Collecting and Painting old miniatures, OD&D, Wargaming, OSR games.
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Showing posts with label corpse marker. Show all posts

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Completed minis and markers

 Still in sculpting and casting mode, but got some more painting done this weekend. A Splintered Light cave troll and a Blue Moon Twanax. 



I did the cave troll in the same color as the other trolls in the group. This mini is a larger in size, has a weapon and is clothed, compared to the other trolls which are straight from the cover of the first Monster Manual. 


I painted the twanax sepia with a darkened vermillion for the eyes. 




I had plans to sculpt a Haystack creature, but I may try painting one of the Twanax in that color scheme and then just sculpt a plain haystack in a similar texture. 

The troll head and the vampirian head and hands corpse marker were done with sculpey on sculpey molds, which are not really all that effective, but I had not opened up the Equinox yet so I gave it a shot for fun. The lizard man marker was done with the Equinox silicone mold - better results and should be able to get numerous repros from it.



A 15mm fighter with them to show scale. The markers are pretty big, but all 3 of these types of monsters are larger than mansize.


Priorities for sculpting and casting in the coming days, are an owl head, a pumpkin head, and finishing up my 3rd plague doctor. 














Thursday, September 10, 2020

Sculpting corpse markers and new texture roller

 The texture roller was purchased on Etsy from RealityAtWork. This is a different company from the one I purchased rollers from before. It's 4" long and almost an inch in diameter for the hollow part and cost $4.99.  I needed a fan pattern so I chose option C on their site as one that would be good for 15mm. Its workable although I may order option B as I'd like a slightly smaller pattern. I was afraid B was too small and wouldn't impress, but I think it would work well after using the one I bought. 


The flooring was made earlier tonight with the pictured roller. I am using Dollar store foam which is softer than XPS (pink board), and it made the impressions of the stones well enough to do a wash and wipe. I paint the foam white after using the texture roller, then paint over with a greenish gray and wipe off with a damp paper towel to leave the dark lines in the floor.


I also sculpted some corpse markers for goblin bodies. I put them in order of production. I got better with each one. I made them earlier in the day out of sculpey and baked, mounted and painted them. Rather fun to do and adds something to the gaming table.


I made some closed doors for my dungeon scenery as I found they would be needed when I was playing my solo game. I bought some 4mm rings at Hobby Lobby today and glued them on for handles. A fun detail. 


One final shot of the battle scene.