Fuck Yeah Hero Forge Creations

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Somewhere to celebrate all the myriad wonderful and terrible creations people make with Hero Forge. It is not affiliated with Hero Forge in any way.

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What Is This Blog?

Somewhere to celebrate all the myriad wonderful and terrible creations people make with Hero Forge, be they original characters or attempts to adapt ones from somewhere else through Hero Forge’s lense.

It is not affiliated with Hero Forge in any way.

What is Hero Forge?

www.heroforge.com is an online character design application that lets users create and buy customized tabletop miniatures and statuettes. Originally monochrome, a successful Kick Starter campaign allowed it to go full colour -- both interface and ohysical output -- in October 2020.

#hero forge #roleplaying games #miniatures #art

Jedi on a Tauntaun!

Because I can.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D53534612/

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There's something so hilariously wrong about that face

No disagreement here.

I think it's that it still looks like a person's head stuck on that body. It still looks too sentient, maybe?

Not really sure what I can do to make it look dumber, though.

Links: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D52764100/ https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D52768931/

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The problem is that despite the big nose, it's still identifiably a face that recedes from the tip of the nose and not a muzzle

Jedi on a Tauntaun!

Because I can.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D53534612/

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There's something so hilariously wrong about that face

#hero forge #star wars #kitbash #jedi #tauntaun #miniatures

Rotatable lightsabers

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49587644/

So it took basically all afternoon, but I finally figured out how to make rotatable lightsabers. A user named nexus-11 figured out an intriguing method of kitbashing a Straight Tail basically inside-out to use as a lightsaber blade that looks like a film lightsaber from any angle. @fuckyeahheroforgecreations

I mean, just look how the turned out.

Trouble is that it's a pain in the ass to design, and after an afternoon of work, mine still don't look as crisp as nexus11's design:

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D51854189/

What I'll probably do in the future when I need one is import nexux's character into my designs and copy her lightsaber over to my minis. Look how cool they made my girl Revan look:

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D30659981/

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Can you expand on what you mean by inside-out?

#hero forge #lightsabers #miniatures

I really like all of your chess sets you’ve done. Which one are you going to do next as I saw you had several others in the poll?

Thanks so much! I'm deciding which to work on next but I've fiddled with designs for a few of them. Thanks for the ask!

Here are a couple I've been working on:

Links: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D51493760/ https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D51269410/

#hero forge #miniatures #chess sets

All Wheel Drive at Heart fan minis!

So this is cool, I designed a series of fan-minis for my artist friend wnqs, who writes and draws the terrific polycule girl-love comic All Wheel Drive at Heart! Well, wnqs featured them in today's Fan Art Friday!

The above one was a silly design of Civy, the story's tiny heroine, riding the team's Bobcat, Bobbie. (Normally the characters wear modern clothes.) But the rest of them are designs of the gals in Team Heart.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49920600/

All of the characters are cars, btw! The tiny protagonist Civy is a Honda Civic.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49921299/

#hero forge #minis #fan art #webcomics #personification of objects

Hero Forge Gallic Chess Set!

So as per the poll from a few weeks ago, I next finished my Celtic chess set design for Hero Forge! I went with Gauls specifically, because as an ancient history nerd, I felt most comfortable with their aesthetics. As before, I tried to keep each type of piece compositionally similar to the Romans, Greeks, and Highlanders. @fuckyeahheroforgecreations, @ancient-rome-au.

Gallic King offers a toast to inspire his warriors.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D51083874/

Barefoot Pawn ready to defend his tribe, family, and farm from these invading Romans.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D51064180/

#hero forge #chess #miniatures #celtic #minis

Minoan Dresses!

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D48812958/

So I finished these just last night, and I swear that posting it right after reblogging one of @ironlily-art's Minoan lady designs is purely a coincidence. I've actually been trying to figure out a Minoan dress design on Hero Forge for a couple years now by overlapping two models, one with larger breasts, so they'll clip through the other model's shirt. (I've done it a couple times for lingerie pinup designs.) But I could never find a shirt piece that looked or fit right, nor one that I could effectively kitbash into looking right.

Recently, though, Hero Forge released a frontless top called the Ice Warrior's Undershirt that, despite lacking sleeves, actually works for a Minoan dress! Happily, this also allowed me to split my models back up and design dresses and hairstyles for each of them.

Anyway, thanks as always for checking my designs out, folks! Feedback is always welcome!

So I also made a nipple-less, costume-reference version to share it to Hero Forge's Community page without getting into trouble.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D51071738/

Holy sharts! This is the first time I've ever seen one of my designs on the Community recent popular items page! It's currently over 80+ likes!

#hero forge #miniatures #historical costuming #kitbashing

Most popular minis

So Hero Forge's community page has likes, but only records the first digit of the number of likes. So if you have ten or more likes, it says 10+, if you have thirty or more, it says 30+, and if you have a hundred or more it says 100+, but won't tell you if it's 110+. Of the hundred and forty-odd minis I've posted only four have topped 100 likes.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D39561671/

Coveralls girl was the first to top 100. With the new kitbashing, she's actually pretty easy to make, but at the time, I had to twist her extra arm around a lot to make this one work.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D39561878/

Jacket girl was my second to top 100. I posted her the same day as coveralls girl, but she didn't top for like a month.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D41753034/

My third to top 100 was my take on @psuedofolio's Fluffy Spider Girl. She's adorable and totally deserves the recognition.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49717322/

And my latest to top 100 likes is my kitbashed drider template. I use her for several of my Drider mini designs, and I hope everyone who liked her put her to good use for their own drider minis.

Honorable mentions:

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D50341781/

First honorable mention is my Star Wars blaster kitbashes that got 80+ votes. Since Hero Forge doesn't have officially licensed Star Wars paraphernalia, users have to come up with their own lightsaber and stormtrooper helmet designs, so I guess a lot of people appreciated that my designs for a DL-44 heavy pistol, E-11 blaster rifle, DH-17 blaster pistol, A280 blaster rifle, and Wookiee bowcaster.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D24584703/

My first mini to really take off and 70+ likes was the first of three Tusken Raider minis I designed, back when I first got my Hero Forge account. I keep meaning to go back in and upgrade them now with the new kitbashing options, but I haven't taken time to deal with it yet.

I do often wonder how much the quality of work matters versus other factors of its presentation. It’s all an algorithm game in what communities you appeal to with tagging, not to mention the impact of having a stable group of active followers and those of people who might reblog your work. So much goes into it that what gets popular often comes off as random. Food for thought!

I wish I knew! I'm also not really involved in any online communities that share Hero Forge designs, so I have to wonder how much that affects the number of hits.

#hero forge #custom miniatures #kitbashing #star wars

Galactic Empire minis

So I'm trying to design more Galactic Empire minis to go with my many, many Rebel Alliance trooper designs, and I'm trying to decide how much to go with the core-worlds Stormtrooper-white, and how much to emphasize how their 'provincial' soldiers and auxiliaries. Like, I was content with how the first design looked, but I got to messing with colors and kinda like the drab grey/green better. Thoughts?

How about a couple of Regular Army Troopers go go with? Love how they turned out!

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D50498295/

Apparently I've been inspired today. Check these out.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D39776109/

Updated my fleet officer and gave her a girlfriend.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D40356427/

Updated my army officer and gave her a girlfriend.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D50499708/

And updated my anti-vehicle trooper and gave her a girlfriend.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D40358937/

And just updated my imperial snipers. I'd been putting that one off because I knew it meant redoing all the kitbashes on the Scout helmet. But I think it turned out okay, and I kinda like the sniper rifle I kitbashed.

#hero forge #galactic empire #star wars #miniatures

Heavy Artillery!

Mwahahahaha! Guess who just kitbashed an E-WEB heavy repeating blaster for my Rebel troopers! Only the finest in BlasTech heavy-ordinance for my troops!

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D17094613/

#hero forge #kitbashing #star wars

Rebel Eggshell Helmets!

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D17292740/

So I have to say I'm still pleased with how my designs for Rebel troopers' eggshell helmets turned out. Like, I still think they're silly helmets and always have, but I've also always really liked them for some reason.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D39792945/

I wasn't originally going to give my fleet officer one, but decided to on a whim and I liked how it looks.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D26978785/

I gave my search-and-rescue trooper more of a beige helmet, meanwhile, since that's less reflective.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49786723/

Same goes for my devaronian field-medic.

#hero forge #miniatures #star wars

Better Kettle Helms!

So I've always liked kettle helmets, but never much liked the kettle helmet option in Hero Forge (below, right). Instead I tended to use the Brodie helmet (below, left), despite that it's technically a World-War I and World War II design.

But, with the infinite options allowed by the new Kitbashing feature, I finally designed a kettle helm that I think looks pretty snazzy!

It's four half-spheres skewed to fit my adventuress's head, and better yet, it goes on over a chainmail coif!

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D38704413/

On the other hand, I'm still deciding if I like the other helmet-with-coif designs I've been fiddling with.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D33314961/

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D47443057/

#hero forge #kitbashing

Nice! So I jumped onto Hero Forge for the first time in a month or so to discover that they've (a) added a bunch of new chainmail parts, including pants, gloves, boots, and---most importantly for my Ancient Rome designs---sleeveless chainmail and have (b) added a kitbashing tool that allows objects to be stretched and skewed.

This is great for me, because I've long wanted oblong shields in the styles preferred by ancient warriors like the Roman auxiliaries, Gallic tribes, Germanic tribes, and Hellenic-era Greeks. I've already designed a new Egyptian auxiliary type and have updated an older spear-unit type.

Plus, you can maneuver it so it looks like it's gripped behind the boss instead of strapped to the arm!

Links: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49196527/ https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D12242619/

HAHAHAHAHA! I finally did it! It took a bit of experimenting, but I finally designed a Roman trooper helmet that I'm happy with!

So it starts with taking the Open Gjermundbu Helmet design. Then take and kitbash a round, concave shield design. Shrink the shield to close to the same diameter as the helmet and maneuver it into the back of the helmet, like so:

And then take and duplicate the shield and maneuver the duplicate to the front of them helmet, as seen above. Adjust the angle and size to fit accordingly. Super-stoked how it turned out!

Links: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49237122/ https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49237400/

I mean, see how much better my Egyptian trooper looks:

So with the designs for better trooper helmets, I've been revisiting and updating my old Legionary adventuress designs. Super pleased with how they're turning out and I plan to post them when I get the whole set finished. Here's a sneak-peek at one of the officer's helmets:

#hero forge #kitbashing

Nice! So I jumped onto Hero Forge for the first time in a month or so to discover that they've (a) added a bunch of new chainmail parts, including pants, gloves, boots, and---most importantly for my Ancient Rome designs---sleeveless chainmail and have (b) added a kitbashing tool that allows objects to be stretched and skewed.

This is great for me, because I've long wanted oblong shields in the styles preferred by ancient warriors like the Roman auxiliaries, Gallic tribes, Germanic tribes, and Hellenic-era Greeks. I've already designed a new Egyptian auxiliary type and have updated an older spear-unit type.

Plus, you can maneuver it so it looks like it's gripped behind the boss instead of strapped to the arm!

Links: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D49196527/ https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D12242619/

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