So I'm looking for a large dragon mini, large as in the size in PF\3.5 from the D+D line. Looking online, you can't always tell how big the minis are, and I'd prefer to have a large mini and not a huge one. Can anyone advise me what to look for? Thanks.
There are three Large red dragons in this set, to start.
What kind of mini are you looking for? I get that you want a large, but are you looking for metal, plastic, or paper, or whatever you can find?
I'm guessing metal since plastic is usually pretty easy to find out the size, and because you didn't specify color.
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Step 1 - Go to Paizo's website (that was easy ^_^)
Step 2 - type "large dragon" into Search/Products
Step 3 - click Miniatures link
Step 4 - Magic!
You might not be able to afford them and they might not even be available, but at least you'll know what they look like.
No, but really, there's a bunch of them that say Large in the item name. WOTC only made a few Huge dragons, and I think they're all listed as Huge. You might have to be careful with some of the early sets if they don't include the dragon's size, but this search result will get you most of them.
Buy a bag of lizards from a toy store for three bucks. Buy a chunk of epoxy putty for ten bucks. Magic
Liz, I couldn't buy anything from THAT set. Callous Jack is a complete reprobate, and I could never support his racy lifestyle by buying his art. Actually, I mean he is the best DM in the world, and I would never question his great wisdom.
Velcro, uh, thanks, now I feel silly. You are right about the prices, though, and while I could do that, spending that much for a single mini is difficult.
Thanks everyone else too.
The reaper pathfinder dragon is pretty boss.
It is the wrong size category, isn't it?
Lawrence, I completely understand what you mean about spending $20 - $30 per mini. You might check your local gaming store to see if they have individual miniatures for sale. Our store sometimes has a dragon and on occasion they are even reasonably priced. I got a couple of decent dragons (albeit huge, not large) for about $8 - $10. Of course you're probably not going to find the most popular dragons (red, white, blue, etc...) at that price, but you can make do. My adamantine dragon works just fine as a black dragon.
You can purchase a "toob" of dragons which has eight or ten dragons for about $10 from Amazon.com or, if you are lucky, your local Michaels, Hobby Lobby or other craft store. I purchased one and have several usable dragons that I've mounted on large bases. So figure those were about a buck apiece. Of course they aren't classic D&D dragons, and in some cases I did some mods on them to make them more D&D dragon-ish.
I have been building a dragon collection for the past few months. I started with five or six dragons and now am up to more than 60 dragons. Only a few are Wizards of the Coast or Pathfinder or other dragons intended for use in D&D. The vast majority of my dragons have been purchased from other, cheaper, sources, or more commonly, are the result of me modifying or flat out creating dragons from scratch. It's amazing what you can do with some Sculpey clay and a bit of acrylic paint. Plus there's the satisfaction of having created something yourself. (I've added several more dragons since I took that photo in the link.)
I purchased a bunch of Mage Knight minis and some of the mounted figures are pretty nice dragons when you remove the rider and add wings made from epoxy putty or foam sheets. In some cases I just took wings intended for other purposes and attached them. The best of these seem to be made from Halloween bat wings, which you can buy at 30 a pack for $5 or so at your local Halloween supply store (so get 'em now because those stores will be closing in a month...)
Anyway, good luck with your dragon acquisition. My dragon collecting started much as yours seems to be starting with me simply wanting to get some reasonably playable dragon miniatures, and then choking on my Coke Zero when I saw the prices of them... So I improvised...
I believe that the young Red Dragon from the Legendary Encounters line of Reaper minis should work for this. And at under $7, it's a pretty reasonable price point, I would say :)
I believe that the young Red Dragon from the Legendary Encounters line of Reaper minis should work for this. And at under $7, it's a pretty reasonable price point, I would say :)
I'd never seen this line of miniatures. Thanks for the heads up. Assuming these are comparable in size to DnD minis, they look like a fantastic value for the price. They're beautiful.
Hmmm I don't know, I have it mounted on a large base.The reaper pathfinder dragon is pretty boss.It is the wrong size category, isn't it?
I don't know, I think there's a lot more fluidity between medium and large, and large and huge in metal miniatures. Like, is something an over-sized medium, or is it an under-sized large? I'm still not sure whether I want to base the Reaper Pathfinder marid as a medium or large creature. It's supposed to be a large creature by the PRPG stats, but it's pretty small for large. I think I could possibly make it look bigger by building up the base so the overall completed miniature is larger, but it still feels small.
I've got a Reaper demon that should be huge if I treat it as the creature it resembles in the Bestiary, but its scale is more "over-sized large." Is its scale actually "over-sized large" or am I just scale-confused because WotC plastic miniatures were all over-sized for their categories so I have the wrong idea of how big the categories should be? I haven't based the demon yet because I don't know whether to base it as large or huge. (It's Reaper's Dark Heaven line so it has a built-in base, but I base them on round bases anyway.)
I haven't assembled my Core Rulebook Red Dragon yet, so I don't know where it falls in there, but I have been working on the assumption it would be huge. The price point for the thing would suggest to me it should be huge.
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Hmmm I don't know, I have it mounted on a large base.The reaper pathfinder dragon is pretty boss.It is the wrong size category, isn't it?I don't know, I think there's a lot more fluidity between medium and large, and large and huge in metal miniatures. Like, is something an over-sized medium, or is it an under-sized large? I'm still not sure whether I want to base the Reaper Pathfinder marid as a medium or large creature. It's supposed to be a large creature by the PRPG stats, but it's pretty small for large. I think I could possibly make it look bigger by building up the base so the overall completed miniature is larger, but it still feels small.
I've got a Reaper demon that should be huge if I treat it as the creature it resembles in the Bestiary, but its scale is more "over-sized large." Is its scale actually "over-sized large" or am I just scale-confused because WotC plastic miniatures were all over-sized for their categories so I have the wrong idea of how big the categories should be? I haven't based the demon yet because I don't know whether to base it as large or huge. (It's Reaper's Dark Heaven line so it has a built-in base, but I base them on round bases anyway
I haven't assembled my Core Rulebook Red Dragon yet, so I don't know where it falls in there, but I have been working on the assumption it would be huge. The price point for the thing would suggest to me it should be huge.
It's quite tall, and has a big wingspan and a long tail, but a relatively small foot print. I think it works for both. - Caveat - I can't draw a straight line or level a picture so my sense of scale is likely off.
The bottom fits on, but clearly he extends out over it.
It's quite tall, and has a big wingspan and a long tail, but a relatively small foot print. I think it works for both. - Caveat - I can't draw a straight line or level a picture so my sense of scale is likely off.
The bottom fits on, but clearly he extends out over...
How big are those squares on that board?
How big are those squares on that board?
Each square is 1/2 inch. I have the same cutting board on my painting table.
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How big are those squares on that board?It's quite tall, and has a big wingspan and a long tail, but a relatively small foot print. I think it works for both. - Caveat - I can't draw a straight line or level a picture so my sense of scale is likely off.
The bottom fits on, but clearly he extends out over...
As the above poster said, each little square is 1/2 inch. The actual base is just slightly larger than 2 inches in diametre because it is scaled for warhammer minis.
He's sitting on a 2 x 2 dwarven forge tile here: pic
I believe that the young Red Dragon from the Legendary Encounters line of Reaper minis should work for this. And at under $7, it's a pretty reasonable price point, I would say :)I'd never seen this line of miniatures. Thanks for the heads up. Assuming these are comparable in size to DnD minis, they look like a fantastic value for the price. They're beautiful.
Reaper's Legendary Encounters series are quite good. I would say that they're at the level of DnD pre-painted minis in terms of quality. I recently bought some orcs, skeletons and goblins, and am satisfied with them. They're obviously not on the same level as unpainted minis (take Reaper's DHL line, or Warlord, or Pathfinder minis) but for large numbers of grunts they are definitely useful.