My gaming remains almost entirely online these days, so crafting projects are sporadic at best. There’s little drive to create terrain and paint minis when there are no concrete plans to actually use them in the near-ish future. But the urge to build something is still there, lurking in the background, and on occasion I’m […]
Non Mini Painter Painting… Umm… Non Minis Read More »
I’ve been meaning to post this for quite a while – since sometime around October, I think? But with the problems the site was having I didn’t bother at the time… and then I, er… sort of just forgot. But now that I’ve had time to rebuild the site, I wanted to actually post something
Non Mini Painter Painting Another Mini Read More »
In the early months of COVIDMania I started on painting some orcs. These were among the first minis I’d printed when I first got my Photon… meaning in many cases they were printed with a not-quite-properly-aligned plate, or not quite the right support settings, or… a host of other early teething problems. A few had
Non Mini Painter Painting Minis, Part Whatever Read More »
The crafting posts have slowed to a trickle lately for a number of reasons: madness at work, prepping for the holidays, colder weather making glue and paint in the garage slow to dry… and just that fact that I have something like five projects going simultaneously and getting in each other’s way. Sooner or later
Non Mini Painter Painting More Minis Read More »
I’m struggling a little with how to proceed with these posts about miniatures I’ve worked on. I feel that I lack the experience to offer meaningful tutorial-esque information and the patience to chronicle and catalog the colors I’ve used and techniques I’ve tried on a regular basis. At the same time, I want to keep
Non Mini Painter Painting Minis, Episode 4 Read More »
For a while I’ve been suspecting that the matte Krylon clearcoat I’ve been using has been muting or graying colors in many cases, though I was never really sure it wasn’t just a natural muting as the underlying paint set. I’ve pretty much confirmed the former, though, after waiting a few days between painting and
Non Mini Painter Ruini- er, ahem!, Painting Minis, Episode 3 Read More »
I picked up a copy of the new “Essentials” set and since it’s set in the area of Phandalin where my players’ characters are already located, we’re going to do at least a few sessions from the material there. I’ll have to beef up the opposition a bit to make some of it more level-appropriate,
Non Mini Painter Painting Minis, Episode 2 Read More »
So I’ve been printing minis lately. A lot of minis. My Anycubic Photon has been running pretty much 24/7 since I got it (though there have been trials and tribulations along the way that led to a lot of wasted resin…). The above represents probably about 60% of the ones I’d printed as of a
Non Mini Painter Painting Minis, Episode 1 Read More »
My 3D printer is cranking out minis at a good clip lately, to the point where my painting and basing efforts will continue well into next year even if I were to go unplug the printer until I get caught up. Many of the STL files I download have plain, flat bases integrated as part
Mini Basing for Cheapskates Read More »
So I ran into some problems with some minis I painted turning dull, gray, and fuzzy-looking after I sprayed them with clear-coat on a hot, humid summer day. As a refresher, my spiders and doppelgangers came out looking like this: Glossing over the problem I wanted to try to improve the look from here without
Mending Muted Minis… Maybe. Read More »