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Great work, it's making for quite the crowded scene- lots of life.

Can't help but hear this every time I tune in though:

Well done! I hadn't thought of rust monsters since the old D&D days, frankly, never saw a picture (shows how long I've been out of it) and never knew what they looked like! Now I do. Great work.

I like that building also- nice look to it (Mental Ork Space, indeed!) and highly playable. Gotta tell ya- I thought it was the sawn off end of a cinder block when I first saw it and I remember thinking: "Now there is a hardcore Ork player."

Man 15mm, that's getting small to be working- leave me to 28mm! These came out great- painted they are very realistic and hard to believe they came from the bits and bobs in your 'before' picture. Well done!

Harengon is amazing sculpting- cn't wait to see it with paint!

The snails are cool and you certainly are hitting some obscure entries in the DnD Bestiary.

My vote is for vapor dragon #2, although if they travel in packs maybe a bit of a mix of colors would bring more identity to them, whilst still being part of the greater whole?

Rock on!

The tealight idea was inspired- the snails are very cool! Which one doubles as the racing snail from Neverending Story Part 2?

The Gnome Seasons (Vivaldi eat your heart out!) are also very sharp- lots of imagination on display here!

Those came out exceedingly well!

I picked up a lot from RB5 but not sure I added on the zombie wolves; you've got me wanting to go through that particular box now!

Good grief, what a great amount of production!

Absolutely love the rabbit magician- the posing is eye-catching but the magician's top hat and cape make the figure.

Great repurposing of the Toys R' Us figure into the giant.

What a great amount of gnomes and really like the having both the Western and Eastern elementals represented.

And the Shambling Mound is, frankly, exactly what I pictured when D&D first came out back in the 70's. The paint job really sells it.

The octopus is terrific- what a fun piece to put out in a game.

The dragon is really quite nice and your ability to combine molded pieces and freehand work seamlessly is top notch.

Keep 'em coming!

Paint _hides_ sins- and you've nothing to hide here! Glaze those suckers and label them from an ice world.

Congratulations to all the members of the Syro family- wonderful news!

The newest addition should be helping with terrain in about four months- no hot glue gun until age 11!

Holy cow that's some vision, to see realistic Hercules figure in a 'heroic scale' He-Man- well done!

Great greenstuff work, too.

Holy cow that's brilliant! That's a pretty darn realistic little tree.

There's a pliers out there called 'lacing pliers'- they're intended to apply a wire safety to anything that might need it, like bolts that might work their way out of their seating in a machine from vibration and need a safety wire run through the head to keep them from turning.

The jaws clamp on the wire ends, much like you're using the vice grips and one handle has a spiral threaded rod run through the end- you pull on the rod and the pliers spin, tightening the wire nice and tight- but really, no better than you've done with your jig. You might see them at a junk/thrift/antique store for a good price one day though, and they might speed your production if you wanted to knock out a big batch of trees (a forest, one might say? )

Yeah, not sure what to recommend for the unraveling, that may be stuck needing a 'brute force' approach. A comb sounds workable, but probably not a plastic hair comb; we have metal undercoat rakes for our rescue ponies- you can get them pretty cheap from any pet supply store or on-line service. The teeth might be fine enough to separate the strands.

Or, you know what might work- a wool carding brush! Separating fine fibres and orienting them alongside each other is what they're designed for and you might can find one inexpensively in a thrift/junk store or even new-bought.

I found this one on eBay for $6:



Rock on!

Ambitious- and very well done!

Outstanding work all around!

You missed one word in that first sentence: "only took you 25 minutes to sculpt"; I know of no one else who does so much shaping hot glue. They need to add a new elemental mage category just for you: Glue Bender.

The Mage Knights make perfect Dhrow- slim, but with good definition suggesting wiry strength.

Rock on!

"Life is the bubbles, we got no troubles, under da sea! (or else)"

Great work in both pieces, Syro!

Outstanding- glad to see you got them finished!

15mm is fun- it lends itself to massive armies and/or very large scale operations. I saw a game at Sabre in Harrogate once where the recreated 'The Great Locomotive Chase' from the American Civil War; the game terrain covered (at scale) nearly 100 miles.

Good luck playing them!

Fire serpent made from only glue and inspiration? Check

Zombie spore octopus? Check (Seriously- this thing is supposed to look creepy-crawlie wretched icky- well done!)

Myconids ready to boogie down? Check

An excellent round up Syro!

Pretty neat, Syro! Do you blend (or intend to blend) some of your own colors or just with the unadulterated inks?

Clearly aliens have kidnapped our usual, normal, glue-bending sculptor Syro and replaced him with this original art carving, mold making, casting wargaming figure designer!

Awesome work, man. Awesome work.

Good enough to wonder when the Kickstarter campaign is going to come out to make these p[ieces available to a broader audience.

Rock on!

Excellent work.

Absolutely replicate representatives from each of the original loyalist orders.

Rock on!

Rock on, Syro! Consid4ring how full life is for you just now, it gives me some grit to keep at my little projects even more. It's one thing to have an established color scheme on familiar figures and mechanically crank things out by rote; it's another thing entirely to creatively design something from the immaterial goo (in your case, glue stick) like the giant or actively interpret the instructions for the War Hound- takes brain power.

Your progress in all the variety of your imaginative projects is impressive- keep having fun!

Jiminey, Syro- everything looks great and all kinds of talent showing up! The detail on the Warhound legs is amazing. I've always liked the idea of playing with different diameter tubes to make hydraulic or pneumatic actions on things, but never to this degree!

Wondering if you can't embed an LED and battery (or conceal the battery in a 'water weeds' stand for the figure) to make the eel light up? I may have to play with my hot glue gun!

rock on!

Very nicely done- gotta say: my favorite is the one that appears ready to beat something to death with the upraised sprocket- that's orc-atude for ya!

Every garden needs a gnome with a big-a** sickle!

You really have the potential to quit your day job Syro, and go all in on a specialty gaming figure and terrain maker. The range and breadth of the pieces you're turning out is amazing and the quality is very high. Your gladiator pieces are top notch and the casual way you drop mention of making them is on par with Ezki's "I had nothing better to do one afternoon than make this sci-fi armoured car out of an old biscuit box".

Rock on!

"ROUS's?"
"Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."

Nice work, Syro!

All looking very good!

I remember when Violet Fungi opened for the Stones back in '74....

Congrats on completing the Marines- incredible that everything is as you envisioned it and caused it to come to be!

Love that trukk- Green Masheen indeed!