Chaos Knight on hold..doing miniatures for my mom

Yup, description says it all. I just started on two projects for my mom. But it's not for her personally. These two miniatures will be raffled off at a benefit concert for my mom. Without getting into much detail as I don't care to put too much of my personal life on here...my mom has been battling cancer. She has stage four lung cancer and it's been very rough on her and my family mentally, physically, and financially. So this concert will be for my mom and to help in any way to make it easier for to deal with the expenses. So here's what I just started on today. I've thrown these together in a matter of hours since I'm on a tight deadline. Both will consist of dwarfs. One female warrior and a male miner. The female is from Scribor miniatures and the miner is a white metal from games workshop. Both are pretty simple miniatures and very little clean up was required. The base for the female was created using a ball of aluminum foil and some earth (dirt from outside) as well some cork board. I gathered this type of idea from Jarhead's article (thanks man) from massivevoodoo. They're a great bunch of guys and if you haven't looked at their site it's a must. The second is just something I came up with on my own. I used a plaster and poured it into a cutout section of foam to create the textured effect. So far it's coming along fairly well. Just hope I can bring in some cash for to help my folks with these two pieces. Let me know whatcha you think. Thanks again for looking.