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Made in de
Longtime Dakkanaut






Great work giving the cleric more height! And as the rest of the commenters I love the Under the Sea scene And thought the weasel was a wildcat
   
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Fighter Ace





Edinburgh


I love the recent sculpts, I think the crab is my personal favourite. All hail that mighty painting journal, I am impressed at your dedication! That would be a great idea for me but I lack your focus I fear

Lovely painting efforts already this year, here’s to a good one!?

Ragsta

   
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Krazed Killa Kan





USA

@Viterbi: Thanks Viterbi I've finished one more undersea creature, so the undersea scene is back.
@Ragsta: Thanks Ragsta, I'm glad you like the giant crab. I really should get him painted, but can't decide on the color. I'm hoping for a good year of painting, thanks.

I have finished painting the sea hag that I made for D&D




If you are curious what pieces make her up:
Spoiler:

The arms are from two different "zombies" from Sedition Wars: The Battle of Alabaster, and the body is a Hadross Deepman from Wrath of Kings
The coral snake, face, and seaweed is sculpted on


   
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Walking Dead Wraithlord






A solid use of old restic. Love her snake.
   
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Druid Warder





I'll second the crab notion - Shiny!!!

And I really like that entire subnautica as a whole - very nice environment and... fauna!

Painting progress tracker:
2017: 50 of 50 planned; 2018: 80 of 60 planned; 2019: 75 of 75 planned

Pledge 2020:
6 to sculpt, 75 to paint (2/57 done) 
   
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





Affton, MO. USA

Great work on her , she really fits the backdrop of seaweeds you made.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
Made in de
Longtime Dakkanaut






Cool addition to the undersea world!
   
Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka





6 foot underwater

Enjoying the aquatic life with Steve Syro....

cyborks & flyboyz : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/300067.page
heretical ramblings : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/302773.page
imperial preachings : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/303365.page
Da Waaagh-ky Races : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/325045.page
Briancj: You have the Mek Taint, MT, and the only thing we can do is watch in horror/amazement.

 
   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

@youwashock: Thank you youwashock
@Wirecat: Thanks Wirecat. Are you thinking I should paint the crab similar to the crab from Moana?
@Theophony: Thanks Theo
@Viterbi: Thanks Viterbi I'm close to finishing everything from the chart.
@monkeytroll: Heh heh, thanks monkeytroll

   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

I've finished converting an old MageKnight mini into a Cleric for D&D, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.



This cleric started as the exact mini on the left (except it was missing its left hand)


Earlier WIP pics
Spoiler:





   
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Gargantuan Great Squiggoth





Not where I should be

Well your work has come on laps and bounds since I was last here. Amazing stuff. Truly inspiring.




 
   
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Fighter Ace





Edinburgh

Keep it up, dude, love those.

   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

Thanks so much Cam and Ragsta

   
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Walking Dead Wraithlord






Excellent use of a Demi-Magus. Unless you are playing Mage Knight, of course. Then he should be standing directly behind the Storm Golem.
   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

Wow, youwashock, good eye. Did you play Mage Knight? It's been so many years since I played. I mostly used Black Powder Rebels, the Steam Golem was my favorite.

   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

I have finished painting the last of the custom wizards that I designed.


If you are curious, I made him from a molded copy of the Murkwood Guard LotR Heroclix (I love the look of this mini), with the arms of a cultist from the Cthulhu Wars miniature game, and the molded head of a D&D kobold for the staff. I sculpted the hood and beard.

   
Made in de
Longtime Dakkanaut






Fascinating use of those bits and moulding to get this unique wizard. He looks cool, great job sculpting that beard!
   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

Thanks so much Viterbi! I really enjoy the whole process of creating something new from kit bashing and sculpting.

This is something a little different, but I have been using my crafting skills on this Littlest Pet Shop toy.



This little LPS toy belongs to one of my students. She has a big collection of them, but this is one of her favorites. It was "murdered" by a squirrel, and was looking like this:



It was along the the huge hole in its head and the smaller hole by the ear, it was full of chips and cracks. It was close to falling apart into multiple pieces. I wanted to try to make the toy whole again, and I am very happy with how it turned out. In the spoiler section is the rest of the process for those of you who want to see the step by step.
Spoiler:

After super gluing the major cracks back together, I hot glued a chunk of XPS foam into the head cavity to build off of.


I then gap filled and rebuilt the shape of the head and basic hair style.



I researched and found out that the hair style actually had three points, so I altered that and finished smoothing and gap filling. I then painted the white pattern on the head that it was supposed to have, and finally mixed a custom brown and blended it as close as I could to the original head.


I am also nearly done with a very strange idea I had for a mutated wild magic sorceress.


And have been batch painting all of my kobold minis. (It is taking a long time)

   
Made in us
Druid Warder





Congratulations on successful cranial surgery, Syro! Thumbs up!

And that very strange idea is actually very neat. Don't know whether ghost-summoning would work better than mutation, but figures have a nice dynamic to them!

Painting progress tracker:
2017: 50 of 50 planned; 2018: 80 of 60 planned; 2019: 75 of 75 planned

Pledge 2020:
6 to sculpt, 75 to paint (2/57 done) 
   
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[DCM]
Incorporating Wet-Blending





Japan

Oh, wow, that mutated sorceress is creepy and cool! I can't wait to see her and her arm all painted up!

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Krazed Killa Kan





USA

Thanks Wirecat, thanks Josh. I'll have to remember to take one more picture of the sorceress to share before painting her. I did a little work on her. I'm glad you both like her, my "head-cannon" is that the sorceress is a minor noble and the weird little arm man used to be a separate person who was her bodyguard and confidant. They fell in love, the noble family tried to separate them. She tried to cast some magic to protect them and got the wild magic surge "the next thing the speaker says becomes true" on a wild magic surge table. Without knowing this she proclaimed to her family "You can't separate us! We will always be together!" (Maybe also "he is my right hand man" but that may be too corny).

I have finished painting the old lady I sculpted for the Dakka Monthly Painting Challange:



I am incredibly proud of how this gentle orc barbarian sculpt turned out.


I also really like how this nearly finished WIP Halfling barbarian brawler is coming out. I'll share the inspiration for him when I'm done.


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Liberated Grot Land Raida






Northern Ireland

Sweet that you restored the littlest pet shop pooch for your student. Good job too, I’ll bet they were amazed!

But what I really want to know is…


When are we going to see these two little fellas again? I’m intrigued… or did I miss them on the last page?

   
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Walking Dead Wraithlord






I did play Mage Knight. Still have more of it than I probably should. Also still nurture delusions of playing again.

Awesome job on the pet. The wild sorceress is great. Gives me Wicked City vibes, a little.
   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

Thanks theCrowe Yes, my students were absolutely amazed They were excitedly talking about how it looked brand new. And thank you for the reminder about those two little fellas. I had forgotten I had posted them. I was waiting until I finished the fifth and final member of their group before "introducing" them, heh. That fifth member is the gentle orc barbarian I tried to post about last time and used the wrong picture (fixed now).

I have been sculpting and modeling the five player characters from the free Dungeons and Dragons adventure "Misfit Maggot Five" by Matt Rauscher



WIP
Spoiler:

The startof the kobold sorcerer and goblin rogue were a molded head of kobold and a grot on simple armatures.



For the short bugbear, I started with this Mage Knight Demolishing Ape and removed its head and base.



I sculpted chainmail on the bugbear and tried to make it look too big. I later make a quite mold of a bugbear head and then attached it sculpting in the neck and hair (but didn't take a picture.


The hobgoblin is pretty basic, I just lengthened the torso and made him a shield.

The orc took the most work, but I am also the most proud of him.
wire armature


After skinning the armature and bulking it up, I sculpted the back muscles


Then I moved onto the chest muscles


I bulked out the legs more, tried to make it look like pants, and sculpted the lower legs to look like martial arts wraps


The arms and ax from from Warhammer 40 orks, but cut up and heavily modified.


Here is the finished mutated wild magic sorceress as well.
@youwashock Looking up Wicked City, I can definitely see similarities. The model is based heavily on the anime Parasyte. I still have more Mage Knight figures than I should either, and have been getting more for conversions. I have trouble cutting up my original Mage Knight collection just in case I pay it again too

   
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Gargantuan Great Squiggoth





Not where I should be

All looking great. Bit disturbed by the puppy brain surgery, but good skills.




 
   
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Druid Warder





Your sculpting is progressing nicely. Thumbs up!

Painting progress tracker:
2017: 50 of 50 planned; 2018: 80 of 60 planned; 2019: 75 of 75 planned

Pledge 2020:
6 to sculpt, 75 to paint (2/57 done) 
   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

Thank you both

   
Made in de
Longtime Dakkanaut






Late to the party, but great surgery on that puppy. If the Paw Patrol ever is in trouble, they know where to turn to Ragtag fantasy group is coming along nicely as is the sorceress!
   
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Krazed Killa Kan





USA

heh heh Thanks Viterbi

   
Made in us
Krazed Killa Kan





USA

Sorry for not posting in so long, work and life have been exhausting me too much.
I am happy to say that I did some crafting over the weekend, and I wanted to see if I could make a rust monster quickly. This took almost exactly 20 minutes to craft (and much longer for its simple paint job).


I started with a toy ant from a dollar store pack and clipped it up.



The tail is what I think really sells it, and that was very quick to make with some wire and hot glue. Then I built up the body with a bit more hot glue.



Then I just had to pose it and paint it. The wire made it easy to pose the tail, other parts I heated with the tip of the hot glue gun and then dipped in water to pose.


The whole body is painted with a mixture of "Flat Flesh" and "Clear Orange" from the Vallejo model color range. Then a splash of agrax Earthshade and D&D "Grung Green for the eyes.


   
 
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