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Let me tell you about Minis.

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I've just recently made an even greater discovery. Living in the loft with access to an even wider range of tools has given me the opportunity to try even more techniques and an even broader range of materials. My favourite social pastime since first playing in High School is playing fantasy role play games. Compared to the obsessive details that go into my other model making activities, tabletop terrain and miniatures is child's play. The focus is on fun and games. Now, with access to a forge and spin casting equipment as well as injection molding I decided to make some miniature figures for our games: Dragons and monsters of all sorts.  The gamers I play with are so impressed that they are constantly begging me to make custom minis of their characters.  The first few I made were pretty basic but they were impressed enough that I made a few more with more detail. Hank begged me to do one of him. Not his character but an actual miniature of himself.  This April, the shop was sl