25 mm miniatures

[Tommy Troy]

Here's some of the mini's I've painted up, bravely defending my backyard from evildoers!  :lol:




It's been awhile, hope that y'all have been OK.  Any rumors about new FF-like games in the works?

[Thunder]

Welcome back Tommy!   It's been a while.

[MJB]

Nice painting guy.

Welcome back Tommy. It's been ages.

-MJB

[GrizzlyBearTalon]

Nice painting indeed, one question... does Thor have a mustache?

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[Glitch Girl]

Hey Tommy, nice to see you're still doing the artsy thing.  :) Nice work on those paints. 

[Figure Fan]

Those are SO small. I could never paint like that on such a small figurine.

Nice work!

[captainspud]

Where are the figures from?

I used to collect Warhammer dudes, I was TERRIBLE at painting them. I have really shaky hands. I loved doing conversions (sculpting them to look different), but the painting part was always smudgy and gross.

[Tommy Troy]

Thanks, lads and lassie!  It's really great to type at you all again after so long.  I never did buy the 3rd Reich sequel because I sorta suspected that large chunks of the plot and character ideas had been ripped off from the ideas we were all batting around in Volt's Electric Freedom forums -  :huh: - especially that flying guy with the star insignia!  Oh, well.  We had a lot of fun.

I still do some 3D when the fit strikes me, and I skin a little for the WWII flight sim IL2/1946.  I learned a lot from y'all and I can almost use my tools now!

Spud, the figures are from 1985 or so - the Marvel ones were made by TSR and the DC fig was part of a set released by Grenadier about the same time.  The rest of the sets have been in my closet for the past twenty-odd years, but I swear I'll paint 'em all someday.  :unsure:  Or maybe I'll pass them on to Tater Tot - I'm getting pretty old, in the single-digits of years to retirement.   :(  I do hope that someone will make one more superhero game for us to skin and play before it's time to prearrange!   :o

[Panther_Gunn]

Oh yeah, I remember those mini's.  And the reason I didn't buy them back then was those horrible sculpts!  Ben looks like he just got done rolling a strike.  The Grenadier ones were marginally better, but still nowhere close to iconic.  Very nice paint job on less-than-inspiring models!  :thumbup:

[yell0w_lantern]

So you are THE Tommy Troy!

I'm still using some of your skins. The "Manhunter from Mars" skin is one I particularly like.
You should try FF vs the 3rd Reich it's only 5 or 10 dollars and with Freedom Force X 3 it's a new experience.

[psychopanda]

Nice to hear from you TT. :)

I agree with PG, those miniatures looked rather bad sculpt-wise but in the hands of a talented painter like yourself. They can come out looking very cool.

Have you ever tried painting the Villains & Vigilantes rpg minis? They were so small, and hard to make out the details.

[Tommy Troy]

Yep, they are pretty bad sculpts but I thought I'd better buy 'em while they were available, and this selection turned out better than I expected they would.  A few of the figures from those sets have been painted but banished to the "failure" bin - :huh:- I won't ever use or display them but I don't have the heart to throw them away.  I haven't seen the "Villains and Vigilantes" figs but I'll check the web and take a look.  Thanks for the compliments on the painting - really, everyone here is so talented that it means a lot to me.

@ YL - Yow!  Someone still using my skins!   :thumbup: I bet you like the Silver Age style as much as I do.  I thought that the Manhunter from Mars and Dick Sprang-style Batman looked pretty good in game.  :)

[Revenant]

 Hiya Tommy Troy, I used to paint miniatures for years growing up, and i know how tiny the little buggers are..

:thumbup:

Your precision is astounding!  I like the highlight on The Thing's texture, nice gloss to it, too.  Spider-Man just... boggles my mind, the texture must have taken such a steady hand.  The colors, esp. vivid reds and blues are so bright and look just like the comics.  Nice Work!

[yell0w_lantern]

@ YL - Yow!  Someone still using my skins!   :thumbup: I bet you like the Silver Age style as much as I do.  I thought that the Manhunter from Mars and Dick Sprang-style Batman looked pretty good in game.  :)

I do like the Silver Age quite a bit. Check out my Batman mesh at the website below for proof.  :thumbup:
http://www.freedom-asylum.co.uk/

And speaking of Batman, you don't happen to have a copy of your Batman anywhere? I lost a lot of stuff in a hard drive crash a few years ago.

Cheers!

[Tommy Troy]

Great mesh - I need to reinstall the game so I can watch it in action!

I do still have the Sprang Batman tga's - let me know by PM where to send it.  :)