March 1, 2026

I began the week with a Communicant figure from one of the Trench Crusade lines of figures… it was a 3d print, and it was in terrible condition when I received it.  It was supposed to have two crosses stuck in its eyes. When I got it, one of the crosses was missing an arm and the other was missing completely.  The head was almost devoid of detail to the degree that I had to cut the nose off another figure and add it to this one.  Frankly, none of the detail on this figure was crisp, but I decided I had to see what I could do with it.  Side note: the Seller apologized and is supposed to be sending me replacements for the damaged figures I received; there was more than one.

A week ago Saturday, I found an ice harvesting scene… resin with the look of the figures I used to get at the Dollar Store at Christmas… with heads too big for the bodies.   I thought it would be a good addition to my Gordon Institute Frozen North collection.  I gave each figure a new, more appropriately sized head and painted everything except the ice blocks.

Mid-week I took on the repurposing of what will probably be the last Atlantis Water Tanker made into an armored vehicle.  After doing five before this one, it was a pretty routine process.

Quite by accident I discovered that I had an Atlantis bridging vehicle/tank option.  I purchased it years ago and had completely forgotten about it.  Luckily, I had a set of Atlantis tracks left over from another project, and that spare set of tracks allowed me to do both options.

As the week neared its end, I got the urge to do the Hutt twins.  I’ve had them for some time as well as two litters and carriers from another project.  As it turned out, bringing the two litters together to form one large enough for the two Hutts was not all that difficult, and the painting was a lot of fun.

Throughout the week I painted two transformer SWAT armored vehicles.  I worked on them a little at a time because doing them wasn’t all that exciting despite the fact that I really like the vehicles.  The hardest part was getting my paint color close enough to the original that I could keep the “SWAT” on each side of the vehicle.