I know that a lot of us here love to paint or convert our minis to match some of our favorite characters from videogames/films/anime/whatever.

I'd love to see all the tribute minis you guys have come up with. I'll be back later and post some of the tribute projects I've done.

Here are two of my tribute figures - Purgatori and Vampirella - both of whom were converted from the Succubus Vandella figure.




For those of you unfamiliar with these two comic book characters, here they are as they normally appear.


I should point out that Vampirella is my all-time favourite superhero, hence my user name of Vampifan.

The Hubby painted these ones:
Final Fantasy Chocobos:



Conehead from Plants vs Zombies



Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog



And I painted San from Princess Mononoke

I know I've shown them off before but here my two homage figures of a (in)famous DC pair

I started out with a Ninja All Stars Goemon, and I ended up with Auron from Final Fantasy X

Caitlyn from League of Legends


Badger Lord from Redwall


Wights from A Song of Ice and Fire; wearing black or brown for Night's Watch or Wildlings


Unintentional Sakura Haruno from Naruto


Chests from Skyward Sword


Lunara from World of Warcraft


Poison, Super, and Mega shrooms from Mario


Ruler (Jeanne d'Arc) from Fate/Apocrypha

For some reason, my favorite characters in Final Fantasy 6 were always the least central ones, but the chances that Sodapop were going to make a suitable Mog or Umaro mini was pretty low. So, when I saw that a local Blood Bowl commissioner had [url==http://www.bigfootlunchclub.com/2012/10/rocky-mountain-rampage-bigfoot-miniature.html]some Big Foot Minis for sale[/url], I had to jump at the chance to make an Umaro. I only had to adjust the hair a little and it was perfect.

For Mog, I started out with a Giri creep from the Super Dungeon Goro set (I ended up with lots of extra Giri after the Forgotten King Kickstarter.

Anyway, here they are:

Here is a party of Light Warriors from the very first Final Fantasy game. Only the White Mage has been converted- for each of the others, there was a Super Dungeon mini that just worked for it.

I intend to finish out the set with the last two classes. The Black Mage mini is part of the Super Dungeon Legends kickstarter, while the Red Mage will have to be converted.






It is undisputed that you need a fighter in the front rank.



Black Belt is pretty useful- especially if you want to save some of the money you'd normally spend equipping a character.



I based them on the original colors from the Nes Final Fantasy. It really shows up with Thief here, who underwent an extreme makeover for the remakes.



And here's White Mage in all her iconic glory. I really had to consider whether I was giving her a staff or hammer.

Man, it's been a long time since I posted anywhere. Let me see if i can do this right. I make a lot of tribute models.

This is Hsien Ko from Darkstalkers.

Original Candy and Cola painted like Vanellopi from Wreck It Ralph.

The stealth elf from Skylanders is my replacement Riftling Rogue.

This is the Hexcast sorceress painted to look like Firiona from Everquest box art fame.

And lastly, the Thunderhoof Cavalier painted like my personal favorite pony, Rarity.

I think this one needs to be posted here as well.






The Plague Doctor doesn't seem like the most natural mini to make for Chibi Kingdom Death.  I was looking through my bits box one day, and I found an old Rackham goblin, and I could see all of the conversion that I'd need to make.



For his color scheme, I decided to make a tribute to the Shovel Knight villain/hero Plague Knight.  I'll probably do a couple other Shovel Knight characters as well (Specter Knight would make a good survivor as well).

For reference (in case none of you are Shovel Knight fans)

it's like watching a master color outside the lines

Arena Champion loosely based off D.va from Overwatch.
Her Palanquin skin was the main inspiraton