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I made the base out of a $3 clock from Wal-Mart. The base you see is half the clock. I was considering dismantling that clock for a base, then my wife broke it and couldn't complain anymore.

Also, if you're looking to spend a little cash, Sandra Garrity sculpted the Oracle Dragon now available from Valiant. It is two feet tall and runs around $250. I did consider the McFarlan dragons, but even the larger ones were a bit small for the scale I was looking for. I wanted enormous god-like dragons, you know? McFarlan dragons are nicely detailed. I would worry about chipping paint on some of the rubber parts, but they're still quite nice. The base that he's on is about ten inches in diameter (I wanted something larger than "Colossal" size, which would only be six inches).

So, for our Iron Kingdoms RPG group, I'm pretty much always in charge of the minis. We've started up an Epic Level Campaign, in which we'll be fighting against some Dragons (and in IK, they all have to be massive Forge-World sized minis). So, I could have bought a $500 Forge World dragon or $200 on the Wizards of the Coast dragon. But instead, I went ahead and picked up a $20-$30 resin dragon from an Asian gift store at our local mall. After basing and repainting her, I think she turned out pretty well:

Yeah, gotta love the trollbloods.

I once taught an attractive girl to paint. She later became my girlfriend and is now my wife. Of course, her favorite stuff is creepy critters and the undead. Good looking mini, I sort of wish we had larger pics. Keep posting as she finishes off the crew.

The gloss on the base is working well for you.

I would probably approach the Gremlins using some of the brown-greens of the P3 line. Traitor Green would be perfect (it gives you that good, natural looking green to start out with). I would recommend working up to a flesh tone, or bone color, as both work out very well.

You know, grass is pretty easy to do. Mostly, dab a little superglue on the spots you want to have some grass popping up, pinch a little of your static grass and dab it on. Then blow on it. It actually will make it stand up. If you have any trouble with that, turn the mini upside down and blow on it. The only part that can be tricky is figuring out where to put the grass so that your composition works, and you have justification for it. On this mini, there were enough cracks between the rocks that it wasn't much of an issue.

Hm, I hadn't noticed, but now that you mention it, the begging wretch is notably absent from this piece. I think one of the strangest things about the Dark Sword line is how little they exaggerate their minis. The weapons, hands and eyes sometimes seem very small, and it is because they aren't three times as large as they should be. Of course, Wyrd takes the opposite approach, with their very exaggerated faces (like Shamus' or McMourning's). And I'm pretty sure Shamus' pistol would be a two handed gun to scale.

Well, the Wyrd board says that they like all lines of minis here, so I'll go ahead and test that. This is a Dark Sword assassin miniature (by Jeff Grace). I recently painted it for a client. The general color scheme was not my choice, but I think it turned out rather well. So here she is, all manner of commentary are welcome. I put her up on CMON if anyone cares to vote.

Not actually a Wyrd mini, but I figured that Wyrd fans would probably like the Dark Sword line too. I got to say, I love their range, they have such delicate details on their characters. The majority of the color scheme was chosen by my client. Overall, I think it turned out rather well. I put her up on CMON if anyone cares to vote.

The more simple books shelves ran 5.99 apiece, the more complex ones and larger ones ran 7.99 apiece. These pictures are really just samples. He had me do a whole library, and I can't actually remember how many pieces altogether.

You know, I could see both of those. I figure that the more the board looks like what it is representing, the better. I'd love for my minis to take cover behind a bookshelf or a sofa, you know?

All of these book cases are made by a company called Thormillion. They do quite a bit of different terrain pieces for dioramas and miniatures. Go ahead and check them out, you might find something you like.

Nice work, I like the eye shadow. Also, I hadn't thought of her in that kind of light blue before, but it really works for her.

Good work. I almost always prefer using a black undercoat - even when I'm painting the mini in all white. My go to method is layering up, and starting out with a grey or brown and working my way up to pure white is pretty easy over a darker undercoat.

I really think that an "epic" form of a lot of masters is inevitable. Also, with the way Hamelin went, we have the floodgates opened for a lot of other characters becoming masters. Anyone hoping for Rusty Alyce as a master?

I recently got a commission to do some dungeon terrain shelves. I don't actually know what my client is going to do with them, but the only miniatures game that they seem to be really right for is Malifaux. I mean, most games can't really have a battle inside a building at all, and if they do, some of the grotesque things we have on these shelves wouldn't fit in. So, here are some book shelves:

I'll chime in here on the Green Stuff side of things, although I actually use Gray Stuff more often. Overall, there isn't much difference when you're making a base. Another base that I'm fond of is cork board bases (just tear off a section that is around the right size and you'll have a nice slab of rock for your mini to stand on). Also, I tend to use a mix of train store gravel and cornmeal for the actual flocking.

I'm liking the look of your group there. All of those neutral colors really help them fit the feel of Malifaux.