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I needed a snowy owl bear for my Icewind Dale campaign. After finishing this paint job I sent the picture to my players as some foreshadowing. And... well... now its a dead owlbear. Stuffed and mounted.

Snowy Owl Bear

I had a brown owl bear in my collection already. So I decided to add to it with a more traditional coloring. This purple makes this fantastical creature appear even more crazy. As a testament to how durable it is, this picture was taken after my toddler played with it for over a month!

Owl Bear

Dwyn is one of my sister's D&D characters. She is a water based sorcerer with some frozen fingertips and lightning blue scars. While I have little love for HeroForge miniatures, this one was a fun way to get back into painting after a long break.

Dwyn

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image gives you a closer look at her body in all her majesty. A close look at the log under her feet shows the red fox taking a nap.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image shows the rabbits and hedgehog home tucked under a rock shelf. In the back, byt the water you can also see an otter playing.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image shows the fish and crabs living in the water as well as the mushroom cave and spider's home. These details were some of the most fun bits of this project.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. At full height, this is around 12 inches tall. Check out the other pictures of this massive project to see some of the hidden details.

Forest Dragon

While working on the forest dragon, I tried a new technique by running some crackle medium through my airbrush to create a realistic spider web effect. It wasn't until I looked up from the project that I realized it was working really well... it just wasn't landing where I thought it was.

Spider Web Mishap

Dragon wyrmlings are a fun, quick project. Each of them gives some great opportunity for color variation and personality. The challenge with this red wyrmling was to make it give off the personality with a red ting everywhere without turning it pink.

Red Dragon Wyrmling

Dragon wyrmlings are a fun, quick project. Each of them gives some great opportunity for color variation and personality. This black wyrmling made painting variations of black one of my favorite challenges. How to make something look alive, glossy, and still render shadows when it is such a dark base color.

Black Dragon Wyrmling

Dragon wyrmlings are a fun, quick project. Each of them gives some great opportunity for color variation and personality. The blue wyrmling was an experiment with some new Golden paints. They turned out to be so glossy I had a hard time finding details on the model to paint, but even after a coat of matte varnish the colors still pop like crazy.

Blue Dragon Wyrmling

The ethereal look of this phase spider is spot on! The vibrant blue makes it really come alive.

Phase Spider

At almost nine inches tall, this is one of the largest figures I've ever painted. It was a challenge from the beginning with printing issues, assembly issues, and new learning in the painting process. This figure truly embodies the green anger that is the Hulk. To this day, it is the one on my shelf that gets the most questions.

Hulk and Hulk Buster

These two young dragons were painted in a single evening. Some airbrushing, strategic washes, dry brushing did most of the work.

Green and White Dragons

For a bit of fun and a break from my tabletop minis, I painted this goofy Deadpool. I failed to create the reflective look I wanted on the materials, but it was a single evening project. So I succeeded in making a fun desk ornament from him.

Chibi Deadpool

This manticore sculpt by Rocket Pig Games was a challenge in large surface areas. I wanted the wings to look like inflamed flesh, but it took several tries to get close to what I was looking for. In the end, it is still significantly terrifying.

Manticore

These plague marines from the 40k starter set were a disgusting pleasure to paint. I used the same basing technique from the plague walkers by sculpting some goo bubbles in Milliput and using UHU glue for the nasty goo strings.

Plague Marines

Miniac an the Nova Open Charitable Foundation held a group event where dozens of people from around the world came together to paint four armies that would be placed up for charity raffle. I was lucky enough to get a slot and build this forgefiend. One of the largest and most involved warhammer minis I've ever painted, but also some of the most fun I've had painting. The Thousand Sons scheme with some heated metal and fluorescent pink was a blast!

Nova Forgefiend

Miniac an the Nova Open Charitable Foundation held a group event where dozens of people from around the world came together to paint four armies that would be placed up for charity raffle. I was lucky enough to get a slot and build this forgefiend. One of the largest and most involved warhammer minis I've ever painted, but also some of the most fun I've had painting. The Thousand Sons scheme with some heated metal and fluorescent pink was a blast!

Nova Forgefiend

So much pink! This crazy mimic by Cast n Play was such a unique sculpt that I couldn't resist. I am fascinated by minis that include multple different versions of the same colors, and take the opportunity every time I can to grow my skill set on these types of models.

Mimic

This fantastic sculpt from Miniac was the single largest growing experience in my mini painting career. Not only was it my first 75mm scale model, but I also painted everything (excluding metallics) with 5 paints! Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and White Liquitex acrylic gouache. Talk about a crazy challenge but the study of how different fabrics interact with light gave me a whole new way of thinking about my process.

The Duchess

This forest guardian was one of the first miniatures I ever bought and every time I tried to paint him I was disappointed in the look of the wood. That was until this time. I added in some twig blight minions and it made for a fantastic D&D encounter set. Also... I now avoid PVC minis like the plague because of this one.

Forest Guardian and Twig Blight Minions

I needed to crank out some Grick models for my D&D game, but I wasn't feeling a boring paint scheme. So I went to the opposite end of the spectrum and made these things as vibrant as I could.

Gummy Worm Grick

Another speed paint model for my D&D game. This guy stands about three inches tall and painted in around 2 hours. 3D Model: Artisan Guild

Ogre Smash

This was the first competition model I added to my portfolio. It was painting Gino that convinced me to remove washes from my toolbox in everything except bottom level tabletop paint jobs. However, I am very pleased with how it turned out and is still one of my favorite models on the shelf. 3D Model: Artisan Guild - Dwarven Oathbreakers

Gino the Brewmaster

I needed some skeletons for my D&D session the next day. So I crushed out these WizKids skeletons in less than an hour. They don't look so bad if you check them out from a table away.

Skeletons

This WW2 German Tiger was built as part of my first Flames of War set. Silly Putty makes a great airbrush mask in a pinch. The camouflage pattern is one that was use in the war.

WW2 german Tiger

This hilarious 4 inch tall figure was printed and painted as a birthday gift for my brother. It was printed as one piece and painted in a little over an hour. 3D Model: Gambody

Fat Boba Fett

This was the first jump I made into speed painting. I had a massive pile of D&D miniatures to get finished and couldn't be spending hours on each. The nothic took me around 20 minutes from primed to table ready. 3D model: Rocket Pig Games

Nothic

This hulk bust was one of the first things I printed after I got my first resin printer, an Elegoo Mars. As I was also new to painting, this was a massive undertaking. It ended up being a great benchmark to look back on as I improve.

Hulk Bust

These were the first Warhammer miniatures I painted. I spent way too much time building out custom sculpted bases with some UHU glue goo strands. Tons of fun and they look great on the table.

Plague Walkers

This 1/100 scale IS-2 is from a Flames of War kit. I built and painted this for a friend who was just getting into the game. The chipping and mud effects brought this historic tank to life. Dry pigment powder and isopropyl alcohol were used to create the mud. With a solid coat of varnish, it isn't going anywhere.

WW2 Russian IS-2

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Dwyn is one of my sister's D&D characters. She is a water based sorcerer with some frozen fingertips and lightning blue scars. While I have little love for HeroForge miniatures, this one was a fun way to get back into painting after a long break.

Dwyn

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image gives you a closer look at her body in all her majesty. A close look at the log under her feet shows the red fox taking a nap.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image shows the rabbits and hedgehog home tucked under a rock shelf. In the back, byt the water you can also see an otter playing.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image shows the fish and crabs living in the water as well as the mushroom cave and spider's home. These details were some of the most fun bits of this project.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. At full height, this is around 12 inches tall. Check out the other pictures of this massive project to see some of the hidden details.

Forest Dragon

At almost nine inches tall, this is one of the largest figures I've ever painted. It was a challenge from the beginning with printing issues, assembly issues, and new learning in the painting process. This figure truly embodies the green anger that is the Hulk. To this day, it is the one on my shelf that gets the most questions.

Hulk and Hulk Buster

For a bit of fun and a break from my tabletop minis, I painted this goofy Deadpool. I failed to create the reflective look I wanted on the materials, but it was a single evening project. So I succeeded in making a fun desk ornament from him.

Chibi Deadpool

This manticore sculpt by Rocket Pig Games was a challenge in large surface areas. I wanted the wings to look like inflamed flesh, but it took several tries to get close to what I was looking for. In the end, it is still significantly terrifying.

Manticore

So much pink! This crazy mimic by Cast n Play was such a unique sculpt that I couldn't resist. I am fascinated by minis that include multple different versions of the same colors, and take the opportunity every time I can to grow my skill set on these types of models.

Mimic

This forest guardian was one of the first miniatures I ever bought and every time I tried to paint him I was disappointed in the look of the wood. That was until this time. I added in some twig blight minions and it made for a fantastic D&D encounter set. Also... I now avoid PVC minis like the plague because of this one.

Forest Guardian and Twig Blight Minions

I needed to crank out some Grick models for my D&D game, but I wasn't feeling a boring paint scheme. So I went to the opposite end of the spectrum and made these things as vibrant as I could.

Gummy Worm Grick

Another speed paint model for my D&D game. This guy stands about three inches tall and painted in around 2 hours. 3D Model: Artisan Guild

Ogre Smash

This was the first competition model I added to my portfolio. It was painting Gino that convinced me to remove washes from my toolbox in everything except bottom level tabletop paint jobs. However, I am very pleased with how it turned out and is still one of my favorite models on the shelf. 3D Model: Artisan Guild - Dwarven Oathbreakers

Gino the Brewmaster

This hilarious 4 inch tall figure was printed and painted as a birthday gift for my brother. It was printed as one piece and painted in a little over an hour. 3D Model: Gambody

Fat Boba Fett

This was the first jump I made into speed painting. I had a massive pile of D&D miniatures to get finished and couldn't be spending hours on each. The nothic took me around 20 minutes from primed to table ready. 3D model: Rocket Pig Games

Nothic

This hulk bust was one of the first things I printed after I got my first resin printer, an Elegoo Mars. As I was also new to painting, this was a massive undertaking. It ended up being a great benchmark to look back on as I improve.

Hulk Bust

I needed a snowy owl bear for my Icewind Dale campaign. After finishing this paint job I sent the picture to my players as some foreshadowing. And... well... now its a dead owlbear. Stuffed and mounted.

Snowy Owl Bear

I had a brown owl bear in my collection already. So I decided to add to it with a more traditional coloring. This purple makes this fantastical creature appear even more crazy. As a testament to how durable it is, this picture was taken after my toddler played with it for over a month!

Owl Bear

Dwyn is one of my sister's D&D characters. She is a water based sorcerer with some frozen fingertips and lightning blue scars. While I have little love for HeroForge miniatures, this one was a fun way to get back into painting after a long break.

Dwyn

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image gives you a closer look at her body in all her majesty. A close look at the log under her feet shows the red fox taking a nap.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image shows the rabbits and hedgehog home tucked under a rock shelf. In the back, byt the water you can also see an otter playing.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. This image shows the fish and crabs living in the water as well as the mushroom cave and spider's home. These details were some of the most fun bits of this project.

Forest Dragon

This dragon was the largest project I had undertaken by a significant margin. The base is scratch built with many hidden creatures. The dragon and other creatures are 3d printed, but rest is a combination of foam, sculpting putty, epoxy, and much more. At full height, this is around 12 inches tall. Check out the other pictures of this massive project to see some of the hidden details.

Forest Dragon

While working on the forest dragon, I tried a new technique by running some crackle medium through my airbrush to create a realistic spider web effect. It wasn't until I looked up from the project that I realized it was working really well... it just wasn't landing where I thought it was.

Spider Web Mishap

Dragon wyrmlings are a fun, quick project. Each of them gives some great opportunity for color variation and personality. The challenge with this red wyrmling was to make it give off the personality with a red ting everywhere without turning it pink.

Red Dragon Wyrmling

Dragon wyrmlings are a fun, quick project. Each of them gives some great opportunity for color variation and personality. This black wyrmling made painting variations of black one of my favorite challenges. How to make something look alive, glossy, and still render shadows when it is such a dark base color.

Black Dragon Wyrmling

Dragon wyrmlings are a fun, quick project. Each of them gives some great opportunity for color variation and personality. The blue wyrmling was an experiment with some new Golden paints. They turned out to be so glossy I had a hard time finding details on the model to paint, but even after a coat of matte varnish the colors still pop like crazy.

Blue Dragon Wyrmling

The ethereal look of this phase spider is spot on! The vibrant blue makes it really come alive.

Phase Spider

At almost nine inches tall, this is one of the largest figures I've ever painted. It was a challenge from the beginning with printing issues, assembly issues, and new learning in the painting process. This figure truly embodies the green anger that is the Hulk. To this day, it is the one on my shelf that gets the most questions.

Hulk and Hulk Buster

These two young dragons were painted in a single evening. Some airbrushing, strategic washes, dry brushing did most of the work.

Green and White Dragons

For a bit of fun and a break from my tabletop minis, I painted this goofy Deadpool. I failed to create the reflective look I wanted on the materials, but it was a single evening project. So I succeeded in making a fun desk ornament from him.

Chibi Deadpool

This manticore sculpt by Rocket Pig Games was a challenge in large surface areas. I wanted the wings to look like inflamed flesh, but it took several tries to get close to what I was looking for. In the end, it is still significantly terrifying.

Manticore

These plague marines from the 40k starter set were a disgusting pleasure to paint. I used the same basing technique from the plague walkers by sculpting some goo bubbles in Milliput and using UHU glue for the nasty goo strings.

Plague Marines

Miniac an the Nova Open Charitable Foundation held a group event where dozens of people from around the world came together to paint four armies that would be placed up for charity raffle. I was lucky enough to get a slot and build this forgefiend. One of the largest and most involved warhammer minis I've ever painted, but also some of the most fun I've had painting. The Thousand Sons scheme with some heated metal and fluorescent pink was a blast!

Nova Forgefiend

Miniac an the Nova Open Charitable Foundation held a group event where dozens of people from around the world came together to paint four armies that would be placed up for charity raffle. I was lucky enough to get a slot and build this forgefiend. One of the largest and most involved warhammer minis I've ever painted, but also some of the most fun I've had painting. The Thousand Sons scheme with some heated metal and fluorescent pink was a blast!

Nova Forgefiend

So much pink! This crazy mimic by Cast n Play was such a unique sculpt that I couldn't resist. I am fascinated by minis that include multple different versions of the same colors, and take the opportunity every time I can to grow my skill set on these types of models.

Mimic

This fantastic sculpt from Miniac was the single largest growing experience in my mini painting career. Not only was it my first 75mm scale model, but I also painted everything (excluding metallics) with 5 paints! Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and White Liquitex acrylic gouache. Talk about a crazy challenge but the study of how different fabrics interact with light gave me a whole new way of thinking about my process.

The Duchess

This forest guardian was one of the first miniatures I ever bought and every time I tried to paint him I was disappointed in the look of the wood. That was until this time. I added in some twig blight minions and it made for a fantastic D&D encounter set. Also... I now avoid PVC minis like the plague because of this one.

Forest Guardian and Twig Blight Minions

I needed to crank out some Grick models for my D&D game, but I wasn't feeling a boring paint scheme. So I went to the opposite end of the spectrum and made these things as vibrant as I could.

Gummy Worm Grick

Another speed paint model for my D&D game. This guy stands about three inches tall and painted in around 2 hours. 3D Model: Artisan Guild

Ogre Smash

This was the first competition model I added to my portfolio. It was painting Gino that convinced me to remove washes from my toolbox in everything except bottom level tabletop paint jobs. However, I am very pleased with how it turned out and is still one of my favorite models on the shelf. 3D Model: Artisan Guild - Dwarven Oathbreakers

Gino the Brewmaster

I needed some skeletons for my D&D session the next day. So I crushed out these WizKids skeletons in less than an hour. They don't look so bad if you check them out from a table away.

Skeletons

This WW2 German Tiger was built as part of my first Flames of War set. Silly Putty makes a great airbrush mask in a pinch. The camouflage pattern is one that was use in the war.

WW2 german Tiger

This hilarious 4 inch tall figure was printed and painted as a birthday gift for my brother. It was printed as one piece and painted in a little over an hour. 3D Model: Gambody

Fat Boba Fett

This was the first jump I made into speed painting. I had a massive pile of D&D miniatures to get finished and couldn't be spending hours on each. The nothic took me around 20 minutes from primed to table ready. 3D model: Rocket Pig Games

Nothic

This hulk bust was one of the first things I printed after I got my first resin printer, an Elegoo Mars. As I was also new to painting, this was a massive undertaking. It ended up being a great benchmark to look back on as I improve.

Hulk Bust

These were the first Warhammer miniatures I painted. I spent way too much time building out custom sculpted bases with some UHU glue goo strands. Tons of fun and they look great on the table.

Plague Walkers

This 1/100 scale IS-2 is from a Flames of War kit. I built and painted this for a friend who was just getting into the game. The chipping and mud effects brought this historic tank to life. Dry pigment powder and isopropyl alcohol were used to create the mud. With a solid coat of varnish, it isn't going anywhere.

WW2 Russian IS-2

While working on the forest dragon, I tried a new technique by running some crackle medium through my airbrush to create a realistic spider web effect. It wasn't until I looked up from the project that I realized it was working really well... it just wasn't landing where I thought it was.

Spider Web Mishap

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