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 the other day i needed to create a woodland environment for our next D&D game session but didn't want to spend much on a new gaming mat. Rita and i ended up going to Hobby Lobby just to look around and as we were walking around i had an idea on making table game maps out of painting canvases. i had Rita paint the canvas and the only directions i gave her was to create an abstract woodland piece of art. we bought a 24"x36" stretched canvas just to start out to see how it would all come about. comparing costs the 24x36 cost $22 a 3x3 gaming mat could run for close to $50, so we'll see how these hold up. after awhile if these hold up i want to do one for the MotU project and possibly a 3'x3' area for table top gaming. i have several pieces of trees and bushes to add to this set-up. Jon is making me some pieces using my palm trees desert terrain pieces and recoloring and adding some more forest related decor to them. several dragonborn sorcerers search throug...

 finishing up some more miscellaneous figures i recently got this past week and taking a break from the MotU project momentarily. just have several more to get done for D&D then most likely get wave 3 of Masters of the Universe figures completed for next month. painted a few miniatures for players in our D&D group to represent their characters. also in the pipeline is cultists, more spellcasters, and animated armor. few heroic warriors came across a big problem. painted this fellow for Jon, an elvish bladesinger wizard. Rita wanted to give a straight spellcasting class so she made a sorceress, so we got her a gnome sorceress from Next Level Miniatures. a 3d printed miniature from a local gaming store. a kung-fu rabbit. lol. a goblin ranger. honestly i think his skin color got too dark for my liking but i didn't want to go with the traditional green skin. i got a pack of familiars from Wizkids and had to get the one that had the little cat in it for my little kitty necromanc...

recently while in the middle of painting my Masters of the Universe figures i took a trip to a local gaming store that has a decent assortment of Wizkids and Reaper miniatures but also available are 3d printed figures done by one of the associates that works there. while not looking for anything in particular i came across several nice figures that i bought just for humor and actually using one as a D&D character. a very bushy tailed fox like animal that i painted as a small fiery elemental creature. tried my best blending the reds, oranges, and yellows with a tip of white. muscle bound and raging!!! i found this dwarf or could be a very upset little helper that's just pissed off at Santa Claus. i saw this figure and i had to get it.  i saw this figure and i knew i had to get him. me personally i am not a cat person but once i saw this i had an idea of a D&D character. a tabaxi wizard of the school of necromancy, named Sindarus, the Shadowpaw.   last weekend i ord...

  continuing with the Masters of the Universe figures from CMON with wave two. wave two consists of Man-E-Faces, Ram Man, Evil-Lyn, Faker, Trap Jaw, Tri-Klops, Panthor. for a change of pace i ended up painting a few hover robots since i have a decent amount of them and they were not part of the original toy-line. Heroic Warriors. Man-E-Faces. Ram Man. Evil-Lyn attempts to cast a spell at Teela. Evil Warriors. Evil-Lyn. Faker. Trap Jaw. Tri-Klops. Panthor. Hover Robots. Hover Robots ambush Man-E-Faces. more to come...