I have several pounds of old lead that I have neither the skill nor patience to try and paint, so a while back, I asked some of my followers who have ample amounts of both to take a crack at some. And this week, because the results are awesome, I’m sharing them with you! These are the work of Paul Munger!

The templar – whom you might recognize – is an interesting miniature. He was sculpted by Tom Meier for Ral Partha some time in the 80s. He was later included in the Three Stages line (basically a set of three minis depicting a character at three different power levels) for the cleric class. He also wound up in a bunch of TSR boxes. You’ll see a plastic version of him later this week in the Dungeon board game post, and he also showed up in one of the late 90s introductory D&D box sets.

The wyvern is also Ral Partha, from the All Things Dark and Dangerous line, sculpted by the legendary Julie Guthrie. I love this paint job so, so much, partly because the color choices were so surprising.

The shambling mound is from Grenadier’s short-lived 1980 D&D license line and originally appeared in the Denizens of the Swamp box.

Paul was the first painter to get his miniatures back to me and I can’t really express how shocking it was to see these things I’ve long known as fairly boring silver lumps come back in such brightly colored incarnations. The miniature painting part of the RPG hobby has always been a bit of a blind spot for me (because of the lack of skill and patience) but seeing how gorgeous they came out did a lot to open my eyes to the appeal.