Miniatures!

This guy looks fammiliar!

Handsome chap

Do any of you paint your own miniatures? If you do then why not post some images? I used to paint them many years ago and I have recently bought some new models and paints and I hope to start again soon.

when I was a kid, my best friend's dad was president of the Ontario tin soldier club.  He must have had a million of 'em.  And he would teach us how to paint our figures.  I wish I still had them.  Or even pictures.

He was amazing!  A retired tank commander, sweater-vest, pipe, pocket watch.  Painting tin soldiers in the garage.

He built a balsa wood castle for us kids that would blow your mind.  It was on top of an old chest of drawers, and if you fell through a trap, or descended a staircase, you would open the next drawer, and the next level of the dungeon was built inside!  I wonder whatever happened to it. 

have you seen HERO-FORGE?  They do custom made figures with 3D printing.  Any favourite character can be made into a miniature!  I haven't got one yet, but I'm drawing up my favourite ranger to try it out.

Did you ever get your ranger printed out?

I've been having trouble communicating with the company, I don't think they're all that "stable" yet.  But they will apparently be at some of the big fan-cons this summer, so I'm hoping face to face we can make it work.  I don't have a scanner, but I'll post some of my drawings when I'm at work, then HOPEFULLY I'll post a picture of the miniature one day. 

the old ones warm my heart, but the new ones, I must admit, are IMPRESSIVE

I used to buy "military modeler" magazine for lessons on how to paint miniatures, but now there are dozens of websites.

http://www.how-to-paint-miniatures.com/

the real secret is learning how to use washes

Thanks for the link, I had a quick look and it looks really useful. Tried to take some images of my latest attempts last night but the flash wasn't working and I couldn't get a decent shot, I'll try again over the weekend.

There seems to be a Conan theme going on in your posts Regi :)

I've sent off for some dungeon tile sets which should arrive soon I'll post some images when they arrive.