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A Colourful Dragon & New Heroes Join Reaper Miniatures’ Range
January 22, 2026 by brennon
The folks at Reaper Miniatures recently added a selection of new figures to their range for you to use in your Fantasy adventures on the tabletop. If you're looking for your next heroes to use on the tabletop, then you might find them here.
Asandris Nightbloom // Reaper Miniatures
We'll start with some of the "regular" additions to their heroic range. Here, we have Asandris Nightbloom, a possible Wizard or Wizard's Apprentice who has been tasked with trying to deal with rampant magic that has escaped from the local library. Well, that's my lore for her anyway! She was sculpted by Bob Ridolfi and has a quiet calm to her, making her most likely incredibly dangerous!
Perhaps fighting alongside her, the original cause of the magical escape and now trying to right some wrongs, we have Eli Quicknight.
Eli Quicknight // Reaper Miniatures
This Rogue/Fighter has a classic look to him, brought to life by the sculpting of Bobby Jackson. You get the sense that Eli has just crashed down into the streets of a Fantasy city, whipping their blades out to take down someone who was chasing them. A great, classic Fantasy figure.
If you want to get a bit wilder with your characters, then how about the impressive Ashaliel the Radiant?
Ashaliel the Radiant // Reaper Miniatures
She would be a great addition to a collection as an Aasimar in your games of Dungeons & Dragons. She could also represent a Paladin who has been gifted their wings by a divine power. A good upgrade for a player who has perhaps got up to the heights of, well, any level past six. Let's face it, most campaigns don't even go that long!
These are all additions to the Bones Black range by Reaper Miniatures, which includes low-cost plastic miniatures for slotting into Fantasy roleplaying games and skirmish games. The same material is also used for the impressive Shimmerscale, the Fairy Dragon.
Shimmerscale // Reaper Miniatures
This is a brilliant miniature sculpted by Christine Van Patten and painted expertly by Carrie Michael Cosby. A magical companion for one of your heroes or perhaps the final form of that escaped magic we were talking about earlier? Beautiful.
The miniature is made using grey plastic alongside a set of wings and a base, which is made from translucent/clear plastic, so you can have fun when painting. There are more new releases for you to check out as well but let us know what you think of what we've been showing off here.
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So the wings are transparent. Doesn’t really look like that on the picture. I wonder if that effect is different irl. I don’t think I’ve seen something like that in real life. Anybody here had first experience with painting over translucent plastic?
They’ve painted over the translucent parts in this particular miniature. The store has a better look at the unpainted plastic if you’re intrigued.
What I meant was if anybody has seen (not just this mini) how painted translucent plastic look in real life. I guess there must be some effect happening otherwise where would be the point of transparent plastic? 🙂
maybe you need to use inks to maintain the effect.. my guess would be thin ink coats and satin varnish, then more thin ink coats. its true the (wonderfully) painted image here doesnt look translucent like the unpainted one at the store.
I painted the transparent base of the Swavain Basilisk with blue speedpaint for the water then drybrushed some traditional paint on to look like the foam. The speedpaint does a decent job of letting the light through and taking advantage of the transparent plastic- it’s a different look of course, can’t say it’s better or worse, so really just another option, I guess. That said, I also can’t say I have the know-how to really make something like those dragon wings look great with more translucent paints, so I’d probably have a back-up plan of using traditional paints if I were to try it on something like that, but that’s just me.
Most I have done is canopies, I found a matte varnish helps paint bond but went way to strong on my paint, even using contrast and while it looks like glass it is still mostly opaque. I think you’d need to almost go down to 1 in 10 paint to thinner and slowly build layers
At least a decade ago corvus belli released transparent plastic wings for the original cascuda model. They were pre-colored so all you had to do was glue them in place, they were pretty cool but a huge pain in the ass to get to stay attached. I did try at least three times to figure out how to paint the edges and keep them transparent, inks was as close as a got and it was still not quite see through.
Reaper put out a line of paints to be used on the clear materials a couple years ago. I knew someone who went to Reapercon and had been asked to try them out. She got limited use out of them since she didn’t have much translucent stuff and offered them to the group. I never took them since I had the same issue. The stuff she did looked alright.
There is such a thing as glass paint, which is translucent, but I don’t know if it would work on plastic, especially since you wouldn’t be able to prime the plastic without losing the translucent effect.
I have a few D&D minis from Wizkids and some green Ghosts from Temu with translucent parts, but have avoided painting them, priming and painting only the non-translucent parts of the figures.
I have a few minis made of transparent plastic, but never tried painting them. Those are some characterful minis though.
Excellent minis! The wizard and rogue are *excellent*; not too busy, just right!
Shimmerscale looks awfully familiar, I have a Dragon made a good decade or so ago by Fenryll that could be its’ twin…..
Fantastic looking figures for the game table’s 👍