I’ve updated the Gallery with some of my recent miniature work. Most of it focuses on Heretic and the miniatures I’ve created to run that game at the upcoming ArcaneCon in Northampton Massachusetts. There are also pieces for Flames of Orion and Gaslands.
I wanted to share some insight into the story and process that went into these pieces here, but please check out the gallery for more detailed photography.
Heretic!
I created four teams of three miniatures each for Heretic, as well as two Authority figures.
The Chainbreakers
A group of queer revolutionaries fighting for the end of mass incarceration. These figures were directly inspired by the transgender liberators I’ve known. These folks have put their lives and livelihoods on the line to fight for their rights and those of others.
The Crutchwielders
These disabled heroes fight for those who have been unjustly deemed worthless by society. I wanted to directly invert tropes about disabled people by presenting them as loud, visible, athletic, and generally bad-ass. The team’s Shade is an albino, the Sentinel is an immunocomprimised cancer patient, and the Runner is an asthmatic double-amputee.
The Delver’s Union
Little people born in the graveslums aren’t treated as undesirable workers; they’re guaranteed membership into the guild of Delvers! This union of little workers is paid handsomely for their ability to navigate the tombs of the more diminuitive dead. They lay new conduit where others cannot or will not go, pumping necrocrude out of the fermented graves of the ancients.
Now they fight to keep the corporates from automating their work with cheap drones.
These were a ton of fun to build, and utilized a couple of tiny, very missable elements of the Wizards I Frostgrave sprue to create these very serious, death’s head workers.
Scab Scratchers
A century ago during a strike a retroviral pathogen was released into a corpsefuel refinery to mutate the scabs working there into rat-men. At first, it seemed to have no effect, but when those scabs had children it became clear what the virus had done. Initially rejected by their parents and left to die, the infant rat-folk were taken in and cared for out of guilt by the unions. Now their descendants proudly fight for the rights of the workers, even though they themselves are barred from employment by the refineries in an effort to ignore their existence.
Scabs are scum!
These are mostly made by combining Frostgrave gnolls with Ramshackle Games gas masks. The tails are guitar wire and metal beads.
Authority Figures
Officers of the Authority are a terrifying presence in Sector 32. A dysfunctional legal system gives them near total impunity for any mistakes or intentional harm they bring to its residents, and any resistance to them is grounds for incarceration or summary death.
Parts from Stargrave, Frostgrave, Space Grognards, Wargames Factory Shock Troops, GF9 15mm WWII tank kits, styrene, and a mess of super glue.
Gaslands – Toxic Queen
This piece was created quite a few years ago but only recently painted. Gaslands was a huge inspiration when it was first released in 2017, but I lacked the space or time to focus on miniature art at that point. Still, I managed to kitbash and scratch-build the elements that transformed a simple matchbox car into my vision of a post-apocalpytic antihero’s wild ride.
The piece uses styrene, 28mm warhammer miniature parts, 15mm tank parts, brass elements, paperclips, jewelry chain, thread, paper, and Vallejo texture paste.
Flames of Orion – Quixote
Flames of Orion is a skirmish mech game focusing on kitbashing and a generally grimdark approach to its setting. While there are some official miniatures the expectation is that they be chopped up, covered in dirt, and welded to whatever bits and crud the artist feels appropriate.
I set about completely kitbashing a miniature from scratch as an exercise. No element of this mech was originally meant for this scale or genre. Most pieces came from 15mm Tank kits (one of my favorite sources for kitbashing) while the central shield is from a 28mm fantasy soldier.
I wanted to transpose the figure of Don Quixote to the horrifying setting of the Orion Sector. Here we find a misguided knight, too gallant and misguided to interact properly with the bleak reality around him. Surely his quest will only hasten his doom.