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Continuing and in fact ending today’s inadvertent theme of models sculpted by chaps I actually know [except the Khorgorath- no idea who sculpted that] here’s An Unwelcome Guest, who bears absolutely no resemblance to any multi-dimensional coffee-hunting beings made by any musical talents. Nope.
I didn’t think this was actually going to be cast and sold when it first got sculpted, so it was a pleasant surprise that I jumped on straight away. Zilt- An Unwelcome Guest doesn’t have a lot of extravagant detail and so is a very quick and fun paint. Right out of the blister, he came with a stat card for the game Wasteman and a default base- this was a flat plastic disc that’s honestly too small for this mini, so I pinned him to one of GW’s new 32mm rounds- my current go-to for display miniatures of this size- with a circle of wire mesh for suitably sci-fi decking. The colours were cribbed entirely from a hand puppet and an album belonging to my partner, which both depict a suspiciously similar creature. It’s probably a coincidence though.