Doctor Who Robot Mummies

 

These dudes are Robot Mummies from Black Tree Design Miniatures Doctor Who range.

I'll be using them for role playing game where the players uncover an ancient tomb.

The small pyramid on their back is what powers and guides these drones. Targeting this will disable to drone. The players will need to work this out the hard way or find themselves fighting an enemy that appears to have no weaknesses.

Now, on to the next project 😊

Making Green Slime slimy

 

So last post I showed off the Otherworld Green Slime. But whilst I was happy with the paint job I wasn't happy about its matt look.

So I decided I would try using Citadel Ardcoat on the green bits to make it more wet looking. I applied a thorough coat across the miniature and left it to dry and here is how it turned out.

Very happy with the result. Now to unleash this on my player characters. 😂

Otherworld Green Slime

I need something nasty for my player characters, and what could be better than Green Slime!

This baddy comes from Otherworld Miniatures. You can find it here.

Its larger than it looks on the Otherworld website and here I've based it on the 50mm base it comes with.

I still need to find a way to make it shine. Might need to use some Citadel Ardcoat or something similar in order to make it look more moist and slimy.

Now to stick it in a suitable dungeon somewhere...

 

Hero Forge 2.0, is it worth it?

Like many, I backed the Hero Forge 2.0 Kickstarter back in the day. Recently my free colour mini arrived in the mail, having artfully dodging one contagion delay after another. And so here it is without further ado. Meet my very own version of Jim Darkmagic.

Stupidly I forgot to colour the base and candles before claiming my freebie. But that can be easily fixed.

So what are my thoughts about this, I hear you say fan? Lets see:

The miniature

* Its made from the lower grade, rough grained plastic material than the previous miniatures I have bought through Hero Forge.

* So the miniature is course grain. But this may be fixed on final launch of HF2.0

* There is a lot more customization options for model making in HF2.0.

* There are plenty of options for modern as well as fantasy miniatures.

* There is also a lot of colour options for miniatures as well

* The cost is limited to the single coloured material at this time, which is roughly twice that of the premium material miniatures I have bought before through Hero Forge.

The 'paint job'

* The colour looks pretty washed out when compared to a painted miniature

* Colour definition isn't too clear, especially around the eyes and face

* Fine colours that appear on the miniature in the design screen do not translate very well to the final miniature due to the course grain of the miniature.

* Overall colours are clearly visible but flat compared to a painted miniature that has been washed and highlighted

What would it be good for?

Firstly, this is a brilliant step forward in the 3D printing of miniatures and is excellent to see. That said, its not as good as a painted miniature in my opinion, even with the crappy paint jobs I do.

So what would it be good for? Well, if you are after a miniature or two and don't have the desire, skill or equipment to paint your own, then this be exactly what you are after. This kind of miniature would look good for a board game or the casual role player.

With Jim here, I may just give it a wash and a few highlights to see how it turns out. Or I may get another, unpainted one of higher grained quality and paint it myself as a comparison.

Foreshadowing

10mm returns...

Enough said for now...

Wereboar from eBay

This beasty is a 3D printed miniature from eBay. I just searched for 'boar miniature' and this was one of the results I found. It arrived in the mail with one of its tusks broken (darn posties 😒 ), but that was easily repaired with glue.

Stupidly, after finishing all the painting and basing, I snapped its legs when I was removing the miniature from the blue tac I used to secure it to the handle I use to hold miniatures with as I paint them. Much cursing and a little more super glue later, its back together. So you may notice some weird glue gum around the base of the legs. The actual miniature doesn't have that obviously.

Painting was simple enough. I just did the following:

* basecoat in black spray

* wet brushed the model in dark brown

* heavily dry brushed the model in grey

* dry brushed the hair in dark grey

* painted the tusks in a variety of browns and tans

* inked the tusks in Agrax Earthshade

* inked the base in Agrax Earthshae - Gloss (this was to create a wet muddy ground look)

* paint eyes in Blood Red.

A pretty basic paint job but it looks great on the table or on the board for our role playing game.

So this beast is the "grown-up" version of one of the players pet's, a pig. Which just happens to also be a transforming wereboar. Something she found out by accident when both her and her pig were suddenly beset by ghouls. Fun story producing much delight to her and the others around the table.

Flame Atronach from Reaper Miniatures

Our D20 role playing game has magic based on Skyrim. As such, I needed a Flame Atronach for one of the player characters who has the spell Conjure Flame Atronach. The spell creates a flame atronach that lasts for five rounds and orbits the caster. It throws flame bolts and if its killed before the five rounds expires, it explodes doing 3D6 damage. Fun stuff!

Reaper miniatures makes an excellent flame elemental both in plastic and also in metal. It comes with wings that attach to the back. If you don't glue on the wings, you get a pretty good miniature to represent a Flame Atronach.

By way of proof, just have a look at the Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion version of the Flame Atronach and then compare it to the Reaper Miniature and you will see that its a good proxy model.

Painting was pretty simple too. I just followed this process:

* base coat in white spray

* paint in bright yellow

* wet brush in orange

* heavily dry brush in red

* light dry brush in black over certain areas of the model and paint in black the "clothes" and "face mask" on the model.

Simple!