I'm Going To Post A Whole Bunch Of My Minis, All At Once Because No One Can Stop Me, So There. :)

I'm going to post a whole bunch of my minis, all at once because no one can stop me, so there. :)

Here are all my minis, nicely sorted onto my ikea shelves that I love, but also are very annoying because they don't sell extra shelves for these ones seperately >:(

All the minatures on these shelves are 3d printed.

Froghemoth! This is one of my older models, and I kinda want to redo this one at some point with what I've learnt since, but I still like him! printing him was a real pain, becaue I kept having clogs on large prints at the time. I ended up with like 3 or 4 froghemoth butts before I got a success.

Sharks! Embedded in resin cylinders with reef bases. These are some of my favourites, mostly because resin embeds are cool :D. It took me a couple of tries to figure out how to get these to work, between having to figure out how to make a smooth, cylindrical resin cast, and the first attempt melting the mini when I tried pouring all the resin at once.

If I could change one thing on these, I'd probably use just a little less dye on them. They're just a tad too opaque to really see whats going on inside.

More resin! A gelatenous cube this time, with some random bits embeded in it.

This one was simpler than the sharks, I just 3d printed a gelatenous cube mini, covered it in resin to smooth out the layer lines, and used it to make a sillicone mold I could just pour resin into. The hardest part was trying to get all the bits floating throughout, rather than just sinking to the bottom.

Kobold gang! not pictured: the 9 or so other kobolds I still need to get around to painting.

I've only fairly recently started trying to make more interesting bases for my minis, and I'm pretty happy with how these simple rocky/gravelly terrain bases turned out.

A muscly troll! Painting all the muscles on this guy was a lot of fun. It was my first attempt at highlighting shapes rather than just edge highlighting or drybrushing, and I'm pretty happy with how it went overall. Lots of room to practice the technique on this guy :D.

Hey look, I finally got around to making a tumblr account (/finding I already had an old one I’d never used), and I finished off painting my blue dragon (aside from the base)!

Clearly the universe is telling me to start sharing my painted minis. 

(this is a print of the Drake model from Rocket Pig Games https://rocketpiggames.com/Drake-p165097258)

Clockwork minotaur and shield golem! Metallic paints are a lot of fun to play with.

The clockwork minotaur was a lot of fun both to paint, and to design a base for. I imagined this guy as being some sort of gladiatorial arenas trump card, for cocky fighters to get wrecked by. Its my first attempt at a base that tells a bit of a story about the mini, rather than just being an attempt at a terrain it might be found in.

Beholders! And an old gazer, because he makes me laugh. The beholders were the first thing I painted once I got my hands on an airbrush, and they made playing around with it super fun. The blue one got significantly less fun once I realised I'd commited myself to painting half a million tiny spikes though.

I also really enjoyed painting the big central eyes, particularly on the green beholder. You might recognise that eye if you look closely ;) .

The lump on the gazers tongue over on the right is from where I managed to snap it in two while painting, followed by hasty and poorly thought out superglue+baking soda repairs. I like to imagine he maybe got stung by a bee on it right there. Serves him right for licking the floor like that, the gross little eyeball :P

This hill giant was a bit of an experiment with the airbrush. I tried doing his skin by doing a zenythal prime, then spraying over it with transparent ink to get easy highlights and shadows. It sorta worked, but I'm not convinced by the skin tone and I kept having to start over because I'd try adding a wash before the ink had fully set. After the third time I had to start over completely on him I just couldn't be bothered to take another shot at it and left the skin tone as it was.

I also tried making his fur look a bit like grass, I thought it might be a cool idea if when sitting down he could be mistaken for a hill. It doesn't quite look right to me though in the end.

IDK, I'm just not totally sold on this guy overall.

A whole collection of buggy minis. Most of these are from earlier on in my attempts at painting, since the bases are all pretty plain.

It was when I was painting all those spider thingos at the back that I realised how boring it was having just a whole bunch of minis all in the same pose. Since then, I've made a concious effort to find multiple poses when I'm printing more than just 1 or 2 of a creature. It makes finding minis a bit harder, but I think its worth it for a more interesting end result.

And finally for tonight, this is either the first or second mini I ever painted, I'm not entirely sure. I've definitely come a long way since then, but I like keeping him around as a reminder of how much I've improved for when I get frustrated at a mini not turning out quite how I hoped :)

As promised, the finished Octopus, waves all dried and painted. Those bubbles are definitely in the way, but you can still make out theres an octopus in there, so its not a complete loss :).

Different angles, and next to one of my sharks. Tried doing the waves slightly different for the octopus, but I think I prefer the ones on the shark in the end. Oh well, still looks pretty nifty anyway :)

Making the resin dam: Here.

Pouring the resin: Here.

A Y'shtola figurine I painted for @yoshikagequeen as a Christmas gift.

I don't know much about FF14, but this was a pretty cool model to paint. Especially since that orb in the staff gave me an excuse to play with the gloss varnish I've had banging around for a while.

Its kind of fun to paint stuff using a reference for the colours, though sometimes finding a good angle to work out what colour a specific thing is can be frustrating. The model was very accurate to the references I found though, which was very helpful.

This model was made by EllaArt.

Double post! I realised I never actually made a post about this halfling smith I painted last week, which is a travesty, because she's cool as heck! Also, she's a four fingered smith now, because I'm a clutz and dropped her while carrying her over to take pictures ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One of the great things about 3d printing, is that when I want to paint a mini like this to display on a shelf rather than use on a table, I can just scale it up a bit before printing, rather than having an oddly sized mini on a shelf next to a bunch of larger figurines!

I really like how all the different colours and materials came together on this paint job, I think I managed to keep everything cohesive but distinct.

I'm also pretty happy with how the skin tone came out. I tried something a bit different to what I usually do, by mixing my favourite light skin tone paint with a little bit of reddish brown paint to get a slightly more tan colour as a base I could work up from. I think it turned out great, and really suits this halfling smith!

This print is Helen, the Blacksmith Halfling by Bite The Bullet