Some more painted miniatures

These few pictures are of some repaints by Damon.

These were inexpensive oil paints applied heavily over a miniature, and then wiped down with a makeup sponge or Q-tip.

The ensemble.

Some close-ups.

3D-printed Mordheim-esque building.

Painted Miniatures 28mm

 I finally got back to some painting of my backlog of miniature figurines. These are 28mm (~ 1:56) from various manufacturers or vendors. I'll try to identify them where possible.

Reaper Orcs. In MEST Tactics and Sarna Len, these are known as Orogs or Orogsu. 

The front are Etsy. The back is an Ogre ("Oaghir"). I'm not sure of the vintage of either set. I'll update when I can.

Dawn People, I think. Maybe Northstar?

Lizard folk ... Yuan Ti? Dang. Not sure.

I always think Phraint, but I'm sure this is from D&D instead.

MageKnight soldiers from WizKids!

A few Lords of the Underworld for Dunjon of Death. I think these are all MageKnight except the orange one ... which I don't know who produced it.

A set of Commanders for the Great Underworld Empire for Dunjon of Death.

A set of archers. Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures for most of them.

These are from Zombicide: Black Plague by CMON. I didn't paint them, but I did rebase them. Painted by D. Williams.

Not sure, but really cool for Mech, Beast, and Infantry. I could also use the for Near Future within MEST Tactics. 

Troglodytes. Not sure. Northstar?

RAFm Cthonian. A small one. SIZ 6 in MEST Tactics.

Cultist for scale next to a RAFm Shub-niggurath "Black goat of the woods".

Reaper Deep Ones next to a Cult Leader. They are much larger (SIZ 4 vs SIZ 3) than the RAFm ones.

I think these are Gremlins from Reaper. They are upon Megabases (as used within MEST Tactics) and are affixed by magnets. 

Also from Reaper. These are Mites.

3D Models

 A while back I got an FL-SUN QQ S-PRO 3D printer. 

I have been printing a bunch of 3D art (via STL file format) from a bunch of people. I'm learning the limitations of my FDM printer in that it is best suited for larger things such as terrain and buildings. However, I have been working with the Blender app and creating small things.

Thingiverse

I'd like to present to you my two latest creations! Both are now on thingiverse.com.

• Spiderbot
• Two Spiders

Spiderbot

This is just something I've always wanted. It is sort of like a tachikoma but without the human pilot inside. I created it using metaballs and simple hard-surface modeling. It is very low detail and the legs are sort of meh. However, it is my first 3D figurine from design, modeling, to printing, and painting! 

I like to think that it will fit into my MEST Tactics settings somewhere, perhaps in Combat Modern. It may also fit into the Mech, Beast, and Infantry rules set. 

Spiderbot Mark-I

High and Low versions. These have turrets which can swivel.

Two Spiders

I always see single giant-spider minis or swarm of small spiders. I have also found three spiders on a disc but never two spiders on a disc. Until now, because I just created it. It is low-detail but it paints up well enough. I mount these on 40mm zinc fender washers. It will be used with my other figurines in the Dunjon of Death and Sarna-len settings within the Fantasy genre.

Two spiders

Painted up. 

3D Printed Tomb Coffins

I printed out about a dozen coffins from thingiverse.com, specifically these damaged ones by DM_Emporium. There's also one with a zweihander sword on the lid but I can't find the link now.

The Mausoleum

A mausoleum is a large tomb, and I thought that having a bunch of coffins prepared could be used for my MEST Dunjon of Death genre as well as for the MEST Mythos one. Therefore, I  painted them similar to the color of the "blackstone" common to Dunjon of Death.

I'm using "Vincent Price", by Bob Murch from the Weird Menace pack at Pulp Figures, as a reference.

All the elements laid together.

A broken coffin atop a plinth.

Hmm. Seems like somebody didn't like coffins and rummaged through here while strewing them about. Could be werewolves. 

Maybe it didn't end well for the wampiri. 

Some Clean-up on Pics

These are just my gallery of pics of painted figurines up to this point. I need to get photographs of the remainder. What is shown is 138 photos all cropped for use on my MEST character cards.

I'm really noticing that the low-quality HeroClix stuff doesn't render well even with paints, and the low-detail 25mm stuff from Pulp Action is hit-or-miss. I can understand now why many of the veteran painters opt for 32mm figurines; those have more detail whether resin or metal.