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Mmrrowl (black) and the Ambitious Calico (... calico). They even met up back in 2020, though the Ambitious Calico was the god Stone at the time. (Ignore Aunt Sam; she's just a mini.)

hS

An actual cat as an agent wouldn't be that weird in the grand scheme of things. I'm pretty sure there's much weirder ones.

I'd believe it.

I'm definitely doing Reicheru at some point!

~Neshomeh

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~Neshomeh

I'll have to give it a shot when I actually have time, haha.

--Ls

It would be so eldricht, even Chtulu himself would be wary!

I don't know if I'm behind on her current state, but I imagine Grey from the early Council meetings would be horrified to look so dynamic.

I also imagine Dis and the Agent would 3D print hundreds of tiny Action Notaries and hide them all around HQ, specifically to wind her up.

Also I am now imagining a ConCoun TTRPG. Possibly with each of the Council playing a different member in their Time War incarnations, and driving each other up the wall.

hS

The account was literally just linking to Google to avoid having to save a bunch of links elsewhere, so it was an easy win for me. Agents hanging out was a bonus. (I didn't discover until after posting them that you can move the figures around on the base; it's the three-axis diagram over the feet in Pose > Advance, if anyone else is hunting for it.) I'm afraid the Kaitlyn-Selene link has gone the way of your Ilraen one, oh well!

Kaitlyn is having so much fun, but the one that really struck a chord with me was Dafydd. I don't know that I realised I had one of the first disabled agents in the PPC until I modelled him. That's an odd thing to recognise nearly 20 years down the line.

I did try to put flash-patch decals on all of them, but the ash branch doesn't work super well for a cactus, and Kaitlyn... I think is using her flowers as a Floaters patch? You can't do individual decals on an "over" top part, as far as I can tell.

Naturally I am scheming on doing more. Morgan and hS are murmuring in my ear, and there's always the question of who's going to do Jay and Acacia...

hS

To be honest? I don't know why I stuck the rosettes on the legs. I think part of it was me spacing out the work over a few days, another part just clicking to get the decor part over with and forgetting about it.

But funnily enough, the feedback had me going back to check on Charlie's wiki page, and you know what also might've led to the dissonance? I forgot I changed Charlie's species at some point, because the description copied from my old 2019 Permission request says they're a leopard, but my rewrite of my agent introductions labels them as a cheetah. I think the black streaks under their eyes were something I added at some point to my mental image of them and grew fond of, which may have led to the species change. Or it might not be, it's been a while.

I think I'll have to update the Wiki page, and maybe the Heroforge model too if I figure the embeds out. So would the solution just be to use the screenshot download, and then link it in the HTML formatting listed in the formatting guide?

I was resisting that, but seeing your characters sharing space, I might lose my resolve. It's so nice to be able to compare them more directly! Like, you don't really get how much taller and narrower Selene is until you put Hobbit!Kaitlyn right next to her. Even allowing for Kaitlyn being crouched in her running pose.

I think Kaitlyn is my favorite. I love her outfit and her mushroom basket. ^_^

All of them have some really fun details, though. Selene's face is intriguing, good for what it is, and I love that she and Dafydd both get a flame decal somewhere. Constance looks so fed up, haha. This is good visual story-telling!

~Neshomeh

(You've got the same link attached to Kaitlyn by herself and Kaitlyn and Selene together, FYI.)

Eldritch Foundry (go to "start building now). I haven't tried it yet though 😅

Have to say, I was really hoping to see Charlie and Jiwon. ^_^ I DO wish the less-human options had as much room to edit as the more-human ones, though.

In any case, I like this Charlie. I think the pose sells their carefree, do-lally nature pretty well.

Is there a reason you used cheetah spots on the face rather than rosettes? At first I was going to ask about the body having rosettes rather than cheetah spots, because I had imagined them as looking more like a cheetah, probably because of the previous image on their page. But apparently they're an anthro leopard. Whoops!

FYI, your image code didn't work because you didn't use an image URL, ending in an image file format (in this case, the screenshots save in .png format). Let me know if you need more information than that. {= )

~Neshomeh

They're loud, but I think they fit together. She's very cute, even though, yeah, it's hard to get a character looking really delicate in this style. Partly that's due to the limitations of the presumed eventual physical figurine, I'm sure. Too delicate, and it'll break too easily.

If you wanted the face to be more narrow, you might be able to do that, though?

The wings look really pretty regardless. The image gives them a really nice glow effect.

~Neshomeh

I definitely can understand getting carried away by excitement, heh.

I'm afraid the details have gone over my head, but it IS cool to make your own stuff, for sure! Especially your own characters, in a style you enjoy.

Phobos and I have assembled and painted some Warhammer 40k minis this year, which is also fun, but not quite the same thing. It's not as easy for me to get into the grimdark headspace—though I do have plans to paint some Mandrakes with warp-flame in shades of urple. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I want to thank you for waiting until after I'd already painted all the DnD miniatures I need at present, or else this could have gotten very expensive. I've stolen your trick of adding height="300" to the image coding because I liked the way it looks. ^_^ All pictures link to the relevant model if you want to check out the details.

Dafydd & Constance

D&C are fairly settled these days. Dafydd is quite content to tell stories to the kids - that's a volume of the Histories of Middle-earth he's holding, but the stories he tells aren't exactly like they appear in the book. Constance, meanwhile, has gotten tangled up in Shenanigans^TM, and would quite like you not to make her assassinate you before she's had her coffee.

Kaitlyn & Selene

Kaitlyn is seen here in her favourite disguise, having clearly just spotted a Hobbit in need of protection and/or a mushroom patch. Selene is the only one of this lot actually focussed on the mission at hand, whatever that may be. The Key (steampunk stuff on the side of her face) was difficult to fake with the facial decals available; I did my best.

And just for bonus fun: you can add an entire saved miniature as an "extra" in the Stage section!

Kaitlyn and Selene are going on an adventure, or as Selene insists on calling it, "an actual mission, Kaitlyn, please can we focus". Meanwhile, Constance has finally persuaded Dafydd to get up and help.

hS

I originally planned to see if I could make Charlie, Jiwon, and potentially the Curator, but times got busy over here and I struggled enough with the first that I decided to leave it as is. The result isn't perfect (it doesn't look stupid enough and the feline options Heroforge don't feel like they fit them all that well), and I'm not even sure if the image embed will work, but have a Charlie.

How do you do this

And a standard link in case the image post doesn't work, which knowing my luck it won't.

(EDIT: links have been updated with more leg-accurate Charlie models, will try to work on Jiwon some time this week)

The title I used for the post was meant to be in jest, I didn't want to belittle anyone here! I guess I should've worded that better.

But, yeah, my brain went "Hero Forge -> Miniatures -> Figures -> wait I did made custom figures!" and I just went into manic mode describing what I had built giving too little thought about how to make a "funny" title... should've given that a bit more thought, I guess.

Those eye-burning colors are intentional, of course. I tried to make the body and facial features softer, but it seems I can't quite recreate the delicate, Disneyesque figure.

It did occur to me that I'm usually the last to know about things, so I hope I didn't come off as talking down too much. I'm just in that college-kid excitement phase, wanting to share the thing that is new to me. ^_^;

I like the backstory! Lily has educated me a little bit about cultivation fantasy, too. I could see the Notary doing well in that setting, if I'm not totally off-base that following the rules is generally rewarded. At least if you're not the rebellious but cute protagonist.

I used one of the polished rock colors for my Generic Surface. Upgraded from plastic gray in some cases, downgraded from flagstones in others. {= )

~Neshomeh