My Dreams in Plastic

     As some of you know my brain still spends a great deal of time in the fantasy world of my old D&D characters. Now that I have started playing again I have been working on ways to bring my old campaign back to life. The current group is stomping around where the old group did all those years ago. To prepare for possible cameos by my favorite characters I have discovered that Shrinky Dinks make for great figures. Behold Prince Olorain and Magistrate Wickliffe of The Five Worlds! No Wickliffe is not wearing a tie.

     You can do it too. To bad I am not a very good artist. They however will do nicely. I took a mix of pics from online of real people dressing in mid-evil clothing, faces of people I image could play my characters in the movie in my head. Then I photo edited them together  and printed them out to be about 3.5 inches tall. Then I traced them on to shrinky dink paper. Shrinking from 3.5 inches tall makes them about the same size as war-gaming lead figures. I just ordered some printable paper so hopefully I can make some much more realistic figures. Much cheaper and more personalized than store bought figures. I figure on sheet or shrinky paper is about 1.50 each and you can make at least 2 figures. That and the penny I glued them too makes for about $0.76 each.