman I'd converted for my Dracula's America in Space crew, and Ukko from Foundry's 2000AD range that I'd picked up at Bring Out Your Lead 2018. The resulting pairing gave me a rather fun NPC (instantly referred to as The Dude):

I suspect the contents of the bottle are cheap, nasty and very strong!

I picked some colours at random for his paint scheme. I'm particularly pleased with the nice magenta bottles!

I'm not certain where the bottles came from - possibly Black Cat Bases (sadly no longer in business). The conversion work was pretty minimal really - just concealing the join with greenstuff.

Completely unrelatedly, I also dug out the vintage Citadel Weird Fantasy WF10 Killer Chiuahua / Vorpal Kitty. No particular reason other than I found it and decided to paint it up! So now The Dude has a pet!

I think this is the smallest miniature I've ever painted and based individually.

No idea what I'll end up using this pair for, but I enjoyed painting them up.