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Dollar Store Dungeons - Trees (RPG Miniature Terrain Building)

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Let's Build Trees So I've been interested in terrain building since I first got hooked on D&D nearly two years ago.  I've been an avid fan of YouTube crafters such as The DMs Craft , Black Magic Craft , and Wyloch's Armory for awhile.  But I haven't delved too heavy into crafting until more recently.  While I have several projects in various states of completion, I figured I'd kick this series off with one of the most useful terrain pieces: Trees. There are plenty of guides out there for crafting miniature trees and I've definitely been influenced by many of them, but I've taken my own spin on it with my own requirements.  Namely, I wanted to keep costs down and steps simple to make it easy and affordable to repeat.  Let's get crafting. What You'll Need Toilet Paper Rolls Textured Paper Towels Green Scrubbing Sponges Cardstock Scraps Hot Glue Gun and Glue Scissors PVA Glue Baking Soda Mod Podge Black Craft

Let's Paint - Half-Orc Fighter (RPG Mini Painting)

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Freek - The Mad Merc Last Fall I started running a regular D&D game for my partner and some of our friends.  Fast forward several months and my partner has also caught the D&D bug.  They started running their own games a couple months ago and of course I'm a player in one. Meet Freek: the Half-Orc Fighter. This is the first PC I've ever painted and I'm pretty happy with how he turned out.  He's dramatic and eye catching and I think he fits the idea I had of my character pretty well. I added some small stones on the edge of his base to help blend it into the sculpted terrain and used my usual combo of baking soda and super glue to fill the gaps. I primed him in grey and undercoated him with shades of grey. The paint job was pretty simple.  I decided to make his armor a deep red to contrast with his pale green skin and to also evoke a sort of samurai look.  I think I did a pretty good job with the highlights on his skin especially.  And I re