Ben's Miniature Gallery

Female Traveller (sculpt) added Sep 23, 2005
Not much more added, but I took some pics from other angles. This is pretty much the finished sculpt. I originally made a double-barrelled shotgun, but it was just too huge for her. Maybe it'll show up later on someone beefier.
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Twi'lek Slicer (final) added Sep 23, 2005
I'm quite happy with the way the paint job turned out. I tried to do some more graduated shading than I usually do, and I think it looks prety good. The base is the floor of some Imperial installation somewhere.
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Female Traveller (sculpt) added Sep 23, 2005
The last PC for the Traveller game. She's actually an Academic/Noble/Traveller, and the original concepts I had for the mini were much more in line with her previous careers. I much prefer this design. The rock is mostly composed of a ball of old cured green stuff with a hole drilled through it for the armature wire. The only thing I don't like about the pose is her left shin, which is too short. I was running low on green stuff, so I went to the store to get some more. Much to my dismay, they didn't have any. just as I was about to leave, I noticed some Tamiya epoxy putties. The only things in English on the packages were "Quick Type" and "Smooth Surface". They both looked pretty fine-textured, so I went with the Quick Type putty and hoped for the best. The putty comes in two parts, white and beige, each a separate ribbon 1 1/8" wide and 4" long (25g total, according to the package). At $6, I think it's about the same as the GW blue/yellow package, which was what I had gotten before. Once mixed together, the Tamiya putty is much softer and stickier than green stuff, cures fairly quickly, and is less elastic. getting the first coat on is a little difficult, as it doesn't like to stick to metal much. Once it starts curing, it smooths very easily. Once fully cured, it is very hard, and carves and drills even better than Milliput, as it's not as crumbly. I've ordered more GS, but I'll defeinitely keep this stuff around.
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Sydite (sculpt) added Sep 23, 2005
Put everything together, added enough clothing to be decent. I realized when I started taking pictures that I had forgotten his eyeballs; those will go in before painting.
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Female Traveller (final) added Sep 23, 2005
This was my first experience with static grass. It didn't work quite like I was expecting it to, but it still provides a better effect than painting sand green.
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Sydite (sculpt) added Sep 23, 2005
The purpose of this one is mostly to work on my anatomy. I finally got a face I felt happy with using the "slit and sausage" technique shown in Ramon Laan's tutorial. I needed a body to put it on, so I decided to make a nice burly Sydite so I could have an excuse for him to be nearly naked. I know that he's got two sets of pecs, but he'll need those for the four arms that will be going on in a later stage.
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Sydite (final) added Sep 23, 2005
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Soveliss added Sep 23, 2005
The WotC iconic ranger, he was given to me as part of a set of "official" minis. Many of them are still unpainted, as I find them pretty silly design-wise. This guy was good enough to warrant a decent paint job, so I did him up in autumn colors. The base also includes some gravel terrain that I was pretty pleased with. For years I've been using the same bucket of sand as flocking. It was collected from the gutter in front of a house construction site and includes a lot of pretty fine sand as well as a variety of small gravel chunks.
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Samurai added Sep 23, 2005
I don't remember exactly why I got these guys. They're from the Clan Wars line, as I recall.
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Ships added Sep 23, 2005
I finally got to the point where I needed to have some ships. I'd looked around the web for usable deck plans, but I just wasn't satisfied with anything I found. I found some good dimensions and drawings here. Based on those I created some ships in Illustrator. They may not be entirely accurate, but they should be good enough for gaming purposes. Anyone who wants to use and/or improve on them is welcome to. I printed them out and glued them to cardboard -- crude, but effective and cheap. Here are the files: Caravel Carrack Galleon
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