Bones Miniatures: Resurrection in Red

Hey, I'm painting miniatures again!  I gave up on painting miniatures shortly after COVID-19 quarantine lockdown.    

But now I'm back.  Sadly, I gave up painting WHILE several miniatures were half-painted.  "Red" was the theme.  First step was to sponge 4 years of dust off my batch of red minis, repair any damage, and finish the paint job.  It wasn't that onerous!

Here we see a landscape with some civilians and (anti-)heroes, some thugs, and a red dragon.  All of these miniatures were rewards from Reaper's "Bones" Kickstarter campaigns.  If you want a big pile of miniatures, these Kickstarters will deliver--eventually.

A close-up on the left,  shows Reaper mascot Sophie working hard as a waitress (Bones 4 #160); yes, she has devilish wings, but unless she's tempting us with Gluttony, she doesn't seem TOO scary.  Because of the season as I write this, I can only think of her as "Oktoberfest Sophie."  

Next to Sophie is an elegant lady (Bones 4 #146).  Is she hiring our adventurers to loot a dungeon for her?

And next, we see the adventurers: a troop of somewhat comical subterranean "Bloodstone Gnomes" (Bones 4 #505~).  I don't know what the inspiration for these was, nor what their deal is.  I tried to paint their armor like green bronze with bright red ("bloodstone") insets; I MAY have been channeling my desire for pimiento-stuffed olives.  

In the dungeon, we encounter some dangerous characters, like a Gladiatrix (Bones 4 #92), a Bandit (Bones 4 #102), and Vatanis the charismatic Tiefling (Bones 4 #424).  Are they working together to defeat that evil female Efreeti (Bones 4 #735)?

Finally, plotting evil deep in the dungeon is a Red (fire-breathing) Dragon (Bones 1 "Here there be dragons" option).

You'd think I would be painting dragons all the time, for the Dungeons & DRAGONS game, but dragons are TOUGH for players to fight, and tough for game masters to play--most of them are pretty smart.  I don't know how to make them interesting or fun.  So I tend to NOT use them in the game; and because I don't need them, I don't paint them.  But this was bugging me; the dragons were piling up, so I decided to bite the bullet and paint a dragon.  And why not the classic fire-breathing red dragon?

But after finishing them, I remembered that I have a Linguist friend who is hard at work studying Welsh right now.  So I was inspired to recreate the Welsh flag with this scene.

All this is an attempt to "clear the pipeline" so I can paint OTHER miniatures in the immediate future.