History and Updates
| Date and change | Additional details |
| 16 May 08: La Caja -- shovel zombie | I've been gone a while. :) |
| 8 Nov 06: blood elemental | This update is a quick and dirty piece. |
| 7 Nov 06: dwarf barbarian | Another Reaper figure for this update. |
| 1 Nov 06: tweaking | Yesterday's update didn't get online until today, due to a few problems. All seems well now, and I've tweaked the design of the site. |
| 31 Oct 06: La Caja -- undead pirate and undead parrot | Just in time for Halloween. Yarr! |
| 19 Oct 06: La Caja -- flesh golem | One more golem, still no zombies (apart from those two). |
| 16 Oct 06: La Caja -- clay golem | Another update, another. . . um. . . lack of zombies. Teaser pic put up, along with a new golem. |
| 11 Oct 06: La Caja -- Cthulhu in straitjacket | Zombies are coming soon. Perhaps they've been summoned by this update's subject. . . . |
| 4 Oct 06: La Caja -- charnel grub | Another update, and still no plastic GW zombies. Such is life. But there is a charnel grub. . . . |
| 25 Sep 06: La Caja de la Muerte -- horned zombies | Horned zombies from a comission start off the new project with the barest reference to the original idea. :) |
| 22 Sep 06: La Caja de la Muerte | Added for real this time! A new project explained, and a box to keep it in. |
| 2 Sep 06: first sculpt added | I finally got a picture of my first "serious" sculpt, from around 1999. It may or may not be illustrative of something or other. |
| 25 Aug 06: La Caja de la Muerte | Coming soon. . . . |
| 2 Jul 06: faces added | Still no miniatures work (again), but I have at least got some figurative sculpting up this time around. Once again, check out the Artifacts section. |
| 23 Jun 06: two new artifacts added | Still no miniatures work for quite a while now. . . on the other hand, I have been up to some other things. There's a set of LEGO magnets, and an egg/ark/bolus in the new Artifacts section. |
| 27 Nov 04: table of horror added | My first miniature in some months, and my first stock miniature in quite a while. |
| 14 Nov 04: new pics of puppet added | I just got a digital camera from my wife as an early Christmas gift. I imagine things are going to be a little different on Minutiae. >:) |
| 2 Nov 04: puppet added | Yet another new section for Minutiae, reflecting a relatively recent interest: disturbing puppets. First on the site is a puppet I made to wear on my shoulder this past Halloween. It moves its mouth and drinks beer. . . . |
| 25 Sep 04: collaboration web project added | It's not related to miniatures, but here's an update: a writing collaboration from a couple years ago, htmlized. |
| 6 Feb 04: MAW added | Still behind. |
| 22 Jan 04: 2 MAW miniatures added | I'm a ways behind. . . at least I've got it down to a month now. |
| 23 Nov 03: MAW added | Another invertebrate. This time, it's a tiny centipede in a bowl of gruel. |
| 17 Nov 03: MAW miniature added | This week, I've added a giant worm sculpt. |
| 8 Nov 03: MAW year 2 begins | It's started early. |
| 7 Nov 03: skin etc. guide reposted | One of my better guides has been revamped and resposted. |
| 4 Nov 03: humanoids section updated, painting wip gallery added, wip structure tweaked | My first non-MAW update in a while. Perhaps it can serve as an intro to the project. |
| 1 Nov 03: overhaul finished | Or so I hope. I think I've got everything straightened out, including old errors, completely new errors, loading errors, and even defunct links on this page. |
| 31 Oct 03: major cosmetic overhaul | Lots of things changed, lots of help from Dave Kelly of http://www.figmentia.org.uk . Coming soon: a second Mini-A-Week project. |
| 2 July 2003: Mini-A-Week added, full year's pic added | Well, I'm done with the project, and a little early for style's sake. I've posted my Cthulhubot, which seemed like an appropriate piece to end on, as well as a group shot of everything I've done. |
| 25 June 2003: 2 weeks' worth of Mini-A-Week minis added | I'm ahead once again with the third-to-last and second-to-last miniatures in my Mini-A-Week project. I've posted my Games Day 2003 entries, a reaching mutant and his candleheaded slave, set into a diorama. |
| 31 May 2003: 3 Mini-A-Week minis added, WiP gallery updated | I'm not just caught up, I'm ahead. I've added in a sea urchin, crab, and baby beholder for the next few weeks. Since I'm likely going to be out of town quite a bit, it seemed like a prudent thing to do. Plus, I've got to get to work on convention stuff. . . . |
| 29 May 2003: Mini-A-Week added, WiP updated | I'm once again caught up with the addition of the wood man. I also added in another walking fish update. Not much done by way of work on the fish, just the remaining section of the legs. |
| 26 May 2003: 2 weeks' worth of Mini-A-Week added | Two more updates are completed and I'm technically up to speed -- just got to get something in for this week, which should be no problem. I find the fact that I've said this before and been wrong to be entirely unforeboding. |
| 23 May 2003: Mini-A-Week added | Another update in the current whirlwind of catching up. Continuing on the vaguely aquatic theme, today's offering is a shellbeast. |
| 21 May 2003: 2 weeks' worth of Mini-A-Week added | Catching up again. Up for review are a dynamic blob and a not-at-all-dynamic tentacle. |
| 19 May 2003: Mini-A-Week added | Dammit. Fell behind again due to lots of factors, the most important of which is not working on minis. However, the term's finally over and I've got enough underway that I may catch up soon. Or I may continue to lag. |
| 11 Apr 2003: Mini-A-Week added | Caught up for this week, and just in time. I added in my first humanoid figure. It's not a success. (Addendum: it's actually my fourth humanoid, which makes it that much more depressing. ;) |
| 8 Apr 2003: Mini-A-Week updated | Nearly on target again with another blob for Blob Month. |
| 5 Apr 2003: Mini-A-Week added, WiP gallery updated | Slow and steady, like a flowing blob or a snail. Which are this week's MaW and WiP, respectively. |
| 1 Apr 2003: Mini-A-Week added | A plain blob is the current selection. Still behind, but making progress. |
| 31 Mar 2003: Mini-A-Week added | Man, I'm behind. Here's a giant (in miniature terms) bird skull from a couple weeks ago. Still got to make up a few weeks' worth of minis, and I've got just the projects underway to do it. . . . |
| 18 Mar 2003: Mini-A-Week added | I tossed the finished Cthulhubot into the gallery. Stefan Niehues (who's doing the ViP 5 casting) resprued it for me, which I appreciate immensely. Meanwhile, I've managed to get behind again. |
| 23 Feb 2003: Mini-A-Week added, WiP section updated | I added in a hovercat as this week's mini, as well as some in-progress sculpts -- a walking fish and a mudman. |
| 21 Feb 03: WiP section updated | Cthulhubot is nearly finished, and with a week to go. I'm shocked. . . . |
| 17 Feb 03: Mini-A-Week added | I'm finally caught up, which is good. Sadly, the piece is pretty bad. The cockatrice didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped initially. Damn ViC is still unfinished, though. |
| 16 Feb 03: Mini-A-Week added, WiP section updated | A scratch-sculpt centipede and a little more work on Cthulhubot. |
| 15 Feb 03: WiP section updated | A bit more on the ViP (though the ViC is still unfinished). |
| 12 Feb 03: WiP section updated | Got a little more work done on my ViP. |
| 10 Feb 03: WiP section added, Mini-A-Week added | In addition to the MaW (still unfinished with the ViC, and still a week behind), I've tacked on a new work in progress section. I've been scanning a couple recent projects at intervals. The first offering is my Cthulhubot. |
| 2 Feb 03: Mini-A-Week added | Nearly caught up now with the addition of the flying jellyfish. If I can get my ViC up by the end of the week, I'll be all set. |
| 1 Feb 03: Mini-A-Week added | I ought to be caught up soon -- got a couple things nearly done. Meantime, here's another scratch sculpt. |
| 25 Jan 03: Mini-A-Week added | Still a bit behind on the project, but instead of catching up I've devoted quite a bit of time to converting, painting, and writing up the new piece. |
| 17 Jan 03: Mini-A-Week added | I painted up the turtle sculpt. Not my finest work, but I've got to get caught up and onto more pressing projects. |
| 11 Jan 03: Mini-A-Week added | I've finally made it up to 2003 -- happy New Year. |
| 9 Jan 03: Mini-A-Week added | The late updates continue at a breakneck pace -- this time around it's a turtle sculpt. |
| 8 Jan 03: Mini-A-Week added | I'm a little late with updates. As it turns out, my parents (whom I've been visiting over the holidays) have a Canon scanner, which has no depth of field. The mini work has been done, but it's going to take me a little time to get everything posted. So it goes. . . . |
| 11 Dec 02: Mini-A-Week added | This week's mini is a hook horror that took me three solid attempts over quite a few years to finish. Some minis just take extra effort, I suppose. |
| 7 Dec 02: Mini-A-Week added, M-A-W gallery changed. | Lots of little greens as this week's mini.
Grognards should look at the scale photo. :) Thanks to the incomparable Dave Kelly for the hand making the new table for the gallery, as well as the fine advice to update it in the correct direction. A haiku of thanks: Dave Kelly is great. |
| 1 Dec 02: Technique review added | I gave clear primer a shot. . . . |
| 29 Nov 02: Mini-A-Week added | An old conversion painted up this week. |
| 18 Nov 02: Mini-A-Week added | This week's mini is my entry into the Chick Challenge III. A bit of nudity. . . too much by 50%, in fact. |
| 13 Nov 02: Mini-A-Week added | I painted up the forest altar from week 16 -- lots of fun. |
| 6 Nov 02: Mini-A-Week added | This week I added in a heavily converted ooze monster, just a bit late for Halloween. |
| 2 Nov 02: Mini-A-Week added, main page reorganized | This week's real mini gets posted, just in time -- a power outage has kept me from finishing up this week's update. |
| 27 Oct 02: Mini-A-Week added, WIP added | OK, purists would tell me I hadn't fulfilled my promised if I just left this week's update without another addition. They're right. More should show up later on this week. I've also added in a Works in Progress section to the welcome page for a bit of visual interest. |
| 20 Oct 02: host changed, Mini-A-Week added | Lots of changes this week. I've taken advantage of Chern Ann Ng's hosting services at http://www.coolminiornot.com . Now I've got my own domain name: http://www.minutiae-minis.com . I've also tweaked the frames a little (thanks again, Dave). I've actually painted a mini this week -- a hamster gladiator sculpted by Sandra Garrity. |
| 17 Oct 02: frames added | I've bowed to the progress of technology and added in frames. Many thanks to Dave Kelly of http://www.expressive-monkey.org.uk for his help. |
| 13 Oct 02: Mini-A-Week added | This week's original sculpt is a, um, giant starfish. |
| 8 Oct 02: Mini-A-Week added | Just a few minutes late for my own pseudo-ViC. Sad. |
| 2 Oct 02: Mini-A-Week added | Another lumpy sculpt, another fictional mishap for our halfling friend. |
| 20 Sep 02: Mini-A-Week added | This week's sculpt is a carnivorous mushroom. I've added in a short piece of fiction about the mini. |
| 15 Sep 02: Mini-A-Week added | Another sculpt this week: the lobster worm. |
| 8 Sep 02: Mini-A-Week added | I've decided that sculpting is a valid part of the Mini-A-Week project, so I've put in the first full sculpt that I'm at all proud of -- the portal mouth. |
| 1 Sep 02: Mini-A-Week added | |
| 25 Aug 02: Mini-A-Week added | |
| 19 Aug 02: Mini-A-Week added | |
| 31 July 02: 2 more Mini-A-Week minis added | I'm going to be offline for a couple weeks, and don't want to give up on my project so soon, so here's an early update. |
| 28 July 02: Mini-A-Week added. | Three weeks of Mini-A-Week -- so far, so good. |
| 21 July 02: Mini-A-Week added, History added, Sculpts updated, galleries redone | No sense having a history page if it's not online. . . . The 2nd week of the Mini-A-Week project goes up. Also, the Sculpts section has been updated, and the updated galleries are online. |
| 14 July 02: Major overhaul | The Mini-A-Week project begins. I'm going to paint one figure a week for a year. Lots of cosmetic changes, as well. |
| 26 Jan 02: New image in the Undead gallery. | Flying vampire. |
| 2 Dec 01: ViC #5 | A puppeteer and his puppet. |
| 5 Aug 01: Lots of stuff | A Eureka bugling unicyclist in Humanoids, along with some new scans of old minis: 2 in Undead and one in Monsters. |
| 30 Apr 01: New sculpt | My ViP #2 entry (a mutant London bobby) becomes my second sculpt |
| 2 Apr 01: New guides | I've added some beginner's painting guides to cover questions I often hear on the newsgroups and mailing list. |
| 24 Feb 01: New images in the Humanoids gallery. | The Contract Bearer, this quarter's ViC mini, joins the fold. |
| 28 Jan 01: New image in the Mordheim gallery. | Another week, another Mordheim mini. This time it's the Marksman. |
| 20 Jan 01: New image in the Mordheim gallery. | Leuche the Lush joins the crew. |
| 13 Jan 01: New image in the Humanoids gallery. | First update of the year -- another magic-using orc. And he's cursed. |
| 9 Nov 00: New images added in Humanoids | My ViC entry for this quarter, a Ral Partha Ursa converted to a mechanical golem. |
| 3 Nov 00: New gallery created, new image therein. | My first sculpted mini is in the new Sculpts gallery |
| 15 Oct 00: Two new undead added | Some undead in time for Halloween this year: a hook-handed zombie and a ghost. |
| 23 Sep 00: New Mordheim images. | A wizard with fish and tentacle. . . . |
| 13 Sep 00: Images added to Humanoids gallery | This time, it's an ogre. . . with hot pliers. . . . |
| 7 Sep 00: Images added to Monsters gallery | The new WotC carrion crawler, replete with green tentacles. |
| 15 Aug 00: Image added to the Monsters gallery | Abyst, the great big Reaper demon and subject of the second ViC show. |
| 12 Aug 00: Image added to the Mordheim gallery | Springheels Jack is the newest Purple Pizzle. |
| 30 Apr 00: One more new image added to the Mordheim gallery. | Dim Pete the worm-eater joins the group. |
| 5 Apr 00: Images added to Humanoids, Monsters, and Undead sections. | |
| 2 Apr 00: I added the Undead gallery and a new image in the Mordheim section. | Sinner joins the Mordheim group. |
| 26 Mar 00: I added the Humanoids, Monsters, and Scenery galleries. | I've tried to set up the Humanoid gallery more or less in the order I painted the figures. There are some new scans in both the Monsters and the Humanoids sections. |
| 24 Mar 00: I added 2 additional figures to the Mordheim section. | I added Ironbowels and Ratflinger |
| 22 Mar 00: I added 2 more figures to the Mordheim section. | Lucky and Purplecod join the fold. |
| 20 Mar 00: I changed the format of the gallery to a thumbnailed table, and added one new image in the new Mordheim section. | |
| 20 Feb 00: I joined the Mini-Painter webring and added links from the Mini-Painter mailing list to the gallery. | |
| 30 Jan 00: Logo added. | |
| 9 Nov 99: The counter passes 3000. | Thanks a lot for your support, everybody. |
| 25 Oct 99: Terrain section and new pictures added to gallery. | I've finally got enough pictures to justify a separate terrain section. With any luck, I'll have a terrain tips section up soon. |
| 12 Oct 99: New pictures added to gallery, new link. | I made use of my new space by adding more pictures of some older miniatures. Not all the ones added are my best work, but each of them has a certain je ne sais quoi. . . . |
| 11 Oct 99: Minutiae revised. | I added Minutiae to Hometown AOL in order to take advantage of the extra space offered. I also added backgrounds to the main pages. |
| 11 Aug 99: Some more new pictures added to the gallery. | More photos from Bax. |
| 6 Aug 99: New pictures added to gallery, new link added to links page. | A couple new miniatures and a link to WorldMakers. |
| 25 May 99: New pictures added to gallery,
new link
added. |
A few new miniatures pics and a little scenery, too. |
| 13 Mar 99: Links and history pages added. | Planned future updates: Bax and I took some more photos over the past several days, so I should have some more photos ready for scanning within the next week or two. I'm also considering how to approach the scenery section. |
| 10 Mar 99: Detail photos added to miniatures techniques section. | The pages looked a little bare with all that text and nothing to break it up. . . . |
| 5 Mar 99: Miniatures techniques text is finished. | |
| 13 Feb 99: Main and gallery pages are created. | Minutiae is born after a sleepless night during a bout with the flu. |