homemade miniatures
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Mark
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the Jester
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I have a fantastic home-made dragon (made by a friend of me and sprung on the players by surprise when their characters fought a dragon!) I don't have a picture or a camera, though... I'll have to try to get a photo taken.
Upper_Krust
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Hi Mark mate! 
I just replied in your message boards. Looking good. You are getting better. Are you going to do them all the same colour? (Also I thought you were going to do them green?)
Mark said:
I just replied in your message boards. Looking good. You are getting better. Are you going to do them all the same colour? (Also I thought you were going to do them green?)
Mark
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Upper_Krust said:Hi Mark mate!
I just replied in your message boards. Looking good. You are getting better. Are you going to do them all the same colour? (Also I thought you were going to do them green?)
Howdy Krusty!
I still have the other two if I want to try out some other colo(u)r schemes.
(I forgot to add a mushroom to the base for you...
)
Upper_Krust
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Mark said:Howdy Krusty!
Hi Mark mate!
Mark said:(I forgot to add a mushroom to the base for you...
...you are not a jedi yet!
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By day, he's a mild mannered host of a children's science show on public television...
But when the thugs are out, he becomes...
Mr. Sticky!
The rubberized super hero!
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Here's a picture of a figure I made for a Champions rpg several years ago. I made it from foil and papier-mâché. The smaller figure if for when he had his shrinking power on. One of my most favorite characters ever.
FungiMuncher
But when the thugs are out, he becomes...
Mr. Sticky!
The rubberized super hero!
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Here's a picture of a figure I made for a Champions rpg several years ago. I made it from foil and papier-mâché. The smaller figure if for when he had his shrinking power on. One of my most favorite characters ever.
FungiMuncher
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One more pic of that Mini.
unpainted GW's are for scale
Few moths ago I made 2 black puddings using black candle wax and wire. one is about 35mm across (7 feet wide or so game scale) with a wave like part of its bulk lifting up as if to cover a man sized victim. This mini is about right for the 1E and 2E black puddings.
Now the other one , I had been debating the size of the 3E slimes. For some reason the oozes if 3e all have facings like a snake. What I am betting they thought the descriptions of the puddings xx wide and yy thick was referring to a oval / rectangle shape when the descriptive text actually referred to a sorta circular blob shape xx round that was yy high. After I decided that I was going to go with the xx round yy high interpretation [all pudding have been round since 1e] I decided to make the largest black pudding possible..
Size: 4.75 inches wide or 23 3/4 scale feet across [yes, an ooze the size of a Compact Disc]
material used
1 AOL CD for the base
3 black votive candles
1 tube of thick P.V.A. glue[school, white, elmers glue all the same, just don’t waste your money on games workshop’s pva]
1 tube of cheap black gloss paint.
1 Small paint brush[not a good one used for minis]
1 bit of cheap string
1 fist sized hunk of Styrofoam
a couple feet of floral wire, thin
a bit of masking tape.
I took the hunk of Styrofoam and tore off chunks to give the goo a wave like mass at one side, a mound that I would later attach a wire pseudopodia to and I cut a small hole into which I stuck a cone of masking tape. I glued the Styrofoam to the CD.
For the Psudopod I took the wire and made a thickest to thin to thick [¾” to 1/3” to ½”] shape with little open space. I attached this to the mound I had made for it. I then made a flat web of wire I attached to the crest of the slime wave to give it the look like its victim was about to suffer a wipe out.
Now have you seen the late 80’s / early 90s Blob remake? Do you remember the scene where the blob forms a mouth like opening to “swallow” the girl? I tried to make a opening like that on the pudding. To do so I took a bit of masking tape, rolled it into a cone and stuck it into the Styrofoam. Then I cut up the tape a little at the opening to give a organic look.
Next to make sure the white of the Styrofoam did not show through I painted the mass gloss black[also this helps to hide the wire a little better].
Once the paint was dry I took a candle, lit it and dribble the wax onto the Styrofoam. I ran a pencil into the hole in the CD into the Styrofoam to hold it better
unpainted GW's are for scale
Few moths ago I made 2 black puddings using black candle wax and wire. one is about 35mm across (7 feet wide or so game scale) with a wave like part of its bulk lifting up as if to cover a man sized victim. This mini is about right for the 1E and 2E black puddings.
Now the other one , I had been debating the size of the 3E slimes. For some reason the oozes if 3e all have facings like a snake. What I am betting they thought the descriptions of the puddings xx wide and yy thick was referring to a oval / rectangle shape when the descriptive text actually referred to a sorta circular blob shape xx round that was yy high. After I decided that I was going to go with the xx round yy high interpretation [all pudding have been round since 1e] I decided to make the largest black pudding possible..
Size: 4.75 inches wide or 23 3/4 scale feet across [yes, an ooze the size of a Compact Disc]
material used
1 AOL CD for the base
3 black votive candles
1 tube of thick P.V.A. glue[school, white, elmers glue all the same, just don’t waste your money on games workshop’s pva]
1 tube of cheap black gloss paint.
1 Small paint brush[not a good one used for minis]
1 bit of cheap string
1 fist sized hunk of Styrofoam
a couple feet of floral wire, thin
a bit of masking tape.
I took the hunk of Styrofoam and tore off chunks to give the goo a wave like mass at one side, a mound that I would later attach a wire pseudopodia to and I cut a small hole into which I stuck a cone of masking tape. I glued the Styrofoam to the CD.
For the Psudopod I took the wire and made a thickest to thin to thick [¾” to 1/3” to ½”] shape with little open space. I attached this to the mound I had made for it. I then made a flat web of wire I attached to the crest of the slime wave to give it the look like its victim was about to suffer a wipe out.
Now have you seen the late 80’s / early 90s Blob remake? Do you remember the scene where the blob forms a mouth like opening to “swallow” the girl? I tried to make a opening like that on the pudding. To do so I took a bit of masking tape, rolled it into a cone and stuck it into the Styrofoam. Then I cut up the tape a little at the opening to give a organic look.
Next to make sure the white of the Styrofoam did not show through I painted the mass gloss black[also this helps to hide the wire a little better].
Once the paint was dry I took a candle, lit it and dribble the wax onto the Styrofoam. I ran a pencil into the hole in the CD into the Styrofoam to hold it better
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