Painting Harry Dresden – Hero Forge Miniature

I started out with the Hero Forge program and “sculpting” a miniature that I thought best represented Harry Dresden.

This was the original miniature that I went with. I knew that I’d have to go with the full-length duster that Dresden wears in all of the artwork. I wish that I could have made a t-shirt for underneath but the program doesn’t allow for that.

He is then wearing a pair of jeans and combat boots as he often wears in the early books. Of course, he had to have a revolver as any other weapon would spark and crap out and he has the staff for channelling his magic.

I had originally gone with Mister on the base but I changed that in the final model as you’ll see. Also, I gave him the shorter hair which shows up in a lot of the artwork for him and of course…Dresden don’t wear no hat.

When it came to printing the miniature, I thought I’d go for the more high-end plastic option. It’s a bit more pricey but I think that the final product looks pretty spot on.

As you can see, there are a few marks here and there from the 3D printing process but overall the finish on the model is good and it didn’t lose any of the detail that I’d seen in the original render.

You’ll also note that I change the staff to be one that is a little more archaic-looking and matches the more neutral style that you see in the artwork. Also, I removed Mister and put Bob on the base instead Dresden is more likely to be travelling around with him when he hits the streets.

You can make out a few more of the details in the undercoated version of the model…

I had to do a bit of cleaning here and there on the miniature to remove some spots which hadn’t shown up to me when I was looking at the base model.

From here it will be working out the painting process for the model. I reckon we’ll go with a black duster, blue jeans, brown belt, dark brown combat boots, natural-looking wood staff and then black hair. I want to try and get the look of stubble on his face but we’ll get to that when we get to it!

It was time to get some paint down on Dresden. Thankfully, the scheme for Dresden is going to be pretty easy right?

The coat is black as you might imagine and then I went with fancy denim for the jeans. His combat boots were done in a dark brown and then I went for a lighter tone for the magical staff.

The entire miniature got coated in Agrax Earthshade and then I went in and started working on the highlighting and “pop” for the miniature.

The miniature is mostly finished off and I quite like the result. I stopped myself from painting up the gruff stubble as I just didn’t think I could do it.

I might go back in and do a bit of extra work on the coat with grey or dark blue to give it a bit more nuance. Additionally, I may also work on some details for Bob the skull and do some glowing eyes.

Overall, very happy with how the miniature from Hero Forge turned out. This miniature for Dresden is quite simple by comparison to some you could make but I think the detail stuck and it came out just as I would have hoped.