A Y'shtola Figurine I Painted For @yoshikagequeen As A Christmas Gift.

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.

BOO! Spooked yah, right? Don't worry, these ghosts aren't real, just miniatures. :P

I mentioned in a previous post that I found I could dye clear resin prints colours with alchohol inks, and these ghosts are actually what I figured that out on!

I did these quite a while back, but then I left them for a few weeks until I made some bases, and then I left them sitting in my light box for a couple more weeks before actually taking these photos, because for some reason I really just didn't want to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the transparent ghostly effect is cool, but I also really like the bases I did for them too. This was me trying out adding little extra bits to them, going for a bit of a haunted manor theme. I'm pretty happy with it on the whole, although I think the beer mug and the pot are just a bit too big and attention grabbing. I really want the focus to be on the mini, with the base elements blending in more. I am quite happy with how the kitchen tile bases came out too. I started out trying to freehand sculpt them out of greenstuff, then when I figured out that I am not by any means a compenent enough sculptor to make that work, I quickly designed and printed a little tile impression jig to make clean, straight tiles for me. I made and printed it fast enough that I didn't waste my greenstuff, so thats pretty cool I think.

On the whole, I'm happy to have these translucent spooky ghosts in my collection.

Miniatures in this post are made by:

Townfolks ghost male and Townfolks ghost female by Titan Forge Miniatures.

Ghost by Great Grimoire.

Base in this post are made by:

Gothic Tombstones by Medusa Miniatures.

Table Scatter, Extra Dining Items, Books, Piles & Rows by Darkest Desire.

Candle Holders by Pellinor.

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.

Finished painting this neat sculpt of Samus the other day!

I just did a fairly simple paint job on this one. Partly because I think it works well for the video game kinda look, and partly because I'd forgotten how poorly my orange and yellow paints cover, and I decided I wanted to deal with that as little as possible. I think it turned out pretty well though, the dark wash I put in the seams of the armour panels really helps make up for the lack of highlighting.

Theres a bit of an attempt at a glow effect in the barrel of her arm cannon, and on the bits of her armour mid-assembly. Its not amazing or anything, but I think you can kind of see what I was going for with it. Having lighting effects beyond just highlighting from above is something I've mostly avoided in my painting so far, but its somethign I want to start playing with. Its a bit daunting, but I think it will be rewarding if I can get it down.

I also realised as I was painting this that I've never actually played a metroid game. The most direct exposure I think I've ever had was watching one of my cousins play one of the games on his Gameboy at christmas. I feel like this is something I should rectify at some point.

This neat model is Samus Aran - Metroid - 25cm model by Printed Obsession. (The print pictured above is scaled down from 25cm to fit with my other prints).

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)

I was playing with a cheap necklace I got off wish a while back, and managed to break this starry cabachon off it (I threw it into a fan on accident, no further questions).

I thought it was a cool little piece, so I went ahead and put together a wizardy table for it in fusion360, printed it out, slapped some paint on it, and here it is! Just a quick little scatter piece. I guess the ruined portal from my last post has me in a wizardy mood.

I like using fusion360, I'm still fairly inexperienced with it, but that just means I can learn new things each time! This time I figured out how to use the sweep tool to create the swoopy tubes running up the sides of the table.

Also pictured, Edwin, my sorcerer PC from a Curse of Strahd game I'm in! He was the most wizardly character I had on my shelf. I should fix that at some point.

If you want to get the file for this, you can find it here.