Due to circumstances outside my control, I got a resin printer (finally) and decided to sculpt a tiny Frankenstein’s monster from The Gunhand. My friend Matt Plog did the art for this comic and the idea of the monster getting Cain’s right hand grafted to him and gallivanting about the old west with this barely-controlled murder-limb is pretty neat.
Blender
I’m playing catchup with digital miniature sculpting. I have a few STLs, most from Heroforge, but I’ve survived “not having a resin printer” by “having a gigantic unpainted miniatures backlog” instead.
My constant companion during this journey was this series of tutorials by MWSculpts. Building each part of the model as separate objects then joining and remeshing them when needed felt more natural to me than making a t-pose and trying to rig a skeleton to a final product that would never move. However, I would be remiss not to mention these genius shortcuts for how to use face sets and the Pose Brush to “cheat” not having a full armature for your model. While I didn’t use them on this project, knowing how to do this might come in handy later.
Printing
Making sure your supports stick somewhere it’ll be easy to clean up is the trickiest part. You don’t want to peel supports off your miniature’s face because you didn’t align them to the build plate well. Everything else is process: PPE, ventilation, cleaning, curing.
Painting
I still paint minis like it’s 1999. I like to think that sometimes I have decent crafting advice on this blog but when it comes to painting, don’t listen to me.
Magic
Holding something you created out of literally nothing is magic. I can’t wait to give this to Plog – after all, I can always print another one for myself.
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