Cheap Dragons (and other analog adventures)

Project Blog by Frugalmax

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About the Project

Hello! This project log is mostly about cataloging the gaming projects and solidly low-budget videos of the Cheap Dragon Show. Most of the stuff planned is in the realm of fantasy miniatures and terrain, but a few non-sequitors are bound to appear.

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Happy New Year (with requisite goofy video)!

Dec 31 2025

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From all of us here at the Cheap Dragon Show, Happy New Year! (and happy gaming throughout the year to come!) Hopefully we’ll get some actual hobby content done soon.

Cheap Backgrounds (and/or GM Screens)

Sep 4 2025

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Skill 4

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Inspired by the many well composed pictures of miniatures that lack bags of chips, shelves of books, and stray elbows in the background, Frugalmax and the intrepid crew of the Cheap Dragon Show have turned an episode over to our fine art correspondent, Mossy Bob, to walk us through the background painting process. Hope you enjoy it!

Here’s a preview of the final result in action:

Lunch tastes better in a scenic location.

And Episode 9, a high-speed journey through the painting process with the usual asides:

And then, if you’re really into following along with painting (or just bored), here’s Supplementary Episode 9-A, in which we see the background painting come together in real time (be warned, it’s almost an hour of your life you’ll never get back):

Warhammer Quest vs. HeroQuest in "Quest Quest: The Search for the Best Quest!"

Jul 10 2025

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Aaaaaaand we’re back! It’s time to court controversy, pitting two fan-favorite, classic games against one another in a battle to the death! Only one can survive!

(Though I guess actually only one has survived, as only HeroQuest is available to purchase… but it was really resurrected rather than survived, cross ref: Haz-Bro the necromancer… and I suppose neither game was damaged in the least, excepting that every time you slide one of those Warhammer Quest doorways onto a dungeon tile you risk dinging up the edges. Perhaps “compare and contrast” would be a more apt description than “battle to the death,” but oh well. Accuracy is not our strong suit at the Cheap Dragon Show.)

Enjoy!

Longsnout Orcs reviewed!

Mar 19 2025

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Skill 4

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Hello! After a short (time is a relative concept, right?) break we’re back with more adventures in plastic! We don’t have a 3D printer, but upon seeing the Longsnout Orcs (https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Pebetron) temptation far outweighed our rational considerations of what we actually “need” for our games, so we hit up Etsy to see how these guys print up. Spoiler: they’re pretty cool. We hope you enjoy!

A bunch of Longsnouts milling about. A few older GW orc bits were added for variety and to make up for some parts that were left out of our order.

The Longsnouts are a bit on the larger side, which shouldn't be an issue if you are using 30mm bases, but as we are firmly stuck in the past, they are a bit hard to rank up on our 25mm bases. If we get them again, we'll try to have them printed at 90% scale to see if they fit a bit better on ye olde 25mm base.

Oof- multiple entries, trying to remove

Mar 19 2025

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Sorry, when the session timed out a couple of times when I was trying to post, I re-posted, not realizing they would all go through. If anyone knows how to remove a post, please let me know, otherwise, ignore my ignorance!