Merry Christmas (and a question)

[brassbaboon]

Hope everyone is having a great Holiday season and a Merry Christmas.

I would be interested to know if folks tend to receive miniature related Christmas gifts. Since this is a relatively obscure hobby I don't know how many people have family and friends who actually approve of and promote the hobby with gifts on special occasions.

Last year my daughter gave me a box of dragons from the "How to Tame Your Dragon" movie, and I turned those into 30 usable game miniatures, so that was a great gift.

This year my daughter and wife gave me a large faux-stone black dragon with a letter opener "sword" that will look pretty imposing as part of my GM accoutrements, but my wife really surprised me by purchasing a couple of Hirst Arts molds (the bridge and 4" stone tower). I was already planning on making a tower, so this will just make that easy, and I needed a bridge (my first attempt at making a bridge out of plaster was... shall we say... not fully successful...)

If you got some cool miniature related stuff, I think it would be cool to hear about it and how you will be using it in your gaming.

[Asphere]

I got a couple of dwarven forge sets, 10 or so reaper miniatures, and a bunch of paint pots. My birthday and xmas gifts are combined - so I got quite a haul.

[sanwah68]

My 7 yr old son got me (with help from his dad) the Freebooter's Fate Amazon box....very nice.

[wellsmv]

I got a a mold kit so i can make some custom hirst friendly molds...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyNRcORFHKk

[brassbaboon]

wellsmv wrote:

I got a a mold kit so i can make some custom hirst friendly molds...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyNRcORFHKk

Very nice video. I am considering making some custom molds to beef up my pieces too.

[wellsmv]

I've only made one so far of a rat miniature which turned out well....

next will come the large floor tiles...

[BigNorseWolf]

I got a paint rack and the hot lead DVD's for christmas

[DeathQuaker]

Generally speaking I don't get a lot of miniature related gifts, but some friends last year did get me a set of wax carvers/dental picks that I had put on my wish list for sculpting. When I still actively played wargames, friends I played wargames with would buy me minis for my armies (still haven't assembled Lich Lord Asphyxious...).

[Sean K Reynolds]

DeathQuaker wrote:

(still haven't assembled Lich Lord Asphyxious...).

I love that mini, I used him as a lich in my drow game. :)

[DeathQuaker]

Sean K Reynolds wrote:

DeathQuaker wrote:

(still haven't assembled Lich Lord Asphyxious...).

I love that mini, I used him as a lich in my drow game. :)

I bet that looked phenomenal. Come to think of it, some of my thralls would make some great mook-baddies too...

[Sean K Reynolds]

Here's a link to my pic of him on Facebook. Note that's the original, non-heroic sculpt (without the extra cloth flappers and stuff from the heroic version), slightly modified by me.