Ye Olde Inn

by **Big Bene** » September 25th, 2013, 7:59 am

Spiky wrote:Looking forward to see the skulls!

Sorry, but the skulls I got turned out too small, which not only would make them look ridiculous on the skeletons, but also destroys some of the details. Well, increasing the size a bit in the computer model and order a new printout is not difficult, just costly...

Anyways, here are some pictures - the upper four pictures show one of my skulls compared to a GW skull for scale. The lowest picture shows three of my skulls - I made different versions.

I had painted them all black, because the printing resin is somewhat translucent, which makes it hard to recognize the structure on photo (I use a special "high detail" resin for the skulls, as opposed to the plastic of the skeletons).

As I wrote, the right (smaller) skulls are mine, the left bigger one is from Greed Workshop. Naturally, the latter is of high pressure cast plastic, whereas mine are 3D-printed of a kind of resin. I must admid, I too find them somewhat "rough" - I had better results with earlier models in the same material from the same printing company, so I still have hope I can improve the quality. I'll have to make the skulls bigger, anyway, which will naturally make the structural details cleaner in the printout.

by **Spiky** » September 26th, 2013, 4:19 am

3D priniting is the future of the miniatures!

I'm liking the skeletons and hope you're able to get your casting issues sorted soon

From me, I managed to do a bit more work on that dwarf from a previous post - first night I managed to get some of the skin and hair done, also after looking at some painted examples on the web, I changed my mind about colours for some areas and re-appiled a base coat and wash...

After last night she's now mostly done. The face is a bit blurry in places and I'm not 100% happy with the nose, started basing and I'm not sure how much more I'll do before I give up

You can see the female mage is now base coated behind her too

Also, at the weekend I had a try at some diffferent painting - on pottery!

This plate is ready to be glazed and fired and hopefully will be good enough to be a prize at next year's tournament. The pencil marks I made first should just burn off in the kiln so it should look a lot smarter once finished - I'm looking forward to seeing how it comes out!

by **Ragner** » September 26th, 2013, 5:02 am

I really like your miniature female characters. Say Spiky, here's a woman dwarf the size of 28 mm? More precisely from GW miniatures, it is not much different in height?

by **Spiky** » September 26th, 2013, 5:16 am

Shes' a fair bit taller than the standard HQ dwarf if that helps, but I think he's fairly short anyways. I'll try and post you a size comparison at some point

by **knightkrawler** » September 26th, 2013, 11:15 am

I like the Dwarf girl. She's ... well ... not unattractive.
And the face is beautiful. She looks 38 yrs old on a human scale, so she must be a seasoned warrior.
I really like her. Now stop moaning about the face. There's only so much sexiness and beauty you can put into a Dwarven character like this and it's all there and I didn't even stare at her cleavage. Her face caught me.
Verdict: Perfect.