Pixelastic Painting Log Documenting my journey through miniature painting and terrain building.
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Ronan as an Iron Golem
miniatures
Jul 20, 2019

Ronan as an Iron Golem

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 …
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Yu-Gi-Oh Exodia as Iron Golem
miniatures
Jul 20, 2019

Yu-Gi-Oh Exodia as Iron Golem

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 …
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Spell and abilities tokens
terrain
Mar 15, 2019

Spell and abilities tokens

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 …
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Happy Meal toy into snakes
miniatures
Mar 12, 2019

Happy Meal toy into snakes

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 …
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Sewer Tiles
terrain
Feb 15, 2019

Sewer Tiles

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 …
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Terrain
Jan 10, 2019

Cardboard Terrain

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 …
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miniatures
Jan 9, 2019

Magnets

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 …
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miniatures
Jan 8, 2019

Heroclix

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 …
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Misc
Jan 7, 2019

Garage Sales

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, …
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Misc
Jan 6, 2019

Storage

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 …
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miniatures
Jan 5, 2019

Bases

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 …
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miniatures
Jan 4, 2019

Varnish

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 …
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