Rolling with Difficulties and a breakdown of project creep
Rolling with Difficulty is a live play 5e D&D Planescape podcast. Sophia, who plays Dani (does the Moviestruck podcast and is Overly Sarcastic Productions editor/producer) made several jokes about precious moments figurines in Season 3 so I wanted to make precious moments figurines of the characters. I started that in January of 2023 when Season 3 was playing and I posted it on April 1 of last year.
Since I made those I thought I might as well make minis and since I wanted to reduce the number of packages I held off on sending the precious moments to the RWD PO Box. And since I wanted everything, other than the precious moments figures(because I showed them off while making them), to be a surprise I didn't post any of them.
Austin the DM thought that Intellect devourers are too goofy with dog legs so he gave his spider legs which I though was cool so I made it and printed a few.
@comicaurora, who plays Kyana, posted some concept art of an ancient drone that appeared for a chapter of Aurora and I was inspired by the one she labeled as dumb so I modeled it. I thought it would be weird to only send one concept and not the one that appears in the comic so I did those too. They got posted earlier and separately since they are not RWD.
By the end of Season 3 I had modeled the original crew and Dani's robot cat Plug and printed a mini of each(plus and extra Dani for season 1 red Dani) for their player and Austin. I though I should send a Plug in scale with the Precious Moments figures and that the rest of the crew would want them. So I printed one for every cast member.
And then between seasons 3 and 4 they did a Weird Little dude one shot giving official art for every crew member's companion. One of Finbar's pixies Old Bay, one of VR-LA's mechanical bugs Drone, and Kyana's pseudo dragon Sunny. So I modeled all of them and printed one for their player and one for Austin.
I was trying to paint and send out all them before Season 4 started so I wouldn't have to model Vhas. Well Season 4 ended in September 2023 and I'm posting this now.
Season 5 was announced to be the last about the crew of the Per Aspera and I was still procrastinating on painting them so I made peace with them not being painted and just sent them. Austin told me he opened the packages right before recording the last episode of Season 5.
And I ended up needing to send them in two boxes despite not wanting to send more than one being the reason I delayed sending them.
The Models can be Downloaded for free from
Printables: Crew, Weird Little Dudes, Intellect Devourer
Thingiverse: Crew, Weird Little Dudes, Intellect Devourer
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Do you folks want to see some miniatures?
These mind flayer-like characters are made from different Frostgrave sets and parts from a bag of Warhammer 40K spruces I got from a friend.
Finally got some good pics of Toby! This piece is also a bit of a memorial to a real life pomeranian named Toby, may he rest in peace.
Because of this, I wanted to make him a sort of display case. I experimented with a dice box and some foam. I wanted him to also be a playable mini, so you can still remove him from the base. I think the design of the display could use some tweaks, but it worked better than expected!
I also want to make him a better label, but for now the simple one serves it's purpose.
The figure is from one of the doggy sets of Animal Adventures
Vaaron, character warlock for D&D games.
Species - Cyrell, subspecies Corddry.
Gift for a friend.
A tutorial on painting Kenku Warlock will appear on our Patreon later.
Here’s another Chaos Dwarf from Checkpoint Miniatures. I picture this guy as a ranger and guide, leading people across Moor and Fen and into the deepest woodlands.
I counted up ALL of my unfinished minis and have about 1,300. So I decided I need to start chipping through them!
Had a lot of fun just splashing some speedpaints on the abomination ogre (don't remember his actual name, but it's by Archon) and then building those colors up. He's so neon and colorful but so gross! (Added some UV resin to make everything just a little slimier!)
The Samurai is my first bust. She'd been sitting mostly painted on my shelf for awhile and I really needed to just finish her. I could've spent a lot more time on her but rather than get hung up, I decided to move on.
And the feathered snake (Tobi-Kadachi from the Monster Hunter Boardgame) I wanted to paint up to be an autumnal bush viper! Really pleased with how they look!
None of these are my best paintjobs but they look pretty cool on the table and they're FINISHED!