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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nyrfherdr" data-source="post: 2742550" data-attributes="member: 3394">Thanks Joe.  I appreciate your kind words.I obviously love miniatures.  I've been painting for countless years.  I started customizing about 6 years ago and about 2 years ago started sculpting.I learned to sculpt on my own as a labor of love and something I'd always wanted to try since I purchased my first mini.I learned a lot from web sites and books. But the key was to just practice.  My first sculpts were really bad.  I've thrown away some even though my wife thought I should keep them.  Even with 'failure' I kept at it.  The stuff I produce now gets the job done.This year at GenCon Indy I took a couple of seminars from some greats... Bobby Jackson and Gene Van Horne.  At GenCon SoCal, I found another couple of seminars led by Matt Gubser.I learned a lot.  They taught me some much improved techniques.  But even with that, it takes practice...You'll see if it helped when I finish some new sculpts I'm working on...On the topic of custom mini's.  I found that character mini's are readily available. Some key monsters are readily available. Now with Wizards D&D Mini's, you even get some unusual monsters, but I was still often sitting on a great villian but didn't have a great representation.  I would sometimes change my vision of a villian to match a miniature.With my sculpting, I've been able to more closely match a villain with a miniature or to customize a miniature to match a character more closely. (I've found my players often challenging the envelope on that score.)  But mostly it is the ability to craft something in 3 dimensions that only existed in 2 before.  That part is COOL!Just some ramblings from the nyrfherdrGame ON!</blockquote>

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