Hi all, I am absolutely hopeless at painting. Have made an unsuccessful google search on ready painted miniatures. Was wondering if any of you have any suggestions of where to look?
Heroforge is pricey, but has options for custom miniatures and a prepainted version.
There are people who like the site (myself included) and those who don't. Just be aware that what your computer generated version looks like and the prepainted version is different. However, one of our friends bought a prepainted miniature ... hated it, and shipped it to our DM and on camera it looks great. He is happy with seeing his character on camera. (Our DM uses sets and a set camera.)
I personally like the tokens / portrait options within Heroforge, but you have to pay to get those features.
Second vote for HeroForge. The color-baked 3D prints are not as high fidelity as a hand-painted miniature, but it gets the idea across and is much better than unskilled paints applied heartbreakingly to your expensive mini. And frankly, you can take a screenshot of the high-fidelity color model, print it out on cardstock, and make a standee for it. End up getting much the same effect for less money and without the color degradation. People really underestimate the power of standees and tokens for a physical game.
Man, it'd be nice to play a physical game one day...
...standees are a great idea: we've been using heroforge to generate character art and virtual tabletop tokens, but it never occurred to me how trivial it would be to print-and-mount a standee from the character art...
My wife and I are just starting out on our adventures, I played many, many, many, years ago, and I know lots of things have changed within the worlds.
So thank you for your advice, will definitely look into it.
Hopefully we'll meet up in a world together.
Once again, many thanks,
Scooby.
If you are just starting out, in what sounds like a table top format, also still look into the virtual table tops (VTTs). The key feature I like about them is the fog of war.
When I would DM my brother and his friends decades ago (AD&D) I'd have to wait until they got into a "room" in a dungeon crawl to start using blocks to make the walls and bring the minis in. For town adventures I'd just lay out a giant photocopy of the old City State of the Invincible Overlord or the several villages and keeps I started making, and they could move their minis around as they shopped/robbed and got into other shenanigans.
Anyhow having the map reveal itself through investigations and not seeing what is behind you, is a great feature. And digital tokens work great.
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Hi all, I am absolutely hopeless at painting. Have made an unsuccessful google search on ready painted miniatures. Was wondering if any of you have any suggestions of where to look?
Many Thanks in advance,
Scooby.
Heroforge is pricey, but has options for custom miniatures and a prepainted version.
There are people who like the site (myself included) and those who don't. Just be aware that what your computer generated version looks like and the prepainted version is different. However, one of our friends bought a prepainted miniature ... hated it, and shipped it to our DM and on camera it looks great. He is happy with seeing his character on camera. (Our DM uses sets and a set camera.)
I personally like the tokens / portrait options within Heroforge, but you have to pay to get those features.
Second vote for HeroForge. The color-baked 3D prints are not as high fidelity as a hand-painted miniature, but it gets the idea across and is much better than unskilled paints applied heartbreakingly to your expensive mini. And frankly, you can take a screenshot of the high-fidelity color model, print it out on cardstock, and make a standee for it. End up getting much the same effect for less money and without the color degradation. People really underestimate the power of standees and tokens for a physical game.
Man, it'd be nice to play a physical game one day...
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My wife and I are just starting out on our adventures, I played many, many, many, years ago, and I know lots of things have changed within the worlds.
So thank you for your advice, will definitely look into it.
Hopefully we'll meet up in a world together.
Once again, many thanks,
Scooby.
...standees are a great idea: we've been using heroforge to generate character art and virtual tabletop tokens, but it never occurred to me how trivial it would be to print-and-mount a standee from the character art...
If you are just starting out, in what sounds like a table top format, also still look into the virtual table tops (VTTs). The key feature I like about them is the fog of war.
When I would DM my brother and his friends decades ago (AD&D) I'd have to wait until they got into a "room" in a dungeon crawl to start using blocks to make the walls and bring the minis in. For town adventures I'd just lay out a giant photocopy of the old City State of the Invincible Overlord or the several villages and keeps I started making, and they could move their minis around as they shopped/robbed and got into other shenanigans.
Anyhow having the map reveal itself through investigations and not seeing what is behind you, is a great feature. And digital tokens work great.