I made an Iron Golem out of Ronan the Accuser I used this mini as a practice for testing the Nihilak Oxyde. I simply painted it silver, applied Nuln Oil and then tried to apply Nihilak Oxyde to its …

I transformed a Yu-Gi-Oh toy into an iron golem The mini on the left is from Zombicide Green Horde, and I was painting it at the same time, but the star of this post is the big hulking figure on the …

I crafted a bunch of tokens for my players abilities. It’s poker chips with round stickers on both sides. I created round token images in Google Image with artwork found only (mostly icons from …

I found the following toy in a garage sale. It’s a Happy Meal toy (from MacDonalds), where you have to grab a plastic key from two plastic handles. I didn’t really care about the toy, but …

I made some sewer tiles from a set of square coasters. The coasters had a cork underground, so I traced a squared pattern on it and dig some recesses along the lines with a utility knife. I then …

For the very last session of one of my roleplay campaign, the heroes had to defend a small fortified village against a horde of beastman. For the occasion, I wanted to create the whole village so they …

All my minis have magnetized bases. I glue a magnetized sticker under each base. As most of my minis are now on 25mm round bases, I can simply order the matching magnets from Amazon and glue them. My …

One of my first main source of cheap minis were the Heroclix minis. Heroclix started making DC and Marvel themed minis, but they also include Star Wars and other settings. They traditionnally come …

My second source of minis (after online Heroclix stores) are garage sales. There, you can either find kids toys that can be reskinned, or old lead miniature. Toys are usually not at the right scale, …

Painting is fine, but what do you do with all those minis you have lying around. And how do you manage to pick the correct mini when you need it? Because I’ve been using the Dip Painting …

When I started my collection again, I had abunch of old GW bases lying around. They were all of various shapes and size (square, round, small and large). I had no specific plan in mind on which base …

All my minis have two layers of varnish. The first one is because I’m using the Dip technique and so all minis are under a coat of Wood Varnish (or Army Painter). This already adds a great chip …