tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56986560739287630702024-03-14T06:42:25.240+01:00Mushroom MiniaturesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698656073928763070.post-89023412955253427482013-04-16T14:35:00.002+02:002013-04-16T16:50:01.148+02:00warfairy.net is online<div>
<a href="http://www.warfairy.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">warfairy.net</span> </a>is finally online and working with the first four 15mm fantasy products now available.</div>
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<a href="http://www.warfairy.net/Fairies_and_Leaflets/p1955159_8922838.aspx" target="_blank">Fairies and their juvenile siblings, the leaflets</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.warfairy.net/Rooted_Treefolk/p1955159_8936209.aspx" target="_blank">Rooted Treefolk</a>, deceased forest spirits living on in the hearts of trees</div>
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<a href="http://www.warfairy.net/Gnome_Snipers/p1955159_8922833.aspx" target="_blank">Gnome Snipers</a>, few descendants of a once great ancient race of gnomes fallen to magic and technology</div>
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<a href="http://www.warfairy.net/Jabberwocor/p1955159_8855862.aspx" target="_blank">The Jabberwocor</a>, a fearsome and weird creature, believed to be legendary by most<br />
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As a thank-you to everyone who didn't write us off while waiting there will be<span style="color: red;"> <b>10% off</b></span> off everything until the <span style="color: red;"><b>30th of april.</b></span></div>
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We'll constantly establish and buld up various little ranges in all of which fairies will be present, one way or the other. There'll be bigger creatures too, and , at some point, a few historical miniatures.<br />
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These ranges will include miniatures for your 15mm fantasy or sci-fi games and projects, be it skirmish games, dungeoncrawl or army battles.</div>
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Things have been sorted out, the sun is shining here, it feels like summer, what a great day! I'm excited to see where this leads. Feel free to share this to anyone interested, of course :) !</div>
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<i> Nico </i>:)</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698656073928763070.post-25405177335864481832013-01-02T20:12:00.003+01:002013-01-02T20:51:45.315+01:00Happy New Year everyone !May you and your families stay healthy, your projects be successful and your happy days last longer than the sad ones !<br />
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Some "<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://mushroom-minis.blogspot.de/p/advice-from-caterpillar.html" target="_blank">Advice from a Caterpillar</a></span>":</div>
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Enjoy your first holy days of 2013, in case there's some left :)</div>
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Merry Christmas everyone :) !</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698656073928763070.post-90889317631692802252012-10-31T17:07:00.001+01:002012-10-31T17:07:47.624+01:00Happy Halloween, Movember's coming !<br />
Almost every obstacle is passed, now the most rare and valuable factor needs to be managed - spare time to cast and make moulds :) ! Uni bombed me a little in the past weeks. I'll be doomed if this takes yet another month !<br />
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P.S.: If you are blessed with the sacred gift of being able to grow facial hair, join the <a href="http://www.movember.com/" target="_blank">Movember</a> fun !<br />
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Cheers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698656073928763070.post-15708000018422090832012-10-20T11:22:00.000+02:002012-10-20T11:42:34.889+02:00Ed's KickstartSome of you might already know Ed Fortae from TFM, the miniature industry's fairy godmother, recently launched his own crowdfunding project, "<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/131182444/assimilation-alien-host" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Assimilation Alien Host</span></a>".<br />
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At first, I didn't get <span style="font-size: large;">the project is actually about redoing the shown sculpts</span> in a smaller scale and slightly different design, Keep that in mind ! The info on the project page is quite confusing, without the video, I must admit, it wouldn't have gotten to me.</div>
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Everyone crazy about weirdish aliens or in a mood to support, grab your bargain :) !</div>
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Just so you're up to date, I managed to get some satisfying masters of some of the sculpts, see for yourself (at least see what you can on those mediocre photos; again, I apologize for not using a better cam, I'll post better pics once I'm less busy). Right now, a few variations are in the making. </div>
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I'm very satisfied with how it turned out, no air entrapment where it could be harmful, now it's about making the right cuts (wouldn't be much of a deal if I hadn't been that stingy with space again).<br />
You can see only one half, that's right. I managed to get all the interesting detail into one half, which also makes the separation a lot easier.<br />
The rpm might have to be increased a little for the Jabberwocor, we'll see. As long as there's a few decent castings coming from this mould it served it's purpose.<br />
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Today, I spontaneously decided to pick up a few old masters I cast some months ago, before I somewhat went away from 28mm. Some are quite messy, I experimented with different alloys and mold-cutting, but there's nothing a blade, a file and a bit of green stuff can't fix :) - off for work, lazy me !</div>
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Also today, it's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Unity_Day" target="_blank">German Unity Day</a>, which made me think a little. Not about the reunification in particular, but about history in general. I happened to come across <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5naRa_ZpAHg/UFJKDKyxoyI/AAAAAAAAAZA/Rhvj92mNb6A/s1600/greenpond.jpg" target="_blank">a little pond</a> a few posts ago and forget to mention it's actually the remains of a crater from the various WWII air strikes in Kiel, 14.05.1943 - 04.04.1945<span style="color: #877465; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">. </span></span></div>
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Using twigs as armatures for these three (not yet) arboreal beauties was alluringly logical - what else would be more appropriate ?<br />
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The first thing to do was apply a layer of silicone to the greens and plasticine.<br />
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After a day of curing the last layer is applied, silicone:sand - 1:1 (not any sand, fine quartz sand. I've tried other sand (even with additional curing agent), the results were fine but the curing still took a few days, it's not worth the risk).<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cheers fellow cheapskates, let's see how this turns out :)</span><br />
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The first masters aren't satisfying so the pixies will have to face another mould-making process.<br />
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If all goes as planned and I'm certain, our little online store "<b>Warfairy</b>" will be up and running on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain" target="_blank">Samhain/Halloween, octobre 31, 2012</a>, with a few minis in stock.<br />
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The blog won't be renamed or abandoned, whoever is interested can still follow the sculpting and tinkering. The 15mm fantasy minis will still be the "Mushroom Minis". Whenever the fairies decide to pick some up, they'll carry them to the store :).<br />
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I like to range the woods for inspiration, mushrooms or running from time to time. If you take your time and keep your eyes open, you can see and hear a lot you usually wouldn't.</div>
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camouflage - find the frog !</div>
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a little pond</div>
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moss covering dead branches. There's legends about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_people" target="_blank">moss people</a>. Looking at the various ways moss can grow, you'll grasp what inspired folks to make up these stories. it feels like the forest grows strange and lively green hair.</div>
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fungus always has it's place. Fungi are the secret rulers of this planet. There's fungus in our bodies, walls, food, beds, ... everywhere around us. The largest living creatures of this planet are fungi; there's even fungi that can feed on plastic and other synthetic materials.</div>
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and dead roots on a deracinated tree, let's have a closer look</div>
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I was instantly intrigued by these beautiful roots</div>
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and the moss that grows on them. I'll have to find a way to preserve these for deepwood tabletop terrain, for if I don't</div>
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they'll rot anyway. Fungi, bacteria, beetles doing their job.</div>
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yet more water</div>
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and another tree that fell. here's the top</div>
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and here's the bottom, you can still see the treetop in the background of this picture. It is impressively large and managed to stay alive although almost completely deracinated for years. You can see branches and twigs growing out of it's trunk. It's a bit hard to see this tree is a natural bridge across water and swampy ground, the plants you see are growing from mud and water. Not a single spot around you could step on without sinking into the ground up to your knees at least, but you can walk on the tree, which also provides a weirdly soft ground, since it's completely covered in nature's carpet, thick moss.<br />
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Time to sculpt some dryads while not forgetting about the <a href="http://mushroom-minis.blogspot.de/2012/08/more-work-on-headless-lion.html" target="_blank">manticore</a> and <a href="http://mushroom-minis.blogspot.de/2012/09/fairies-pixies-tree-spirits.html" target="_blank">fairies</a> !<br />
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Cheers :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698656073928763070.post-73404300263845570822012-09-01T17:05:00.002+02:002012-09-01T17:11:36.907+02:00Fairies, Pixies, Tree Spirits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A truly little something that came out while tinkering around.</div>
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They had noses at first but since they already look like tiny muppets I cut them off again. The mini minis are attached to each other and supported by a 'fairytail' of fairy dust, sparkles or whatever you like to think fairies have around them.</div>
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While going back to <a href="http://mushroom-minis.blogspot.de/2012/08/more-work-on-headless-lion.html" target="_blank">former projects</a> and for the sake of today's subject, I'd like to share the presumably most beautiful of all sloppy scenes in children's and youth literature:</div>
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Recent <a href="http://mushroom-minis.blogspot.de/2012/08/puttycore.html" target="_blank">progress</a> on the Manticore; he grew claws and more muscles. Also, I cut both arms and one leg off and re-attached them.</div>
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He still needs some more muscles before knuckles, scars and some fur can be added. But first, I'll be working on his head and tail as I finally have a concept in mind.</div>
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Cheers :)</div>
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Since <a href="http://mushroom-minis.blogspot.de/2012/08/wirecore.html" target="_blank">yesterday</a>, I was able to create a basis for the main skeletal musculature and the tail. I attached an image of an older attempt at a manticore's tail but I decided to try something different this time. The armature is still missing a head, for a reason.<br />
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What about the head ... ? Well I'm not perfectly sure how to make it. The classic Manticore is depicted having a human face and countless teeth, I'd like to stay with that impression but probably less literate.<br />
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Let's be honest here: a 4-legged creature and a human head, that's cartoon. There's nothing wrong with cartoons but I'd like to go a bit more horror. Modern, realistic horror, not vintage cinema horror.<br />
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It seems the media constantly tries to be more serious and scientific since the internet made such a huge impact on humanity. People can google now, being sceptic and curious is a lot easier today, people hold a lot more "useless knowledge" and thus are less likely to be horrified.<br />
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Horror needs to look more realistic now, so let's try and work with a modern and more probable concept (<span style="font-size: x-small;">by the way, this is going to be a Manticore, of course ;)</span> ) and let people feel "<i>Hell, this thing could be out there somewhere !</i>".<br />
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Back to the concept: Countless teeth ? I've heard that before !<br />
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Sharks ! And sharks are horrifying too ! Endless hunger, lifeless eyes, known to be tougher than a tank. How's that not scary ? Perfect, let's consider working with this :)</div>
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But a shark's not really human, is it ? What makes us look human anyway ?</div>
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If you ask me, it's what makes us different from all other animals: hands and a very peculiar nose. </div>
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With all this, a Manticore still needs to be a majestic lion. So the mission is clear now: Combine a shark's head with a lion's and point out is has some kind of weird nose without making it look too ridiculous.</div>
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<b>Cheers, Nico :)</b></div>
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Following the <a href="http://mushroom-minis.blogspot.de/2012/04/jabberwock.html" target="_blank">Jabberwock</a>, this is going to be number 2 of my collection of legendary and mythical creatures. You can probably already tell what it's going to be :)</div>
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It's 20mm ground to upper back, aluminum and copper wire. You can get pretty useful copper wire out of scrap cables, by the way - and it's cheap too.</div>
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<b>Cheers :)</b></div>
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Starting on the left, going down: let's call them "Bulldog", "Gremlin", "Scarface", "Grandma", "Basic" and "Orc". Made from pre-made 15mm ogre-type dollies, toe to top of the head 25mm, no hair yet.</div>
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The plan is sculpting 6 minis with swappable weapon arms (right arms) and heads, different armor and stances. Not the very fat type, not to beastly but not too human either. They'll probably end up looking more like a bunch of brawlers then like a real unit.</div>
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<b>Cheers, Nico :)</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698656073928763070.post-20102794315033575912012-04-16T18:59:00.000+02:002012-07-05T23:09:12.313+02:00The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: ivory; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></i><br />
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<br />
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;<br />
All mimsy were the borogoves,<br />
And the mome raths outgrabe.<br />
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"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!<br />
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!<br />
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun<br />
The frumious Bandersnatch!"<br />
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He took his vorpal sword in hand:<br />
Long time the manxome foe he sought—<br />
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,<br />
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And as in uffish thought he stood,<br />
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,<br />
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,<br />
And burbled as it came!<br />
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One, two! One, two! and through and through<br />
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!<br />
He left it dead, and with its head<br />
He went galumphing back.<br />
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"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?<br />
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!<br />
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"<br />
He chortled in his joy.<br />
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<br />
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;<br />
All mimsy were the borogoves,<br />
And the mome raths outgrabe. <br />
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One of my favourite fantastic creatures. Rather than a phantasm of nonsense I tried to create a (somewhat) realistic Jabberwock. Imagine an amphibian, dragon-like beast lurking in a swamp's deep pond and jumping out like a frog when hunting for prey, supporting the leap with it's wings instead of actually flying - or hanging down a giant tree with it's tail like an opossum.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
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<i>the Magic Mushroom</i> :)<br />
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<b> <i>Steinpilz</i></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698656073928763070.post-7871970409043210622012-03-17T05:19:00.000+01:002012-03-17T11:04:25.947+01:00Test Runs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b>Some of you might have noticed the new Dynamic Views design, I hope you like it better than the old one. Unfortunately, DV doesn't support header images yet, so no own logo. You can use one, but this blocks your dashboard-button ... bummer.</b></div>
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I managed to get a few useful casts from the rtv mould:</div>
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Armatures, from left to right: Orcs, Goblins, Ogres - and random (mis)casts (some things didn't work as expected but in the end I got all I needed)</div>
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<b>All arms are separate. With a bit cutting, bending, repositioning and swapping body parts, the pre-made armatures will provide a basis for several miniatures.</b></div>
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<b>All future talk - for now some other sculpts need to be done.</b></div>
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<b>Cheers</b></div>
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<b>The first half cured perfectly and the second is in the process of curing. Here's a little picture of the upper half (still waxed at this point, some gates already pre-cut, no vents yet):</b></div>
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<b>if everything goes as planned I can run a test this week-end.
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<b>Au revoir, </b></div>
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<b> <i>le Champignon du Nord</i></b></div>
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<b>The first layer, day 1. A thin layer of rtv silicone to keep the softness for undercuts</b></div>
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<b>The second layer, day 2. Should be finally cured by monday morning (latest). This makes only one half of a mould then, of course, but it's a start.</b></div>
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<b>Have a nice week-end :)</b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5698656073928763070.post-58992196818047418792012-02-29T20:26:00.000+01:002012-08-25T20:06:24.847+02:00Square One<br />
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Since this is the first posting in a blog about miniatures, I guess it would be bold not to start with a picture:<br />
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My try on a djinn, I hope you like it. He's larger than a human but smaller than an ogre should be in this scale. Almost done, still missing his knuckles. I tried to catch and reflect the impression of a powerful being, magically bound to a lamp and forced into eternal slavery, waiting for a chance to turn against his master and free himself. Cunning and determined, yet not too dominant. For now, this little fella is resting in his former master's tomb until I find <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnJEBvbz8s&feature=related">time and inspiration</a> to let a group of oriental adventurers raid his chambers.<br />
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