With the rise of prepainted plastic minis, cutouts, pogs, etc. it seems like good old-fashioned putting paint on lead has gone out of style.

We never had much use for miniatures to show positioning but I still like to have a painted miniature of my character at the table for The representation of marching order, and the rare positioning diagram.

Back in the day it seemed like a standard part of the hobby but now I rarely encounter role-playing gamers who also paint their own miniatures. It's almost solely the domain of wargamers at the moment.

Anyone else still painting minis?

Of course I am.

However, what I'm seeing more of is people using pre-painted Reaper minis, or the minis from the Heroscape game rather than paint metal ones themselves.  I am guessing with Bones, and the cost being reduced dramatically, we'll see more of it?

*raises hand*

I never did. Just a sea of silver at my table if i use them.

No, though some of my players do.

I just don't have time. And between Precis Intermedia's Disposable Heroes and Arion Games' paper minis lines, I can get paper miniatures printed on cardstock for far cheaper that still look quite nice (and allow me to print out an army when I need one). Mixed with this is a few old pewter minis, some plastic D&D minis, and a couple of plastic "army men" types.

I do, but only for well-proven PCs. Plastic for all else.

I went through a mini painting phase. I created spin off skirmish game based on Mutant Bikers of the Atomic Wasterland which we played to death and during that period I went nuts collecting and painting post-apocalyptic minis.

Britain is good for minis with companies like Copplestone and Hasslefree producing some really expressive and detailed sculptures. My painting skills were never fantastic but even so  I ended up with a pretty amazing collection.

Then one day we just stopped playing and as I don't normally use mins with roleplaying games that was that. I still have a bunch of primed figures what have I touched in years. It's a little sad.

I have for specific campaigns over the years, but where I'm living now isn't very conducive to painting/primering.

The last batch of minis I painted up were for Traveller - 15mm, minis from RAFM, Critical Mass, Khurasan.

Very much so.







I am working through my unpainted miniatures methodically some of which been unpainted for 30+ years.  Did all my orcs, all my dwarves, all my gnomes, and now working on some halflings. Along with select Reapers to get a feel on how to paint them.

I have a great many "RPG" minis, about as many as I have "wargame" minis.

Like estar I have a ton of minis to work thru and paint.  Likewise I have tons of plastic prepaints to use.  Monsters, etc., I don't really care about but really memorable villians and NPCs and characters I like to have a nice mini I've painted up.

I used to up till about four years ago.  At that time I got more into making paper minis for all the bad guys, and then for all the good guys as well.  It is just easier to get something out quick that works.

I'm more of a miniatures gamer, so for RPGs I go through my trays of painted figures and pick a suitable one.

On the other hand, I'm sick of 25/30mm figures. They're too large, take up too much space, and take too long to paint. About a year and a half ago, I switched back to 15mm scale. In that time, I duplicated and exceeded what I had painted in larger scales, plus built terrain, etc. At a tiny fraction of the cost.

They're much more detailed than they were, say, in the 1980's.

Been doing so for 25 years.
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I've been collecting and painting miniatures longer than I've been playing games. We used lots of metal figures in our High School games but nowadays mine only see use in wargames.
Our Saturday group use a mix of D&D prepaints and the old SJG Cardboard Heroes... but I won't trust my fragile figures around those thugs.