![]() I loaded the picture into Pixelmater Pro: I rotated the image 90 degrees to the left to make things visually easier for me. The free open-source program GIMP will work too, and runs on Mac/Windows/Linux. Obviously, the “500-lb gorilla” in this field is Adobe Photoshop, which is fiendishly expensive and (at least for me) intimidating to use. For this kind of work, any mid-range or higher image program will do. As I mentioned above, I used Pixelmater Pro. Step 2: Select the mini’s imageįor the next couple of steps, you’ll need an image-processing program. I took the picture with my iPhone 7 Pro no fancy digital camera was necessary. All that mattered was that the mini was distinctly “flat” against the background. I didn’t even bother to check the orientation when I took the picture. ![]() Here’s an example: A partially-painted Flying Cat miniature from the Etherfields Stretch Goal box. This will make it easier to select the mini’s shape in your image program (see below), Make sure there’s at least some modest contrast between the mini and its background.This probably means take a picture “head-on.” Take care not to take the picture from “above” or “below” the mini you probably want the base to appear flat, for example. Orient the mini in the way you want it to slide in the holder. ![]() The first step is to take a photo of the mini you want to store. There’s something else out there that can do the same thing, probably for free. In other words, you don’t have to buy a Macintosh just to run Pixelmater Pro. For example, when I talk about “extruding a spline curve,” for you that probably means to look up how to extrude a planar object in your favorite 3D program, not to use Cheetah3D and select Object->Creator->Extrude from the menus. Therefore, I strongly suggest that you focus on the techniques, not the tools. I’ll mention other tools below, but all the screen shots come from the programs I used. I tried to make use of the more popular and free tools available, but I was stumped by the learning curve. They’re not even the most commonly-used design tools on the Mac for these functions. The other warning is that the tools I describe below are all Macintosh-specific. If you’re an experienced designer or modeler, the only reason to read this post is to look at the pretty pictures and/or to laugh. The first obvious caution is that this is definitely a “Golly, gee whiz!” post. In the spirit of my long posts on creating gadgets, I’m going to share how I did it.Īcknowledgement: I could not have done this without assistance from Vann (link possibly NSFW fortunately I work from home). Instead, I decided to figure out how to design and print my own holders. I could always hope that someone will design a holder for the miniatures I want to carry and upload it to a 3D-design site like Thingiverse, as I did for the above miniatures. There are many miniature figures storage solutions out there, but they’re a bit pricey, too bulky, and hard to customize for the elaborate sculpts of Awaken Realms‘ miniatures. This post focuses on a different issue: I want to safely transport some of those minis when I go to play Etherfields at my friends’ home. I’ll eventually write one of my usual picture-filled posts of how I painted them. I recently received the second wave of Etherfields content. Since I have a series of posts on painting minis, I’ll add that I painted these with Citadel Contrast Shyish Purple. Here’s how the holder looks with the minis in it. I printed this in gold filament, which is what I happened to have loaded in my printer at the time. To store and transport those figures, I downloaded and 3D printed a holder that someone else designed: The holder without the minis. It included two additional miniature figures to play that fifth character, the Reaper. For the first wave of the game Etherfields, I received a fifth-player expansion.
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