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"Come pet me," says the little owlbear.

"Just fucking try," says the big owlbear.

This is the second of the three owlbears that my friend from a D&D campaign 3D printed for me. It's the baby owlbear to the first owlbear I painted.

This time, I tried airbrushing far more conservatively and gently, and ended up with a very faint layer of highlights. Having learned from the big owlbear, I decided not to push my luck and ruin my efforts (because that's what ended up happening when I tried to do stronger highlights on the big owlbear), and said that this was good enough.

I might at some point come back to it and blend the different browns around its eyes to make a seamless transition, but for now, it's good enough!

The paints used belonged to, among others, the D&D Adventurers Paint Set. The model was the Owlbear Cub by Yasashii Kyojin Studio on Thingiverse.

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So in the new campaign I'm playing (the one with the party minis), one of the players has a 3D printer. I asked them whether they could print me an owlbear. They said they wouldn't print me one owlbear, they'd print me three. This is one of them.

I decided to paint it without washes or speedpaints, and the initial plan was that I would start by fully painting it the darkest brown and then airbrush it with lighter layers of brown and then beige to create highlights with the least amount of effort. That plan died immediately upon contact with reality, and I struggled with getting the highlights and shadows right with airbrushing so much so that I eventually gave up and did all the shadows and highlights manually. How I have not gone insane, I do not know.

On the flip side, the constant mixing of browns and beiges forced me to create a wet palette. Here's how you do it in a few simple steps.

The paints used belonged to, among others, the D&D Adventurers Paint Set. The model was the Owlbear 1 - On Rock by The Lost Adventures Co..

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I recently started playing a new D&D campaign, and, me being me, I felt that it would be fun to paint miniatures of our characters. So here they are:

Kirke the wood elf druid

Thrandos the high elf druid

Anie the dragoborn sorcerer

Morotar the human barbarian

Makalaurë the half-elf bard (that's me!)

Gundar the gnome ranger

Barbatos the half-elf wizard

And yes, I am aware that some of these do not look like their class stereotype, but the way they look (weapons, armour, etc.) is actually fairly close to how we the players have outfitted them. They are... how to put it... far from min-maxed for efficiency. It might also have something to do with the fact that this is the first D&D campaign for pretty much everyone except me and the DM, so the others are still trying out what works and doesn't.

We're about to face a hobgoblin and seven goblins as level 1s, with several of us being out of spell slots. Wish us luck.

The figurines themselves are from the Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter, painted with Army Painter’s Speedpaints, which really worked out well here. The sole exception is Thrandos, whose miniature I shamelessly took out of my wood elves collection.

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This is River. She's a character from an epic-length story I'm occasionally working on that wields a power called the aether (which is basically pure energy derived from one's life force), and also a greatsword because you can't really go wrong with a greatsword. I really like how her hair turned out—black and blue with whisps of white. She's also wearing lots of fur. Much like her literary counterpart, I've been working on this mini on and off for years.

The figurine was put together from the Frostgrave Barbarians II kit from North Star Military Figures.

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Here's some oozes from Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter that I had a lot of fun testing the level of transparency of different Army Painter’s Speedpaints with. Simple but effective... and slimy.

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This is Robo-Dog. He wants to play fetch. Please do not resist.

This miniature is from Dungeons & Lasers: Animal Companions, and this specific one is called Geralt the Wolf. Here's the other one. Honestly, I think I prefer the one one, but that might just be my tastes because that one was painted with actual acryllic paints and this one was painted with the Army Painter’s Speedpaints, and I liked the effect of the acryllic paints more than the speedpaints on these models.

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Welcome the paladin of Torm.

He's a silver dragonborn, but by the time I realized that the "silver" that came in my original Army Painter’s Speedpaints set didn't feel light enough and grey enough to feel like silver, I didn't feel like redoing it, so he looks kind of evil. I've since bought some other metallic paints, but it was too late for this one by then.

The figurine is from the Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter.

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I don't know where I got this miniature, but she was painted with the Army Painter’s Speedpaints. Her sword kept bending, and even dipping it in boiling water couldn't permanently render it straight. How very... queer. (Yes, I think I'm very funny.)

She kind of matches Maedhros but also not really. Her colour scheme matches his pretty well, but she's a bit taller than him, which makes no sense given that Maedhros is canonically tall as hell, and the proportions felt off when they stood side by side. That's why I never photographed them side by side.

Update: @basementofthearchmage has helpfully found it, it's the Highland Heroine from Reaper Miniatures.

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So I'll be real. As soon as I discovered this little guy in the Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter set, I thought of Nelyafinwë Maitimo, aka Maedhros, from Tolkien's Silmarillion. I know that the shield doesn't have the Fëanorian Star, but I can't help but think of him as Maedhros. Look, he even has some blood on his sword from all the kinslaying he did, and he has a metallic hand as his right!

He was painted almost exclusively with Army Painter’s Speedpaints.

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This is Shambly the shambling mound. I painted it with some Army Painter’s Speedpaints, then did highlights with some green Vallejo paints. I got it from the Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter.

I've been trying to photograph it for a while now, but the weather's been terrible, so I had to settle for this photograph in the end. I'm going to re-do it when the weather improves.

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This is the dragon I got with the Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter. It was painted with the Army Painter’s Speedpaints, and I learned the useful lesson not to paint large swathes of areas that don't have folds and creases.

Given that I already have a silver dragon named Braccus, this one kind of had to be red. It kind of matches the red dragonling called Snark the Spark. This one's just called Red.

I might re-do the photo when it gets sunnier.

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This is the other one of the weasels (named Cecile) from Dungeons & Lasers: Animal Companions. The first one can be found here.

It was mainly painted with the D&D Adventurers Paint Set.

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This is one of the cats (named Cornelle) from Dungeons & Lasers: Animal Companions. She was painted mainly with D&D Adventurers Paint Set. I really like her detective noir vibes! Maybe she'll join forces with Detective Hootwig...

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Anyone who's ever talked to me about D&D for more than five minutes knows that I love mimics. It should then come as no surprise that I painted this mimic family from Dungeons & Lasers: Animal Companions. Now I should find a way to use them...

All three were painted with the Army Painter’s Speedpaints.

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A long time ago, back when I first started playing with minis, I got this one for a homebrew campaign I played in. I painted it with just some yellow and some red from the D&D Adventurers Paint Set, no shade or highlights. A few months ago, I found it and added some shadows and terrain to it. For a miniature that I painted about five or six years ago, it's decent!

I genuinely don't know where I got this miniature, and I'm not willing to ask my ex where we got it, but if someone recognizes it, hit me up!

Update: found it! It's D&D Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures: Familiars by WizKids.

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Say hi to the fire salamanders!

They were transparent at first, and were painted by Army Painter’s Speedpaints. I really like how they turned out, and how the light passes through them. I can heartily recommend using the speedpaints for this kind of effect with transparent miniatures.

The miniatures are from the Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter.

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“By what name are you known?”

“There are some who call me... Tim.”

This is Tim the Necromancer. He's a character from a D&D Descent Into Avernus campaign, who was played by a friend of mine. He was sarcastic and pragmatic to a fault and it was hilarious.

He was painted by Army Painter’s Speedpaints. In retrospect, I should have painted the chest ribbons with a different kind of yellow, because they look orange more than anything.

The miniature itself is from the Blacklist Miniatures: Fantasy Series 1 kickstarter.