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Post by josedominguez on Aug 22, 2010 5:29:06 GMT -9
We have just started our new Mordheim Campaign, the aim being to play an entire campaign with custom paper minis that exactly represent the characters. I've used existing minis, artwork and even real people to help with the drawing, for the first run through, I'm only doing front views, I need loads of practice before doing the backs Anyway, here goes, I'll keep this updated as new characters arrive and bear in mind that a lot of these models are based very closely on existing miniatures. Bullet head, the pirate gunner
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Post by Floyd on Aug 22, 2010 8:49:36 GMT -9
I love the idea of doing a campaign and having the figures change as it goes along. Thumbs up man for making it all the more fun and interesting!
You using Dave's medieval buildings?
~F
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 22, 2010 9:08:07 GMT -9
That's what got me back into gaming Should have the photos up of our first five games later this week.
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 24, 2010 13:24:02 GMT -9
The marauding Dark Elves + witch hired sword
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Post by Reivaj on Aug 24, 2010 14:02:14 GMT -9
wOW they are great! How do you put their bases?? I like that. What other minis you moded to do this?
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 24, 2010 14:42:55 GMT -9
I do all of mine that way so far five warbands and a few monsters. I printed the bases onto magnetic sheeting..... it's used to make fridge magnets etc.. then just cut the minis flat footed and glue them on with PVA. It's amazingly simple, wish I'd thought of it ages ago, so far it's supporting every mini, even the dragon. E.g. and
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Post by onemonkeybeau on Aug 24, 2010 17:53:52 GMT -9
Jose!
Where are those great monsters from?
onemonkeybeau
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Post by Sirrob01 on Aug 24, 2010 22:04:36 GMT -9
Jose! Where are those great monsters from? onemonkeybeau what he said /\
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 0:41:49 GMT -9
My drawings, but incredibly close to existing miniatures.. a Daemonette from you know who, a troll from Hordes and the dragon was a nice image that popped up when I typed in dragon. The miniature for that one is a red fire dragon, but I needed a green one. Not really art as I'm basing them on existing minis, I'm getting OK at the digital painting part I suppose though
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 0:53:55 GMT -9
Carnival of chaos, the thugs are a multipart layered model, that's all my own. The others are 'inspired' by various minis and even a graphic novel
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 0:55:52 GMT -9
Undead, variously borrowed ideas, even a bit of Disney in there
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 0:57:18 GMT -9
My own warband: Captain Jack and the copywrite pirates
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 0:59:42 GMT -9
And finally the Witch hunters.... He said he wanted a leader who looked like George Cloonie, rock hard wardogs and psychotic looking flagellants. He got three scooby doos and a shaggy
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Post by Floyd on Aug 25, 2010 4:14:03 GMT -9
Nice work Mate!
Great job on all the customs!
~F
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Post by onemonkeybeau on Aug 25, 2010 6:35:42 GMT -9
No joke!
Any chance on releasing them for us to use?
onemonkeybeau
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 7:55:45 GMT -9
I'm still not doing reliable rear views..... so these are all just double fronts for the moment. I just can't get the hang of the back views. If the double fronts are any use, I can put them up.
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 8:28:31 GMT -9
Better photos now Brian Fett the bounty hunter and Bloat the Nurgle tainted one. Brian is obviously a reimagining of Bobba with dark age equipment. Bloat is based on a forge world Great unclean one, altered to look like a hugely overweight human.
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 8:31:23 GMT -9
Pukey the clown and Witch hunter captain. Clown is from an existing figure, Witch hunter is partly from an old GW figure.
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Post by squirmydad on Aug 25, 2010 14:26:53 GMT -9
This is show I got started, I just started tracing figures I likes, and colored them however I wanted. It's also how I developed my ability to design with the same proportions as real figures.
I have said multiple times before, just trace figures you like, and just tweak them to fit your needs. As long as your not selling them, then there is no problem with all the copyright crap.
I plan to do this for the retro old school figure designs. I find it too hard to do them from scratch, so I'm taking old catalogs with the hand drawn representations of the classic figures, and tracing them. I'm only changing them to have flat feet, and maybe try to make them look not so cheesy, although that's part of the charm.
Anyway, the point is COPY, COPY and COPY, TRACE and TRACE more to develop your skills and style, then start drawing your own figures just the way you want, or if you trace in vector format, then swap out heads and body parts for any number of variations. JIM
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 25, 2010 14:43:24 GMT -9
I've started doing some multi-part ones, generic human henchman types
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Post by WaffleM on Aug 26, 2010 5:10:31 GMT -9
Great Minis! I especially like your monsters!
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Post by enpeze on Aug 27, 2010 23:44:34 GMT -9
how about a release of those great minis? (even without backs, thats not a big problem IMO)
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Post by josedominguez on Aug 28, 2010 4:16:13 GMT -9
I'll sort out photobucket so anyone who wants the images can have them
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Post by josedominguez on Sept 1, 2010 3:26:35 GMT -9
Lucky the armoured war beagle charges the plague dragon in a derelict church. He will be missed.
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Post by josedominguez on Sept 1, 2010 3:27:15 GMT -9
THe wider view
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Post by josedominguez on Sept 1, 2010 3:29:40 GMT -9
The newly promoted flagellant prepares a 'death from above' It worked, he died.
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Post by highlandpiper on Sept 1, 2010 4:30:23 GMT -9
Very cool indeed ;D
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Post by Adam Souza on Sept 3, 2010 6:06:31 GMT -9
Double fronts or not, I'm sure most of us here would like a crack at these.
I'm sure you'd even get a few backs drawn for you as well.
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Post by josedominguez on Sept 3, 2010 6:09:21 GMT -9
hmmmm. I may put up the line art too then I'm setting up a sharing account for this, so they are all saved as hi-res Jpegs, that way everyone can scale as they see fit. My PDF publishing software isn't giving me the results I want.
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Post by Adam Souza on Sept 3, 2010 16:06:11 GMT -9
That would be great. It would save anyone trying to do back art for them the trouble of converting them back into image files.
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