I just bought an airbrush for my boyfriend for the Holiday's...UPDATE!

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Brings back some great memories of painting the old lead TSR D&D figurines as a youngster. Time well spent. We used fine brushes and model paint back then if I remember correctly. Wonder if one of my brothers hung on to that stuff? Hmmm

The "official" TSR D&D minis? Ghod, those remind me of Diablo 3. Such anticipation, such disappointing crap! TSR had no business making miniatures; that kine actually diminished their reputation as a gaming company, for a while.

Started with Testor's enamels before I learned better and switched to water-based acrylics. So many tricks you can use to get impressive effects. =^[.]^=

I'm guessing you didn't have access to dedicated gaming stores, back then. There were manufacturers making really exquisitely detailed figures long before TSR decided to cash in, poorly. Grenadier, Minifigs (well, not exquisite, that one, but better than TSR), Ral Partha, Citadel, and others, all produced NON-official minis (Citadel, and later, Ral Partha got the license after the TSR line folded).

Oh, and, yeah, the TSR minis were horribly overpriced, as if the "Official" label warranted it.

Here's a page with pics of vintage lead:

http://www.dndlead.com

Enjoy! =^[.]^=

Nice job Ray, you operated on a similar level to mine. Too bad there was no digital photography widely available before I sold mine.

I remember saving up my allowance to buy a RP Balrog fig. I was so excited to finally get it only to discover I suck at painting.

I recently gave my five year old son a whole bunch of my old d&d lead figures, unpainted. We spent ages telling made up stories about them. It was lovely, even if he did get a bit scared at times.

P.

It's really cool to look at what he has (and you too, Ray). He spent a few years in England where Warhammer is incredibly prevalent so he got to learn a lot and BUY a lot as it is soo much cheaper to buy from there than in Canada (Games Workshop is soooo expensive) BUT we found a company in BC that ships within the country so that helps with the nerding costs.

I also sorta messed up

I informed the parents and they are getting that part.

I bought a bunch of the TSR and Ral Partha ones in my youth. Mainly the Dark Sun, Dragonlance and Ravenloft setting based boxed sets.

later on a bought a few of the Shadowrun leads they were pretty cool



I always loved that Lord Soth was a Ravenloft/DragonLance crossover