Miniatures

I bought a bag full of Gormiti plastic toys in a garage sale, so I could practice painting on them. I like Gormiti toys because they are fairly large, so you don’t need to be very precise in …

I like to keep those two minis on my bench, as they remind me of the progress I made in a little more than a year of casual painting. The first one is one of the very first minis I painted when I got …

This is a group shot of what I was working on at that time. I picked up a few of the female miniature from Zombicide Green Horde as well as some men. The thing in the back is an attempt at making a …

I made a couple of Iron Golems (or whatever other metallic construct) from a cheap Heroclix miniature: I had just bought a bunch of metallic paints and I wanted to try them out, so I painted them …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

Still following my principle of doing stuff on the cheap, I wanted to avoid using the expensive Games Workshop basecoat sprays. For that, I use the Montana set of spray cans. They have a large range …