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My 4-year-old daughter has been obsessed with my miniatures since she could stand up and start looking at my storage shelves. About a year ago I got her a set of cheap paints and let her get to work on my grey pile of shame. She likes to sit on my lap and paint with me and then line up the monsters and heroes we paint together. Lately I've been having her pick my miniatures and then suggest a paint theme. This is one of the Poppets from Hawthorne Krabbe And Poppets. She requested that I paint it like her favorite stuffy so that her heroes would have something to cuddle with on adventures. I love the fig and had a lot of fun painting it. Here he is with Baby the Triceratops And here is the kiddo hard at work What she's painted so far (mostly Reaper stuff) Thanks for letting me share and thanks to Reaper for providing a great hobby that I can share with my family!

Hello All, Here are photos of a "Gnome Rogue/Thief Adventurer" I completed recently from the Bones USA 30063 Deep Gnome Warriors set. Thank you for looking

Hello All, Here are photos of 07030 Bones USA Dungeon Dwellers "Erebus Nalas, Wizard" I completed last week. Thank you for looking.

I always like a mini that’s fun to paint, makes me motivated to work on the stash of the ‘unpainted’. I tried to keep to the hyena color scheme I feel Gnolls resemble.

Hello All, Here are photos of a 30060 Bones USA "Gabron Farpath, Ranger" I completed a few days ago. Thank you for looking.

Hello All, Here are photos of a 30074 Bones USA "Young Mage" I completed recently. Thank you for looking.

She was an absolute delight to paint! Virtually no prep was needed, and the details were just remarkably crisp. Absolutely the most fun I’ve ever had painting a shield. The only complaint is that her eyes are really set in there deep, especially her left eye! Submitted for RCL in March 2023.

Hello All, Here re photos of a 07066 Bones Dungeon Dwellers "Thess Ironfaith, Female Cleric" miniature I completed a few weeks ago. Thank you for looking.

Hello All, Here is a 30089 Bones USA "Dorn Ironspike, Dwarf Warrior" I completed recently. Thank you for looking.

Hello All, Here is a Bones USA 30011 "Arkus Harn, Dwarf Witch Hunter" I completed last week. Thank you for looking.

Hello All, Here is a Bones USA 30001 Lysette Elven Mage I completed several days ago. Thank you for looking.

Hello All, Here is a 07068 Bones USA Dungeon Dwellers "Landol Griswold, Human Wizard" I completed a few days ago. Thank you for looking.

Hello All, Here is a 30010 Bones USA "Berg Ironthorn, Dwarf Crossbowman" I completed last January. Thank you for looking.

First experience with bones USA line and kinda of like it. Tried to work on glow effect on the sword

Background: for those who might not be aware, the bones USA line is made in a new process that is similar to both injection molding, and traditional metal spincast. You make a master model, push it into some uncured rubber finesse the parting lines, squish the second half of the mold on, and vulcanize the rubber ( so far just like metal spin cast). Then you use those molds in a special injection mold machine ( sioform) and in seconds you have beautiful new models. The siocast website is still pretty info scarce. Questions: how long does it take to vulcanize a siomold compared to spin cast molds? Do you vulcanize with a traditional oven, inside the sioform, or a specialty oven? Are there patch kits or do you just have to sacrifice 1 mold for every 10 or 20? Anyone else have questions for the reaper staff or other industry insiders?

And the last of my bones' dwarfs... Oh wait, it's a Bones USA..... ME LIKEY ! hehe

OMG, please don't tell me that 'bones plastic' is starting to rub off against me.

Understand that Tub is a dwarf baker, not a dwarf-baker! He has nice simple shapes for blending, with room to add detail with freehand (such as my diamond motifs, wood-grain, and "spilled flour"). Tub is part of a themed grouping with Nub the dwarf sausage-maker and the two halfling cooks (Chop and Grub). You may have seen Rhonda "Bird with a Brush" Bender's renditions of those other three. (And if you haven't, then go to the blog on her website!) Enjoy, Derek

Presenting the Cleric of Maersuluth, now that Reapers latest painting competition is over I can show off my entry for it! He didn't do particularly well (I think I came last), but I like him and, more importantly, I had a lot of fun painting a mini I probably wouldn't have purchased otherwise. As always, any comments or criticisms are warmly received.

I had fun doing three characters of the same type this month (vamps and elves) well actually seeing them pictured together was the fun part that I thought I'd round off and finish February with some thieve's but this time decided to add a common theme, brown and green to hopefully give them more highway rouges look and not city thieves but of course the female was all city.

I had fun doing three characters of the same type this month (vamps and elves) well actually seeing them pictured together was the fun part that I thought I'd round off and finish February with some thieve's but this time decided to add a common theme, brown and green to hopefully give them more highway rouges look and not city thieves but of course the female was all city.

I had fun doing three characters of the same type this month (vamps and elves) well actually seeing them pictured together was the fun part that I thought I'd round off and finish February with some thieve's but this time decided to add a common theme, brown and green to hopefully give them more highway rouges look and not city thieves but of course the female was 'all city'.

Hello to all the Reaper ladies and gents out there! So I've finally gotten around to painting my first Bones USA miniature, Fillyjonk the Hellborn Rogue, and I must say it was quite a pleasurable experience. Lots of good detail, eyes and nose were very discernible, life was pretty good. The only issues I had were with getting rid of the mold lines, plastic flash reacts quite a bit different than metal flash and as I tried to get rid of the plastic flash, it would not completely separate itself from the mini, but kind of left a little string of plastic. But that's not such a big deal I guess ultimately. So here she is, first Hellborn figure I've painted as well, so a double debut of all things Reaper: Oops, think the closeup was a little large, but I'm too lazy to go shrink it down. Anyhoos, hope you all enjoy! I'm definitely a supporter of this Bones USA material, it was very nice! I wonder how much the oncoming Bones VI is going to be Bones Black, I'm hoping for most or all of it. I've done some Bones Black figures and the detail was decent, but this is quite a lot sharper.

Or, as I like to call him, Smaul Hollywood.

Spooky season is almost a wrap, so what better project than this year's Ghoulie Bag promo? One of them arrived missing an arm, but Reaper's awesome customer service replaced him. He got a WH Beastman shield to fix it (and a Chaos Warrior mace) The other conversion has a Beastman axe and slightly reposed arms.