10/26/2025

Happy Sunday, adventurers! Welcome back to Tabletop Thoughts.

Even with a packed schedule this week, I managed to get a few cool things finished up.

The village put up a No Swimming sign after… the incident.

This miniature from Brite Minis is their take on the girl from The Ring, and she turned out perfectly unsettling. I ran her off the resin printer and gave her a fast SlapChop paint job—lots of stark black and white contrast with just enough sickly green to make her look like she really did crawl out of a well. She’s creepy, glossy, and fits right in as that one NPC the party definitely regrets talking to.

A Shambler moves quietly toward the forest.

Here’s another Shambler from EC3D Design, printed on my trusty FDM machine. I gave it a quick drybrush highlight, then went in with India inks for the Shambler, the ground, and the roots to pull out those dark, swampy tones. The mushrooms got a splash of craft paint to add that perfect pop of weird forest color—because even nightmares deserve a little flair.

First rule of Monster Fight Club…

Here we’ve got a Hook Horror and a giant scorpion, both from EC3D Design and both printed in resin. They each got the ol’ SlapChop treatment—primed black with a rattle can, then hit with a white drybrush to pop out the details. For the Hook Horror, I stuck with my “turtle monster” color scheme from last time, using Speedpaints to bring it to life. The scorpion got a mix of rich browns for the carapace and bonewhite for the stinger. And of course, the eyes are red—because it’s not properly menacing unless it’s staring back at you.

Earlier this summer, I grabbed a set of these drawers from Temu to corral some of the miniatures and terrain pieces I use all the time in my videos. They were super easy to put together and do the job nicely—nothing fancy, just reliable storage for all my chaos.

The only hiccup? The drawers are taller than I really need for most miniatures, so there’s a bunch of wasted space just hanging out above them.

As an engineer, I couldn’t just let that wasted drawer space sit there. I hopped onto Tinkercad and designed a tray to sit inside some of the drawers, letting me make better use of every inch. The tray is bigger than my FDM printer can handle in one go, so I split it into four pieces that key together. Once glued, it should be strong enough to hold all the miniatures without any drama.

One of my coworkers asked if I could make this on one of my printers… of course I could! The files were originally set up for a Bambu Labs printer, with all the parts nicely arranged on trays for easy printing. I had to break the file into individual pieces and load them into Cura, then printed everything using black filament. It took a few days to get all the parts done, but I’ll be delivering it to her on Monday!

Keep on gaming!