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#1
jack_of_all_trades_02
May 30, 2009 16:37:49 I have never seen a thread like this so I thought maybe I'd give it a shot.

So I've finally gotten a chance to play some D&D for the first time in a long time. I went all out creating my character and coming up with a back story. I found an awesome picture on deviantart.com that I based him off of but I realized to late that I don't have a good mini for it. I'm hoping that maybe an expert can recommend a miniature that looks like him.

The link below is the picture I found. Does anybody know of any similar looking miniatures. They do not have to be D&D minis and I'm not afraid to try my hand at repainting if I have to.
http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs31/f/2008/229/1/0/RedMage_by_FantasyAce.jpg
#2
sier_labeguileuse_dup
May 30, 2009 16:52:52 I'm not sure where you can find an exact match, but I don't think any of the current wizards one would be quite right. Try reaper mini? I've seen some that have similar wizardy-types.
#3
SilenzZzz
May 30, 2009 16:53:06 http://store.fantasyflightgames.com/catalog.cfm?CatPos=91

Anima Tactics one of their mini's would come real close ...
#4
joewalt
May 30, 2009 17:01:06 This is a great thread - I have trouble too, especially with the badly "painted" plastic ones they have now. Anyone got a good suggestion for a Shadar-kai Swordmage?
Tanks
#5
SilenzZzz
May 30, 2009 17:03:24
This is a great thread - I have trouble too, especially with the badly "painted" plastic ones they have now. Anyone got a good suggestion for a Shadar-kai Swordmage?
Tanks

for that i would prob reccomend some of the fantasy flight ones as well .. seems to fit the overall look of the race ... with a custom paint to match your skin and such.
#6
Zinovia
May 30, 2009 17:16:11
Does anybody know of any similar looking miniatures. They do not have to be D&D minis and I'm not afraid to try my hand at repainting if I have to.
http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs31/f/2008/229/1/0/RedMage_by_FantasyAce.jpg

I haven't seen much that matches closely. Here's one from Reaper that's vaguely similar Reaper. You can use their figure finder tool to look for other keywords if you like.
#7
Zinovia
May 30, 2009 17:24:07
This is a great thread - I have trouble too, especially with the badly "painted" plastic ones they have now. Anyone got a good suggestion for a Shadar-kai Swordmage?
Tanks

Maybe something like Reaper minis. I do like a lot of the Anima Tactics minis also.
#8
jack_of_all_trades_02
May 30, 2009 17:29:01 So I didn't see any Anima Tactics minis that looked like my character. Maybe I missed it?

Also, are all of the reaper mini's unpainted?
#9
SilenzZzz
May 30, 2009 17:35:20
So I didn't see any Anima Tactics minis that looked like my character. Maybe I missed it?

Also, are all of the reaper mini's unpainted?

yes reaper are unpainted (so are the anima ones) ...

with how that char is you will have to modify the figure some no matter which you go with if you want it close ...

the anima ones have the robe and such on several that is real close ... could bulk up an arm and leg and add a book in place of a weapon and it would be good to go ...
#10
anubis_reynard
May 30, 2009 18:10:28 I'm currently trying to modify a Reaper Mini Gnoll Ranger into a Gnoll Staff Wizard.
#11
johnhansen
May 30, 2009 18:23:41 reaper 02184 and change the cross into a sword
#12
jack_of_all_trades_02
May 30, 2009 18:49:18 Thats a good one, but I think I can do one better.

Reaper 3195 but I'm not sure where the other arms are on the site.
#13
johnhansen
May 30, 2009 19:08:18 Glad you found one to your liking
#14
cartigan
May 30, 2009 21:15:25 Honestly, this was the first thing that came to my mind.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/DQ_Minis_x/BondedFireSummoner.jpg

No Reaper miniature though
#15
jack_of_all_trades_02
May 30, 2009 22:05:50 I just got that particular mini in the mail today, and I was utterly disappointed. It has a flat top mullet. Its horrible.

I really want that reaper mini but honestly, I was looking for minis that needed paint touch ups or a single color replaced. I don't have a painting set up to work with. I think I need to find some place that paints them for you.
#16
peteyc
May 30, 2009 22:17:57 How about this guy?

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/BW_Gallery/29.jpg

Blood of Vol Cultist, #29 from Blood War. He's got a rod that looks kind of like the funky sword in your picture, but he has a dagger instead of a book. He has some skulls on him too, so you have to be okay with the necromancer-y look, but he's got the nice red robe, and his hands and legs are covered by it so you can't tell that they aren't armored. If you don't like the bonded fire summoner this is the closest you'll get with D&D minis, and if you don't want to have to paint your own mini from scratch you'd better stick to DDM.
#17
jack_of_all_trades_02
May 30, 2009 22:21:59 He may have to work. I just want to thank everybody for contributing. Keep your suggestions coming.
#18
azdraik
May 31, 2009 6:18:57 Do a little modeling of the beard and this isn't too bad
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/wizard%20human%20male/sku-down/02936

Face is covered it on this one and the hand looks like it needs a little work but not bad either.
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/wizard%20human%20male/sku-down/02412
#19
snowyeti
May 31, 2009 6:31:00 I honestly thought of the Warforged Wizard when I looked at the picture.

Yes not human but you could be wearing a mask? ... *shrug* You could attach a book in its right hand, and the staff could possibly be made into a sword.
#20
jack_of_all_trades_02
May 31, 2009 10:06:30 I have that warforged mini. I realize that his outfit is perfect. I thought about carving up his face with a scalpel to give it a human shape and repainting it, but I think I'd just mess him up.

How do you people go about attaching books and changing weapons in your mini's I don't understand. Super-glue? Where do you get Swords and Books and stuff for your minis?
#21
azdraik
May 31, 2009 19:12:38 You can buy weapon packs from various mini companies. As for the book, you can make one out of "green stuff" which is a 2 part model epoxy used to create and modify models. Or, you can hunt down a model with a book and cannibalize the book off it.

You can do the same for the weapon of course if you don't find one that you like in any weapon packs.
#22
richard_k
Jun 02, 2009 0:23:38 Ebay has ALOT of the old Ral Partha and Grenadier miniatures from the 70-80-90s as well as some of the more older Citadel ranges. Though myself I generally go through my several bits boxes of figures and either build one from scratch or convert and old one. I made a modron one day after walking home up my steep hill. In any case, if you have a character in mind, chances are either you can get it off ebay or from a store or off Reaper minis cause they have alot of good lookers, or, you can make your own, all i needed for a modron was a D6 (yes i know) and some plastic card from a dvd box i mangled and some hands and weaponry off some old minis. (also a steady hand and much patience from gluing ones fingers together).

Drop me an email if you have some questions.

[email]nordom@hotmail.com[/email]

Kudos!
#23
Mad_Jack
Jun 03, 2009 21:23:34
I have that warforged mini. I realize that his outfit is perfect. I thought about carving up his face with a scalpel to give it a human shape and repainting it, but I think I'd just mess him up.

How do you people go about attaching books and changing weapons in your mini's I don't understand. Super-glue? Where do you get Swords and Books and stuff for your minis?

For that warforged wizard, the easiest way to chang his face would be to carve the existing face completely off. Flatten out the blank spot as best you can with a Testors hobby knife.
(I say Testors rather than an X-Acto knife because the blades on the Testors knives are very bendy and thus can actually carve out rounded edges if you use them right. The X-Acto blades are better metal and won't flex at all. Plus, the Testors knives are dirt cheap so it's no problem to replace them when they break, which they do regularly.)

Then find a head that you like - making sure it's the same size as the warforged's head - on one of your other minis that you don't mind carving up, and carefully slice the face off of it, being particularly careful to cut it off in a shape that will fit neatly over the flat spot you just made on the front of the warforged's head.
If you do it right, the new face should fit snugly onto the warforged's head inside his hood like it was made that way. Trim to fit if necessary. Then place a small drop of regular model airplane glue (or superglue, although that tends to eat plastic sometimes) in the center of the flat spot and press the face into place, being careful to wipe off any excess glue around the edges of the face.

You may need to touch up the paint if you weren't careful and accidentally trimmed off something you weren't supposed to, but for the most part it should work pretty well.

As for the sword, find one on a mini that you're willing to sacrifice.
Cut both ends of the staff off of the warforged's hand, and use a small hobby drill bit to drill out a hole where the shaft of the staff would have gone through his hand.
Take the mini with the sword and slice the hand off it's arm at the wrist. Then carve away at the hand until the part where the hand was is only as thick as the diameter of the hole you drilled in the hand of the warforged.
If the pommel of the sword is thicker around than the handle of the sword, slice it off. Place a drop of glue in the hole in the hand and press the sword handle into the hole. Glue the pommel of the sword onto the opposite side of the hand.

Although I don't have that particular mini in hand right now, from the picture that was posted, I don't think there's any simple way to put a book in his other hand. That's going to require some real work. However, you may be able to carve a book off of one of your other minis and glue it onto his belt...

Swapping the face and the sword should take at most half an hour or so if it's your first time doing mini surgery.
#24
jack_of_all_trades_02
Jun 04, 2009 0:39:43 This would probably be the cheapest, simplest, and yet most barbaric way to change a mini. Since I own these minis all ready, it will only cost me the price of a tube of airplane glue. Also, I get to say this:

"I want to take his face.... off!"

Suck it Nicholas Cage.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 jack_of_all_trades_02 May 30, 2009 16:37:49	I have never seen a thread like this so I thought maybe I'd give it a shot. So I've finally gotten a chance to play some D&D for the first time in a long time. I went all out creating my character and coming up with a back story. I found an awesome picture on deviantart.com that I based him off of but I realized to late that I don't have a good mini for it. I'm hoping that maybe an expert can recommend a miniature that looks like him. The link below is the picture I found. Does anybody know of any similar looking miniatures. They do not have to be D&D minis and I'm not afraid to try my hand at repainting if I have to. http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs31/f/2008/229/1/0/RedMage_by_FantasyAce.jpg
#2 sier_labeguileuse_dup May 30, 2009 16:52:52	I'm not sure where you can find an exact match, but I don't think any of the current wizards one would be quite right. Try reaper mini? I've seen some that have similar wizardy-types.
#3 SilenzZzz May 30, 2009 16:53:06	http://store.fantasyflightgames.com/catalog.cfm?CatPos=91 Anima Tactics one of their mini's would come real close ...
#4 joewalt May 30, 2009 17:01:06	This is a great thread - I have trouble too, especially with the badly "painted" plastic ones they have now. Anyone got a good suggestion for a Shadar-kai Swordmage? Tanks
#5 SilenzZzz May 30, 2009 17:03:24	This is a great thread - I have trouble too, especially with the badly "painted" plastic ones they have now. Anyone got a good suggestion for a Shadar-kai Swordmage? Tanks for that i would prob reccomend some of the fantasy flight ones as well .. seems to fit the overall look of the race ... with a custom paint to match your skin and such.
#6 Zinovia May 30, 2009 17:16:11	Does anybody know of any similar looking miniatures. They do not have to be D&D minis and I'm not afraid to try my hand at repainting if I have to. http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs31/f/2008/229/1/0/RedMage_by_FantasyAce.jpg I haven't seen much that matches closely. Here's one from Reaper that's vaguely similar Reaper. You can use their figure finder tool to look for other keywords if you like.
#7 Zinovia May 30, 2009 17:24:07	This is a great thread - I have trouble too, especially with the badly "painted" plastic ones they have now. Anyone got a good suggestion for a Shadar-kai Swordmage? Tanks Maybe something like Reaper minis. I do like a lot of the Anima Tactics minis also.
#8 jack_of_all_trades_02 May 30, 2009 17:29:01	So I didn't see any Anima Tactics minis that looked like my character. Maybe I missed it? Also, are all of the reaper mini's unpainted?
#9 SilenzZzz May 30, 2009 17:35:20	So I didn't see any Anima Tactics minis that looked like my character. Maybe I missed it? Also, are all of the reaper mini's unpainted? yes reaper are unpainted (so are the anima ones) ... with how that char is you will have to modify the figure some no matter which you go with if you want it close ... the anima ones have the robe and such on several that is real close ... could bulk up an arm and leg and add a book in place of a weapon and it would be good to go ...
#10 anubis_reynard May 30, 2009 18:10:28	I'm currently trying to modify a Reaper Mini Gnoll Ranger into a Gnoll Staff Wizard.
#11 johnhansen May 30, 2009 18:23:41	reaper 02184 and change the cross into a sword
#12 jack_of_all_trades_02 May 30, 2009 18:49:18	Thats a good one, but I think I can do one better. Reaper 3195 but I'm not sure where the other arms are on the site.
#13 johnhansen May 30, 2009 19:08:18	Glad you found one to your liking
#14 cartigan May 30, 2009 21:15:25	Honestly, this was the first thing that came to my mind. http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/DQ_Minis_x/BondedFireSummoner.jpg No Reaper miniature though
#15 jack_of_all_trades_02 May 30, 2009 22:05:50	I just got that particular mini in the mail today, and I was utterly disappointed. It has a flat top mullet. Its horrible. I really want that reaper mini but honestly, I was looking for minis that needed paint touch ups or a single color replaced. I don't have a painting set up to work with. I think I need to find some place that paints them for you.
#16 peteyc May 30, 2009 22:17:57	How about this guy? http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/BW_Gallery/29.jpg Blood of Vol Cultist, #29 from Blood War. He's got a rod that looks kind of like the funky sword in your picture, but he has a dagger instead of a book. He has some skulls on him too, so you have to be okay with the necromancer-y look, but he's got the nice red robe, and his hands and legs are covered by it so you can't tell that they aren't armored. If you don't like the bonded fire summoner this is the closest you'll get with D&D minis, and if you don't want to have to paint your own mini from scratch you'd better stick to DDM.
#17 jack_of_all_trades_02 May 30, 2009 22:21:59	He may have to work. I just want to thank everybody for contributing. Keep your suggestions coming.
#18 azdraik May 31, 2009 6:18:57	Do a little modeling of the beard and this isn't too bad http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/wizard%20human%20male/sku-down/02936 Face is covered it on this one and the hand looks like it needs a little work but not bad either. http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/wizard%20human%20male/sku-down/02412
#19 snowyeti May 31, 2009 6:31:00	I honestly thought of the Warforged Wizard when I looked at the picture. Yes not human but you could be wearing a mask? ... shrug You could attach a book in its right hand, and the staff could possibly be made into a sword.
#20 jack_of_all_trades_02 May 31, 2009 10:06:30	I have that warforged mini. I realize that his outfit is perfect. I thought about carving up his face with a scalpel to give it a human shape and repainting it, but I think I'd just mess him up. How do you people go about attaching books and changing weapons in your mini's I don't understand. Super-glue? Where do you get Swords and Books and stuff for your minis?
#21 azdraik May 31, 2009 19:12:38	You can buy weapon packs from various mini companies. As for the book, you can make one out of "green stuff" which is a 2 part model epoxy used to create and modify models. Or, you can hunt down a model with a book and cannibalize the book off it. You can do the same for the weapon of course if you don't find one that you like in any weapon packs.
#22 richard_k Jun 02, 2009 0:23:38	Ebay has ALOT of the old Ral Partha and Grenadier miniatures from the 70-80-90s as well as some of the more older Citadel ranges. Though myself I generally go through my several bits boxes of figures and either build one from scratch or convert and old one. I made a modron one day after walking home up my steep hill. In any case, if you have a character in mind, chances are either you can get it off ebay or from a store or off Reaper minis cause they have alot of good lookers, or, you can make your own, all i needed for a modron was a D6 (yes i know) and some plastic card from a dvd box i mangled and some hands and weaponry off some old minis. (also a steady hand and much patience from gluing ones fingers together). Drop me an email if you have some questions. [email]nordom@hotmail.com[/email] Kudos!
#23 Mad_Jack Jun 03, 2009 21:23:34	I have that warforged mini. I realize that his outfit is perfect. I thought about carving up his face with a scalpel to give it a human shape and repainting it, but I think I'd just mess him up. How do you people go about attaching books and changing weapons in your mini's I don't understand. Super-glue? Where do you get Swords and Books and stuff for your minis? For that warforged wizard, the easiest way to chang his face would be to carve the existing face completely off. Flatten out the blank spot as best you can with a Testors hobby knife. (I say Testors rather than an X-Acto knife because the blades on the Testors knives are very bendy and thus can actually carve out rounded edges if you use them right. The X-Acto blades are better metal and won't flex at all. Plus, the Testors knives are dirt cheap so it's no problem to replace them when they break, which they do regularly.) Then find a head that you like - making sure it's the same size as the warforged's head - on one of your other minis that you don't mind carving up, and carefully slice the face off of it, being particularly careful to cut it off in a shape that will fit neatly over the flat spot you just made on the front of the warforged's head. If you do it right, the new face should fit snugly onto the warforged's head inside his hood like it was made that way. Trim to fit if necessary. Then place a small drop of regular model airplane glue (or superglue, although that tends to eat plastic sometimes) in the center of the flat spot and press the face into place, being careful to wipe off any excess glue around the edges of the face. You may need to touch up the paint if you weren't careful and accidentally trimmed off something you weren't supposed to, but for the most part it should work pretty well. As for the sword, find one on a mini that you're willing to sacrifice. Cut both ends of the staff off of the warforged's hand, and use a small hobby drill bit to drill out a hole where the shaft of the staff would have gone through his hand. Take the mini with the sword and slice the hand off it's arm at the wrist. Then carve away at the hand until the part where the hand was is only as thick as the diameter of the hole you drilled in the hand of the warforged. If the pommel of the sword is thicker around than the handle of the sword, slice it off. Place a drop of glue in the hole in the hand and press the sword handle into the hole. Glue the pommel of the sword onto the opposite side of the hand. Although I don't have that particular mini in hand right now, from the picture that was posted, I don't think there's any simple way to put a book in his other hand. That's going to require some real work. However, you may be able to carve a book off of one of your other minis and glue it onto his belt... Swapping the face and the sword should take at most half an hour or so if it's your first time doing mini surgery.
#24 jack_of_all_trades_02 Jun 04, 2009 0:39:43	This would probably be the cheapest, simplest, and yet most barbaric way to change a mini. Since I own these minis all ready, it will only cost me the price of a tube of airplane glue. Also, I get to say this: "I want to take his face.... off!" Suck it Nicholas Cage.