Longtime 3DRPGers are probably aware of our ongoing weekly Hovertrain series, where we’ve built up a pretty fun list of train-raiding pirates. Our team is all about modularity and reusability, as it’s very important to us to get as much joy as possible from beloved DnD 3D prints. So, if we’ve already gone through all the trouble to make 25+ pirate miniatures, they should also be able to sail the high seas.

Today’s post is actually our second completed 3D-printed boat and is the smaller of the two. So, we do have an impressive larger boat by Aether Studios, but we’ll feature that one in a future TTRPG post. DM Ben wants the larger ship to belong to the dastardly pirates, and today’s smaller ship to belong to, or be occupied by, our adventurers. Some ship-to-ship battles or chases are going to be some extra fantastic RPG fun!

Enough of the chitchat, ya lily-livered gamers; let’s get to today’s featured 3D print! Today’s impressive STL comes from EC3D Designs and one of their beautiful ships from their must-own Depths of the Savage Atoll Kickstarter. It breaks down into several playable spaces and comes off your FDM printer like a dream.

Our DnD blog pics will probably make this ship look bigger than it is, so don’t let that intimidate you. This one measures 15 d20 squares long, 30 squares wide, and 60 squares tall. We like to give you its dimensions in d20 squares so you can see how much of your gridded playmatte it’s going to take up on your table.

You’re going to love how much space is on this DnD ship for your players to maneuver their miniatures on, with enough room for some hand-to-hand combat. Now, before we showcase all the levels, let’s cover the paint steps that novice painter DM Ben used here.

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Core Wood: GSW Skeleton Brown + Strong Tone Wash.
• Wood Accents: ASP Dark Wood.
• Sails: ASP Pallid Bone + Brown Wash.
• Nets: FAN Uniform Gray.
• Windows: FAN Mithril.
• Lady at the Bow: FAN Ancient Stone + Citadel Athonian Camoshade Wash.
• Metal Bits: ASP Enchanted Steel.

We also circled back and did light drybrush dabs of black in all the shadowy spots. The only kicker here is that we used a fancier hobby paint on the core wood. As many of you know, FDM prints can really soak up your pricier paint, so we consumed a decent portion of a larger 2-ounce bottle. No big whoop, as that costs us about $7 with shipping from Green Stuff World (which ships to us in the United States from beautiful Spain).

Starting with the top deck, you’ll see that this one 3D prints into several easy pieces. Please note the sails are also their own pieces, but we left those in so you can better visualize everything.

From there, you can go below deck, and there’s a decent amount of playable room here too. However, DM Ben will just sprinkle in a few pieces of scatter terrain, like maybe a couple of cannons or some Living Bombs standing at the ready. Any larger combat encounter, though, will be zoomed out and placed on a Dwarven Forge Lowtown planked Terrain Tray, as DM Ben cannot stand tight spaces for combat. It’s such a buzz kill.

We have some ideas on how to turn that zoomed-out space so it still feels like you’re still in a ship, so stay tuned for those future posts.

Here’s a zoomed-in shot of the cannon portals. DM Ben did some extra black drybrushing around them to make it look like plenty of cannonballs have been shot through ’em. Apologies for not including a cannon here. DM Ben left that particular firepower on his kitchen counter. We’ll show you how those look within in a future ship post.

There are two platforms off each mast that are ideal for placing a party member on guard duty, fighting off a hungry creature in the sky, or for some hair-raising combat. The two nets on each side actually clip the ship in place, keeping the entire boat firmly together as needed. The design team thought of everything here.

Honestly, there are too many details to count here. This skull design located on the stern of the boat is a perfect example. So frickin’ good, right?!! You could even populate this ship with an all-undead crew to pay homage to that design detail! DM Ben used that stronger ASP Dark Wood as his accent color, so the lighter wood would make this seafaring beauty pop!

Lastly, let’s end with this stunning lady at the bow of the ship, who has a mystery all to her own. Certainly the name of your boat will have to have something to do with her and the skull at the stern, right?! DM Ben dabbed some more black here and there to really make the stone look weathered. Your party is comprised of seasoned adventurers, so your ship has been around the block!

EC3D Designs calls this particular STL from the Kickstarter, the “Devil’s Scorn.” Not bad. But we’ll come up with something that amuses us a bit more.

Until next time!

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Today’s Hovertrain chatter features some intriguing follow-ups to earlier posts, all for the good of the game. One of the coolest features of our little ol’ DnD blog is that it really pushes us to be creative and try new 3D prints and paint schemes. Hopefully, we’re giving you some handy Bardic Inspiration, too.

DM Ben is all about creating a slew of new criminal factions to form this deep, dark underworld against The Forgotten Rails. Everyone wants a piece of the action or sees a slew of new heist opportunities. We think it will be really fun to have all these competing “families” trying to outmaneuver one another for a bigger piece of the pie.

We teased these slick Shark riders by Aether Studios in some earlier posts. Now, this same series does offer some stand-alone shark miniatures, but we haven’t been able to try painting any of those 3D prints quite yet. So, we thought we would show off some other fin gangsters by resident painter Kimmy Utah because they’re so darn cool.

We’re going right back to one of our favorite watering holes with EC3D Designs and Depths of Savage Atoll Kickstarter. These supportless STLs were a stretch goal, and boy howdy, are we glad the KS reached it. The biggest challenge here was honestly not printing a mittful of these. And we might still snap and do so.

Kimmy Utah really knows how to paint sharks, as we’ve sent her several nail several apex predators previously. The only thing we might do is add some AK Interactive Wet Effect (featured in our 2024 Gift Guide) to the fun bases she did. We’re also huge fans of the live-action One Piece series on Netflix, which has a great Shark storyline in season one.

Thankfully, we get a solid, go-to DnD 5e Stat Block for these Shark-folk. We have a sixth-level, six-person party in our office campaign, so this CR 4 is perfect for a small gang of these upright fish bruisers. We dig the stats just as they are here: AC 16, HP 73, multi-attack Harpoon x2 +7/2d6+5 and Bite +7/1d8+5. They also have some nasty abilities, including Blood Frenzy and Grapple.

Let’s finish today off with an alternate paint job on a Construct miniature we showcased last week. Despite being DnD players since the 80s, we’re not great on all the official lore. Hence, sometimes when we see 3D prints, we don’t necessarily know whether it’s an official monster or something under a different creative name (to avoid copyright issues).

So, we only realized that this Mighty Servant of Leuk-o was an official monster while doing our research for last week’s post. For its new paint job, the steps couldn’t have been easier:

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Body: Layer FAN Imperial Navy.
• Edging: FAN Greedy Gold.
• Wash: Dark Tone.

And then DM Ben decided to go with a flocked base as he felt the original one was too much of a snoozer.

Until next time!

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We’re going to feature three mighty animal 3D prints today, but one is quite generic, so alas, sourcing that particular STL file was darn tricky. Still, we think these are excellent additions to our free Wandering Monster Wilderness Trek Table, so let’s dive in.

We’ll start with our primary inspiration for today’s DnD blog entry. We haven’t really made many bear 3D prints because we already have several from our WotC prepainted minis collection. Then, we came across this wicked good Werepolarbear sculpt by the mighty Schlossbauer. The timing was impeccable as DM Ben was chomping at the bit to try a furry-bear paint scheme.

Yes, technically ol’ Schlossbauer calls this one a Werepolarbear, but we don’t play a lot of cold climate scenarios, so we decided to go with the traditional bear necessities here (pun intended).

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Fur P1: Heavy Drybrush of ASP Hardened Leather.
• Fur P2: Light Drybrush of FAN Ancient Tree.
• Face/Tongue: FAN Moonstone Skin.
• Hands/Fur Pads: FAN Moonstone Skin.
• Tail: FAN Fur Brown.
• Claws: FAN Brainmatter Beige & light black drybrush.
• Teeth: Matt White.

We also wanted the base to complement this Wearbear’s mighty power. Hence, we put a big ol’ rock (from DM Ben’s backyard) and a broken tree. Toughness unlocked, baby!

Quite confident in his paint scheme, DM Ben wanted to do a little batch painting, so he grabbed another fuzzy wuzzy miniature from his Pile of Shame Opportunity. This one came from EC3D Designs and their awesome Beasts & Baddies II Kickstarter.

Pretty cool, right?! We love it when a paint scheme looks killer on multiple miniature sculpts. With a core brown bear scheme now in hand, we can try other color variations. We can also apply this fur scheme to other similiar miniatures and scatter terrain. A win-win.

Lastly, we wanted to share a paint-scheme transfer success story from a recent Tomb Thursday TTRPG blog entry, when we colored up these awesome Subek guards by mz4250.  We’ve been dying to pin down a crocodile paint scheme as we need it for a lot of our Egyptian stuff.

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Body P1: WAR Scaly Hide + Green Wash + Strong Tone Wash.
• Body P2: Heavier black Drybrush & very light white drybrush.
• Eyes: WAR Lava Orange.
• Teeth: Matt White.
• Feet: FAN Uniform Grey.

The key to this miniature, though, was its base. DM Ben was sorting through his basing material box and pulled out a jar of AK Interactive Water Gel Swamp Green (which he still hadn’t opened). And boy howdy, did it go on and dry great (with a few swamp tufts added in for good measure).

Now, we already did a Brown Bear entry in our Wandering Monster table, with its minis previously done by resident painter Kimmy Utah. So, you could add our newest Bruin creations to this trio and make it a monster party of five. We also think the Schlossbauer Bear would make an excellent pappa bear, and the EC3D Designs STL could be momma bear.

Until next time!

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We’ve got a nice mix of DnD miniatures and scatter terrain today, and we think these nifty 3D prints deserve a spot on your gameboard for one of your upcoming encounters. We’ll also share how we plan to integrate them into our own adventures in case you need a few thought starters.

We’ll start with another free, fab download from mz4250 insane DnD miniatures library. This imposing Violet Fungus Necrohulk is certain to bring forth some “WTF is that?” responses. You can scale this one to fit your planned encounter. We kept it simple and just did a 2×2 d20 square, but we recall the default size being pretty insane.

DM Ben was the colorist here, and this one was a breeze to paint. Even though this mini is categorized as a Violet Fungus by name, it looked and felt more like an animated tree to us. Hence, that’s how we painted it up:

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Tree Layer: ASP Dark Wood + Vallejo Ochre Brown drybrush.
• Tree Edging: FAN Emerald Forest edging (for moss).
• Skulls: ASP Pallid Bone.

The star of this show is the forest base as the woodland ground cover makes all those encased skulls scream, baby! For its DnD 5e stats, the Internet has everything. We’ll probably add this one to our free Wilderness Trek Wandering Monster Table.

Next up, we’re updating one of our scatter terrain pieces from earlier this week, which featured our new Rum Runner Dwarven Trio NPCs. The Soddy Buddy Boys make a particular moonshine that is highly sought after on the Waterdeep Black Market. Beyond the cool miniatures, we showcased a big Ale cask, but the problem was that the barrel was way too big for a gang that is constantly trying to stay one step ahead of the law.

So, we decided to go with a much smaller set of barrels that could easily be hoisted onto their shoulders if they had to make a break for it. And for that scatter, we 3D-printed a piece from EC3D Designs’ Depths of Savage Atoll Kickstarter.

Nothing too tricky to paint up, as all you need is your go-to wood color and some metal banding. Our sneaky Dwarves mixed one of their moonshine barrels with two other everyday liquid barrels and grab it from the wrack whenever they have to make a quick exit. Another idea would be to include an even smaller crate of bottles. This STL was either by Cast n Play or STL Miniatures, but you get the idea here.

We snapped a quick pic so you can see how much better this fits in our Hovertrain car than the larger one we originally highlighted. But again, this wasn’t about the amount of space the scatter took up, but more about it making sense in the NPC’s storyline.

Lastly, we’re also circling back to our Train Tuesday post from earlier this week. We made a really fun Hovertrain Ticket Counter by Cast n Play, but it occurred to us that we didn’t have someone behind the counter to collect the fare and issue a boarding pass.

Brite Minis made this choice easy with this supportless Gnome Wizard miniature. He’s from their monthly Patreon and had all the details we needed to fit our train-ticket-seller scenarios.

Sunrise Sven was Chief Colorist here, and boy howdy, did this cranky little fella turn out great. The blue robe fits The Forgotten Rails’ colors. The book in his hand certainly could be taken as a ticket log and ledger. His raised hand and scowl definitely give off a how-many-tickets and let’s keep-er-movin’ vibe.

Here’s a quick shot of him inside his woodland Ticket Office. Fits like an absolute glove, like this lil’ dude was meant to be.

This weekend is a momentous occasion for DM Ben as his daughter is graduating from NAU! We’re driving up to Flagstaff on Saturday for her ceremony and won’t be back till the weekend is well over, so there won’t be much time for him to prep next week’s articles. Still, we’ll do our best to sneak in a post or two next week.

Until next time!

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In an earlier Train Tuesday post, we teased the idea of having a new NPC group of rum runners that use The Forgotten Rails to stay one step ahead of the law. We already 3D-printed the mysterious contraption that turns their already tasty ale concoctions into one of the best sips in the Realm. The problem is these Dwarves don’t wanna pay any taxes and don’t like “the man” messing with their moonshine. So, today we thought we would show our newest NPCs in more detail.

First, a recap of all the colorful characters we’ve homebrewed for the good of the game:

• Keanu Leaves of One, Two, Tree.
• Tink Urbelle of Gismos and Gadgets.
• Rishardo Montalwand of Castco.
• Ewan McHook of The Mermaid Cafe (and master carpenter).
• Krufer Prometory of the Hammered Horse.
• Brindle Spindle of All By My Shelf.
• Killian Scar of The Pointy End.
• Elara and Lorcan Silversong of The Loan Rangers.
• M. Knight Holyman of The Church of Consequences.
• Chip Carver of The Busted Boulder.
• Captain Windsor Valour of Sky Runners.
• Gimble Cogsworth of Cogs & Kettle Customs.
• Briar Thorne of The Bramble Bush Boarding House.
• Haldor Stormcaller & Helga Armjaw, Mercenaries for Hire.
• Merv the Swerve, Waterdeep’s Best Swordsmen.
• Sister Mary Francis & her Soul Sistas.
• Huckle Riverstone, Farmer.
• Town Informant | Renaldo Brownpants
• Troll Bridge | Terry the Troll
• The Scarecrow | Lyra & Jack Shaw
• The Forgotten Rails | Hovertrain, 3M (Fitzwalter, Strutt, & Farce)
• Grave-girth Malone, The Banditos.
• Tibarious Trunk & His Miffed Mushrooms.
• Shady Tree & His Angry Acorns.
• Lord Galobax DuGalle, Importer/Exporter | Pomelroy, the butler.
• Aven-Cromley & Vitch, Swords for Hire.
• Bedford Glogg & Bruce Knee, Winemaker & Bodyguard.
• Finneas & Fink, Thieves for Hire.
• Rennick Rowshambow & Orlando Mossbloom, Herbalist Harvesters.
• Renn Sly, Burglar for Hire.
• Crosstown Cutter.

Quite the list and one that should only grow over time.

So, let’s map this one out and share all the 3D prints to bring our newest NPCs to life! We’ll start with the first of our three short-stack brothers, this small but mighty dwarf by Brite Minis. We especially love this supportless miniature’s pose and scowl.

Sunrise Sven painted this one for us, and he crushed this angry ale lover. Sven is primarily an Army Painter Speedpaint guy, and he’s quite good at it. His color combination is spot on, while you clearly get the sense that he’s not to be messed with.

Next up, we have two more stout dwarven miniatures by good ol’ Dutchmogul. We snatched up these free downloads in a New York minute, including this Dwarfclan Gunner and his Dwarfclan Tinkerer counterpart. He originally designed these at an 18mm scale, so we nudged them up to fill a single d20 square. We simply prefer larger miniatures in our campaign for a myriad of reasons.

Sunrise Sven also grabbed a brush for these two hearty fellas, and we think our newest TTRPG miniatures turned out frickin’ awesome. Perfect balance of leather and armor, along with two more mighty beards that can’t be beat!

Before we get to all the NPC particulars, we wanted to add an oversized keg scatter terrain piece to the mix. This mighty cask is by EC3D Designs and is from their fun Heroes Hoard Tavern Inn series. There’s a little nostalgia here, as this was one of the very first STLs we ever 3D-printed.

This alcohol storage unit fits snugly in our Hovertrain Ale Car by Aether Studios. However, while writing today’s DnD blog post, we paused to rethink our TTRPG scatter plan here. This piece is far too bulky and heavy for a group of rum runners constantly on the go. So, we’re going to look for some smaller barrels that better fit this NPC narrative.

Now, let’s get these NPC personas and details all prim and proper. Each of our Dwarves has a distinct role in their profiteering scheme. DM Ben has dubbed this outlaw, Dwarven Clan, the Suddy Buddy Boys. So, let’s meet this law-skirtin’ trio:

• Colorful Name: Miser
• Role: Group Leader & Logistics Planner
• Class: Fighter
• Possible Scenario: Illegal rum runners
• Painted Miniature: Brite Minis

• Colorful Name: Wiser
• Role: Distillery Master
• Class: Tinkerer
• Possible Scenario: Always hunting for rare ingredients
• Painted Miniature: Dutchmogul

• Colorful Name: Kaiser
• Role: Security
• Class: Ranger
• Possible Scenario: Holds a grudge towards any interferers
• Painted Miniature: Dutchmogul

Basically, someone has to brew it, someone has to sell it, and someone has to secure it. For their DnD 5e stat blocks, we’ll utilize MonsterShuffler.com and their slick NPC Generator tool. Their login system seems a bit broken at the moment (thanks to a bunch of new website maintenance in 2026), so just save any creations in a separate Word Doc, and you’re golden. Another option is to peruse this NPC Statblock Compendium PDF.

Until next time!

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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).

• Prime Flat White.
• Veil & Gloves: GSW Komodo Khaki + Soft Tone Wash.
• Veil Jewel: GSW Tropical Turquoise.
• Vestments P1: FAN Greedy Gold + Soft Tone Wash.
• Vestments P2: ASP Broadsword Silver + FAN Shining Silver Drybrush.
• Main Robes P1: Layer WAR Deep Blue + Blue Wash.
• Main Robes P2: Drybrush FAN Crystal Blue.
• Sash: FAN Pure Red + Red Wash.
• Skin: FAN Barbarian Flesh + Flesh Wash.
• Shoes: ASP Harden Leather.

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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You can never really have too many miniatures when you begin building out a brand new game environment. Not to mention, we love, love 3D-printing ’em. Painting all those tiny model elements may not always be fun, but reveling in the final product certainly makes all that sweat equity worth it.

We’ll start with a beloved creator here at 3DRPG, the mighty Schlossbauer and his amazing army of free 3D-print STLs. We’ll often rescan his ongoing library just to remind us of what fabulous find we missed originally. He made this mythological warrior, Mazura, from something called The Adventure of Link.

Since Egyptian lore is filled with all sorts of crazy animal god combos, it seemed only natural that we 3D print a monster squad of these guys to patrol all those musty tomb hallways.

DM Ben found some hella courage and decided to try and paint these heavy mace wielders up himself because Kimmy Utah is drowning in a fierce backlog right now. Plus, it’s good for a novice painter to push himself.

• Prime Flat White.
• Boots: FAN Leather Brown + Soft Tone Wash.
• Head P1: WAR Monster Brown + Soft Tone Wash.
• Head P2: Dab some black for eyes and snout.
• Weapon: ASAP Dark Wood & ASP Enchanted Steel + Dark Wash.
• Hand Bandages: ASP Pallid Bone.
• Shoulder Armor: FAN Shining Silver + Dark Wash.
• Main Armor: FAN Gun Metal + Dark Wash.
• Lower Armor: Contrast Snakebite Leather + ASP Maize Yellow.
• Skin: ASP Crusader Skin + Soft Tone Wash.
• Cape P1: Layer FAN Pure Red.
• Cape P2: Contrast Flesh Tearers Red  Edging + Red Tone Wash.

We did the base in our usual core desert paint scheme, then applied a light sand flock over some of it.

We wanted the cape to be Roman-esque and have that classic red look. However, these terrible tomb fighters are in the trenches, so they gotta be filthy. After all, guarding a Pharaoh’s treasure for the afterlife is dangerous, messy work. We felt that just using FAN Pure Red made the tattered cloak a bit too bright, so by adding that Citadel Contrast Red and a wash to it, the cloak looked more “lived in.”

You’ll notice here that one of our half-horse fighters seems to have lost part of his weapon. 3D print vets know that it’s somewhat common for a fragile piece to snap while removing supports post-print. We don’t like wasting resin, so if a mighty mace becomes a thumping club, that’s fine by us. Besides, DM Ben will always start a new paint job on one of these Island of Misfit Toys in case he really chooses poorly on a paint pot pick.

Next up, we tap into an ol’ faithful set for this desert campaign, Empire of Scorching Sands by EC3D Designs. There’s something extremely satisfying about going through a large Kickstarter and slowly bringing nearly every DnD STL to life. That’s certainly the case when it comes to their silly good collections of miniatures here. This creepy Beetle Swarm was a must-addition. You practically feel them slipping through those hairline cracks in the tomb walls.

Resident Painter Kimmy Utah was actually able to color this TTRPG monster swarm up for us many desert moons ago. We’re just now finding the right opportunity to share these creepy crawlies with you. This mini takes up 2×2 d20 squares, but we’re zoomed in on our photo here so our Prusa FDM layer lines are rather obvious (as we hadn’t learned about that Adaptive Layer slicing setting way back then). Nothing to fret about using the Arm’s Length rule, though. This deadly miniature gives us those epic 1999 Mummy movie vibes.

So there ya have it! Two more Egyptian-style STLs for that mysterious tomb beneath the sands! Until next time!

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If someone said, “Hey, the only 3D Prints you can ever do again are townsfolk,” we would nod and ask for all their STLs. We love our everyday, ordinary “Average Joes” that much. Today, we’ve got three new fun sculpts from three great creators. Let’s get to it!

First up is this honorable Monk by Fat Dragon Games. He’s from their fab Villager series – Set 2 to be exact. Honestly, it’s a low-down, dirty shame that Fat Dragon Games doesn’t do more miniatures as their STLs are stuffed with detail, while 3D printing is great in FDM or resin. Definitely check out their Miniatures website page and see if any tickles your fancy.

One of our old work pals painted our misunderstood Monk, and we’re always in awe of his shading effects. Sadly, he moved on to greener pastures (and also had a kiddo), so we’re not expecting his brush to hit a TTRPG 3D print anytime soon, but boy howdy, he did amazing work. We love this one!

Next, we tap into one of our favorite sets by Cast n Play – Viking Folk. You’re crazy not to own every last one of these hardworkin’ settlers! They 3D print like a dream, with so many great poses. We loved this one because we tend to do a lot of farming encounters, and adding this little lady is a perfect fit.

Resident painter Kimmy grabbed a paintbrush and delivered a charming townsfolk miniature for our game table. We love her choice of blue for the dress and the gold edging that ties it all together. Make no mistake, though, this young farmer won’t take any guff and has a right hook waiting for ya if you mess with her pristine fields.

Lastly, we look to an NPC juggernaut, EC3D Designs, and an annebriated Dwarf who might have had one too many. Creator Evan has done two Kickstarters here, and this gem is from Everyday Folk II. Clearly, his clan was partying hard in the local tavern, as this particular set has plenty of rousing Dwarves for you to add to your local pub.

Kimmy Utah painted this tankard Dwarf who is just leaning for comfort’s sake. She kept the color choices simple, as that’s just the kinda life this off-the-clock adventurer likes to lead. No need to rush anything except for that next glass of ale, right?!

So there you have it – three more simple townsfolk with plenty of unique stories to tell. Maybe one is a mole. Maybe another has some concrete intel on where your next villain is hiding. And maybe yet another is a treasure trove of information once you get a few pints of ale in him. The DnD encounter possibilities are endless.

Until next time.

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Even though we’ve officially started dropping clues about The Forgotten Rails in our DnD campaign, DM Ben has asked the 3D-print team at 3DRPG Studios to keep their foot on the steampunk scatter terrain gas! He can never have too many options when building encounters and loves how certain STLs can inspire new scenarios and storylines.

Let’s start with this steampunk-ish Terminal by EC3D Designs. This TTRPG sci-fi-ish scatter is from their fun Ghost City Kickstarter. We really should be 3D printing more from this set, so this was a nice nudge to get some more of those files on our slicer!

DM Ben asked Resident Painter Kimmy Utah to color this one up, and thank gawd, he did! She gave this one way more love to all the tiny accent details that his eyes ever could have mustered. Kimmy can be very inspiring, as he’ll often pull out a similar piece she’s done when he’s trying to decide on a particular paint color for a shared element between the two models. For example, he never would have thought to try those other wire/hose colors… but now he sure will.

We think this terminal could be in Omin Dran’s private chamber, serving to review sensitive data from the 3M team. It could also be utilized by gearhead Collis Strutt or the wizard, Leland Farce.

Next up, we’ve got this adorbs mailbox by STL Miniatures. This parcel keeper is from their wonderful Post Office Set. You might recall our earlier Hovertrain NPCs, The Lettermen, where DM Ben outlined how huge this new transportation outlet would be for mail delivery across the Realm. So, if we’re going to have mail carriers, there definitely needs to be something to drop the mail into, right?

DM Ben was down with putting brush to paint here as the color choices and application were nothing crazy.

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Core Box Color: FAN Regal Blue + FAN Blue Tone Wash.
• Metals: FAN Gun Metal.
• Envelopes: ASP Ashen Stone.
• Packages: GSW Komodo Khaki + FAN Soft Tone Wash.

We are really into washes these days and now utilize them at every turn. The Army Painter Complete Fanatic Paint Set has been a delightful investment and has prompted us to try so many paints we never would have even dreamed of reaching for before. Highly recommend saving up for that one.

Lastly, we’re doing a rare repeat here on 3DRPG. We don’t like doing that because you deserve fresh 3D prints that inspire you day in and day out. However, this free STL by Dutchmogul just fits our Corederite mining model perfectly, so we had to include it! The mineral isn’t insanely rare, but it can be quite difficult to access larger deposits because they are often buried beneath thick rock.

Three great pieces all in the name of good darn clean fun. Until next time!

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