Not a terribly complicated sculpture…the trick was simply to “think like fire”. I just kept the image of crackling campfires in my head as I was sculpting to try to capture the feel of the jumping flames, and imagine what they might look like as a rolling ball.

The other thing to note is that I actually very carefully sculpted the tab on the bottom of the sphere, so that it pretty much perfectly fits into the slotta base.

This one here was a failed experiment. The idea was to sculpt a larger fireball over the first one, and then actually cast it around the smaller painted fireball using translucent plastic. It sounds cool and all, but it didn’t look good, and on it’s own, this fireball really looks more like a giant acorn.

The Gelatinous Cube is kind of a weird mini, in that it is actually a composite composed of three separate and distinct sculptures. Here we have the cube itself, sculpted in super-sculpy. I wanted something organic feeling, not a big ice cube, so I gave it a very rounded shape, with the front corner protruding, so it almost looks like it is reaching out for someone as it gallumphs along.

The skeletal half-decomposed body that floats suspended in the cube. He is actually a little bit bigger than a 25mm corpse should be, but given that he only gets seen from inside the cube, I think that is alright.

The back of the skeleton.

I couldn’t find my original green for the base (I know it’s around here somewhere!) so here is a pic of the painted resin cast of the base without the cube on it.

I’m really proud of my little half-dissolved rat!

My friend Jeff over at Ackertech Castings is going to be starting up a miniatures company, which right now they are planning on calling “Steel Talon Games”. This cool claw holding a die was designed as a promotional tool for their new company. It looks really sweet in metal, and makes a great keychain or a pendant. When they’re up and running over there –and after I’ve made their website for them :) –I will include a link here so that you can go and buy one for yourself. :)

Note the extraordinarily long tail. The species of Lizardman that Garrarrg comes from uses their tails in combat to make Improved Trip attacks against their foes when fighting in their native swamps. Also note the exceptionally large axe. This is a +4 Keen Flaming Great Axe. While everyone else in the campaign was building castles and kingdoms with their hard-won fortunes, I built this axe. I did not regret it. :)

Okay, he’s not very good, but I include him here mainly so you can have a benchmark by which to judge later progress.

One of my D&D characters for a campaign I was in maybe two years ago, Garrarg was my second attempt at a full-figure sculpture from scratch (Sir Kned the Paladin was first). I never cast him up at the time, mainly because it seemed like an awfully big deal to cut him apart to cast the various bits, and I really only needed the one. I just went ahead and painted up the green.

I’m making up a few 15mm armies for a large-scale battle I have planned down the road in my campaign’s future. naturally, I started with the hardest possible sculpt first: the Skeleton Soldier!

Here he is from the side.

really should have photographed him next to a penny or something so you could get an idea of his size. The circular base he is standing on has a 1/2″ diameter, if that helps. ;)

His proportions are not exactly perfect…his legs are a little stumpy, his arm a little long. Also, he is not quite as smoothly polished as perhaps I would like, but hey, he’s only THIS BIG (holds up fingers in front of eyes), so overall, I’m pretty happy with him as my first really tiny guy.

Here he stands in formation with a bunch of his buddies cast up in metal. My undead army has begun!

In the game Erica is running right now, Andrew’s character is a Goblin Boar-rider. A goblin Paladin Boar-rider no less! Anyhoo, a character like that just demands an appropriate mini. I started with sculpting a wild boar. From here I will take on of the boar casts that I make, and sculpt on a saddle, tack and harness, etc, to make his paladin boar-mount.

A face only a mother could love…

I’m not kidding!

I had a lot of fun giving him matted, nasty looking fur.

Oh, look! He also has a left side!

A bevy of boars. A flock? a herd?

The small town sheriff in my Fulcrum campaign is a colorful character indeed. He is a retired adventurer, his glory days cut short by a severed leg. He now gets around on a peg leg, and his walking stick is also his namesake: a deadly sword-staff! Of course, his guilt over his involvement in the murder of an innocent man brings down a terribly curse upon his head, and he has now joined the undead as a fearsome Curst!

Of course, in my Ann Arbor group, this hasn’t happened yet, so don’t tell any of them!

The ‘published piece’ will float on top of a clear stand….the pewter warrior is included as a size reference.

The mini will be mounted on a clear plastic stand, but if it hits someone in combat, you can take it off the stand and ‘drape’ it over the intended victim!

Normally, the demi-lich appears to be just a gem-encrusted skull, sitting on the ground. If you see it rising up like this however, it means that someone’s soul is about to be stolen from them, to be sucked into one of the demi-lich’s gems!

Turns out the demi-lich has gems for teeth, too, so I resculpted the teeth to give them more of a gem-like appearance.

Badger Green In our regular D&D game, Jon has this tendency to use Summon Monster 1. A lot. He loves badgers. I don’t get it. However, this little habit does mean that we need badgers. Lots of badgers.

And so I made this little guy. Just right to go on a “small” sized base and represent a regular (not dire or giant or whatever) badger.

This dude was based off of a monster appearing in: Dungeon Crawl Classics #30: Vault of the Dragon Kings. You can find full stats for him in there!

This dude was based off of a monster appearing in: Dungeon Crawl Classics #30: Vault of the Dragon Kings. You can find full stats for him in there!

This dude was based off of a monster appearing in: Dungeon Crawl Classics #30: Vault of the Dragon Kings. You can find full stats for him in there!

This sculpt is available for sale through Goodman Games as part of their Dungeon Crawl Classics line.

This sculpt is available for sale through Goodman Games as part of their Dungeon Crawl Classics line.

I was commissioned by Magnificent Egos to create a line of kobolds for the Kobolds Ate My Baby! Game. They were to be based off of artwork appearing in the rulebook, as rendered by famous game cartoonist John Kovolic! As time was tight, all 6 kobolds were designed from the same master frame, and then their details were sculpted on to make them all individuals. The pic above shows the master, which I believe has also been released as a “Nekkid Kobold”.

I played this massive barbarian chick in Don’s campaign a few years back. Now that the campaign is long wrapped up, it’s about time I have a figure for her!

Still, she was always one of my favorite characters, and I can’t wait to get this piece cast up so I can have one to paint!

In Erica’s DragonMech campaign, Andrew runs an Elven Druid Verminmaster. As such, he is all about the bugs; the grosser the better. His animal companion is actually a monstrous scorpion.

Of course, he isn’t high enough level yet to have a large monstrous scorpion…D&D Minis actually has a pretty good one of those. No, he has a Small Monstrous Scorpion, and so I sculpted this guy!

Spliffy the Scorpion’s tail was sculpted in a straight back position to make him easier to cast. Once he is cast into metal, his tail can be bent forward to the standard ‘over the back’ position.

My first finished humanoid figure using the new grey-colored ProCreate putty. So far, I really like it, so expect to see a lot more ‘Greys’ in the future!

A fantastic old-school monster from the lost pages of the Forgotten Realms, this cool commission was a joy to sculpt! It is shown here in it’s assembled and primed state…while it may have been fun to sculpt, it was a nightmare to cast and a bit of work to assemble. The four arms are separate pieces, as is the tail. Also, all of the spikes along its back are individual pieces…about 15 of ‘em! I don’t have these available for sale yet, as I’m still working out some casting issues with the main body…it’s a bit too thick for my vulcanizer mold frame, and I’d like to make it in resin so the finished piece will be lighter…blah blah blah –I’m workin’ on it! If you’d like one, please do pester me, and I’ll try to work on it faster!