Finished: Sand Sprinter and Erroish Beast Trainer

 

Another small project finished. I had those two models printed since either October or November last year, but recently I just felt the urge to finally slap some paint on them. The sculpts were created by the talented artists at Print Minis. They create a very wide range of miniatures suitable to use in gothic, sci-fi settings and games such as Space Weirdos, Grimdark Future: Firefight (especially as the Gangs of Eden), Xenos Rampant or, if you want a game from the currently biggest publisher: Necromunda.

The Miniatures

Those two minis come from the Sand Sprinters and Erroish Beast Trainer set. These particular Sprinter is a male, but there is also a female version of the bug available, as well as a version of the trainer kneeling near his companion and gently patting it, suitable for a diorama or an NPC element in a game.

The scuplts printed without issues and the support removal was a breeze. I was a little bit afraid of snapping the fiddly bits on the Sprinter, but all the claws survived  the process, even without using warm water.

The Sprinter's sculpt is quite simple in its design and it yields to speedpaint really well, it was a real joy to paint this particular miniature! The Trainer has a fair number of details, but it is well within the limits of what is fun to paint and it is definitely not overwhelming.

The Scheme

I decided to paint those minis as part of my Ash Waste Nomads tribe. This means that for the Trainer I used the exact same scheme as for the Nomads. The Sprinter is just three paints over a slapchop gradient: Plasmatic Bolt for the carapace, Bony Matter for the legs and soft underbelly and Ratling Grime for mandibles and claws.

Summary

This is a great set and I wholeheartedly recommend buying and printing it to anyone that wants to add to their collection of sci-fi post apocalyptic wastelands denizens!