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..., or at least some nice sailing ship models...
Once upon a time, during my Dungeons & Dragons days, I attempted to paint my own miniatures. The primer/base coat went horribly, horribly wrong, however, and I decided that it wasn't worth the effort after all. Sad, sad waste of perfectly good money, paint, and figurines, haha.
The minis for DnD are not really worth it because it is impossible to have a mini for every possible encounter. That is unless you are a rich nerd with a regular, years long meeting group and a nice sized garage or basement and strictly only run low level.Nowadays, I think most folks have moved to pogs. You get thin circular pieces of wood or plastic and paste printed graphics from your printer on them if you are feeling industrious. Most of the time though, we just used dice. Lets say you were fighting 10 orcs. I would just put down 10 10 sided dice and turn the face on a different number so it would be orc #1, #2, etc to keep up with HPs.
That said, there are a few older (50ish to 60ish) wargame nerds in my hometown. They do nothing but historical minis battles. Every terrain, every battle is handmade and the tables are around 15 foot by 15 foot. They have hand painted stuff they (and their wives) have been painting for decades and can field any battle or any era Stone Age to Napoleonic to Modern.That is the most elaborate set up I have personally seen for minis.
@ Ariete..For those that do not know, some of those particular minis are EXPENSIVE nowadays that she has shown in pics. Especially well painted. Those are the "cadillac" minis for old school mini wargamers. I have seen them in a collectors mini store off of Royal Street and that particular merchant was charging 100 to 200 apiece.