From IannickM : Halflings, Part I (25 Points)

So last Fall I'm minding my own business when I see on Facebook an add for a Halfling kickstarter. The company who produces the range is called StoneHaven Miniatures (never heard of them). The concept art is quite fun, and I do like my Halflings (play one, Cedwick Bloomberry, in our Warhammer RPG campaign). So I push the "Follow" button. And as the campaign advances they keep coming up with more awesome concepts, it tickles my nostalgia D&D button and...yeah you know where this is going...I cave in, lost my mind and went for the "Completionist" reward. Yep, the whole range, around 50 of the little buggers. 

The figures were all individuals and in my eyes didn't fit at all in a big battle "Warhammer" type game, which I usually play. Fortunately, I've been looking at doing some fantasy skirmishes for a while; projects that are faster to paint, and easier to play on a whim with a friend or two. I figured the Halflings would provide the first side, the "good guys". So I decided to wait for the Challenge to start painting these little guys. The plan is to paint 5 of them per week, give or take a few weeks.

And it starts this week. As I mentioned, what I really love about the range is that each figures represents a RPG "class" or "profession", and every one of them is unique and full or personality. For this first batch of 5, we have the fighter, the chief, the cleric, the archer and the Rogue.

From left to right: fighter, cleric, chief, archer and rogue

The figures are lovely and super detailed, and have that Halfling caricatural look that I like. While painting them I realized one doesn't save that much time  when "batch painting" 5 completely different figures with different colour schemes! I wouldn't paint 10 at a time, that's for sure. 

I painted each one individually, but I did favour green and brown tones, which I find are traditional Halflings colours. I went with a super old school "goblin green" style of base to get a bit of that old 80s Citadel/AD&D vibe, but also because I didn't want to detract from the figures and wanted to keep a very woodland vibe to the whole bunch.

So 5 28mm (if a bit of the smaller side of the scale! ) figures equals 25pts for this week.

ByronM: Looks like one last minute entry for this Wednesday, and what a lovely entry it is!  Cool miniatures, and an excellent paint job, especially on something that small Iannick.  I like all of the different colours you used here, and the super clean painting. I can't wait to see the rest of these as they are done.  I have images of them fighting their way through a dungeon in one of our Otherworld games vs the Pig Faced Orcs and the infamous Murder-hobo's. Well done, 25 last minute points for you.