On instagram, the fine folks at @hillgiantgames made a sculpting/scratchbashing competition to make a hill giant, and this is what I did.
I first started with a basic 3D printed form.
After drawing the accents, I added the first basic shapes with milliput.
Then I went with copious amounts of green stuff, and healthy dose of wall filler (mostly to hide layer lines from the 3d printing on places that had no greenstuff on it).
This was a very fun competition to be part of.
A new batch of cuboids, this time, I finally finished the dwarves. It took me a couple of iterations to get them to print but I'm pretty happy with them.
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| Some scifi dwarves inspired by the Deep Rock Galactic videogame |
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| King and its shield bearers |
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| Hunting party ready to rumble |
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| All pilled up |
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| And a slayer using the same bit used in the human knights as a mohawk |
As usual, you can get them at my gumroad store.
Thank you
I haven't been making any updates here (or instagram for that matters), but I've been slooowly pushing some stuff out.
I've released two more sets of Cuboids:
The Undeads (I painted them as not Necrons to playtest One Page Rules skirmish not 40k game)
And a mini-set of pigfolk and some horns to turn them into goatfolk
I'm been test printing dwarfs (having some issues with some fiddly parts) and designing some frogfolk.
Anyway, you can get these and more on my gumroad store: https://siarom.gumroad.com/
I've also been lurking on the very creative inq28/aos28 adjacent projects that keep popping up on my instagram feed, this time Brawl Arcane 28.
The designer of the project is running a make a monster contest, and you know that I like making monsters.
So I rolled some dice and got the following:
And by bashing a spider from a goblin spider rider and a mantic's zombie face, I got:
The Cursed Duke
Other than this I'm still trying to fight the hobby slump (for a year now), I don't seem to have a lot of fun painting regular minis nowadays, and after covid slammed me last month it's been really difficult to focus on picking up brushes again.
Looking forward to get into gaslands again though.
Take care
I've released a new batch of miniatures, as promised in a previous post.
I only painted three types of miniatures from a batch of 11 because I was looking at making a Not-Bretonnia army for Hordes of the Things, I'm yet to print a bloodbowl team out of this release.
I've been working on a new project for those with FDM printers that want to print something other than terrain. My concept was to have simple, but characterful, minis that are easy to store (by design) and can be scaled up and down for whatever type of game you're playing.
I've gone through a couple of iterations but I believe I have a something worthy now.
**drumroll**
The following models have all been printed on a stock Creality Ender-3 V2 3D Printer using Fat Dragon Game's cura profiles.
They can be printed at 28mm for skirmish and RPG games, but you can also go bigger (terrain/boardgame pieces) as well as lower (mass block pushing games).
I made fantasy weapons as well as a couple of scifi weapons (as proof of concept) to see how they would look like and intend to expand the options in the future.
Resin printing is great at going against the grain of normal proper minis, but I find the post processing not a fun step. Not to mention that most 28/32/35mm releases nowadays are so detailed that makes the scaling down pretty much impossible.
On a more personal note, the main drive for this were 2 fun projects:
As some of my previous posts on here may attest, I like Blood Bowl, and I always wanted to have some minis with a little more of a "toy factor" to play with my board game brethren who always seem very disinterested at the prospect of playing miniature games. They're easy to paint, easy to distinguish and most importantly, easy to store. The labels are not that good I admit and I really need to fix that in the future.
I really like to imagine fantasy armies, but metal and resin costs are not conductive for that. Because of the inherent scalability of these minis, I can just print a batch of them while at work and come home to a bunch of HOTT units of 15mm'ish warriors.
As a proof of concept I made these two armies:
Each of these armies (bases included) were printed in two days while I was at work and lazily painted over the weekend. I'm still struggling with elephant foot on my printer and it shows the lower the scale I go, but I still am very happy with the results.
I'm now working on humans but for now, you can get the orcs, weapons and mounts here: