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 i spent all of the month of June not doing anything. i hardly painted anything maybe a few D&D miniatures but nothing excited to post about. despite a few D&D sessions, i didn't do any gaming of any type. about a month or so ago i was given a new work schedule and now have been working morning/daytime shifts and when i come home i don't want to move. so any aspirations of wargaming were non-existent in the last 30+ days. but during this "time off" from the hobby i did do some reading and watching videos on Youtube of other tabletop games and such. was reading some MotU comics online and got some inspiration to create another faction for my Masters of the Universe collection. i looked around and did some reading and got myself a few sets of the MotU Battleground board game from Archon Studio to build me a Preternia heroic faction. with some reading and looking around the internet i mapped out what i want to do. with what i have on hand at the moment the Preter...

awhile back i got a few 3D prints made of some characters for my MotU collection. unfortunately the shop i got my first sets of prints from, ModestMiniStudio must have gone under or just pulled out because they are not on Etsy anymore. which i was kind of sad, they had great figures. i went on Etsy and found a nice shop called NaHminiatures. click here to visit. i really like how these prints i am finding on Etsy are scaling nicely with the CMON miniatures i have been acquiring for some time.   this time around i got Sk-Klone and Dragstor made. Sy-Klone. i wasn't a fan of him having his shield on top of his wrist like that but what can you do? i was happy that this print had the red fan decor on his back. i've seen a few Sy-Klones with and without it and in my opinion it looks cool with it. Dragstor. when i got this character printed the Etsy shop also had another pose to offer and i could not pass it up because it would be nice to look on the table-top. i just wish he had a be...

once again the Paint What You Got challenge has been thrown out and since i had fun doing it last year i figured i would join up and do it again. Dave over at Wargames Terrain Workshop has issued the next challenge once again . the challenge runs from December 26th, 2025 to February 26, 2026 and basically you paint whatever you have. and since i always have stuff to paint i use the challenge to paint specific miniatures that i have been dragging my feet on for some time now. last year i used this challenge to get the majority of my western figures completed, because i was just anxious to get them on to the table-top and play with them. and by the time i joined the challenge the area i live in was getting hit by horrible cold weather and just couldn't get outside to spray anything. so basically i was coming down to the wire and getting what i wanted done for the challenge completed. this time around for the PWYG challenge I figured I would up the ante and get two major projects don...

when i bought my first set of CMON Clash of Eternia board game in the bonus box there were mini He-Man and Skeletor figures. these were about half the size of the actual figures with two poses each. and at the time i really didn't have a use for them so i chucked them out, not knowing what i could do with them in the future.  with my second set i bought back in April i went and saved all the miniatures just in case i needed something or even parts for conversions. it wasn't until recently i began binge watching MotU episodes on Youtube and came across an episode (s2, ep51) where Man-At-Arms was testing out a duplication device and later on Skeletor got his hands on it. more into the episode Skeletor uses it and creates little duplicates of himself. and as i am watching i remembered i had those mini He-Man and Skeletor figures in a box. took them and gave them 25mm thin bases and a quick paint job. re-watching the episode i thought up a scenario for Space Weirdos, eventually i w...

now King Randor has a proper regiment of guards to protect the kingdom! getting the Eternian Guards done awhile back i finally got the Palace Guards finished as well. these were tricky because of their halberd blades kind of bent and warped. so i had to fix that or my OCD would go off and drive me crazy. i noticed one of the palace guards had it's head looking forward instead of off to the side like everyone else, so i clipped two other heads and glued them looking forward. now with these guys done and complete i think i might begin to focus on getting the Evil Horde and Great Rebellion finished. even though i always find odd ball characters to do i really need to buckle down and get them done. I have been dragging my feet on them for some time now.

  i have taken a break from painting MotU figures for a short time, i wanted to finish some D&D and wild west miniatures before i get some heavy duty painting time for the next leg of operation MotU, the villainous Anti Eternians.  found a website where i can read comic books online, thought i would look for any MotU comics and came across a limited series called  He-Man and the Masters of the Multiverse. and while reading it i kinda got inspired and took a few of the spared figures of the Evil Warriors and repaint a He-Man figure and created a small band of "heroic characters." with some different color schemes using the comic book as a resource, i have to admit these were fun to paint. i can't wait to paint the villainous Anti-Eternians and get them on the tabletop.  not sure what he was called in the comic book but from what i've seen online, there is a MotU Origins action figure called He-Skeletor.  same color scheme from the comic book and the toy, i fi...

i took a small break from the MotU stuff but caught myself sucked back into the void. ended up converting and creating some more minor characters and then some. i'm still dragging my feet on doing the Great Rebellion faction but i need to just stop being a child and just do it and get it done. i only have the Rebellion and the Evil Horde factions to do. but i am having too much fun creating these obscure characters. Spirit of Grayskull. the Red Knight. several months ago Mattel released the Masters of the Universe: Origins Battle for Eternia multipack that featured a figure from each of the major factions in the MotU except the Great Rebellion. out of all of the figures that are featured in the pack, i noticed the Paragon Champion for the Heroic Warriors seemed fairly easy to convert using spare figures i have from my surplus CMON Clash of Eternia miniatures. using the torso of King Randor and lower body and head from a Eternian Palace Guard, i was able to create this neat figure. ...

 a few weeks ago i converted a spare Rokkon figure into another Comet Warrior character. the reason for this was i ended reading several posts on Battle Ram Blog.com and noticed in a picture, Comet Warriors i was not familiar with. so i did some digging and couldn't find anything but i made the figure anyways and was going to give him a name of my own. when i painted the figure i kept the green that you see on his head but take some creative liberty and made the rest of the body kind of like i did with my other Comet Warriors.. now just a day or so ago i was messing around on Pinterest and found the following image of an unofficial bio pic and saw it had the same art from the old comic that i originally saw a while back. the name they gave him was Bouldron so even though this isn't official, this'll be the name i will label my miniature. and the way the color scheme they used for this character is mainly all green, i might go back and repaint my figure just to give the char...

 yet another round of characters but this time i found these on Etsy, and i have to say these were printed fairly well. i have been eyeing these for some time and i finally cracked and ordered them. once i got them i was anxious and impressed. i do get somewhat worrisome when it comes to ordering 3-d printed figures.  ModestMinisStudio  is the Etsy store i ordered these characters from. not too keen on the material they use to create the figures but it'll have to do. at least i was able to get a hold of these characters for my collection. these are 32mm, which i have learned with the CMON Clash of Eternia miniatures the scaling of these figures do somewhat differ from one another. so when i went to order these i was a little scared that they wouldn't fit with the others, but it works. Rio Blast. Jitsu. Draego-Man. not going to lie this is my favorite figure so far. when i was able to purchase Multi-Bot i also had the option of getting him in single figures. with so much i...

 another round of MotU miniatures and this time really miscellaneous characters. these characters i found in either the Masters of the Universe character guide and world compendium from Dark Horse Comics, that my wonderful girlfriend got me a few years back, or on Battle Ram Blog.com . since i painted up an Anti He-Man, it was only given he needed an Anti Battle Cat. and since i read there was to my knowledge an Anti Man-at-Arms and an Anti Orko, i painted up those since i had spare figures on hand. Anti Battle Cat. Anti Man-at-Arms and Anti Orko. after reading some articles on Battle Ram Blog i came across some interesting facts, and thought it would be interesting to see these on the tabletop and in game. Beast Man from concept art using an alternate color scheme.  "evil" Stratos, with a slight minor color difference. alternate "heroic" Mer-Man, also with some minor color difference. another member of the Rock People, i've seen artwork from a comic of rock peo...