Using Miniatures?

[JoeGKushner]

So what's everyone working on right now? I just finished a few for my Tuesday group.
http://www.reapermini.com/gallery/exalted/61020_G
I painted him with a red cap, white boots and gloves and black outfit. He's my fighter 1/Mage 5 (going into Eldritch Knight) that wields a greatsword.

http://www.reapermini.com/gallery/exalted/61024_G
One of the guys is playing an Aiel from Wheel of Time. Primarily brown but with red belt and white sash.

http://www.reapermini.com/gallery/warlord/14062_G
Pretty much silver. Blue cape but white fur and red runes in the sword. He's a fighter assiamar in the game going into the paladin class.

http://store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/image.asp
This guy was standard trollslayer. Bright orange hair, brown paints, silver metalic axe. He's a fighter-barbarian and actually uses a dwarven war axe and a dagger of speed +3 (GM thought I'd use it since I'm the mage but failed to count on me using a greatsword in preference.) Works well for him.

The thief is the young thief from Iron Winds, but they have no image of him up.

Couldn't get the images to work right...

One of these days I've gotta get a website to at least host the images... Sheesh.

 

[diaglo]

i've gotta paint my new animal companion for my hin ranger

a dire packrat


read the story hour in my sig for a description of him this weekend.

 

[derelictjay]

I'm behind on my miniature painting, with 10 unfinished and over one hundred unpainted. I just can't seem to get myself back to the painting table.

 

[The_Gunslinger658]

Hi ya-

I still think my plan with us disguised as goat hearders would have worked in gaining the upper hand with the red Mage.

Great images Joe, Though I think Desert Lad the Aiel is bit less clothed. Though I was busting up when he kept refering to himself as Ariel and we all shot back with, your not a mermaid!

I gotta figure out who in more incompetent, me or desert lad with the roll of dice.

scott

 

[nyrfherdr]

I'm working on a couple of mini's for characters in the group.
They have mini's that are representative now, but a couple need something more dramatic as they are approaching double digit levels.

I have a recurring thread in the Art, Cartographry and Mini thread with photos of completed work. I just need to figure out how to refer to the thread in my signature line.

I love mini's!

Game ON!
Nyrfherdr

 

[Quasqueton]

Do y'all find a cool mini and build a character based on it, or do you build a character and then try to find a mini that looks like it?

For me, I like finding a mini first. Building a character with no base/guide is extremely easy. Building a character on a mini concept is challenging enough to be fun.

Quasqueton

 

[DarkSoldier]

I like to build characters around the miniature; I find it a lot easier.

I'm painting three snakemen for the guys at a FLGS (getting store credit for 'em), a paladin for a guy in my group, and a bunch more as potential PC's and NPC's (or maybe just for gits and shiggles).

 

[JoeGKushner]

I always go with character first and mini later.

The reason is that the mini will never fully be the character. Most D&D characters have enough vareity to them that most miniatures, where are by nature generic, can't hope to compete with them.

Not a lot of figures for example, using dual weapons or exotic weapons. Most mage figures looking solmen with long flowing beards and either hats or capes with cowls, etc...

And yes Scott, the goat herder thing at the end might've allowed us to get closer... can't believe I never thought of his familiar being a scout...

 

[diaglo]

i buy thousands of minis.

so i go for character first and then see if i have the mini. i probably do.

 

[Tom Cashel]

...the mini will never fully be the character. Most D&D characters have enough vareity to them that most miniatures, where are by nature generic, can't hope to compete with them.

Agreed. In my D20 Modern campaign, I've adopted the idea that the minis are simply idealized representations, "game pieces" if you will, but aren't meant to be tiny exact replicas of the characters. I think it does a well-rounded, fleshed-out character a disservice to visualize them as a little hunk of painted alloy. Plus, in the modern day characters rarely wear the same clothes day in, day out.

I just finished the Reaper dire bear, and I'm almost done with the ghoul king. He's cool! Base coat rotting flesh, blue wash for that corpselike quality, then drybrushed coats of ghostly grey and again, rotting flesh. The tongue and meat are wet and red (finished with ink). I still need to put gobbets and spatters of blood on him--could be the grossest mini I've ever painted. YES!

Also working on this Faceless Horror, aka a shoggoth. You can't see it, but it's got a human skeleton wedged down its gullet.

Next I'll be painting a street gang and a few modern magi from the old Ral Partha Shadowrun line. Hopefully I can get some pics of them--need a good camera first, 'natch.