Miniature Monday: Good Help is Hard to Find

Greetings, Monday warriors! Hope y’all had a wonderful weekend of dice throwin’! Our family game was a lot of fun, and we ended on a cliffhanger. Let’s see where our 3D printer takes us today!

Today, we’re introducing our next campaign villain’s right-hand man, or platypus, as it were. It turns out DM Ben might also be a little obsessed with this tycoon’s parlor room, but the fascination probably has more to do with the fact that he doesn’t get to use these fancier scatter terrain pieces very often.

Cobramode takes center stage today with this magnificent sculpt – the prim and proper Namerin Boondaburrer Valet. This legit DnD creator knows subtle details and truly releases some of the most unique models. This gem is from their fun Boondaburra Navy set. This is a slam-dunk collection if we’ve ever had one, as our resin printer has churned out nearly every piece in this set.

We thought for sure resident painter Kimmy Utah was going to meet her match in coloring up this one, but once again, she crushed the colors here. DM Ben had been hemming and hawing for a classic, 3D-printed butler for ages, and he promptly clammed up when this one came to our DnD doorstep.

Yes, yes, the sword broke off in shipping, but now it just looks like he’s holding a fancy object, is all. The US Postal Service is going to inadvertently inflict a few bumps and bruises from AZ to UT and back…that’s just shipping life. We’re over the moon with the blue coat, the hair quaff, the tea tray, and on and on.

In the very same row of one of our office display cases, sat this charming Big Globe by scatter terrain extraordinaire, Cast n Play’s Terrain Essentials. We’ve said countless times that their Interiors Volume II Kickstarter is an absolute gameboard treasure trove, so we’re unsure how to convince y’all to pick it up. This particular worldly STL is from their Library subset.

We ran this one on our Prusa printer so long ago that we had forgotten it was done in FDM. In 3DRPG’s infancy, that’s the only 3D printer we had. These days we’re nearly resin all the time and save FDM for the bigger, bulkier stuff while everything else slides to our AnyCubic.

Kimmy Utah also colored this TTRPG piece, as DM Ben could never imagine getting everything within the lines like that. She crushed it. We loved it. And all is right in our DnD universe.

Here’s a revised take on our new and improved grand sitting room for Waterdeep’s most successful Importer/Exporter, Lord Galobax DuGalle. There certainly wasn’t anything wrong with our first cutscene pass, but we think we’ve taken it up a notch with two more lovely TTRPG 3D prints.

Now, let’s give our newest NPC some details:

• Colorful Name: Pomelroy
• Character Race: Platypus
• Key Role: Head Butler for the DuGalle Estate
• Painted Miniature: Cobramode
• Weapon of Choice: A tea tray throw can take your head clean off

So good, right?! Until next time!