My Own Mini Madness

[Ettrick]

These are a few of the minis I have done for my own entertainment.  A couple I started with hopes of getting them cast but it doesn't look like that will happen.  Some others are gifts that have gone or will go to friends.

Robot and silent enforcers.



Frogman done with my 10 year old son.


Self-portrait with the wife.  The big guy was actually just a face made with leftover putty at the end of a session.


Post-Apoc woman.



Stylish assassin with guns behind her back.



Steampunk dwarves.  They measure about 22-23mm.


Here's a shot with a 28mm mini for scale and a 15mm Jawa I did for fun.  They're a group of 5 to go with my re-worked SW Grymn.


Cultists.


Revolutionaries with paper bags over their heads. 



Probably others around somewhere.  Lots of diverse types of terrain to share at some point, too.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

That self-portrait with the wife is very surrealistic, a great concept!

[Ettrick]

Well, it didn't start with any sort of vision at all.  I only didn't want to completely waste the putty so I mashed a face out quickly on some polyethylene plastic.  After it cured I used it as a spot to add on the other excess putty, eventually reaching toes and fingers.  Now I'm getting the surface texture done - and giving him a bit more clothing, skins wrapped round his waist.

[blackstone]

Nice stuff.  I really like the strange red and gold character from the first photo. Odd and mysterious. The concepts and posing on alot of these is great... particlularly the paper bag revolutionaries.

[DeafNala]

Your stuff is highly imaginative, very creative, & uniquely your own. The surrealistic comment by the Good Prof. is very appropriate. There's also a touch of Tim Burton in the mix. I find the pieces to be inspiring...VERY WELL DONE!

[Ettrick]

Thanks.

The paper bag revolutionaries were a trade for other minis.  He said he wanted some luddites who would go out hunting robots so I decided they needed to have an easy way to conceal identities at the moment of action.   I was particularly pleased with the guy kneeling by a rucksack full of bricks.  The bald and bearded one wears a shawl collar cardigan I used to love though I've never smoked a pipe.

[supervike]

Love the self portrait as well.


Looks like you are having a blast with this hobby!!!

[Malamute]

Some very imaginative stuff there, I also really like the self protrait

[Ettrick]

Thanks.  It's a fun learning curve, isn't it?

Supervike, don't you sculpt quite a lot?  Or do you focus on painting?  I know I've seen your name connected to some nice work.

[SBRPearce]

The frog-man reminds me of Baron Silas Greenback, the amphibian villain from the "Danger Mouse" cartoons!

[Ettrick]

Hehe, I'll tell my son.  It's really his work with my painting overtop.  I had given him putty and tools for his 10th birthday so he'd stop using mine.