"I was a 6th grade D&D Miniatures Maniac! " Topic

Here's a link to a fun article on old school D&D miniatures:

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Ha ! Yes !

After years of thinking them lost – left at a gaming buddies house perhaps, or who know what – I found a box of MY 1980's era figures about 2 years ago I guess. All my awful, I mean really truly awful, paint jobs on all of my Minifigs D&D Demons (Demogorgon, Orcus, the whole kit and kaboodle).

There was much rejoicing – and a touch of nostalgia too !

Nice. I wish I had kept all those early minis from back then. They might not be be as pretty as the newer ones. But there's a certain something to them.

I remember how " geeked" my older brother an I were were when we stumbled on our first set of " official" grenadier AD&D minis.

Awesome!

I recognize a lot of those minis. You were braver than I: you actually painted yours back then. It wasn't until 1988 and Warhammer 40,000 that a friend convinced me to start painting.

Yep. I'm in that category. Gaming with bags of Doritos & Red Pop (generic strawberry soda) til 3 AM or 6AM

A lot of people are getting back into the old skool D&D. The old figs are fetching great prices on ebay in some cases. A lot of the figs are still available.

Nice little article, although some of us never stopped gaming Started DnD aged 14 in school, then University, and still playing with my pals, most of us in our 40s/50s <gulp>. Only get a few games in a year now, when once it used to be every Sunday, all day, and the occasional Bank Holiday weekends. Happy days.

I still remember the Tangley Model Shop in Guildford, what an Aladdin's cave that was for a teen, and then at Uni the original GW in Hammersmith. My older (Minifigs, Ral Partha, Garrison & Grenadier) figures have been reinforced along the way by newer sculpts, but most are going strong.

You guys are very lucky indeed. I never had the money to get the miniatures. In fact, I didn't get my first miniature until I purchased the Battlesystem game. After that I only had a small handful because, at the time, I didn't think they were worth it. Why have miniatures when you could have more books?

Oh well.

Enjoy your old school metal. I'll soldier on with my new fangled… and almost 10 years old, Dungeons and Dragons plastics. Not quite as good but my boys love them.

I've got many of those in the pic and have started to strip them down and repaint them. I even acquired one of the box sets from a fellow gamer who gave it up years ago. The Polly S paint just comes off in layers!

I was tempted, after seeing this post, to pick a few sets up off off ebay.

The problem is I'm heavily invested in other world mins to scratch my old school nostalgia itch .

They do the trick.

Especially the Dungeon Adventurers.

But I'm still considering…..

I have the old Grenadier Monster set; I painted the Lich (in enamel!), and attempted the Ochre Jelly and the Vampire; best not to enquire too closely into the fates of these.

But my icon is my oldest mini, a Grenadier Ranger, painted and given to me by a friend, circa 1979 or '80.

The doors are old oak, battered and broken, yet you can see signs of recent, crude repairs— roughly hewn boards of unseasoned wood, and scraps of rough iron nailed into new wood and old. But the doors are not barred, and when you push upon them they swing inward with a harsh rasp of the hinges. Beyond them you see nothing but a wide stone corridor, leading down into darkness…

I'm up for a game!

We had the unfair advantage of having done a lot of 1/35th scale WW2 models prior to D&D ( Blitzkrieg and other AH board games were our gateway drug to RPGs) so we knew a lot of painting tricks.

I have an old friend who hasn't gamed since '85, maybe. But he has this Ral Partha Ranger from early '80s that is set next to his LotoR collection….

Same here Mayhem. I painted my first metal D&D figures around '77 or '78. Been painting them ever since, except for a 10 year break during college and heavy reenacting times. I have over 1000 painted figures, lovingly displayed in cabinets…
So recently I went to the first D&D game I played in 15 years or so, didn't bring anything but my dice as I hate packing up figures to go to unfamiliar destinations. When the DM arrived, my jaw dropped. He was carrying two 5 gallon buckets full of prepainted plastic D&D minis, which he proceeded to dump on the table to sort through.
Have I been wrong all these years? Is painting obsolete?

I have bunches of these and pick them up at cons for pennies. I still love em, and paint them. If they are painted I strip them to paint. If they are too damaged to salvage, or just a horrid figure to start, or I already have more the figure painted, I take them to reaperconn to exchange for new.