Design Brief

The client contacted me with a request if I had a 20mm (1/72 scale) Winston Churchill miniature in my range - or if I could make one. He had been creating custom conversions from plastic miniatures and had received a lot of requests for a Churchill miniature. We agreed I would make a Churchill miniature and send him some copies to fulfill his requests. He sent me a reference picture of a larger miniature he had in his collection. I had to reproduce it at a smaller scale. As some of the details were hard to see, I looked up the original image as well.

Sculpting

I don´t have many Work in Progress pictures of this commission, but I remember the face... The face took me a lot of time to get right, but ultimately, I think I succeeded.

Final Results

Here is the final result. I delivered the requested number of copies and made the miniature available in my shop You can purchase it here:

Design Brief

This project was a collaboration with a hobby friend. He supported me when I was in my very early attempts at sculpting and now that I am a bit more proficient, he asked me to create a Set of Grenadiers for 19th Century Guards Grenadiers of Sardinia-Piemont. These miniatures would be a test to see how high demand was for similar 19th century sets. He sent me a full folder of reference images for uniforms and illustrations on musket drills for poses.

Design and Sculpting

I knew that my client was the kind of collector that wanted everything very historically accurate. So not much artistic freedom in this project. To make sure I was on track, I regularly committed my work in progress images including mock-ups in photoshop to show how I imagined the final poses to look like

Final Results

Here are some of the final result. Unfortunately, demand turned out to be non-existent.

Design Brief

This model was created to supplement a set of miniatures for a board game with a custom design. The brief was to create a heavily armored rat with two daggers that could be used in dual purpose: as throwing daggers or close combat weapons.

Concept Art and Sculpting

I started working on some sketches based on the refence image to explore a variety of poses. In these sketches there isn´t much variety in equipment, as the client had a pretty clear vision of how the creature should be dressed and armed.

After we had agreed on the pose, I started creating an armature with aluminium wire and begun roughing out the big shapes and forms

...and after some back and forth with the client to check if I was on the right track, the final result emerged. The last detail I added was a 3D printed sword. I designed the sword in a 3D modelling application - I think I was still using Fusion360 back then - and printed it on my Resin printer

Final Results

Here is the final result. The model had to be disassembled for casting, the tail and sword are separate pieces and need to be attached.

Design Brief

These models were not a typical commission, but a collaboration. Together with a hobby friend who is also an active small scale producer of 28mm miniatures we decided to create some Space Pirates for the then upcoming ruleset Stargrave - a version of Frostgrave in Space. We both likes Frostgrave and thought Stargrave had potential to become another big trending ruleset. We wanted to test the waters and see if we could capture part of the market with some unique Space Pirate Miniatures.

Concept Art and Sculpting

I started with some sketches and we discussed different designs. This was a fun project as the design process was very collaborative and open-ended, different ideas from both parties made it into the final designs.

It was also one of the quicker projects as I started sculpting immediately after finishing the first designs, the feedback and iterations happened quickly enabling a speedy progress

Design Brief

This project came to me as a follow-up on previous work I did for the client. He had long toyed with the idea of creating a line of miniatures for his own fantasy story. The world is based on sentient animals that inhabit magical woodlands. We started to delve into the world by creating miniatures for the Empire of Mice and Rats, a highly civilised realm of well... mice and rats. The brief was to create 3 Spearmen who would represent militia, 2 Rangers with Bows, 2 Heavily Armored and armed Rat Infantrymen with two handed weapons, a mage and two Cavalry figures. The miniatures were supposed to wear equipment that was mostly natural and of organic origin.

Concept Art

I dove into the work by creating some concept art to get the mood and equipment sorted out. These concept sketches really help to communicate ideas and flesh out the final vision with the client

Sculpting

I started sculpting the Spearmen and Archers, adding the other minis bit by bit - here is a selection of Work-in-Progress shots:

Final Results

Some Impressions of the final resuls:

Design Brief

I was asked by a regular client if I could add a set of Medic and Wounded to my range of Modern German Bundeswehr figures. We agreed to add the minis using my commission model for modern 1/72 miniatures, he paid a very modest fee to get the miniatures made to his specifications and I added the final product to the shop. The design brief was a picture of US Miniatures, the task was to adapt them to Bundeswehr gear and scaling them to 1/72 while keeping the pose as in the reference picture.

Final Results

This is the comparison of reference picture and final result:

Design Brief

I was asked by a regular client who had bought many of my 1/72 Scale models if I had any intentions of creating a line of 15mm, as he and his group regularly play at this scale. I replied that I did not have any plans to release a 15mm range - plenty of stuff left to add to my 1/72-scale ranges - but that I would be willing to sculpt him some miniatures as a paid commission. This project offered some synergy effects, as I intended to create new weapon masters for my 1/72 scale models and with digital modelling I could re-use the weapon masters for both scales.

Sculpting

First I had to create the weapons as 3D models - my old 1/72 scale weapon masters were made by hand and were due for a remaster as digital models, this project offered the opportunity to hit two birds with one stone.

Final Results

Here is the full unit of 6 Grenadiers:

Design Brief

A customer contacted me and requested if I could make a 1/72 scale ANZAC Infantry Set, as he found no set of good quality. We agreed on a price based on my commission model for 1/72 scale modern minis: the client pays a small fee to get a say in how the minis should look and for prioritizing this set over other creations in the pipeline and I retain all rights to market the final set in my shop. The client asked for a full section of ANZAC infantry and provided detailed instructions and reference images that I used to create the minis. This commission also resulted in the creation of a full Vietnam range, as I chipped in some Vietcong on my own initiative, thinking that Vietnam might be a popular range.

Sculpting and Results

There are not many work in progress shots from this project, so I compiled some images of the masters and some of the final, painted minis: