Chibi Miniatures FTW!

While my initial love for miniatures started with seeing them in the ads of Dragon Magazine, and my enjoyment of painting them started with picking up some Reaper Bones miniatures my love for them blossomed the instant I saw chibi miniatures. My favorite of all these are the ones crafted by Soda Pop Miniatures. Whither…

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Well, I screwed up…

I’ve shared with you a few of my basing experiences and now I want to share with you another, that I sincerely hope you won’t make the mistake of copying. Anyone can see that a good base really adds to the model and a bad base detracts from it, so in my quest to continue…

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I cheated… sort of…

Back when I first started painting minis, my friends liked to stay updated with my WIPs and latest finished models.  Being a novice to all of this, as well as in photography, (I still take all my phots with a phone that’s 5 years old), I would just take pictures and send them to my…

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Basing, back to the basics…

As my experience with basing miniatures progressed(?) I decided to go back to the basics if you will (no pun intended). Cool Mini Or Not (or CMON as they are better known) make these wonderful base inserts, some of which I picked up at NOVA Open back in 2015. Each set has it’s own theme,…

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2nd Attempt at Basing (Winter Argus)

For those of you following my progress, you’ll note in my past article, “First (real) attempt at basing”, that I wanted to spice up the look of my minis with basing. Rather than just paint what the miniature came with, I decided to delve into the world of basing. While at NOVA Open 2015 I…

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First (real) attempt at basing

A problem with the Reaper brand miniatures is they come ‘pre-based’ so to speak. I’ll give them credit, they try. Rather than have their models stand atop a flat unadorned bit of plastic, (or Bones material, if you will), the base is part of the sculpt and they don’t come with those round black bases…

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