Dags' Planet

2012-02-03T15:05:00.000-08:00

Crooked Dice Federated Security Guards
Sculpted by Ian Mountain

2012-01-12T12:19:00.001-08:00

WW1 Russian Dwarves sculpted by Bob Olley

The Frothers' Charity Thingy 2012

2011-10-31T07:10:00.000-07:00

It's time for the (semi) annual Frothers' Charity Thingy :)
This year's figure will be 'Sasha' based on the superb concept art by Des Hanley
and to be sculpted by Tre Manor (Red Box Games) and Mike Owen (Artizan Designs) who's doing 'Dave the decapitated Orc' :)

Full details of the project are HERE and also on FACEBOOK

2011-10-24T08:01:00.000-07:00

Emilia 'Foxy' Foxwell from Statuesque Miniatures

Sculpted by Andrew Rae

2011-10-22T11:53:00.000-07:00

Crooked Dice 'eavies

Sculpted by Bill Thornhill

2011-09-21T14:02:00.000-07:00

Another Ironclad Steamtank

2011-09-05T15:39:00.000-07:00

Ironclad Steam Tractor

2011-07-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

Westwind's Hansom Cab

2011-07-23T05:41:00.000-07:00

'Rover' :D

2011-07-07T15:23:00.000-07:00

Freebooter Miniatures "Female Archaeologist"
Sculpted by Werner Klocke

2011-06-23T17:26:00.000-07:00

Steam Pennyfarthing from Design 28

Sculpted by John Harrison

2011-06-17T08:27:00.000-07:00

Design 28's Victorian SF Vampire Hunters
Sculpted by John Harrison

2011-06-10T05:23:00.000-07:00

Mantic Orcs

2011-05-13T14:19:00.000-07:00

The Temptress
Sculpted by Andrew Rae

2011-05-12T11:54:00.000-07:00

New Fenris Games Investigators: Eckhardt, Dallas & Fuchs
Sculpted by Mark Evans

2011-04-29T10:06:00.000-07:00

Reaper Chronoscope Blaxploitation figures
Sculpted by Bobby Jackson
Bases from Fenris Games

2011-03-30T04:56:00.000-07:00

Another Mantic/Hasselfree set
Sculpted by Kev White

2011-03-24T09:07:00.000-07:00

Dwarfs for the box art for
Dwark King's Hold
from Mantic

2011-03-16T07:31:00.000-07:00

Timothy Wopping
a rather strange boy!

Sculpted by Andrew Rae
for the annual(ish)
Frothers Sculpting Comp

Only availiable for roughly another 7 weeks
from HERE

2011-02-23T04:11:00.000-08:00

Crooked Dice's forthcoming Femdroids

Sculpted by Andrew Rae

PS It's alright, Chris, I can put the photo up now ;-p

2011-02-20T05:31:00.000-08:00

Future Widow from Freebooter Miniatures

Sculpted by Werner Klocke

2011-02-20T05:29:00.000-08:00

Wolf from Hasslefree Miniatures

Sculpted by Kev White

Lots of painted stuff on eBay

2011-02-16T12:51:00.000-08:00

Time for a clear out

Here

Charity Master Castings on Ebay.....

2011-02-05T13:27:00.000-08:00

Ebay Link for Funky Purple Resin Master Castings....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270702418929&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Feel free to pimp the link on your own blogs, sites and fora ;-)

Another Charity Thingy update...

2011-02-05T07:25:00.000-08:00

Not content with producing the moulds, TR masters and resin masters for painting Grey Matter Figures decided they wanted to do something special so they've produced this one-off special set in Funky Purple Resin that'll be eBayed for the project - TOP BLOKES!

Dagz the Goblin

2011-01-26T14:50:00.000-08:00

Bit chuffed that Kev 'Goblinmaster' Adams has named
one of the forthcoming Rhoninstorm gobbos 'Dagz' :)

Availiable Here

2011-01-24T16:37:00.000-08:00

Reaper Miniatures Denver

Sculpted by Bobby Jackson

2011-01-24T16:36:00.000-08:00

Agent King from Crooked Dice

Sculpted by Andrew Rae

2011-01-23T06:41:00.000-08:00

First 5 for a new VSF range

Sculpted by Mike Owen

2011-01-23T06:38:00.000-08:00

A couple more from Miniature Factory

Sculpted by Jacques-Alexander Gillois

2011-01-15T14:11:00.000-08:00

Havana Grey from Statuesque Miniatures

Sculpted by Andrew Rae

2011-01-15T14:08:00.000-08:00

Isabella from Studio McVey

Sculpted by Jacques-Alexander Gillois

2011-01-12T11:39:00.000-08:00

Tim from Grey Matter....

Cutting moulds is always fun. Basically I work on the fact that I could only get one chance to get it right, depending on the sculpting medium.
Sometimes the master sculpt will break when cutting it out of the silicone, if that happens I can't afford to do any bad cuts. If I break the master and have a useless mould then all would be very embarrassing.
I also don't like to scar the master with a scalpel blade, although sometimes it happens.[/quote]

Another Charity Thingy update...

2011-01-11T13:45:00.000-08:00

Tim at Grey Matter Figures now has the 3 'greens' for mastering in resin.....

From L-R Andrew's Sabrina, Seb's Kelly and Kev's Jill

In this photo, the masters have been set up for moulding in silicone.
Since then they have been vacuumed in silicon rubber.
Due to the cool weather they will not be able to be "cut" until tomorrow, a day later than normal.

Next process will be Mark and Rich casting a few resins for painting.
After that the transitional resins, will involve a lot of swearing as it is a bitch to do and can only do one cast a day

2011-01-10T10:52:00.000-08:00

Uncle Meat from Miniature Factory

Sculpted by Jacques-Alexander Gillois

2011-01-08T02:04:00.001-08:00

Hasslefree Minatures' Tomoko

Sculpted by Kev White

2011-01-08T02:03:00.000-08:00

Copplestone Castings Henchman

2011-01-06T06:46:00.000-08:00

GOT Biker from Antenocitis Workshop

Rider sculpted by Andrew Rae

Bike by Jed

Frothers' Charity thingy 2010

2011-01-04T06:31:00.000-08:00

Over the summer on Frothers we've been running a Charity drive. All those that have made donations will be getting a set. Kelly was sculpted by Seb Archer of Guild of Harmony, Sabrina by Andrew Rae of Statuesque and Jill by Kev White of Hasslefree. Limited to only 100 sets these have now all been taken but if you'd like to still give a bit (and get a warm, fuzzy feeling) yu can do so here:

http://www.justgiving.com/Frothers10

and if there are any spare sets they'll be allocated on a first come, first served basis to those on this list.

Photos of all 3 greens can be seen here:

http://frothersunite.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=30696&highlight=

Photoshoppery Part 10

2011-01-03T17:00:00.000-08:00

10. Repeat adding images as you want. Once you're happy go to 'Layer' and select 'Flatten' and save the image and you're done :)

Hope that makes sense!

Photoshoppery Part 9

2011-01-03T16:56:00.001-08:00

9. Repeat the Rotate, Select, Invert, Feather & Drag for the second image.

When you're ready to re-size go to 'Edit', then 'Transform' but finally select 'Again'; this will reduce the new additition to the same size as the first one.

Photoshoppery Part 8

2011-01-03T16:50:00.001-08:00

8. Drop the dragged image onto the main picture and postition it where you want. Next go to 'Edit', pick 'Transform' and then 'Scale'. Keep a finger on the 'Shift' key and slide the selection down to the size you want......

Photoshoppery Part 7

2011-01-03T16:44:00.001-08:00

7. Select the blue background from the new image then 'Right Click' and pick 'Select Inverse'.
Next 'Right Click' again and choose 'Feather' followed, again, by '1 Pixel'.

Then choose the 'Drag Selection' tool and start to move the image towards the first picture....

Photoshoppery Part 6

2011-01-03T16:38:00.001-08:00

6. Now the Graduate background is in place; the choice of colours can be easily selected via the two colours on the bottom of the Tool Bar. Now move that image to one side and start on the second picture....

Rotate the new picture so the image is upright

Photoshoppery Part 5

2011-01-03T16:30:00.000-08:00

5. Select '1 Pixel' on the Feather Menu. Then choose the 'Graduate Fill' tool and draw a straight line from top to bottom.....

Photoshoppery Part 4

2011-01-03T16:24:00.001-08:00

4. Now the image is cropped use the 'Magic Wand' tool to start selecting the blue background. Use the 'Shift' key to add to the selection and pick out areas not selected first time.

Once the whole background is selected Right Click and go to 'Feather'....

Photoshoppery Part 3

2011-01-03T16:19:00.000-08:00

3. Now the image is cropped it needs to be rotated. Go to 'Image', 'Rotate Image' and then select '90 CCW'....

Photoshoppery Part 2

2011-01-03T16:16:00.001-08:00

2. Use the 'Select' tool to draw a rectangle round the figure and then go to 'Image' on the top bar and pick 'Crop'.....

Photoshoppery Part 1

2011-01-03T16:11:00.000-08:00

Been asked to show how the backgrounds and montages were done..... so here's the start of Idiot's Guide (because an idiot is doing it!)

1. Open all the images you want to use and select the one you want to use as the main picture.....

2011-01-03T15:26:00.000-08:00

A couple more from Statuesque

Sculpted by Andrew Rae

2011-01-02T09:51:00.000-08:00

Hasslefree Miniatures

Sculpted by Kev White

Availiable from Mantic Games

Top Photoshoppery by Sal :)

2011-01-02T04:11:00.000-08:00

Pesky Kids

from Hasslefree Miniatures

Sculpted by Kev White

2011-01-02T03:48:00.000-08:00

Kitzie Rama

Metal casting from Statuesque Miniatures

Sculpted by Andrew Rae

2011-01-02T03:46:00.000-08:00

The Major

Resin casting from Elodie Mae

Sculpted by Steve Buddle

2011-01-02T03:38:00.002-08:00

Dürer's Rhinoceros

Resin casting from Fenris Games

Sculpted by Snuurg

2011-01-02T03:38:00.001-08:00

APEX Agent Copper

Resin casting from Fenris Games

Sculpted by Mark Evans

2011-01-02T03:36:00.000-08:00

APEX Agent Bennings

Resin casting from Fenris Games

Sculpted by Mark Evans

2011-01-02T03:28:00.000-08:00

APEX Agent Adams

Resin casting from Fenris Games

Sculpted by Mark Evans