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Post by DM Exitium on Aug 10, 2017 19:37:16 GMT
As DM's we build an arsenal of miniatures, tokens, terrain and other fun artsy stuff. I just wanted to start this thread so we could share pictures of the mini's we work so hard on for ourselves and our players. Attached is my girlfriends Hero Forge mini of her black dragonborn barbarian Onyxia. Also, a Blood God warriors pack that I painted as orcs for DnD purposes since I don't play Warhammer.
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Post by DM Exitium on Aug 10, 2017 19:37:54 GMT
Here's some more orcs from that Blood God set.
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Post by DM Mitch on Aug 10, 2017 21:22:29 GMT
Ooooh. This is a thread I am super interested in! If you didnt see them on my twitter, here are the minis I painted from the new Dark Souls Board Game!
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Post by DM Exitium on Aug 10, 2017 21:44:25 GMT
You bet i saw those twitter videos! Awesome job Mitch! Here's onyxia and the orcs based and clear coated. The sword keeps breaking on onyxia :/
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Post by DM Exitium on Aug 11, 2017 10:44:04 GMT
A few props i made. A brain stressball into a legendary artifact the Mind's Eye. Also another artifact, The Lantern of Light. Came out of a hirst mold, painted and copper wire used for style. Cloud giant for scale
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Post by finallyfoundahobby on Aug 13, 2017 18:29:24 GMT
As DM's we build an arsenal of miniatures, tokens, terrain and other fun artsy stuff. I just wanted to start this thread so we could share pictures of the mini's we work so hard on for ourselves and our players. Attached is my girlfriends Hero Forge mini of her black dragonborn barbarian Onyxia. Also, a Blood God warriors pack that I painted as orcs for DnD purposes since I don't play Warhammer. Those look so awesome!!! I have spent the last 6 months mastering papercarft for terrain, buildings, and other knicknacks and have JUST started attempting to paint miniatures. So far I have just done skeletons, but we are starting to get our hero forge minis so I need to get much better at it! Any tips, supply, or resource suggestions?
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Post by DM Exitium on Aug 14, 2017 15:23:28 GMT
Those look so awesome!!! I have spent the last 6 months mastering papercarft for terrain, buildings, and other knicknacks and have JUST started attempting to paint miniatures. So far I have just done skeletons, but we are starting to get our hero forge minis so I need to get much better at it! Any tips, supply, or resource suggestions? I buy Citadel paints (the expensive ones -_- ) from my local gaming store and bought the smallest size brushes I could find at Wal-mart. Deciding those weren't cutting it, I went back to the gaming store and bought some Army Painter brushes made for this sort of painting. If you're using standard acrylic paints that aren't Mini paints you can thin them out a bit, but may have to paint multiple layers to get the color you want. Always use a Shade, without it, your mini's will look "cartoon-y" or like a kids coloring book picture. I always use a spray paint primer as my base for ease and to prevent brush strokes in the prime. If the primer looks stroke-y, the rest of it will too. ALWAYS KEEP A WET RAG NEARBY - for all those moments you go "DOH that color doesn't go THERE", and you have the chance to clean it up before it dries. IF you plan on basing your mini's....base them first before painting the rest of it. I learned the hard way by painting onyxia and the orcs first, then basing later. It becomes a glue-y mess on the boots and you end up having to re-paint the boots and legs anyways after basing. EDIT: Keep those cheap wal-mart brushes for basing your mini's. Basing is a pretty aggressive brushing using a diluted Elmer's glue, so this process usually 'ruins' brushes for any future painting applications. Always keep your basing brushes separate from your painting brushes.
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Post by DM Exitium on Aug 14, 2017 16:58:20 GMT
Here's a "progress" post of a small Watchtower I built this weekend and posted various stages of it on Twitter. The stones are made from Magic Merlin's dental stone, cast in Hirst Art Molds number 70 and 71. Hirst art molds are kind of expensive, and the options can be overwhelming so I just try to do what I can with some of the most basic of shapes from these 2 molds.
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Post by finallyfoundahobby on Aug 15, 2017 12:44:22 GMT
That is helpful- thank you, DM Exitium! If you have time the next time you paint some minis to take a picture at each stage and post them with short blurbs on what you're doing in each step, that would be very useful to newbies- thanks again!
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Post by DM Lord Neptune on Aug 15, 2017 13:24:04 GMT
I believe he had some extra photos and nice video on his twitter feed a few days ago. Very nice work with some descriptions.
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Post by DM Exitium on Aug 15, 2017 18:53:44 GMT
If you have time the next time you paint some minis to take a picture at each stage and post them with short blurbs on what you're doing in each step, that would be very useful to newbies- thanks again! Sure thing! I'll post some pics of the process next batch i start. i even post some short videos on twitter too. My handle is the same, DM Exitium
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Post by finallyfoundahobby on Aug 16, 2017 20:16:55 GMT
I have been really happy with what my husband and I have found out there for papercraft terrain. With some moss from Hobby Lobby and literally rocks from our backyard added in sometimes, it works pretty well! Here are two pictures, one from a battle ontop of an island mesa that we raised up on the table by covering a bunch of empty Pathfinder Pawn boxes with pillow cases and then terrain maps! Dave Graffam ruined archways decked out with Hobby Lobby moss worked out great. All of the minis are pre-painted D&D or Pathfinder since I do not yet have painting skills. The other pic is of our first paper terrain battle at a keep on a river. (Yes, I have since learned that those tabs at the ends of the roofs fold under...I got there!). My profile pic for these forums also has some of my paercraft in it, including one of three greenhouses I kit-bashed from a Dave Graffam longhouse using transparent paper sleeves and cut up flower buds from Hobby Lobby. It has been a ton of fun, and is why I say I have finallyfoundahobby. Attachments:
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Post by finallyfoundahobby on Aug 16, 2017 20:49:54 GMT
I realize the profile pic for the forums doesn't get bigger than tiny, so here is a picture of one of the greenhouses I made. We re-vamped Goldenfields from the Forgotten Realms into a 50 square mile mega farm split into four quardrants with two keeps. We thought it would make sense that they actually grow Goodberries there, and berries that special need a greenhouse! So, I love me some papercrafting, DM Exitium is awesome at painting minis and rocking the Hirst molds- what else are you forum peeps finding success with in creating visuals for your players? Attachments:
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Post by Chickadee (DM Trish) on Oct 19, 2017 4:34:01 GMT
I've just started working on a Fat Dragon Games dungeon (ironically for my hubby's game and not my own), but it's the EZ dungeon set so we can reuse it and reconfigure it. It's loads of fun!
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Post by finallyfoundahobby on Oct 24, 2017 1:37:29 GMT
I've just started working on a Fat Dragon Games dungeon (ironically for my hubby's game and not my own), but it's the EZ dungeon set so we can reuse it and reconfigure it. It's loads of fun! I just spent most of the weekend making the paper EZ Dungeons Highlands and some from Dwarf Lords Cliffs for my husband's game instead of mine haha. I love it too! The EZ dungeons models are great. Post some pics of your crafted dungeon in action! I'll do the same in a week or two of my cliffs whenever my party goes hunting after the Purple Worm
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