Pictures Of Your Miniatures!

[Mulsiphix]

I don't care if they're broken, unpainted, archaic, non-official, homebrew, downright ugly, or made out of last nights corn. I want to see pictures of your beloved miniatures. Massive group shots encouraged :D

[mrken]

Will post a few here, but will have to take a few down somewhere else I think as I have too many jpgs on already. :)

Ok, will have to delete first, then post. Duh!!!:confused:

[mrken]

Mini photo upload, take two!

[Mead]

Gnorg was a gnoll character for a D&D 2e game, where I got to play one session as a gnoll before I got Kobayashi Maru'd and reincarnated as a human. And I worked a long damn time on that mini.

No idea where the goblins came from, I've had them forever.

The Oro and my modded Wolfhound are my best Btech jobs. The rest are pending touchups.

And the Citadel ogre is my most recent work, first shot at something more than flat colors and drybrushing.

[Mead]

My Battletech army. The plan is to have a full regiment and a battalion of vehicles.

The Gear in the middle is just a proxy for now.

[Mead]

Flames of War US Airborne company, painted for a buddy.

http://pelorat.net/minis/airborne_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/airborne.jpg)
(click me!)

[mrken]

Hey Mead, give us a better look at your minis. Closer so we can see some details. I have a few Battletech mechs I have painted a few decades ago that look pretty bad. I use them for when I GM sci-fi games but have been on a shelf for years. :(

[Mead]

Well I can save you some time on the Battletech stuff.. mostly it's just exactly like the Wolfhound above, with different base colors. I'll shoot the nicer ones though.

Here's a closeup of the Airborne - sorry about the cat hair, it's inevitable around here.

http://pelorat.net/airborne_z.jpg

[Mead]

http://pelorat.net/minis/kanga1_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/kanga1.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/kanga2_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/kanga2.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/kanga3_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/kanga3.jpg)
http://pelorat.net/minis/oro1_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/oro1.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/oro2_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/oro2.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/ares1_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/ares1.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/ares2_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/ares2.jpg)
http://pelorat.net/minis/karnov1_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/karnov1.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/karnov2_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/karnov2.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/karnov3_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/karnov3.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/mcc1_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/mcc1.jpg)http://pelorat.net/minis/mcc2_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/mcc2.jpg)

And it seems I'll have to wait till later to do any more... http://pelorat.net/minis/sonja_th.jpg (http://pelorat.net/minis/sonja.jpg)

[mrken]

Geronimo!!! Looks sweet. Now that I have my new eyes I have some German tanks to paint up for AAM. Their all FoW stuff, but I don't have enough money to field much to play with.

[Mead]

Ugh. Finished a cleric tonight, and it looks ok from a distance, but when I took a pic he came out looking like a heroin addict.

http://pelorat.net/minis/just_one_more_hit_man.jpg

At least I get to practice touch-ups now. Sigh. =)

And this gives me an idea.. might start photographing the primed mini before painting so I can see it at a zoomed-in level without exploding my eyeballs.

[Mead]

Much better!

http://pelorat.net/minis/cleric_f_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/cleric_f.jpg)

http://pelorat.net/minis/cleric_b_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/cleric_b.jpg)

WIP
http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_f2_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_f2.jpg)

http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_b_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_b.jpg)

[mrken]

:lol: Hey Mead, you found out the same thing I found out. A mini that looks pretty good just looks like crap when using a macro. :lol: You should see some of my minis. Some that look like a total hottie in real life look like a two hundred year old zombie at 500% magnification. Actually, I think the same thing holds true with most real people. Very few people can stand that kind of scrutiny. Why do you think magazines uses the airbrush so much?

[Valdar]

Haven't painted in a while, but here are a couple that got used in my last game:

http://www.worldsedge.org/images/dragon.jpg

http://www.worldsedge.org/images/succ1.jpg

[Mead]

I haven't decided whether to leave his arms like that or keep piddling with it until I screw it up. Thinking I'm gonna leave it now and touch it up when I learn more about flesh shading.


http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_f3_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_f3.jpg)

http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_f3a_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_f3a.jpg)

http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_b3_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue_b3.jpg)

[mrken]

Hey you two, welcome to the hallowed halls of half pint painting. Those actually look pretty good. At least as good as what I did when I first started and not really much different than what I do now. lol Hey, I have no pity for my own excuses for my work, I have a degree in art and have yet to master my brushes.

[TAROT]

A couple of manticores.

[mrken]

Hey Tarot, nice flyin lions!!! :D

You are pretty good at detail. The spikes on the spines are pretty high detail. Good job!

Hey, have you ever thought about using acrylic paints?

[Mead]

Yah, those look pretty sweet

[tesral]

It doesn't look like much. No paint, it isn't fantasy.

However it is all mine. I made the master, I made the mold, I poured the molten lead.

It's my first successful metal casting. It is poured into a mold I made for casting resin models. RTV rubber is still Vulcanized and can take the heat.

http://phoenixinn.iwarp.com/SS_Modeler/metal_taj.jpg

[mrken]

Holding something like that in you hands makes one rather happy. So the casting is not clean, what we buy in the store in a plastic bubble is pretty much in the same condition. Take a bit more time and clean it up a little and that my friend is something you can hang your hat on. May want to not even paint it so as to showcase it. Congratulations!

[Mead]

Very nice work! For Star Fleet Battles? Or just for the heck of it?

[tesral]

Very nice work! For Star Fleet Battles? Or just for the heck of it?

1/2500 scale model. It wasn't intended for gaming at all.

Yes the casting can use some additional cleaning. You should have seen it before I took the gates and pour stub off.

It is a "taj" (dagger) class Klingon scout. 121 meters long (The model is 1.9 inches.)

Here is a resin pull from the same mold fully painted.



http://phoenixinn.iwarp.com/SS_Modeler/taj-paint.jpg

And the same model, the original on the left the unpainted resin copy on the right.

http://phoenixinn.iwarp.com/SS_Modeler/twins.jpg

[mrken]

As for how much cleaning the pieces need after casting I understand. What kind of mold material do you use? I used to use a plaster type of material. We would recycle the old stuff and mix it with about 50% new stuff. And the release material also needs to be cleaned off. And all the sprue's need to be cleaned off as well. Yeah, I remember how much work goes into cleaning a casting. Still, your piece looks good.

[tesral]

As for how much cleaning the pieces need after casting I understand. What kind of mold material do you use? I used to use a plaster type of material. We would recycle the old stuff and mix it with about 50% new stuff. And the release material also needs to be cleaned off. And all the sprue's need to be cleaned off as well. Yeah, I remember how much work goes into cleaning a casting. Still, your piece looks good.

Silicon RTV rubber. Great stuff, and good for 30 to 60 copies depending on what you are pouring.

Release material for the lead is talcum powder. I use a waxed based release spray for resin and for making molds. Do not forget the release when making molds. Otherwise your master is embedded in a nice block of silicon.

For those that wonder the professional miniature makers (at least the pewter ones) use a natural rubber mold, it lasts longer and is vulcanized as part of the mold making process. The originals are placed in the mold disk. The disk placed into the vulcanizing machine and bang, mold for a spin caster. I watched this process at the Ral Parth factory in 1995. You better not forget the talcum either, or that one is a solid disk.

I imagine the plastic minis are made with an injection molder. Much more expensive process mold wise.

For me the average mold is a 20 dollar item.

I should have more minis to show in a bit as I am assembling and painting Ogre minis.

[TAROT]

The manticores were done with acrylics.

I mostly use craft paints. I like the translucency, so that I can play around with painting green on top of yellow vs. green on top of grey. It doesn't show well in the picture, but the wing panels are brown over a bone white, which gave them a textured, membranous look that I was pleased with.

And now, a few trolls and a fog wraith. (These are enamel.)

[mrken]

Wow!!! The wraith looks real good. You have given me new inspiration to maybe paint mine. The way you made it looks like fog there at the head and hands made me think of using cotton balls to give it that fog like look. That was really good painting.

[TAROT]

Yah. It's a dismembered Q-tip.

[mrken]

Very clever. :cool:

[tesral]

Yah. It's a dismembered Q-tip.

Very clever. :cool:

Yes it is. I don't know that I like the look, but I like the out of the bubble pack thinking behind the look.

[TwoGunBob]

Latest stuff, I finished basing them a few days after the pics were taken.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/TwoGunBob/priest01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/TwoGunBob/punkg01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/TwoGunBob/gangster03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/TwoGunBob/leath01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/TwoGunBob/mohawk01.jpg

Mostly Foundry Street Violence as I was getting ready for the Skirmish '08 convention. Decided to add some characters to the game. Since then been working on the Diorama of Doom but I'm not far along enough to have any interesting pictures yet.

[Mead]

Cool stuff

[tesral]

Latest stuff, I finished basing them a few days after the pics were taken.
Mostly Foundry Street Violence as I was getting ready for the Skirmish '08 convention. Decided to add some characters to the game. Since then been working on the Diorama of Doom but I'm not far along enough to have any interesting pictures yet.

I like. The fat guys are cool. Not something you typically see. Nice job all around. Good line and good paint work.

[MinipainterUS]

Pics are in the Gallery area of the website in my sig.

[Mead]

Looks great, but most of the large versions of those pics seem to be missing, at least for me.

[Mead]

Latest completion:
http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue2_f_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue2_f.jpg)

http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue2_b_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/rogue2_b.jpg)


WIP:
http://pelorat.net/minis/cleric2_f_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/cleric2_f.jpg)

http://pelorat.net/minis/cleric2_b_th.jpg
Fullsize (http://pelorat.net/minis/cleric2_b.jpg)

Whew. Took me too long to get back into it after the move.

Pics aren't as clear this time, probably won't get better till I get back home to my regular workspace.

[tesral]

Latest completion:

Whew. Took me too long to get back into it after the move.

Pics aren't as clear this time, probably won't get better till I get back home to my regular workspace.

Nicely done. I like the bottom one.