Green Wyrmling discussion and playtesting

[UtahScott]

Originally Posted by Shiftrex

Good point! Was just trying to operate in the current environment. As of today checking the thread, we still have nothing giving us the go ahead to nominate unpainted miniatures. With that in mind I'm unsure of how the group wishes to proceed.

The unpainted from nolzurs is ideal for myself, and likely good for anyone that wants to paint.

I think that the other minis are definitely rubbery, I dont have them on hand to comment.

Regardless of the failure of Age of Annihilation, there comes a time when the issue of unpainted minis has to be addressed head on, and that time is now.

Nidhogg is unpainted, and it has been accepted by C3V. $30. The painted version came out in 2013, but only as a case incentive, and even if you could find one now, the price would be insane. Avernus and all three of Xundar's Shadows are unpainted. The Wildwood Runner 3D printed sculpt is unpainted. If players want to continue the HeroScape triumvirate of sci-fi, historical and fantasy, especially with sci-fi and historical, what you'll be able to find nowadays will be either 3D printed models (unpainted) or unpainted miniatures. Paizo's Starfinder Battles line came out with one Wave, and since then? Nothing.

Kudos to Chill for finding the Hobby Lobby Dragon pack, but I've held it in my hands and I think they look bad. It's been a long time, but I echo others in thinking the Hobby Lobby pack's sizes are noticeably smaller than our Wyrmlings. If you put them on a board with other 'Scape minis, I think they'll look even worse. Until someone else buys a copy and does a group photo, as I did, with all the other Wyrmlings for objective comparision--$5 is not a big sacrifice--I'm advocating for detailed miniatures that were designed for tabletop play. If you have a picture of the painted miniature on the card, the fact that you personally might be using an unpainted fig doesn't matter. To ignore the widely available Nolzur and Reaper miniature lines is ridiculous.

This thread has been going for ten years. There still isn't a chosen miniature, a main sticking point. Continuing to argue means these 230 good-looking, properly-sized miniatures will also disappear. I'm going to have one of our locals paint this one up in Charos' color scheme, and he can take a picture of it for the card, okay?