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ghost dragon unpainted [Permalink]

Here's a picture of one of my dragon figures. It's unpainted, but it still looks cool. I'm waiting to paint it until I get a little more experience; don't want to mess up a dragon!

Posted by shawker on Friday, 28 February 2003
Tags: hobby miniatures

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Sylph (1/6) [Permalink]

This is an old ral partha "demon woman" piece (1 of 6). I've had it for a long time. It used to be all gold (gold spraypaint. that was fun to get off, let me tell you. i had to soak it in oven cleaner for about 24 hours and then scrub it with a toothbruth for 30 minutes). I painted the entire thing in a few hours. It was quite fun. I tried some new skin painting techniques on this figure, and it looks really good in person. The scan doesn't really do it justice. I'll post the others as I complete them. Enjoy!

Posted by shawker on Saturday, 22 February 2003
Tags: hobby miniatures

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elementals [Permalink]

And hey - here's some elementals. These were soooo easy to paint it took about 10 minutes for both of them:

Posted by shawker on Saturday, 22 February 2003
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clerics [Permalink]

Here are some clerics I painted a while back for the dragonchess game:

Posted by shawker on Saturday, 22 February 2003
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pillars of good and evil [Permalink]

And here we have a scan of the pillars of good and evil. I'm using these for the dragonchess oliphant (rook) pieces:

A note on all these images recently: i'm using a scanner to scan them, rather than using a digital cam or even scanning pictures; and thus they all appear slightly washed out and the colors don't come through with nearly the detail that exists on the pieces themselves, but it gives the general idea of what i'm working on.

-->Scott

Posted by shawker on Thursday, 20 February 2003
Tags: hobby miniatures

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dragonchess good thief [Permalink]

Here's the good thief for my dragonchess set:

Posted by shawker on Thursday, 20 February 2003
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dragonchess evil thief [Permalink]

Here's a scan of the evil thief i painted for the dragonchess game:

Posted by shawker on Thursday, 20 February 2003
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coin cast [Permalink]

Here's a much better scan of the final product of the mold i created from the olympic coin:

Posted by shawker on Thursday, 20 February 2003
Tags: hobby

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sculpey mold [Permalink]

Here's another picture you might find interesting. It's a mold i created from sculpey clay. I took a commerative olympic coin and made an impression which i then poured into a mold. Here's the result:

(sorry for the poor lighting - future images will be better)

Since this image was taken i've made several more molds. One was an Uruk-hai soldier that i used as a lid for a tomb which is currently on display in my cube at work.

Posted by shawker on Thursday, 20 February 2003
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Prison Tower [Permalink]

I promised pictures. Many more are coming, but here's the first. It's also my first attempt at using the Hirst Arts castlemold bricks. This is the prison tower (building instructions came with the mold).

You'll notice that there are obvious spaces in a few spots; i've improved since then :) To give you a sense of scale, this tower is approximately 7.5 inches tall - it works wonderfully with 25mm scale miniatures.

Posted by shawker on Wednesday, 12 February 2003
Tags: hobby terrain

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sculpey clay [Permalink]

Just when you thought you had all the uses for sculpey clay figured out, you find another one. I'm always having my wife mold little pieces for my miniatures out of the stuff - like doors and barrels. But there's a whole new use i just discovered.

You can use it to make temporary molds and cast just about anything you like. I was reading a newsgroup and someone suggested trying out super-flex to make a cheap mold. i didn't have any super-flex, but it's made by sculpey, so i thought i'd try some sculpey. It worked beautifully. I'll post some pictures tomorrow. There was a lot of detail. The only drawback is that you have to pretty much ruin the mold to get the piece out, but i was just doing a bunch of impressions of pre-existing things anyway, so it was no big deal.

If you have any sculpey lying around, i'd suggest trying it out!

-->Scott

Posted by shawker on Monday, 3 February 2003
Tags: hobby

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