17mm...

One minute I'm trying to paint up some of the great Copplestone 15mm* barbarians, next minute I've started sculpting a load of minis in the same scale!

I'm torn between casting some stuff up like this, could do a skirmish/dungeon crawl set... or could do full blown armies in ranks maybe.

Left to right: Uruk-Hai Spartan, Arabian good guy spearman, Far Eastern legion bad guy, skeleton.

(spot the Fallen Dwarf. His heads loose in case I want to use this as a little dolly"

Few others in progress as well but not photographed.

I'll take a break from sculpting for a few days and have a think about what to do with them...

*actually 17mm.

Techno Resurrection...

No not a techno themed reunion night (not that I was ever into techno...), but a good chance I'll be able to offer some of the Techno Communion for sale again in the near future.

I've spent a fair amount on "R&D"the last few months in addition to contracting molds for stock parts like the Greek mythology dollies, meaning the small book that is Miniatures of the North is now well into the red: so I can sell some casts again as a means to break even.

Watch out for a future post on the blog for availability...

Also, some personal conversions I knocked up from old mis-casts:

New mold commission - Peacekeepers

Quick shot of the mold plate layout for a new bunch of miniatures, I'm hoping I can make some available for purchase in the coming months.

These are my Byzantine oppressive police force, 3 come armed with rifles, 3 with pistols and 1 with a riot shield and electric stun baton.

I guess the only thing that makes them "science fantasy" is that they are all armed with knives as well...

Combat Protocols_

A few snippets of things for Rebellion Protocol (where my sci-fi sculpts are set)...

New year images...

2 months since my last post... I'm pretty sure I had a hobby drought of around 7 weeks or so. It's over now.

Few bits and pieces to show off here, nothing particularly fancy!

Some WIP character sculpts for Rebellion Protocol:

Some new bits for the Fallen Dwarf range, 2 handed weapon guys that will be nice single piece items and a couple of grenadiers (who will chuck gunpowder potion grenades):

Some dollies I made prepped for sculpting, there's another faun dolly not pictured. Now what to make first, ancient mythology or sci-fi mythology...

Warm up sculpts I did, relatively simple and almost heroic in style, perfect for smothering in detail:

Metal Detected

Check all of this out, just arrived today. I spent about an hour cleaning it all up with an old toothbrush and soapy water to remove the mold release powder.

The thing that's great about doing this as a hobby and not having to care about seeking profits is that you get free reign to do whatever you want! Contained within this lot of casts are some personal items that I've made purely for myself (for now):

• Clockpunk conversion parts (for use with my own sculpts AND Victrix Napoleonic plastics.) Lots of arms and heads. Also, 80 zombie conversion sprues, zombie head and arms, destined for some plastic Napoleonic infantry.)

• Ancient Greek conversion parts (for use with my own sculpts AND Victrix Ancient Greek plastics.) Lots of cooler heads and arms with swords! Also some shields of my own design.

• And a variety of dollies for future use...

Oh here's a design for an alien mutant range I intend to make, dollies for them somewhere in that metal mess above...

Away for molding

Just about to send these dollies off to go into a mold. This photo looks like it's from the 80's but I took it quickly today.

I'll show them all off in detail in the near future once I've sculpted over the top of them! I'm working on another mold's worth of stock parts - heads, weapons, etc.etc. but the mold after that might be something I'll make available to folks.... Peacekeepers.

P.S. those new greatcoats will be used among other things to make these Redcoats:

P.P.S. any digital artists out there (better than me, easy...) interested in commissions drop me a link to your portfolio in the comments and I'll get in contact. Used universe sci-fi characters and environments for Rebellion Protocol.