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Haven't finished painting Tweed Tincup the Leprechaun, but couldn't resist this little fella! Here he is in the native Underdark, featuring some crystals from Mantic and 77312, Wall of Ice. Too sweet for this grim world. So cheerful and cute! Also just a little guy--even smaller than my wee homemade shroomfellas! Here are a few more fun guys and gals! (44056a and c; 44135) Golly I love painting little mushroom folk. Hope you enjoy!

Couldn't find a better thread to post this in. Has anyone else ever had mold grow on their minis? I have a set of bones that have been sitting around for about two year. They were super glued to a reaper base. Baking soda and super glue were used to blend the integrated base into the round base. There's also a layer of cheap craft paint as primer. These guys have been sitting on my painting table in a former sun-room for about two years. I noticed the bases had yellowed a bit, which I've begun to notice on some of my other older bases using baking soda as a basing material. But when I checked on them I noticed small fuzzy looking orange tufts. I can only assume this is mold. The only things I could think of to cause this are the baking soda or the water used to clean my brush before priming. Has anyone else seen this?

Hi everyone this is my first post on these forums. Here's my take on the Fungus Patch by Bob Olley, which I painted up for a friend. To make this I used some old GW paint, green Vallejo paint and some homemade glow paint, then with a top coat of a glossy spray paint to give the mushrooms a shiny look, but I may top it with a coat of satin or mat to get it to the shininess I like. The glow paint was made from around 1/4 oz Liquitex Matt Medium and 1/4 oz ~30um Glow powder which I bought on ebay. Please forgive me for the bad quality images. I was using a bad camera and had bad lighting when I took these.

A bunch of ceramic decorative mushrooms from a craft store and some arms and legs from some plastic Sentinel miniatures, and I whipped up some tiny swole shroomfellas! Also got a Fungal Bruiser, 44135, and painted it in the scheme of the Gomphidius glutinosus plate from Von Frieden's Mushrooms of the World. Added my usual pinhead sprouts and repurposed a bit of green stuff I'd originally intended as a cloche hat as a mushroom cap. And here's all our funguys and fungals!

WIP #1 was animals. WIP #2 will be plants. Until Bones 3 arrives, I only have 2 sets of plant creatures. Spirit of the Forest and Mushrooms (a 3 pack). I decided to warm up with the fun guys. First sliced some mold lines. Not too bad and not being super picky with these. Here they are ready for their bath. After some hot water and a scrub with the old toothbrush, I mounted them each on their own homemade holder. staff on the big one was noticeably less bent after the hot water rinse. then they got a diluted coat of brown liner. next up... Base coats.

Here is one of my favorite sets of minis, of all time. They're the Fungal Growth Spawn point for Super Dungeon Explore, and I based the color schemes on the various colors of mushroom monsters from the Dragon Quest series.

Presenting the Amethyst Deceiver: with a name like than and such great colors how could I not paint it? also the shelf fungus on his back is Chicken-of-the-woods, previously painted as one of his minions. http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/64164-02679-mushroom-men-chicken-of-the-woods-rpc/

I am considering an adventure for my local group that will involve some extended underground travel. It's a custom campaign so there's no Underdark and what not, but there will be some shriekers, mycanoids, and other plant based life in addition to some traditional underground dwelling critters. To that end I have begun a project to make some fungi to place on the map. The plan for the first one was simply an ovoid on a vertical stalk (like a bush) with irregular growth. I added a toothpick to a plastic base and trimmed it at the max height I wanted for this large fungus. Then using superglue and sand I built up the tip of the toothpick with sand. Once I had a core I added ballast to the outside using superglue and sand to cement it all together. I then knocked off a couple of small chunks of ballast to maintain the irregular shape. Voila, a large green ovoid fungus that will exhale spores into a chamber as a natural trap to create some carrion to grow on. (side note to self: disassemble a skeleton to "grow" a fungus from) I added more ballast to a section of the ovoid and the ground. This will be a separate organism / parasite that is growing onto the ovoid. So after filling the parasite with a bit of glue to blur the organism into itself, I painted it orange and then back on the ovoid I painted in the raised sections white and then filled the interior of that with a purple. See ... at this point I had forgotten something ... adding the Glow in the Dark medium to the paints. So angry. The next step was to continue introducing paint to increase the texture contrast and make the white/purple into "caps" around the sides of this ovoid while leaving a lot of the base ovoid "exposed". When next we see the ovoid again, you'll see some lining around the "caps," mottling on the base ovoid and a wash to add more shadows to the parasite organism.

Here it is the finished ten-foot-tall Myconid Cephalopod. This strange critter lies in wait luring unsuspecting underground miners or adventurers close with its seemingly harmless glowing cap and then using both of its ten-foot-long tentacles it will rend you in half. Wish I had lighting to make give this an underground look but here are the shots. These are pre-Dullcote pics. I sealed the cap except for the spots to make it a little off. I also sealed the stalagmite and growths its perched on so it looks wet. Once I Dullcote it, I will likely add a bit of gloss varnish back to those areas. As always comments are appreciated. If you see something I might have done differently or something I might improve with a different technique, please let me know. Please include links to videos and/or tutorials. Thank you for checking this out. From above the cap: From below the cap (slightly): If you want to use this idea in your campaign simply use the stats for a Roper and describe it like above. The players will never know what hit them. And then from here on out Mushrooms of any size will make them paranoid ... without eating them. Blog Post | WIP

Or as my sister called it... Deformed Easter Egg. LOL I decided to make a WIP for some deep cavern scenery I am custom making. The first colorful piece is really a ball of sand, ballast and glue. It is a spore producing fungus that sits upon a small stem. A parasite plant is growing on it. Read and see the WIP, "Sauteed with Butter" ... http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/48081-sauteed-with-butter/ Here it is ... Feedback welcome.