Tabletop Miniatures

This is a work in progress pic of what will eventually be an army of icy blue-gray skinned orcs. I plan on making a range of colors between pure light gray and pure baby blue, and grabbing colors from different parts for each orc so they'll all have different but similar skin tones.

The models are from Valandar's awesome Orc Horde collection on Thingiverse. These models are a ton of fun and a great balance between high-detail and printability/ paintability. I wish the bases were a little more interesting, or printed separately so I could attach my own, but a flat base allows me to add my own terrain later on.

I plan on doing a typical green-skinned orc army, as well as a fire-red army. Orcs are a fun way to play around with different armor color schemes because if something ends up looking like crap you can just say, "they're orcs! They just grabbed what's available!"

The first serious ground battle on Guadalcanal, during WW2. The scenario is from Conflict of Heroes: Guadalcanal, converted to use 15mm miniatures.

Have any good names for this nasty little fella?

I can't figure out how to post multiple photos on eternity, or I'd post more of these guys in one post. I really enjoyed painting this group for the start of a mordheim warband.

I haven't used this fella in a game yet, which is ashame since he was painted several years ago. The pandemic really put a damper on my game playing.

I both love and hate looking at him because he's so disgusting.

He's 3D printed in resin from the creator StationForge. I used mostly Vallejo and ak paints as well as Vallejo pigments for the base.

This is my friend's character for a campaign that we are in. He used AI to create the general look of his character, then designed a mini based on the outcome. I printed it out for him and used the AI image as a color reference.

Here are a few other angles:

And here is the AI generated image that the mini is based off of:

(The small girl is the character's sister.)

Been having a lot of fun with one page rules and converting custom models to get the flavor I want.

I'm mostly happy with the OSL 😅

This is my paint job on Yasashii's "Mind Flayer / Illithid Tabletop Miniature" from Thingiverse.

This was one of the first prints off of my resin printer, and the first piece I attempted air brushing; to make both of these a little easier, I scaled him up a bit, so he isn't quite "tabletop minature" scale, but still much smaller than what I'd been used to painting (~70mm tall).

Everything except for the red eyes and purple highlights on the armor was done with a 0.3mm airbrush.

Here are a couple different angles:

Unfortunately one of the robe dangly bits snapped off the back before I could start painting. I didn't expect the paint job to turn out this decent so I didn't bother reprinting, kinda wish I had.

This is a miniature from TitanCraft's "RPG Mini Starter Kit" on thingiverse. I painted him up just to get some practice painting minis as I'm just starting out on the small scale stuff.

Here he is from a couple of different angles:

I wish that the paint on his face came out a little better, it's something I've always struggled with.

I may be preaching to the choir here, but if you haven't already heard of it, check out TitanCraft. It's another mini maker website, but you can actually download minis that you make for free (they have paid and free assets, but there's a ton of free ones and you don't have to pay anything to download an all-free model). I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I've been showing it to all my DnD friends and a few of them are sending me minis to print out for them, and it costs us nothing but the $0.25 of resin.

Just finished all the armor and now on to cloth bits! I used greenish white, deep yellow and dark Prussian blue (ak) over a purple undercoat.

I see a lot of bigger minis (medis?) from shows like DBZ and I always think I'd love to paint over them.

But you can't just start painting on top, right? What do you do to prep them for repainting?

Pretty quick paintjob on her. The pose makes taking photos awkward.

Convinced my partner to try Moonstone with me, and after a weekend picking factions and lists I get the fun of painting both of our models

First up is one of the minis that drew me to the game, Drayner the kitsune from my side the Leshavult faction

Painted by me!