#converting miniatures

The creaking is all that can heard from the Wooden Men, your terrified breaths are all it needs to lumber to your hiding spot.

Hello, I’m Kess. I’ve been making miniatures since just before the first lockdown in the UK. My very first miniature was a Space Marine kitbashed with Tau pieces from a Kill Team box split between me and my friend—and almost every single miniature ever since has been modified, ‘bashed, scratch built, or even sculpted!

I loooooove making my own minis, or having a go at recreating artworks or characters from shows/video games that have no official miniatures that exist but I so so so want to have a little thing physically to show my love of them. I sparingly use 3d prints, because I have so much bloody plastic I might as well try and make it myself!

I use to post across all sorts of social medias, but in recent years I’ve deleted or abandoned all but my Tumblr, the people I follow here really inspire me and sometimes I even directly make minis tagged to certain artists. Tumblr is also a lot less stressful, as I don’t really care about “growing” as a “cReAtoR”, I just want a nice place to host all my minis.

Kids these days only care about they teleholo-phonepadds and the newest auto-generated vidscreened megablockbusters, this particular Techno-Solo-Merc was delighted when his favourite granddaughter picked up hexadecimalised witchcraft.

I LOVE THESE! I think some of my favourite minis. Effective kitbashes, and certainly a better paintjob than I’ve been doing recently. Put a lot of effort into em, I particularly like the granddaughter’s teeny tiny little Tamagotchi on her belt, was her very first digital familiar :3

When you encounter the Six of Six in the frozen wastes of Felstad, you best hope they roll low.

I’ve done some dice themed minis before and they’re some of my favourites, I know some people have “avatar” miniatures and I’ve genuinely considered using my Dicelin for that—haven’t thought about them for a while until I found Clayton Ellison‘s AMAZING profile on Instagram of dice miniature after dice miniature scrolling all the way down, I absolutely LOVE their minis and their painting style, as I still have tons of miniature dice lying around from that old project, thought I’d give it a go. The two female minis are BadSquiddo miniatures, 3 of the others are from a game called Barons War , and the one with the executioner’s axe a friend gifted me and I have no clue where it’s from.

On the hyper-streets of Kezrak-VII, you’ll find many a mean big overtuned hover-racing vehicle, took a real creative to realise that size isn’t everything when you can dart inbetween the traffic with ease.

Fun lil’ guy. I’ve had his pieces cut out and set aside for a year and half now, finally ‘bashed him together and I love him.

Inquisitor Goldenglow always felt like her shining personality was never truly appreciated until her mechanical hollow skull was replaced with this resplendent new hologram.

Some rather grimdark minis that have been sat around for a while, these 3 were never made to be a trio, but they were all equally as perplexing that I decided to paint ‘em together. I wanted a dash of colour again into my minis, but I still ended up griming then down very heavily.

Although that weathered white armour—while an experiment—came out really nice I think. Very happy with these strange and finicky miniatures. They fall over once and they’ll probably shatter into a million pieces.

You need a ride? You need a ‘goose.

This was a really fun project, about 2 or 3 years ago, when I did my Catachan Sgt Johnson kitbash, I bought myself the Atalan Jackals box to make a Mongoose kitbash, but I felt it was too large honestly. With the Flashpoint minis being a bigger scale, thought this would a perfect project to *compliment* another Halo related thing I’m making rn.

Was super simple to ‘bash together, might make a Warthog at some point, but I use to love doing Mongoose races in Custom Games so I really wanted a lil’ mini of it.

And as said, this is actually an complimentary accessory, just a neat addition to something far far larger I’ve been working on throughout the year. It’s getting close to completion, so I thought I need to paint this part of it soon…