Haven't built anything in a while. Been painting. Mage Knight is all prepainted of course, but while many figures are okay (and can even be cleaned and repainted) some are an outright horror, with godawful misshapen sculpts. Thankfully the worst offenders are a minority. My long term plan is to replace all the really awful figures (or the merely mediocre ones for figures I like a lot or play heavily), with nice minis stolen from various other lines.
I last painted minis many years ago, so I started easy enough, using acetone to strip nice sculpts and repainting them as best I could. This was a good example - he's easy to work with since he's bigger than most existing minis and is a snarly dragon, so small errors mattered less (this sculpt is probably one of my very favourite of the MK minis and is very nice with fine detail once you strip the glopped-on paint off).
I started actually basing metal slotta minis on MK bases. This was an adventure! Cutting slots in the clix dials and grinding down the slotta tab so it's only maybe 1.5 mm deep.
This one I did about two months ago. It was the second mini I'd really done anything with (haven't bothered with pics of the first).
Then, doing my next minis, I discovered that yes, those ink washes actually are useful after all, and oh wow what an improvement.
An old unit of six shadow warriors becomes a set of non-unique Bowmen, plus two uniques heroes of the same mold.
Obligatory cleric chick. FYI, the board is resizing this image (on my browser, this is the only pic in this post that's being resized, so that's why I'm mentioning it specifically).
Finally, a random border-captain. Trying some actual freehand stuff.