We Got Big Trouble...

Apparently I’m not happy unless I’m working on at least five projects at a time, so I’ve started painting the minitures from the Big Trouble in Little China board game. It’s an older game (published in 2018 and now out of print), but I just bought it last month so I don’t think it qualifies for the spring clean challenge.

The miniatures are…not particularly good. If memory serves, I looked at the crowdfunder/pre-order for this game when it originally launched, and decided to pass on it for that very reason. But I got a chance to play it at a convention a few months ago and really enjoyed it, so I got an only slightly overpriced copy on eBay and here we are.

With board games I always want to try to match the game’s artwork as much as possible, and luckily I found the online portfolio of Ilya Golitsyn, the game’s primary artist, which was incredibly helpful.

I adopted a “whatever gets it done” approach to painting these. Jack, Gracie and Margo were primed grey, drybrushed white, and painted primarily with speedpaints. Jack’s t-shirt design is actually sculpted on, but it’s raised rather than indented so it wasn’t actually that helpful — if it had been indented it would have been easy to do with a wash, but as it is, it would have been a lot easier to just freehand the design on a blank shirt.

Wang, Eddie and Egg Shen were primed black and then drybrushed in their primary color (dark green, purple, and blue respectively). Then I triad-painted the skin tones and details, and drybrushed some source lighting (most obviously on Egg Shen).

I’m satisfied with the results, they’re definitely good enough for a board game and actually look a lot better than I was expecting. Now it’s on to the villains!