Woohoo! I’ve been looking forward to this one for a long time. I have painted a few minis in my time, but my eyes are almost always bigger than my stomach when it comes to buying and planning elaborate armies. Thankfully, there’s plenty of eye-candy out and about the web, and in our own archives, to satisfy my long-standing dreams vicariously. Here’s a list of top content that can get you started on your own mad schemes. Happy Friday!
The listing also claims that “the tallest piece measures 3″,” which, unless an oversize penny is actually part of the set, seems like a slight exaggeration. Majorl awesomesauce, anyway. ]via Neatorama]
Man, what a cool artifact. Not $7,500 cool, IMHO, as I can appreciate it just fine from the photo over at Wright Auctions, but to each his or her own. [via Core77]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this cool set of five hand-painted Matryoshka dolls from user funnypolynomial. The tiny solder blob goes inside the diode goes inside the LED goes inside the resistor goes inside the capacitor.
I’ll admit to having wargame minis on the brain this morning. As a commenter on my earlier post pointed out, a cheaper alternative to Shapeways printing of your entire computer-modeled miniature army is to print just one of each unit type, then use the print as a master to make your own mold and cast a bunch of duplicates. Heck, while you’re at it, you might even just print the mold itself. This page provides a set of pretty good tutorials about duplicating miniatures by casting. [Thanks, RichB!]
It used to be that if you wanted anything other than “stock” miniatures for your games, you had to laboriously customize or scratch-build each unit by hand. Now, if you can use Blender, you can design, pose, and print your army and have them shipped to you, ready to paint.
Lubbock, Texas artist Dustin Wallace, whose larger one-off/limited edition transforming robot sculptures I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, also makes these wicked little “robotagami” dudes that are CNC-cut from sheet metal (stainless steel or copper), ship flat, and get slotted together and folded up to make a dimensional figure by the buyer.
