This Stone Looks Good on You

Greetings, fellow dice rollers. Your character may or may not have survived another weekend of gaming, but let’s not live in the past. Any bad rolls are only in your rearview mirror. Let’s celebrate another upcoming week of DnD STL finds for thee!

Normally, we reserve Miniature Mondays for specific character or NPC minis. However. we’ve been itching to share a couple of recently completed TTRPG 3D prints and the easy paint steps along with ’em. Hence, we’re calling a bit of an audible here today, but for all the right reasons. We wanna give you time to plan and print your next piece or two in case you are picking up what we’re putting down here. Just remember to lift with your knees. 😉

First and foremost, 3DRPG is a pro-statue camp. We love finding new monument STLs and slipping them onto our TTRPG gameboards. We just haven’t done a whole bunch of them lately because our original journal steps became rather outdated when the major paint producers like Citadel and Army Painter went through set re-launches.

DM Ben really wanted to update his options, so he’s been trying a lot of new combinations lately, and his most recent results have been especially promising.

We’ll start with this incredibly amusing Cyberpug Statue by Loot Studios. This charming stone fountain is from their fun Planet of the Beasts set. The only bummer about this painting experience is the arm containing the book snapped off during our slapchop base step. You might have heard DM Ben groan all the way from his office when it happened. But hey, if a 3D print is going to lose a limb, it might as well be on a stone statue.

The 3DRPG team was over the moon when DM Ben showed off this one, because they think it could be a great go-to stone statue scheme for many STLs to come. Here were his steps:

• Prime Flat | Slapchop Base.
• Layer FAN Ash Grey.
• Apply one coat of ASP Runic Grey.
• Drybrush FAN Ancient Stone.
• Drybrush FAN Matt White.
• Spot-brush Citadel Athonian Camo Shade Wash for moss.
• Water Base: ASP Tidal Wave.

To finish it off, we applied AK Interactive’s Water effect, but just remember: you can’t apply it too thick at once, or it will bubble up (and not in a good way). We intentionally made it a little messy at the edges to suggest splashes of water.

It must have been Statue Saturday because as soon as DM Ben finished our weathered stone fountain above, he also got the sudden urge to try a more marble-style stone.

Again, he used to have an excellent, simple marble pillar formula: P3 Brown Ink, Citadel Bestial Brown (avoid the stone cracks), and then a heavier Citadel Bleached Bone drybrush. Bestial Brown became Mournfang Brown and Bleached Bone became Ushabti Bone. Time to get everything up to date!

So, enough of all that old-timer bellyaching! Time to get a new set of steps with our latest Army Painter, Green Stuff World, and Citadel paint sets. We’re also big fans of how this stony scheme has turned out!

• Prime Flat White.
• Layer ASP Ashen Stone.
• Heavy Drybrush of FAN Brainmatter Beige (or FAN Ancient Stone).
• Wavy Edging Lines of Ash Grey 1:3 parts water (on flat parts).
• Light White Drybrush.

If you want the marble to be more on the dirty side, do a FAN Light Tone Wash (2 drops) + 1 drop of Medium. Or, even dirtier, try one drop of ASP Holy White with 1 drop of Medium. DM Ben just decided to rehit it with FAN Brainmatter Beige until he got the right level of overall darkness.

Here’s a different statue angle so you can better see our final stone colors. Not too shabby, ey? We’re thrilled with the results and look forward to trying them on future STLs. And these new DnD model paint schemes go well with our earlier weathered patina-style version. Feels good, man.

Until next time!