Question related to DnD miniature size

Hello all, here is some more progress on the miniature:



I decided on a "leopard skin" helmet. Of course, it covers most of his back, too. It will be removable, though.

And here is a closeup on the face, painted:



thank you for viewing.

 

Here is a treel I made today, tree making should be useful for making scenery, though this specific one is too small to use with the barbarian..

 

And a bit on the softer side.

 

Some more work done on the leopard skin, here:



and another image, this time the skin is propped up. I haven't got a picture of it on the barbarian yet, but hopefully it will come up soon, when the whole miniature is finished.

 

Hellon again, here's another update, one of the two weapons of the barbarian, an axe:



And the other side of the axe

 

Hello, here are a couple of photos from the Barbarian (finished, not based yet, I'll get down to that soon). He now has a greatsword on his left hand (though greatswords are supposed to be two-handed weapons)





I hope you like them.

 

Hello, here is the finished barbarian base and all. Here is a picture from the front:



back:



side:


and other side:

 

Wow, the leopard skin came out really well.

Doesn't the large base force you to place him as a large creature when playing table top DnD?

Either way, this is a very nice job.

 

Thank you for your comment sirchet.
Good question about the large base, however, this one was not meant to be a playable mini, I just made it as a gift for a friend of mine, who plays Diablo. When I asked her which character she plays as, she said "barbarian, of course", so I made one for her.
Hopefully, this will cheer her up (some things didn't go quite as she was planning them, recently).
Even though it's not a playable mini (I refer to "playable minis" as the minis whose items are fully removable as in the previous ones) I thought you might want to see it.

Here is another shot, in daylight (flash seems to have a "blurring" effect, I think)



thank you for viewing and commenting.

 

thats awesome, how many hours work is it?

 

Thank you Cujo, it took me about a month-40 days to do this, but I wasn't working on it every day. Perhaps an average of 1 hour per day or so, so I guess it may have taken some 40 hours in all, without counting the hours I had to spend looking at images of bodybuilders in order to get all the muscles as realistic as I possibly could .
The hardest part was to determine what is going to be placed on the barbarian when, i.e I knew that the leopard skin was to be placed last, but as far as the other parts of the outfit were concerned, I had to think hard, because if I placed one part first, and later determined that another part should be placed below it, I wouldn't be able to do it. For example, if I placed the belt first and the right leg chainmail later, the right leg chainmail would look as if it is above the belt, which would not be good, in my view. Same goes for the "eagle" cardiophylax, which, if placed after the shoulder guard chains, would make it difficult to make the chains appear taut, as I thought they should be.
Still, I didn't avoid mistakes, as in the case of the left leg armor, the lower corner of the triangle of the first part of which (the "teeth") should have been above the second part of the armor, rather than below it. I also thought that the axe handle should have been a bit thicker to accomodate this large axe. I could also have painted the "lightnings" in the same way I painted those of the sword.
On the plus side, I was rather satisfied with the way the axe, the sword and the leopard skin came out, as well as the overall look of it.

 

Wow, just wow!

Your attention to detail is astonishing.

Well done, can't wait to see what's next.

 

Thank you sirchet, I am working on a scenery (just a small nature diorama) at the moment but as far as DnD is concerned, I think I have finally figured out how to make playable (ie removable and wearable on DnD-compatible miniatures) chainmail armor. I'll be sure to post it if I manage to do something half decent.
Since barbarians are only allowed to use chainmail, I am thinking of giving a playable human barbarian a go.
The experience gained from the mini in the picture will not be wasted, now I know how to make a "multi-skull decorated" axe, and a sword be means of a toothpick (for this sword, I used a toothpick, which I "flattened" with my woodcarving tools, and then used as a "skeleton structure" for the sword. Also, I now found out how to carve "runes" or other decorations on weapons. The handle of the sword also served in learning how to twist clay in order to make this specific structure. It may be useful in horned helmets. Furthermore, I managed to use some washing-dry brushing techniques (the previous demon-grin shield was rather wasted due to excessive use of metallic paint on it, which unfortunately covered the details. .
Thank you for your views and your comments, you guys really motivate me to try harder.

 

Hello everyone, merry Christmas and a happy new year(in a couple of days) to all here are some more images:

Forest scene



Ok, it's a flower pot





(I didn't make it for myself, it was a request)

And a half elf ranger. Everything but the pants and the boots are removable:



The chain mail looked better painted silvery in my opinion, however, I decided to use metallic green for it, since it adds to the camouflage which the elf is supposed to have.
I also made a camouflage cape for him, more like a ghillie suit



Here is an image of the chain mail painted silver:



The quiver came out somewhat large, too, however this effect is somewhat diminished when he wears the cape. Still, overall I thought he looked rather "rough" in comparison to the elven elegance, though.

 

The first scenery shot I expected to see a unicorn prance out from behind the rock.

As for the potted flowers, I always knew flowers were on something, (pot-ted ... get it?).

The half-elf ranger looks good, is he the strongest half-elf ever? He is definitely the most buffed half-elf I've seen, except for when I console mine in game. heh heh

I'm not sure if the quiver is as big as you said, aren't the arrows supposed to be about 3 feet long?

Either way I really enjoy these works you've presented and hope to see more.