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30 April 2026
Greetings, fellow Sandmen and Sandwomen! Let’s see what came off our 3D printers and paint brushes this past week!
Today, we’re going to share a couple of miniatures and one piece of sandy scatter that are now official role players in our beloved Beneath the Sands ongoing DnD blog series. DM Ben is mustering up a lot of courage lately and doing his novice best to color some of our 3D prints, as Resident Painter Kimmy Utah has been absolutely slammed with almost a 12-month backlog in front of her.
So, it’s important to remind readers that 3DRPGPrints.com by no means represents itself as a professional, award-winning painting blog. We’re just a small group of passionate guys and gals who want to share our RPG stuff with fellow gamers and help grow the DnD community. We fully believe in the Arm’s Length Rule and in getting TTRPG 3D prints to the game table ASAP so we can enjoy them! Making stuff just to sit in display cases is a bit boring to us.
With that disclaimer out of the way, let’s see what new miniatures and scatter might deserve a slot in your own ongoing DnD campaigns. We’ll start with the mighty Schlossbauer and his free Egyptian-style priest download. This mini is officially labeled an Agahim, but all we see is a desert badass. 😉
This is the smallest DnD miniature ol’ DM Ben has ever tried to hand-paint! Later, he said it felt like he was defusing a ticking package. We’re ultra-zoomed in on this photo, so the final output is deceiving here. He got nothing but highfives from the office crew, simply because he didn’t let fear get the best of him.
Surprisingly, we had very few Priest miniatures for Beneath the Sands, and these dudes would be all over a sunken tomb. A bigshot Pharaoh always has an abundance of faith fellas at his side (probably because of all the bad stuff they’ve done as rulers).
We plan to make four more of these guys (shhh – don’t tell DM Ben), and tweaking that Veil Jewel color will be a nice differential. A thin, sandy base also turned out swell here.
Next up is this wicked good carpet seller by EC3D Designs! He’s from their epic Scorching Sands Kickstarter, and it’s pretty safe to say that we probably won’t stop 3D printing everything from this sandy set until we’ve basically sliced ’em all. You might be wondering, how useful is this sitting vendor going to be in a tomb raider campaign? Oh, don’t fret – we have some ideas!
You can probably tell this is an older 3D print by those old-school FDM layer lines. We started with just a Prusa Mini printer and only later added a glorious Resin printer. Again, from a sitting distance, you don’t notice them at all. Kimmy Utah colored this guy up, and she did an excellent job. The lighter blue mixed with white, and those sassy red shoes are a home run.
DM Ben is going to install our newfound friend on the market streets of the nearest city near their first tomb exploration. For a reasonable amount of coin, he’s going to be an ongoing, valuable source of intelligence to the party. The players need as many details as possible before ascending into a dark and dangerous place. These sorts of shadhy NPCs keep the game moving, especially for a game group that craves more session combat and less chatter.
Lastly, we finish with a simple but necessary scatter terrain piece by Iain Lovecraft. This 3D print is from his delightful Desert Sands Kickstarter. You truly cannot have enough God statues in your tombs. Those guys were obsessed with the higher powers that be. Ancient Egyptians worshipped between 1,400 and 2,000 gods and goddesses throughout their 3,000-year history. That’s just bonkers.
We did this one in our darker craft-paint scheme, and we’re pretty happy with how this desert scatter terrain piece turned out. Since this one is on the smaller side, it makes sense that it would be inside the tomb. We really should 3D print a second one, though, as these would look especially cool if they flanked an important inner tomb doorway.
Until next time!
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