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I was never into actually playing D&D but I certainly liked all the cool monsters they came up with for the games. As a kid, I found a game shop in our only mall that sold the tiny pewter figures and was kinda enthralled with them. They had some at the store that were custom painted for sale but those were VERY expensive so I could never afford to buy them.

 

My mom was pretty artistic and told me if I bought the figures I wanted, she would buy the paints and help me out by giving me pointers. So I saved up and bought a few of them every month and painted them myself with Mom helping me when I had questions. Of course, I was like 12 to 14 years old during this time so I had ZERO painting skills and didn't know anything about shading, shadowing or stuff like that. I had a very basic set of paints and just worked with those.

 

But I was pretty proud of how they turned out and displayed them happily at home. After I moved out on my own, they got packed up and I lost them. They disappeared for years until I got my own house back in 2001. After putting them out on display for a year or so, I had to put them away again due to some remodeling and such. And wouldn't you know it? I lost them again! I had no clue where I had put them and it took me years to find them again.

 

While digging around in my garage late last year, I opened up a random box and there in the bottom were my figures! I took them out, cleaned them off and now have them displayed on a shelf in the doll room.

 

So here they are in all their terrible painted glory!

 

 

I forget half the names of these things so please bear with me and fill in the blanks if you know what they really are.

 

First up is a Wyvern.

 

46373238882_7c63c36869_z.jpgDSC_1895 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373237572_cfe166ae02_z.jpgDSC_1896 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373236362_3d1a3e530c_z.jpgDSC_1897 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

All of these were stored in a simple plastic Ziplock bag so they got bumped around a lot and paint has chipped off.

 

This is a Jabberwocky.

 

46373234862_380e05d836_z.jpgDSC_1898 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373233422_e49a423344_z.jpgDSC_1899 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511164445_a6a1f1ebb5_z.jpgDSC_1900 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511162895_b10e6ca0bd_z.jpgDSC_1901 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

I'm not sure what type of dragon this is but he looks like another type of Wyvern.

 

45511160795_2a25528b9e_z.jpgDSC_1902 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511159425_7922c4bba9_z.jpgDSC_1903 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

44607042680_849c734673_z.jpgDSC_1904 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

44607041300_3fd7889809_z.jpgDSC_1905 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

A Minotaur!

 

44607039760_fb8c4d5bb8_z.jpgDSC_1906 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

44607038320_a78a3afaa9_z.jpgDSC_1907 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511149875_bfc9203229_z.jpgDSC_1908 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511147645_f7dc63a1f2_z.jpgDSC_1909 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

I'm pretty sure this is a Griffon. Why are his wings rainbow colored? I have NO CLUE. LOL

 

45511145625_9b0be470f2_z.jpgDSC_1910 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511143485_9376a916d5_z.jpgDSC_1911 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511141335_512065b99b_z.jpgDSC_1912 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511139105_319a89d144_z.jpgDSC_1913 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

I have no idea what these guys are but I thought they were pretty cool.

 

45511137105_53e77ee3c9_z.jpgDSC_1914 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45700761594_41019d6a79_z.jpgDSC_1915 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45700760154_227112aa45_z.jpgDSC_1916 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

These guys are some type of lizard men but not sure what type exactly.

 

45700758494_7a0730c573_z.jpgDSC_1917 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45700756954_164de45f1f_z.jpgDSC_1918 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45700755624_a201955323_z.jpgDSC_1919 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

I think this was called a Dragonite?

 

45700754424_68a790f4c3_z.jpgDSC_1920 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45700752614_eb3c35d798_z.jpgDSC_1921 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373199332_d30b06b0a4_z.jpgDSC_1922 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

These two are the same as the other blue lizard guys but are half the size.

 

45511126825_4886c41806_z.jpgDSC_1923 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511125195_fdb360c16c_z.jpgDSC_1924 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

45511121775_6c1db22c24_z.jpgDSC_1926 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

Of the smaller figures, these two skeletons are my favorites. No clue why tho. XD

 

45511120205_ee113968de_z.jpgDSC_1927 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373193532_bd6432a0ea_z.jpgDSC_1928 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373191842_fd062d050e_z.jpgDSC_1929 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

And these little creeps are my second faves. I'm pretty sure are called troglodytes.

 

46373190412_723aef049d_z.jpgDSC_1930 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373189022_ec40d22d9e_z.jpgDSC_1931 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

Last but not least are the two snake men. They are SUCH a pain to make stand up.

 

46373187442_fb4c919e10_z.jpgDSC_1932 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373185452_745501828a_z.jpgDSC_1933 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

46373183812_dd79ccbe76_z.jpgDSC_1934 by Billy Bennett, on Flickr

 

 

 

That's all! Like I said, I'm not good at painting but they aren't terrible.

 

If you guys and gals have anything like these please feel free to share them! Actually, anything D&D related would be cool to see so share with us here!

 

 

 

Billy


I gave up counting the girls I own, they keep multiplying and won't stop.

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Gabriel

I don't have anything like that stuff.

 

I think your painted figures are done well. About all they might need is an ink wash to make contours pop. Regardless of that, you went all out and gave detail. With the Jabberwocky, I see the red lining of its mouth behind it's white teeth. You even painted it's nostrils and gave the wing bones a diffferent color from the wing surface. The Minotaur and his belt buckles also jump out at me. There's obvious attention to detail on display.

 

The rainbow griffon is kewl!

 

The figures I've painted are nowhere near as nice. I have some old one I did 30 years ago, and which are near and dear to me, but they're showing their age with their paint chipping off from years of less than perfect care. I have some Warhammer 40K Genestealers and some Battletech Mechs I've done recently (within the past three years or so), but they're none too good of paint jobs.

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Poofiemus

I need to pick up a unicorn figure and mod it; my DM was chill enough to let me roll a unicorn paladin as my character.

 

He has so much charisma he once walked into a tavern, shouted "I'm a horse with a birth defect!" at the top of his lungs, and everyone believed him. Including his future party members.

 

Seriously, I need to immortalize Zephanine somehow because he's my second character in this campaign; my rolls are crap.


In this household, sanity is considered a tresspasser.

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SakuraSylph

Oh hey, D&D. I learned 3.5E once in order to try to get into playing, but eventually sold it all because I couldn't make the DM/party dynamic work well enough with only 2 people at the table. Most scenario stuff isn't designed for a solo PC.

 

The best thing about the experience was that learning the game system inside and out enabled me to build an absolute beast of a character in Neverwinter Nights when I later went to play it. Being able to play that and its expansions co-op on two computers was the kind of D&D we were looking for but couldn't get out of the tabletop edition, since then the DM role was automated and everyone got to play.

 

In the mid-2000s WotC released a line of pre-painted plastic minis for D&D; I still have the Bulette (the "diggy thing" from Baldur's Gate II that was always nipping at your rear end as you ran). Not sure if these are a thing anymore, but might be if you were looking to add any other fantasy creatures to your figure collection.


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