Cheap Dragons (and other analog adventures)

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:

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):

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!

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!

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!

Nothing to see here, move along, move along…

We’re going for a record, folks!

Just in case you don’t get enough highly derivative holiday hoopla this season, here’s The Cheap Dragons Holiday Special! Enjoy!

Miniatures companies using different materials is nothing new, and most people in the hobby already have their preferences, so one could reasonably argue that the video below is entirely unnecessary and superfluous, and they’d be right!

In this one we look at Pewter, Siocast, PVC, an interesting 3D print material, and Reaper Bones Black (a very hard plastic), along with some H.I.P.S. plastic (ye olde sprue) thrown in for good measure. Much ridiculousness ensues. The comparison was inspired by Reaper miniatures greatly diversifying what they make minis out of over the last few years (in some cases having the same miniature available in three different materials- madness!), and wanting to try some of them out.

Here’s a quiz: Before watching the video, guess which miniatures are made from which materials in the picture below (answer to be found in the video).

Hope you enjoy!