Monday, 18 July 2022

LOTR Ranger conversions

 I've been building my LOTR collection for about 10 years now and hopefully it continues for another 10!

The scale and size is important to the cohesion of my collection, and unfortunately the plastic Rangers miniatures are too big and chunky in comparison to the plastic warriors of Minas Tirith. 

Luckily it was a simple head sculpt and a random knife glued in place to make the warriors of Rohan into something passable as a ranger.

And quick and rough sculpting turned a warrior of Minas Tirith into a suitable captain miniature.






Harpies, Scorpions, Ghosts


 

Few more shots of test sculpts/prints. 

I'm not sold on the colour schemes yet but they paint up nice none the less.








Sunday, 3 July 2022

Kobaloi

 Blogger seems to be on the blink again so I've not posted (or even commented on blogs I follow) much lately.

The 3D sculpting and printing learning continues.

Kobaloi for greek mythology have become little dog men for me. First time I've ever done therianthrope style creatures but it was lots of fun and I think I managed to get some nice characterisation in these.

The heads and shields are separate/multi part.

Been a while since I painted, or photographed minis, so presentation is a little rusty.








Monday, 2 May 2022

Painting Infinity PanOceania

Easy paint jobs here, purely for the enjoyment of painting.  I think each one was only about 4 hrs or so. I'm avoiding highlighting all the way up to white/near white which is the usual Infinity style.

I'm on a mission to paint up my entire Infinity collection in the next year or two and then possibly sell them.

Around 25 minis left to go...







Saturday, 19 February 2022

New Sci-Fi soldier

 The Tox Troopers have been needing a target to shoot at for a while. I'll do a scale test print of this guy soon.




Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Armoured Skeletons (Mythology)

I see tons of 3d sculpts intended for miniatures but they're pretty much vapourware as far as I'm concerned...

That said, these are some test sculpts I'll be printing soon.





Thursday, 10 February 2022

Paint jobs - 3D printed skeletons

I think these aren't bad, I could tweak them forever but they paint up well (very quick paint job and I'm a bit rusty).

The poses need a bit of work. I really like the one slightly swaying and dragging his sword and would like to get more of that characterisation into the range. 

In terms of scale style and size I think I'm good to go, next up will be making some dynamic looking poses and getting them printed. The armour will have slightly more elaboration on it so when I go in with the patina on the bronze the wash has lots of detail to pool around. I do regret the armoured skeleton pose being a bit bland but it was actually the first test print... just so happens it was spot on in terms of what I wanted and was able to paint it.

Getting ahead of myself, no reason I can't do medieval themed skeletons with these base files in the future.

For now I'm sticking to mythology.