2025 in Review

Despite a strong start in the early part of this year, I did not manage to paint enough to hit my goal. But that's fine! I've been busy on a number of other projects, and painting just drew the short straw this season. With no further ado, let's take a gander at what I've completed in this sixth calendar year of the Perilous Miniatures blog.

Total for the year: 100

• Fantasy (7)
• Yakra the Dwarf
• Skeleton Cavalry (5)
• Skeleton with RPG-7 
• Superpowers (38)
  
• Mr. Mistletoe
  
• Pistol Thug (2)
  
• SMG Thug (2)
• Scheherazade
• Renaissance Man
• Lady Eidolon
• The All-American
• Mr. Whisper
• Ms. Lead
• Huikong
• Braincase
• Memento Murray
• Free Company Mercenaries (2)
• Armory
• Master Mountain
• Gray Matter
• Flameskull Ganger (5)
• Flameskull Drone (4)
• Drillman
• Batman 
• Melee Thug (3) 
• Police Sergeant 
• Sterling
• Brickochet
• Big Burrow
• Big Burrow (Damaged) 
• Horror (41)
• Amorphous Scions (2)
• Tsathoggua
• Ghasts (5)
• Cultists in Green with Dagger (3)
• Cultists in Green with Sword (3)
• Cultists in Green with Book (4)
• Dhole
• The Unnameable
• Fishers from Outside (2)
• Gugs (2)
  
• Dark Spawn (6)
• Black Goat of the Woods
• Shambling Zombie (6)
• Fast Zombie (6) 
• Scifi (1)
• Space Landsknecht Android
• Battletech (11)
• Longbow (Aka-Oni Irregulars)
• Wolfhound (Aka-Oni Irregulars)
• Hunchback (Aka-Oni Irregulars)
• Maxim Hover Transport (Aka-Oni Irregulars)
• Savannah Master (Aka-Oni Irregulars) (2)
• Enforcer (Aka-Oni Irregulars)
• Stalker (Aka-Oni Irregulars)
• Zeus (Aka-Oni Irregulars)
• Trebuchet (Aka-Oni Irregulars)
• Union-class Dropship 
• Terrain (1)
• Pizzapocalypse

Supervillain: Big Burrow

Despite looking like a normal bunny mascot, Big Burrow is a powerful brawler. The mascot costume is built over a complex suit of powered armor, built and piloted by Rini Burroughs, a young Japanese-American tech genius.

These models are heavily kitbashed. I've made two versions of the miniature, since the steeply discounted Zombicide box came with two variations (the survivor version and the zombie version). The cleaner miniature is based on the normal model, and the battle-damaged suit is based on the zombified version.

This would be a good pair of minis for running a two-stage boss battle. 

Zombies 3: Faster Zombies

Just barely missed posting these in Zomtober, but here are six more quick zombie miniatures. Like the previous batch of zombies, these are from are the Zombicide "Walk of the Dead 2" expansion box of zombies. They're also painted in much the same way as the previous box. These six aren't really staggering around like the other zombies, though; they have places to be and brains to eat. With the previous batch, this makes an even dozen of the better quality zombie miniatures completed.

Superheroes: Sterling and Brickochet

The vigilante superheroes Sterling and Brickochet have joined the never-ending fight against injustice.

Sterling is another fairly generic masked figure to add to the stable as I continue to work on my superhero RPG. In the game, he definitely has the Inspiration powerset, but I don't have a specific fighting style in mind. The body and arms are from the Wargames Atlantic "French Infantry (1916-1940)" box, while the head is from their "Partisans (1) French Resistance" box (which is also where all of the Gingerbread Gang minions come from). The paintjob is simple and done without washes, which gives it a stronger look than the heavily-washed way I often do minis.

Brickochet (like ricochet) is based on a character a friend of mine played in a playtest of my street level superhero RPG. While he called him Brick Frog, that's already a character from the Venture Brothers show, so I renamed him for my own collection. All of the components are from the "Project Z: Male Survivors" sprue. The brick held aloft was originally a book that I cut down into a brick shape.

Villainous Thugs 4: Robbers (and a Cop)

A game of cops and robbers is very traditional. I recently painted up three more thugs and a police officer NPC for a possible playtest of my street-level superhero RPG. The physical playtest didn't happen, but the models turned out pretty well all the same.

The three thugs are done in a similar style to the rest of Gingerbread's gang, but these are armed with melee weapons instead of guns. They're pretty basic street hoodlums with pretty basic paintjobs.

The police officer is the Sergeant Donatan Johnson model from the Hard City board game. I found the board game on sale for $12, which isn't bad at all for 20+ decent miniatures. The figure painted up well and turned out looking colorful and characterful.