IT'S A NEW TRACK RECORD!

One day in the making, this mini is DONE.

I still have to paint her, of course, but that's not a big deal. If it's decent out tomorrow I may just spray paint her and the minis I got at that thing at Defiance. It'd be awesome if I finished her over the weekend.

D&D Minis

D&D uses a Battle Grid for combat, and on that grid an inch represents five feet. Because of this, keeping minis in scale makes them significantly smaller than any I've made before. The figure you see here is currently 3/4" tall, making it somewhat shorter than I was intending. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. In retrospect, I'm going to ajust the arms to make the end product taller. What we see here would end up being about 4 scale feet tall. That's just too short! My original goal was to get this mini to 5'5" scale feet. I'm gonna try to manage.

Welcome to Zoluto

I've recently started a Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 campaign for some of my friends. Here we see the world in which all of this take place. They started in the city of Tyrramere which is near the center of the map, and are now in the small village of Marna.

This is actually version 2.0 of this map. The original was drawn in 2007, and a few weeks ago I went through and changed a few names while adding a lot more.

This time I'm going to keep a detailed record of the world and its residents. By keeping this record, if the players return to a city, they can meet the same people that they met before. The places and events will also be recorded for future games.

Mini Island Prototype: In Progress

To those who DON'T know, part of my senior show will be a large multi-piece display of miniature islands suspended from the ceiling. I'm currently working on a prototype what is allowing my to determine potential problems and also work out the kinks in my techniques. I'm using a combination of foam, hardboard, chicken wire, and paper mache. I plan on finishing this one completely before I show it off. You've seen The New Yankee Workshop, right? Always complete the prototype before the show starts! Afterwards, I'll have various step by steps and work in progress images of the later models.

Just you wait and see. It's gonna be great.

Self Portrait: Hot off the Press

Here is a piece of work that I "finished" some weeks ago. I believe it turned out well as I have been recognized by people who have seen this mini.

Originally I was gonna paint this guy, but it turns out that I didn't have time and my professors thought I should leave it unpainted. Over the summer I plan to make a mold of this and cast several replicas. I can then leave the original unpainted and do whatever I want with the duplicates.

More to come later, I'm sure.

Figure Studies

As part of my Figure Studies critique, I needed to finish up the ceramic bust I made in class. As you can see, it's 1:1 scale, as it can wear my hat and shades. Next to it you can see a mini bust I'm working on as well!this way you can kinda see the scale I'm working in.

it's mostly terra cotta, but the white bits are epoxy putty. The reason it looks like he has a beard is because his face kinda, well fell off. I used the putty to clean up the seam and also as my adhesive. I also added an eyebrow for good measure.

Starting next weekend I'll be working on my Senior Show, and thus I'll be setting up a little miniatures workshop at home. I hope to have a mess of armatures within a few days of getting home.

Papercrafts for Show

One thing that I have been somewhat interested in for a while now are papercrafts, which are paper model kits which you print off and assemble.

Here you can see two that I have made completely from scratch. In the past I have extracted models and textures form WoW and run them through various programs to get them in this form, but in this case I built them in SketchUp and textured them either within that program or in Photoshop. They are by no means the most complicated or advanced papercrafts out there, but they are, as stated, actually origional!

Stay tuned, I have one or two other projects in the "Almost ready for Primetime" stage.