As a teacher, I often have quite a bit of down time during the holiday season and as a retired teacher, I have gobs of it. To kill the time in a fun way, I decided to issue myself the "The 12 Days of Kit-Bash" challenge, which was to make my own minis by kitbash, hand sculpt, or... whatever I could manage. I learned a TON along the way and I have new respect for the artists who do this and post their work on Instagram.
By comparison, my stuff is ugly and childish, but I don't really care - I had a grand old time trying new things and learning a new craft. Here's what I made:
Day 1
Day 2
A pair of hydras made with a plastic dino, a fimo snake body and a bunch of hot glue snake heads I made by casting a plastic snake in clay.
Day 3
3 Trolls made with paper clip wire armature, '3D' fabric paint and some odds and sods. I messed up the scale on the small ones (too small).
Day 4
I made 4 elementals, one of each type. Hot glue, epoxy, a skull earring cast and then rendered in fimo and some actual rocks crazy glued together are among the media here.
Day 5
Epoxy slimes. Literally anything cand be made into a slime. The bubbles in the top two were done by using disposable contact lens cases.
Day 6
Dwarves. Now these were real kitbash. I used bits of other figurines (you'll see them in many of my builds... a big ole bag of mixed knights). Also a lot of handcrafting here using various beads, stars and random shapes. Black beans for bodies and popcorn kernals for some heads. 2 of the heads were cast from a real dwarf mini I bought. The other four have drinking straw helmets.
OK, I'll post the other 6 days tomorrow. This was such a good time, I kind of think I might try it all again next year...
These are great, so imaginative
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