Lies That Wizard Will Tell You

 I'm working on this zine and figure I should keep track of the progress in some way. So, I'm doing like I did for Mishiev and cube waltz and updating this post whenever I make significant progress. It is the 30th of April.

 

I've been adding to my little sketch version of the zine. I wrote my ideas in a google document first and was planning to only use the ball point pen doodled version as a reference for when I made the zine in photoshop. Once more I've learned the lesson, I hate working on a computer. I think I've made the decision to write the whole thing by hand. I started working on drawing the zine at a bigger scale, each page being half of a folded piece of paper (hamburger style). It turns out, I hate drawing at large scales too! So, unfortunately I'll be making this zine at a 1:1 scale. Ideal? I really don't think so. 

 

may first mayday m'day.

Scanning in sketch. While I was doodling At Scale I started adding borders to each page, then kind of went "oh, I could make it look kinda like a book" and so... 

 

my reference/sketch version

omg... it's genius

I have a lot more stuff to write onto each page and I want to adjust the spacing/layout a bit. Though, I do think it feels nice where it's at it just needs more info per page. 

 

May... the 7th...

 

I haven't worked on this for a few days. Here's where it's at and you'll see... I decided not to hand letter it. Also, the page borders being book pages are gone. 

 

 Well, the page borders are mostly gone. I need to print this out perfectly without text and trace my art on a fresh sheet of PAPER. big sigh. My printer doesn't like to print things flush and I'm too dumb to figure it out, so if you can believe it I've hit another wall. As you can also see, I did the text with digital text. It looks good I think actually, really nice. 

 I have one more problem though, from switching to digital text. I'm able to fit more stuff onto a page. Ergo, I have a lot more room on page 2 than I did before. I have an idea of what to do for the empty space I just need to come up with a bunch of silly wizard lies. Difficult to be funny. 

 

5/12/2026

OK that's it I'm calling it, I am calling it.  It is done. I inked it, scaled it fit it to the text. Decided to leave the text that I chose ultimately for that one page. Future zines will include more lies I think. It's kind of messy and cluttered but who cares, it's a zine! haha!!

 So download it from here or whatever, I don't care! It's one of those micro zines, print it out and fold it up. I numbered the pages for you! I'm so kind, thank you, myself!

 

Ok so there's another post. thanks for reading, goodbye again!

 

twabbis 

 

 

good to make a habit of blogging I supporse

hey

 

I'm in the fiddly stages of sculpting my giant. I'm still a little stuck on finishing my ZINE project, I'm a little worried the well is running dry, actually. Fear is setting in... Actually, I've been socially busy this weekend and on top of that I've been HOME ALONE AAA for the last few days. I deleted instagram again. Thus, blogging.

So, in order to blog (which is the most important thing) I'm blogging. I actually don't have a lot to report but, before I left insta again I suggested that everyone sculpt a snail before the end of 2026 with the hashtag #sculptasnail2026. 

 

 I of course, have no chill. Sculpted a snail within 24 hours (in a matter of minutes due to my skill and techniques) and got 'er posted. I also sculpted another giant/Ogre type head and a little guy. The little guy is actually kind of 28mm scale so it's just a standard little guy. Computer, show me the digital camera heavy flash picture of those sculpts now. 

very nice ugly snail shell face

 Fimo rules. Cheapo store craft smart clay is fine. 

Ok one more giant update and then that's a post done and dusted. I chopped the giant arms off for better hand sculpting.  I really enjoy sculpting hands don't you know?

 

aaaand a lovely top down. I've had a couple people ask me if I'm going to get this giant produced. Idunno idunno... Maybe... shake a magic 8 ball about it

 

Ok goodbye!

 

-twabbissssssss 

  

uhhh i don't know uuuhhh

 Hi it's almost 10pm I shouldn't be wrting a blog post but, erick wrote a blog post and updated his blog. I'm annoyed. I should be the one blogging. ME!

Anyway. 

I have another blost cooking but it's a bit ways off to be finished because my brain has stopped working when it comes to finishing the goal that that blost will cover. Blost is short for blog post. Anyway.

 I've been locked the EFF in sculpting. Bequest minis posted a sculpt of a giant the other day. God it looks so cool. Unfotunately I'm cheap and pretty broke. One of the reasons I'm broke is I work part time and my job starts super early in the morning so once again, I really shouldn't be writing this post at 10pm. Jeeze there I go again, off tracking it.

Anyway.

Because I'm a cheapo, I thought it would be cool to just sculpt my own giant. A Dope Giant.  Computer, let's see that now.

 

sculpted with CHEAP polymer clay using my methods

wire body with paperclay. Idunno why.

Leg's get Ethical, ethical

Here's where I think things get pretty interesting. I didn't want to sculpt the giant's left leg exactly like the right leg (from the giants POV obviously, duh). I was thinking about a sculpt I did for BigBoyGameTime (as a trade WHERE'S MY SKULL GUY STEVEN??) with big BIG iron boots (inspired by Mike Mignola's story The Iron Boots). Here's a pictures of those boots (I loved this sculpt a lot)

old sculpt inspo not the giant

this is a different sculpt ok

again just an old sculpt

 So obviously, I was thinking about big metal shoes again and asymmetry. Thus, the iron shin maiden was born. 

a little dopey

he has a lil shield and sword :)))

sculpting chainmail whips

 Soooo yeah, that's where it's at. I imagine this giant or the army this giant works under is really convinced that the opposing army will be distracted by the little shin guy, thinking that it's the soldier when the real soldier is towering over them. It's so stupid that it makes me chuckle whenever I think about it. I love this hobby sometimes for the dumb stuff it makes me think of. 

 The pose changed a few times, and what was originally a hand resting on a hip became the spiked bat holding hand. I made the bat from a foraged stick I found when I was constructing my Mischiev/Rumpus board. Heavily inspired by Banhus miniatures and his foraged models.

Anyway, this post got kind of long and rambly. good thing you didn't grab a glass of water before reading it. 

 Now I need to go to bed, goodnight!  

Maybe I should play games...? nah....

 I've been thinking about Cauldron CAULDRON the wonderful game by hillgiant games aka Steven Zych and Dellon Myette. I printed off a bunch of their micro zines yesterday and I'm just like, stewing in inspiration. Unfortunately my brain feels really small when I read rules, my silly little brain goes "haha idunno what this is!! AAAAH!" If only there was a way, dear reader, to understand rules! 

 

Anyway, I must remain pure and not game. Gaming is the mind killer. I downloaded a bunch of other micro zines too (was it yesterday?). They are very cool, here they are!

 

some I just wanted because they have a certain, idk

please note my og rules for Bribery $1.50

I even made a little pocket in my Hobby Toolbox to hold them. I've just been thinking about tiny zines for the last 24+ hours. I have made 1 (one) bad microzine in my life over a decade ago. Honestly I kind of forgot about them until recently. 

 

Long and short of it is... Ya boy is ready to start another project to get burnt out on B-) 

 

Lies That Wizards Will Tell You will only have two topics covered and if I think of anything else funny or whatever to do with wizards I'll just do those in another volume. I'm not gonna think about that yet cuz I need to make this one. LTWWTY 1 will have some stuff about Towers and Shoes. No one has ever talked about these topics in relation to wizards and it's about time that changed. 

 

Anyway, look forward to it!  

Suffering from success

 Hi bloggos, blog readers, blorbos of the blog. It is me again, twabbis. My newest batch of dopes has been selling like hotcakes. At least, in my eyes. I didn't really expect to sell as many as I did in those first two days so thanks for that! Packing orders however, is true suffering. No one knows how much a boy like me suffers when it comes to stuffing packages with guys. 

 Anyway, it's worth it because I covered my production costs which was more than I expected! Booyah! Cowabunga! 

 I'll keep this post very short cuz I want to keep it short. In short, I'm grateful for the support of mini loving weirdos. 

 

Here's what I've been up to hobbywise otherwise most recently

 

fun sculpts from various geniuses, myself included

kitbashed bloodbowl freak with one of my orc heads. plus a goob. plus the OG Dope on the left.

I wanted to line up my freaks. It's almost looks like some kind of army, has anyone thought of doing something like that with miniature sculptures?

I adjusted a sculpt I bought from Tanner years ago... I needed him to be a frog, please understand. Also, painting one of Jonathon's goblins (smaller.paul.assumption on ig) 

 

Minis! He did it!

 Hi everybody! Hello! I got my minis in the mail today! It's very exciting and I want you to know I'm excited, this is a cool experience. Though, it's also a bit daunting.

  

hot DARN that's a sexy mess!

 

Delicious pewter poured in the United States of USA in Wisconsin by Valiant Enterprises. Those fine folks are proper nice and the turnaround was darn speedy, I think. Minis aren't super cheap to get made, hopefully you guys want to buy these. I'm debating if I want to figure out packaging or just throw these in a padded envelope when I sell them... Unsure!

 

I learned some things. Primarily, don't send sculpts with foil cores to get molded for metal. The pressure of the molding process will warp your figures. I still think the personality of the ones who got wonkified comes through, but in the future I won't bother using foil for miniature scale figures at all because it's not worth the risk for the slight material save. 

 

.... 

 

Well, here's some pictures. I'll have these for sale likely this Friday, the 24th of April 2026. Oh, and I will have a few GAMMON casts available as well, as single piece figures. 

 

 

look it's him! he's not crossed out! wow you wanna buy this!

Skip the water this time, you're too hydrated. 

seasonally affected and it's now spring :)

 ok hi, hello. I'm not sure who's reading this but look! a post for the first time in 6 months! beautiful!

 

I'd kind of anticipated being more active with this after getting off instagram but alas, my desire to hobby AND to post completely dried up over the last few months. In truth I think I burnt myself out. The season could share some of the blame. I think I got some mojo back. I actually just sent an email off about getting minis produced for myself, let's see them now.

 

beautiful, I'll buy them all no matter the cost!

So cool! What else... I had two other minis produced by my lovely friends, let's talk about that. 

The sweet angel GoobinsGitz asked me to send a mini to him to put on a mold he was getting made that had extra room. I sent him a wizard sculpt I had made a while ago and now it's in metal. Computer, show me it!

  

  

oh my!

 

These will be available sometime, I forget if I'm getting some or if he's selling them. idk, I'm stupid!

 (look at this preorder for some lovely boys he has for sale btw)

Let's see the next thing! 

 

Living angel Tanner "SimpsoMiniatures" asked me to sculpt my Gammon toy in miniature scale, so I did that and now I have mini metal Gammons! I will probably list them soon, but I have about 7 full figures  (it's two parts) and it feels a bit lame to only list 7 guys, so I'll have to order more. 

 

Well, that's the updates. I've been painting a LITTLE BIT and that's a fun time so maybe I'll post about that within the next six months.

 

Hope you're doing well, eat some salt

 

-twabbis