Do you paint minis?

[Spaghet]

I recently started painting minis! Warhammer 40,000 specifically. Orks, even more specifically.
A friend introduced me to the lore and I saw the table top and thought "thats cool" so I bought some minis and paint and got to painting!
Here's one of my minis (I'm a beginner still, don't judge me too harshly)

[jensen]

I paint minis when I'm in the right mood! When I was in University I helped run a Dungeons & Dragons Society for a couple of years and that included hosting mini painting events which were super fun, I've got a bunch of painted minis from that. And then a couple of years ago I got really into the boardgame Unmatched which has grey minis, so I decided to buy my own supplies and paint some of those. Some look good, some look back!  When I get some time I'm gonna buy some better/different supplies and try again. I've so far resisted the urge to buy and paint Warhammer 40k but I've watched a lot and know lore. Really enjoy playing the Space Marine games and Dawn of War. 

[villain]

Your ork looks great! I always loved their broad cleaver swords. I played 40k briefly and shittily in highschool, the mini painting was always the best bit! But in reality my favourite part of White Dwarf magazines was the terrain... I fell off 40k and didn't ever play any ttrpg sessions where minis were used, but in the last few years I started watching a lot of terrain makers on youtube, so I can try and learn how to make little dioramas for my action figure collection! After starting a street alley like four or five years ago and getting stuck on it, I picked it back up in January and I'm now nearly finished - probably one more decent weekend session and I'll share the results  it's in scale with the 6" G.I. Joe Classified series.

[Bone-A Lisa]

Your mini looks great! I got into 40k like two years ago because of the lore, and played a few games with my brother and a few friends via Tabletop Simulator (which I think is the best way to try out 40k without needing to shell out a few hundred $$$ for an army).

I've never finished painting a mini, but I did 3D print and paint the start of a Chaos Knight Army, this is the only progress I made... I should go back and finish the body and whatnot, it was a ton of fun, idk why I stopped tbh.

[Mishuk]

No. I like Warhammer (mainly fantasy and 40k) and I am reading books and lore on web, playing video games... But I never painted figure. 1. They are expensive. 2. I am not very fond of painting in general. 3. I would have noone to play with.

[Kalka]

Currently considering painting my Talisman Tabletop RPG minis, I'm just too afraid of starting alone. I'm in a contact with a good mini painter and we're probably scheduling a paint session together one day !

I did some Warhammer 40k earlier in my life but I gave up because the group of players I had separated due to different paths IRL and I lost interest. I gave my tyranids and dark eldars for free with the codices to a tabletop group that wanted to try it without spending too much money so at least it's not taking dust in a box !

[OkayRelax]

I don't play Warhammer or dnd but I love to buy minis of any variety as long as the scale is around the same, I mostly just paint them and then build terrain and stuff. but I also occasionally run games in my home-brew setting for my own ttrpg system iv been working on since I was a kid. these are my most recent minis iv painted.

[Dan Q]

Rarely.

Back in the 90s I used to play a reasonable amount of Warhammer Fantasy Battle (as it was called back then), Blood Bowl, Dark Future, and others, along with a whole lot more dungeon-crawler/soft-RPGs (Advanced HeroQuest, Warhammer Quest, etc.).

Off the back of an (online) D&D campaign with some friends, I introduced the kids to TTRPGs, and nowadays we have a "Family D&D Night". I'm off-rotation as DM right now, but - painting during boring work meetings! - I've slowly been assembling a menagerie that I anticipate making use of during the next Family D&D Night campaign that I'm responsible for (the attached photo shows some under-construction work: a chimera, three displacer beasts, and a veritable army of fairies). I don't put too much effort in because they're basically going to be used once or twice and then knocked-around as playthings in the "box of Family D&D sundries", but I like them to visually "pop" at least.

The kids really enjoy tactile components, so I try to go out of my way to make the game "feelie": for example, the campaign for which these will be used should introduce them to a hexcrawl mechanic, for which I've manufactured hex "tiles" that will plug-in to a "board" as they reveal the map. It will, I hope, give a sense of "exploring" the world, and they can take turns to be the one to insert the next tile at whatever location they decided to explore-in next!

[Nael]

I do! Both 3d printed and war hammer 40k :D also garage kits and dolls and everything that can or cannot(should not) be painted. My favorite 40K faction is the drukhari but I have been painting chaos lately because of the nice colors. How can I say no to pink demon guy?




@Dan Q
Just wanted to say that I love love love what you have going on with your family, sounds super fun! 

[OkayRelax]

@Dan Q painting during work meetings.. jealous

[Dan Q]

@Dan Q painting during work meetings.. jealous

I haven't found time to do so since I got made redundant from my old job, early this year. My period of unemployment was mostly full of panicking about running out of money and frantically hunting for jobs, and my first three months in my new job haven't had that kind of meeting (plus, I'm paying very close attention to everything because I don't always know what's important and what's not, yet!).

But I'll hopefully pick it up again soon.

My camera's positioned so that it's impossible to tell whether I'm making notes or painting minatures (or practicing false shuffles and other card sleights... or picking locks... or any of the other random things I use to keep my hands occupied while I'm listening to people talk!).

[OkayRelax]

@Dan Q awesome haha, glad you got a new job, unemployed myself rn looking for work, its rough out here 

[Dan Q]

@OkayRelax yeah, it's pretty brutal right now. I'd been with my last employer 5½ years and they let me go with ten minutes notice. By email to my personal address. Absolutely heartbreaking.

And it's true: the environment's not good out there if you're hunting for work. I'm fortune enough to have three degrees, 20+ years experience, and some highly-marketable skills, and I've always just "walked in" to most of the jobs I've ever wanted... but this time around I ended up having to send somewhere close to a hundred applications before I landed a new one. And it represents about a 28% pay cut compared to what I had before and mostly less-good perks. But I felt I had to take it 'cos... well, I've got a mortgage to pay and children to feed and things!

Good luck out there. It's really horrible. I hope you land something soon.

[milo]

My wife paints mini for our DnD stuff and she is insanely good!! I've been encouraging her to start a little side hustle out of it since so many people have been commissioning her to pain their minis.

[Dan Q]

Wow, that's quite something! So intricate for such a relatively-large model; really impressive.