Work in Progress D&D collection. Update: A whole lotta stuff.

[syrinx0]

The angry nuns are fantastic

[Battle Brush Sigur]

The angry nuns are fantastic

Thanks very much! yeah, they're pretty impressive individually, but I love a picture of units.

Right now I'm working on a proper D&D collection for another gentleman: Figures from all sorts of sources, from pre-slotta GW ones, Reaper, GW plastics, probably D&D metals and god knows what else up to 3d resin prints. Some cool GW classics in there, some really cool Werner Klocke sculpts, but painting them is doing my head in to be honest. All have to be stripped (the whole collection fell victim to a flooded cellar) and repainted, every single one is a character. I'm proceeding at a glacial pace. It's a really cool collection, but it's not my preferred mode of painting. Oh well.

So let's brace for the big maintenance, right? I shall see you on the other side, gentlefolk. Up the LAF!

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Heyhey, I'm back. With a first little overview of a part of a bunch of figures I painted for a fine gentleman's D&D collection (different fine gentleman from the fine gentleman I was allowed to paint the angry nuns for. Equally fine gentlemen though).


full size image: https://www.tabletopwelt.de/uploads/monthly_2025_09/wip1S.JPG.53a3fb0c6d29e6e039727647b71efc2f.JPG

This is a collection of figures for Dungeons & Dragons. And a proper one at that. A bunch of people have obviously collected figures from ALL corners and all eras. From pre-Slotta figures from the early 80s to 3D resin prints. Very cool, because that's how it should be. It reminds me a lot of the box of figures we used for D&D, only this collection here is more diverse and features a lot of glorious pieces (ie old metal). Everything was either fully or partially painted or simply primed, but fell victim to a flooded cellar. So the fine gentleman who owns the figures simply packed everything up and handed it over to me. A wise choice on his part, there's no question about that.

Some of the figures are roughly sorted by theme, but basically almost all of them are individual characters. I had to get used to that first. But I accepted my fate, and since then, painting them hasn't gotten any faster, but I've made my peace with the world. The project is large in scope, and each of these figures has to be first be stripped first, cleaned, repaired, and possibly have some bits from the bag they came in reattached. Most of the bits are all there, but they have to be assigned to the individual figures, etc.

Some very interesting conversions in there, some of which survive the stripping and repair process, others didn't (sorry, flaming zombie. I loved that conversion though. GW plastic zombie with flames added, made from - so I presume - PVA-soaked paper tissues, shaped and painted to look like flames. Roughly. But that model really appealed to me.

Well, anyway, I'm currently painting lots of fantasy figures for D&D. And I'm slowly coming to terms with this fact mentally.

I hope you like the figures so far! It's just an overview, of course, and not all of the ones I got painted over the past weeks, but I just like colourful photos of masses of figures. I love a figure collection. And it's hard to beat this one in terms of colour and character.

[Frugalmax]

Great work! I love a nice colorful picture of a bunch of miniatures like that- fun to look around and try to identify where the different ones come from - Warhammer, Reaper, HeroQuest (the best thing about HeroQuest is seeing old miniatures painted extraordinarily well!), maybe some Lord of The Rings and others I can only guess at. Thanks for sharing!

[DalyDR]

Wonderful stuff there.  I see a couple of Heritage Dungeon Dweller skeletons (1238) even, some of the first fantasy miniatures I ever acquired.  Goes to show that a good artist can do wonders with the old stuff.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@Frugalmax: Cheers! Yup, it's a great mix of stuff. To be honest, there's several figures in there about which I - for a hot second - I wouldn't mind keeping them. But of course that's merely theoretical. Really liking the blue wizard with the pointy hat with stars and moons on it, the old Necromancer holding the skull aloft, or of course the classic GW Ghoul (hidden behind the dramatic Wener Klocke(?) vampire with the wavy white hair in the first row).

@DalyDR: To be honest, that was a thing I've been looking forward to - I didn't look up any of the figures I couldn't identify because I was hoping people who are more knowledgable in certain figure ranges than I am would pick up on certain figures. Looked the range up on Lost Miniatures wiki now. You get extra points for the range's code. Very cool. Yes, those two Skeleton Men were in a pretty rough shape; I worried they might be lead-rotty, but they're just a bit banged up and a bit rough. Much fun to paint though, because these older figures require a bit of a change of painting approach.

[syrinx0]

A great looking collection of figures.  Bonus is all of them will have the same base now too.

[DalyDR]

To be honest, there's several figures in there about which I - for a hot second - I wouldn't mind keeping them. But of course that's merely theoretical. Really liking the blue wizard with the pointy hat with stars and moons on it . . .

He's a Grenadier wizard from their "Wizards" box set (2001 - code, not year).  Currently available from Mirliton if you really want one for yourself.

I have that axe-wielding knight just to his left somewhere in my collection, too.  Can't remember if he's Grenadier or RP.

[Vladimir Raukov]

That's a whole lot of fellers!

[RSDean]

The blonde sorceress in green on the left side is from the Heritage Dungeon Dwellers female magic users set 1206 (https://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=File:Heritage-dwellers-1206c.jpg).  At least she’s distinctive.  Skeletons tend to look all the same to me…

[Battle Brush Sigur]

@syrinx0: Yeah, mostly. I do differentiate between bases a bit. "Chaos" got a bit different ones, so do "Undead", but overall they're pretty compatible.

@DalyDR: It's really funny how often I've been to mirliton.it this week. All due to different reasons, all good reasons though! Thanks for the info; feel free to chime in if you reconize any others!

@Vladimir Raukov: Right you are! That's a good name there! Did you know that I also have a plog about my own little Warhammer Empire Ostland army?

@RSDean: Cheers! She was one of the first figures I painted of these. Really like that sculpt. I really like her cheery disposition, dancing on a meadow with her skull staff...

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Well, had a surprise tonight, in the shape of a message: "could you get the figures to me before Wednesday?". Stressed-out snapshot-taking before the guys got their varnish.











Just the undead and a handful of characters for now; the rest need a bit more time to fully finish up and such. But it's something. Hope you like'em!

[Pattus Magnus]

Yes, I definitely admire those! They’re all very well done and the character really comes through, even with the undead (ferocity for the ghouls, and lingering echoes of their past life for the others).