Unfortunate Bug

Jeff 3D-printed a dragon skull for me a few days ago. While I was priming the model, this insect flew into the acrylic spray and, well . . . suffocated. Macabre. 
 

Dice Prison

When you're deeply involved in a game and the dice just won't roll the way you need them to, toss them into the dice prison. PUNISH THEM! Jeff printed this for me--poor Jeff, who has notoriously bad luck with dice. He needs this more than I do, really . . . 

Professor Zarkov's Rocketship

 

Three 7TV Trees

Final Fauna-tsy. 
 

Cave of Simple Mystery

3D printed in grey, underside primed in black, topside primed in dark grey, dry brushed with light grey. A very easy paint job, and I think it works for what it is. Thanks for printing this, Jeff! 
 

Visitor Tanker

When the Visitors came to Earth, they pretended to be our friends. But they really wanted our water, and they used these tankers to steal it. Jeff spent hours 3D printing the pieces, and then I spent hours assembling and painting the model. I used an entire bottle of white paint--four or five thin coats--to achieve this look. I'm getting better with white thanks to these kinds of opportunities to practice. 
 

Five Views of a Yellow House

I have painted the last of the four houses Jeff 3D printed for me. As you can see, it's very yellow. 


 

Wizard Tower

Jeff very kindly 3D-printed a wizard tower for me, and I have painted it. Inside and out! Painting the outside was far, far easier than the inside, and it doesn't look as good as the exterior, but I'm calling this particular project ready for the gaming table. 
 

Scary House

Jeff very kindly 3D-printed some fantasy-styled houses for me, and tonight I finished painting the first of them. I started by priming it black, and I immediately dubbed it The Scary House. So I kept it black and gave it a few accents by painting the door and window frames blood red. 

Cobalto Collosso

Jeff generously gifted me another 3D-printed frost giant, and I painted him a couple of nights ago. I dub him Cobalto Collosso! 

Here he is with Azurcelt the Headstrong. 

Brunette Fallout Girl

Jeff 3D-printed Vault Girl for me--twice. This is the first. It's still a perfectly good mini, but her sledgehammer failed to print. So I used this one for practice. I think she turned out fairly well, given my trouble painting human beings at this scale. I like how the little pile of bottlecaps and the teeny-weeny lunch box turned out. 

A Pink Panther

Jeff generously 3D printed this Panther mech for a tabletop game we might play at Gaming & Guinness--if indeed G&G moves forward this year, which is slightly up in the air thanks to the spread of the new Delta variant of COVID-19. 

I tried to make this mech look like it's seen some action over a long period of service. So I added some rust and metallic silver paint to take some of the shine off the original neon pink paint job. (Pink Panther...get it?) 

As for the base, I painted it to look like stretch of road to give some idea of the scale of these mechs. 

Neatly Crated

As part of my ongoing "I must clean up my man cave to create a liveable working space," I've been going through all the stuff I have and organizing it into, well, piles to start, and then into containers. A few months ago I Kickstarted a collection of 3D-printed and professionally painted barrels and crates, which came in this box. In a fit of mania, I realized that the haphazardly-filled box was making very inefficient use of the available volume. So I meticulously stacked dozens of tiny crates and barrels and discovered that when neatly arranged they only took up half the box. I added my own collection of Earl-painted barrels and crates with room to spare for even more. Success! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Last Chance Finance

Steve generously donated a 3D-printed 28mm-scale Old West bank to me a couple of months ago, and this morning I painted it. This is the largest miniature I've yet painted, and the first building. I went with green and yellow for their association with dollar bills and gold coins. It looks pretty muddy to me, and I feel like should probably have painted the second-story columns yellow to match those below. Obviously I'm still having trouble colouring between the lines, as it were, but I feel like I'm slowly getting better at that particular task. Patience seems to be the best help, along with lots of light. 

The Unnamed Sorceress

Here is the last of the HeroForge characters I designed a couple of months back and recently painted. This poor woman has, as of yet, no name or backstory. I only know that she's some kind of sorceress with a "fire and ice" theme; she's shooting ice out of one hand, and a flaming arrow from the other. She'll work for Dungeons & Dragons or Villains & Vigilantes somehow. 

A Sinister Gunslinger

I created a gunslinger in HeroForge and painted him. Note the black hands, head, and chest. This fellow is supposed to be a scary faceless legend, but I haven't yet come up with a cool name for him. He's destined for Villains & Vigilantes at some point...but as hero or villain? 

Unpainted Pakhet

This is Pakhet, a superheroine I designed for our Villains and Vigilantes campaign using Hero Forge. She's Egyptian, so I'm thinking the paint job will feature shades of blue, gold and tan. This is the second miniature I've designed using Hero Forge, and I must say I'm pretty happy with the results. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the details are very fine. 

The Mirror Maniac

This is a plastic 30mm representation of my Villains & Vigilantes hero, the Mirror Maniac. He started out by calling himself Mirror Man, but his penchant for laughing at violent pratfalls during battle led the media to add the extra syllable. 

This is the first thing I've ever had 3D-printed; I used Hero Forge to design the character, and then the company printed and shipped it. I'll paint it soon. 

The Mirror Maniac is so named because of his ability to reflect the attacks of others right back at them, and his secondary ability to shape-shift, with perfect fidelity, into a wide range of inanimate objects.