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Post by themadengineer on Aug 29, 2015 3:30:47 GMT
Hi everyone! I'm new to the forum, although I've been following the work of DMscotty and other crafters for a good while now. I figure I'd spend this time to show off some miniatures I've made, and others that I based. I can't always claim credit for the techniques used for these, but I feel that I've provided my own flair to them. I'll give a brief description of where I got the figures, and how I worked on them. This is a miniature for a bookworm that I used in a Library campaign. I basically used the Purple worm technique by DmScotty to create these tokens. I made this creature into separate tokens, so I could make bookworms that were only two segments long, up to four segments. The rules I were using basically had these move like in the Atari game "Centipede", with each body segment trailing along behind the head. each segment had a touch attack, and once two or more segments were in proximity to a character, they could grapple them. Really made the party plan out their moves.
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Post by themadengineer on Aug 29, 2015 3:41:05 GMT
This is a sinister miniature I made almost entirely out of scratch. I had a skull and crossbones bead, and I really thought that it could make a good looking face. So I created a miniature, using hotglue and a curved wire to create the hunched over body, and the clothes and arms made out of pva and tissue paper. I gave him cuffs and patches on his cloak made from masking tape, the buttons made of beads, and the hat's brim made out of masking tape. I gave it all texture with a thin layer of modeling paste, which gives it a muddy and ratty appearance, while reinforcing the structure. I cut off the crossbones from the bead, and used it as a head for the miniature. Now, since this particular miniature was based off of a nightmare I had as a child, I knew I needed to go all out. I extended the base using toilet roll tube cardboard, and wrapped wire around a "staff" made of toothpick. I soldered a tea-light LED to it, and linked it through the base to a battery housing of my own design. Its really janky, and if I were to do it again, I'd use magnetic tape instead of relying on layers of cardstock to smush the battery against its tinfoil contacts... The tea light LED was painted up, and the lamp housing was simply more masking tape and modeling paste. The "panes" are painted on. The base is modeling paste and tea leaves. The mushrooms are wire with modeling paste on them.
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Post by themadengineer on Aug 29, 2015 3:54:26 GMT
This is another scratch-build miniature. I had a cowskull bead, and I really needed a grim reaper figure for my collection. So I went full Wild Hunt on this one. I gave him an armature of wire, covered it in hot glue, and attached the arms and head, which were just more wires and the bead, respectively. I then used PVA and paper towel to give him his robe, and used dried twigs to make his antlers. I textured his robes with modeling paste while also blending it into the base, and attached some wargames factory skeleton pieces. I wanted it to seem like they were stuck in the swirl around him, and I purposefully made him slightly taller than my 28 mm figures. His staff was a fancy toothpick, but I might replace it with a spear in the future. I might also revisit his paint job, since I've learnt a lot since then.
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Aug 30, 2015 0:29:06 GMT
Howdy,
Damn girl! There's some competition in the house now boys!
Your stuff is fantastic, Kev! EXALT BUTTON!!! of course!
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Post by themadengineer on Aug 30, 2015 2:35:42 GMT
Haha, thanks. I've always been into crafting, but the scrapbooking stuff everyone seemed to be doing around me never held my interest... not gruesome enough. Finding DnD when I went to college was a huge inspiration! An irritation I've had is that almost all the bugs you get at the craft store are always either dragonflies, ladybugs, butterflies, or bees. What gives with that?! Where are all the spiders, wasps, and scorpions? Don't they deserve to be made into necklaces too? Fortunately, making your own bugs isn't too difficult: I made these out of various assorted bugs from a toobz that a teacher friend of mine didn't need. I cut off the dragonfly's legs and tail, along with a scorpion's stinger, and attached this demon nymph's new limbs using goop craft glue. For painting, I made sure to wash the wings yellow and a bit of black to bring out the veins. As luck would have it, I accidentally smudged the paint and created a stippling pattern on the wings that kinda match actual insects. The flying "stands" are just plastic tubing from a new paintbrush's packaging, filled with hotglue. If I were to do this again, I'd use a gluestick made from a more transparent plastic. The bits on the base are just more wargames factory skeleton bits - super useful for basing stuff, even if the actual skeleton miniatures are way too fragile for my liking. Here are some swarms of beetles that also featured in the Gibbering Mouther encounter I talked about in this thread. Finally, a use for some cheap foam ladybugs - this took a while, but I temporarily glued down each individual bug on a piece of card, and proceeded to texture their "shells" with hot glue. I then textured a woodsie circle using hot glue as well, and proceeded to populate them with the beetles. I based it black, and dragged metallic red paint across the little critters with a bristle brush to bring out the texture.
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