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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Anatoli on November 05, 2019, 03:57:57 PM

Title: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Anatoli on November 05, 2019, 03:57:57 PM

I'm trying to get some friends, and my wife, to try out Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition with me. I never played D&D before and hope to have a great time (Star Wars: Edge of the Empire was my first RPG and that one was really fun).

Since I want to run the game on a playmat with miniatures to represent player characters and monsters I started painting up some new additions to my fantasy collection. I will be updating this thread as I go along. More pictures on my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2019/11/painting-miniatures-for-d-5e.html

(http://anatolisgameroom.com/DungeonsAndDragons/20191105_162737.jpg)
(http://anatolisgameroom.com/DungeonsAndDragons/20191105_163126.jpg)

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Bloggard on November 05, 2019, 05:28:37 PM

brilliant.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Ethelred the Almost Ready on November 05, 2019, 05:34:48 PM

Lovely mpainting.

Some of those creatures look a bit powerful for new adventurers.
From my experience of 2nd Edition you will need a load of kobolds to die in their multitudes.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Anatoli on November 05, 2019, 05:49:53 PM

Quote from: Ethelred the Almost Ready on November 05, 2019, 05:34:48 PM

Lovely mpainting.

Some of those creatures look a bit powerful for new adventurers.
From my experience of 2nd Edition you will need a load of kobolds to die in their multitudes.

I have a lot of zombies, ghouls and skeletons that I plan to use for the initial stages of the campaign, also a bunch of Red Box Games goblins  ;D

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Reed on November 06, 2019, 08:11:02 AM

I very much like how you’ve painted the monsters. The beholder doesn’t seem as dangerous as it is supposes to be though  lol

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Ogrob on November 06, 2019, 11:33:02 AM

Looks great! Been enjoying DnD 5e myself lately, and it is fun to have minis for it.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Ockman on November 06, 2019, 12:32:40 PM

Lovely paintjobs, all of them!

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Anatoli on November 06, 2019, 04:28:43 PM

Thanks guys, finished one Ogre last night, had him half painted for over a year and finally got motivated enough to complete the paintjob and start working on the next couple of ones.

I also added some static grass to my Red Box Games orcs and took pictures of the finished models as well:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2019/11/ogre-painted-up.html

(http://anatolisgameroom.com/DungeonsAndDragons/20191106_170404.jpg)


@Reed,
It's not a proper Beholder but rather a smaller kin called Gauth. I will try go get a proper Beholder down the road as well. I really like the Beholder from the "Nolzur's marvelous minis" range.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Swordisdrawn on November 06, 2019, 06:29:52 PM

Great work on the adventurers and beasties.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Oldben1 on November 06, 2019, 11:43:29 PM

Well done!  I like the blue war Paint!

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Dentatus on November 07, 2019, 02:07:07 AM

Those are looking good. Makes me think we need to schedule some 5E soon.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Anatoli on November 08, 2019, 06:25:07 PM

Another Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of Ashardalon miniature painted up. I think this one discredits the saying "no matter what you do to a turd - polish it, paint it, give it bling - it's still a turd".

More pictures on my blog:
http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2019/11/evil-wizard-painted-up.html

(http://anatolisgameroom.com/DungeonsAndDragons/20191108_185831.jpg)

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Elbows on November 08, 2019, 07:34:52 PM

All this stuff is looking perfect, love it.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Anatoli on November 13, 2019, 04:52:28 PM

Short adventurers for D&D player characters painted up. More pictures of each mini can be seen over at my blog:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2019/11/short-adventurers-for-d-painted-up.html

(http://anatolisgameroom.com/DungeonsAndDragons/20191113_165310.jpg)

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Dentatus on November 14, 2019, 12:18:18 AM

Really nice work, esp that plastic fig. I'd have thought the detail too soft but you did a great job.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Ockman on November 14, 2019, 07:02:53 AM

I'm stunned, especially by the "turd" miniature.

Amazing.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: ulverston on November 14, 2019, 08:28:41 AM

This is a great thread, your work really brings the miniatures to life.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: has.been on November 14, 2019, 12:14:46 PM

I am impressed, especially by the 'Turd'.

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: Anatoli on November 16, 2019, 04:22:52 PM

Thanks for all the kind words guys. It's funny how not having painted for a very long time improved my painting style  lol
I really enjoy painting miniatures for this project.

Here is another one I finished today, a flamboyant wizard made up of Frostgrave parts (soldiers and cultists).

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.com/2019/11/flamboyant-wizard.html

(http://anatolisgameroom.com/DungeonsAndDragons/20191116_170501.jpg)

Title: Re: Painting minis for D&D 5e
Post by: GDonk on November 16, 2019, 04:55:35 PM

Not a genre I usually pay much attention to but those are all fantastic, beautiful painting