On the workbench: Spectre Miniatures’ U.S. Covert/Overt:

This completes my paint work on all six of the covert/overt pairs. I need to seal this one, base her and the U.K. agent, and then there’ll be some better and more-contextual photography in the Flickr gallery. I may throw a spot of black wash on her shoes; as it is, they’re a bit too monocolor for the “women’s casual hiking shoes” look I was seeking.

I’ve seen some complaints levied against Spectre’s newer sculpts – some consumers feel that the computer-rendered figures are too “samey-samey,” and I certainly can see how the sculptor might feel a temptation to reuse elements. However, in terms of paintability, the consistently clean lines of a CAD-derived figure coming out of a new mold are a joy to work with, especially when I contemplate some of the melty-edged 30-year-old Ral Partha minis that are still in the stack of to-be-painted boxes in the basement.