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<p>I've haven't had much time to paint much recently, but I certainly have been working on miniatures of late. &nbsp;This January I accepted a job as a game designer for the D&amp;D Miniatures game at Wizards of the Coast, so the last few months have been a real wild ride. &nbsp;It's been...

<p>I've been involved as a Judge for the D&amp;D Miniatures games at various big shows (Indy, So Cal, Winter Fantasy/D&amp;D Experience)&nbsp;the last three years.&nbsp;&nbsp; The second time I was at Gen Con I talked with the man in charge of Organized Play for the game and told him that I...

<p>Welcome to yet another blog!</p><p>Since I already have a blog, it seems silly to have two -- but in this case I can strip out my miniature-related posts from <a href="http://ptlee.livejournal.com/">my personal blog.</a></p>

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I broke 100! Okay, 102, actually. I had to delete two. Last night I submitted my 99-102nd miniature to CMoN, which happened to be a set of four trophies for the WotC D&D Miniatures game Sealed Championship that is going on at Gen Con So Cal next weekend. http://www.coolminiornot.com/105205...

Are there any planned get-togethers for cool mini or not people at GenCon this year? It looks like I\'m actually going to make it this year. One panel is the \"how to become a professional mini painter\" and I\'ll hopefully make it to that schedule permitting.

A while ago someone posted an interesting illusion on how the brain could be fooled in thinking the same color shade was different depending on the surroundings. Here are a few more: http://www-bcs.mit.edu/gaz/main-frameset.html

Hey airbrushers, I have a question for you guys. I\'m wondering if there exists some sort of mask that you can attach to the airbrush. My idea is something about 6 inches from the nozzle and you insert little slides into it for different mask effects. (a circle for doing dots, a slit for a...

This is in reference to the comic \"Doomed & Doomer\". How does Chrispy know about the Bookshelf (tm)? The bottom shelf is storage, the 2nd shelf is assorted D&D books from 1st ed to 3.5 ed, the 3rd shelf is dediated to both the WEG Star Wars game and WotC\'s version, the 4th shelf currently...

I can\'t believe I\'m doing this... Normally, I\'m a patient man and I can wait for a comment, but here\'s a fig I\'m quite happy with and I\'m impatiently looking for some comments. It\'s one of the few non-monster miniatures that I\'ve been happy with. Reaper sculpt name Derek the Tall...

I guess this post is more geared for Chern Ann, but anyone can pipe in. I\'m finally thinking of posting some figures on to eBay for sale, and I am pretty much at a loss for where to start. I know an automation method isn\'t available now, but I was wondering if it would be possible to write a...

Hi all, Just a heads up for those Geeks in Minneapolis. If you plan on going to CONvergence there is a panel Saturday morning (11 am) called \"98 Figures of Lead on the wall\". I\'ll be there as so far the only moderator; it\'s sort of a show-and-tell for miniatures. Stop on by and introduce...

Hi all, Quick question here -- can anyone tell me the temperature that vulcanized rubber molds are \"baked\" at when they\'re created? I obviously don\'t mean the room-temperature vulcanizing rubber, but what companies like GW would use. The point is that I need to cast a figure that might...

Okay, hypothetical discussion time. ;) I\'m sure that quite a bit of you have had quite a bit of experience in the miniature world, and I was wondering what needs to be done to start up a miniature company. Some of these questions might be pretty general for any sort of company, so I\'m sure...

Does anyone have an airbrush recommendation for miniature painters? Here\'s the point -- I just experimented with non-standard primer colors for speed painting, in the current case an enamel silver/chrome coating on a few armored figures -- 5 figures done in approximately 5 hours for the set...

I\'m wondering how miniature companies create the plastic bases that come with their miniatures. I\'m sure that the larger companies like GW have their own in-house \"foundry\" for lack of a better word, but I\'m more interested in the small run companies. (perhaps Dave/borg can help most with...

I\'m curious -- are there transparent paints suitable for miniatures on the market? Most figure paints seem to be opaque. I guess the main point is for use with washes; a thin transparent black wash over metal paint, for instance.

Here is some news on the new WotC/D&D line of miniatures. There is a typo in the first one -- it claims that the figures are 40-65mm large, but it\'s been assured that they\'re actually the typical 28mm size that we all know and love. (If you look carefully in some of the pictures, you\'ll see...

I\'ve had a thought in my head for a few days, and I wanted to see what others thought of it. In photoshop and other programs, there\'s a tool called the eyedropper tool. When selecting a part of the image, it gives the value of the color. There are several methods for defining a color. One...

Here I am, going through the old forum posts to figure out how long it took for the first CMoN contest to go from idea to reality (idea was posted on 4-24-2002) to provide evidence on why we should start talking about the next contest, and Borg/DD goes ahead and posts the next figure. Woo hoo...