Miniatures for D&D

[Pants]

Reaper minis are great stuff. Cheap, good quality, and they have a wide selection.

However, I do love the Chainmail minis. There are some really cool ones out there and most have some great detail on them. Quality stuff.

The Lord of the Rings minis from Gamers Worskshops are pretty good, but they're very expensive. I can get 2 sometimes 3 Reaper minis for 1 LotR mini. It's too bad, because they are very nice looking.

 

[Chauzu]

Well, SVGames.com is having a blowout sale of Chainmail minis. They might still have quite a few left, and you save about 75% ! That means one figure for $0.99 !!!

darklight

wow!

 

[aurin777]

Confrontation minis are the best ones I have ever seen, hands down, but as a college student, I'm far too poor to be able to afford them. Get discount Chainmail minis, if not go shopping in a GW store. Thats what we use.
~~Brandon

 

[Gospog]

Well, Reaper Minis are the best for D&D, but it looks like you already know that.

Try Celtos minis from I-Kore: www.i-kore.com


They are pricey, but totally cool!

 

[Gospog]

Oh, and Fortress Figures makes some nice (cheap!) resin minis:

www.fortressfigures.com I think.

 

[frankthedm]

try www.pjccmall.com for singles on mage knights and hero clix. many of the common figs can be had cheaply. just pop them onto a 1 inch washer for a proper base size.

 

[UniversalMonster]

The Mage Knight miniatures repaint nicely too (usually). Sometimes just a touch of drybrusing and a few details can make a dull-Mage Knight guy into a kind of an attractive piece. And for filling out your monster library, theyre great.
I usually cut them off the clicky base and reglue them to a slotta-base becase the big base is just too friggin big.

I spent around 20$ on the svgames Chainmail blowout last week: At .99 for a WOTC orc trooper or berserker (which are some of the largest and most attractive sculpts available for Orcs you can find), or 2 goblins or 2 kobolds, because they come 2 to a blister-- you can easily buy an entire horde of monsters for cheap.

Reapers have the best "personalities" for individual NPCs, I think, but I much prefer the WOTC sculpts for most monsters.

 

[Harlock]

I've been looking at the SV Chainmail blowout myself but one of the things I hated most about the WotC/Chainmail minis was the amount of assembly and pinning needed to get the things together. Do any of the more common type of critters (orcs, kobolds, goblins, human warrior-types, low-level undead, etc.) come comepletely assembled? I am afraid to invest any money in something I do not have a lot of time or patience to invest in; aside from painting and slapping it on a base. Thanks in advance for any input!

 

[UniversalMonster]

I'll break it down from the pieces I personally own.

This 99 cent orc is 2 pieces, but simple to put together. A beginner could handle it. The glued piece is "both hands and the axe', but you don't have to deal with any spiky protrusions when you are applying pressure.
http://www.svgames.com/882670000.html

These kobolds are 2/99cents. The crossbow 'bow' has to be glued: a drop of krazy glue does it. I think a beginner could handle it. The trick is a drop of krazy glue- let it congeal slightly, and then just balance the cross-piece on the weapon-stock. It will harden in place.

http://www.svgames.com/883010000.html

This 99 cent guy is a bit harder to glue, the 'hands+club' is one part. But he's a cutie. A fearless beginner with some patience could handle it (It involves applying krazy glue and pressing the pieces together until the glue actually hardens.) The pieces are spiky so when you are applying pressure, that might be an issue.
http://www.svgames.com/885200000.html

This guy is one piece, and one of my favorite sculpts. Recommended! Everyone should have at least one.
http://www.svgames.com/882660000.html

These 2/99cents goblins are 1 piece I'm pretty sure. I did these a long time ago. Recommended!
http://www.svgames.com/881200000.html

For 10$ you could have 20 kobolds running around your battlefield.


KNOWN PROBLEMS: The WOTC Skeletal orcs and Zombie trogoldytes are very difficult to pin/glue. If you have issues with assembly- avoid those pieces. The Gallowsgaunt looks like an advanced piece as well, but I've never owned one.

Don't be afraid to assemble, though. Some of the more challenging pieces are very very cool (the bugbear, the Otyugh) and not out of the realm of possibility to anyone with patience.

 

[Wraithdrit]

Assembly 101: Buy zap a gap (or some sort of generic of the same) and zap kicker. This stuff is awesome. Zap is very similar to super glue, then once the piece is in place you spritz a little kicker on top and it hardens. Instantly. Assembly done. Don't be afraid of assembly. Zap-a-gap can be found at any good hobby store (Hobby Town carries it).

They also make a version for plastics, fyi. And that has its own kicker mix that is supposed to be plastic friendly, but I've never seen the need to use Zap on plastic unless glueing it to metal. For plastics I use testors glue. Its tacky from the get go, so little hold time is needed, and once it completely sets up the two pieces of plastic are practically melted together. Good stuff.

Thanks for all the mini suggestions from everyone. I ordered $20 some odd worth of svgames chainmail stuff. Now I need to find some decent giant spider models, some good demon models, a couple of drider models....

- Wraith