Dragonlance was one of those things my parents would never have let me read if they had known what it was about. Not because they had kept up with the Satanic Panic around Dungeons & Dragons. They didn't even know what D&D was. It was because Dragonlance would have seemed obviously too fun.
They were of the opinion that I should be reading Dickens -- the kind of stuff forced on kids by parents who hadn't read Dickens themselves. My sister, who liked Dickens but hated me, encouraged this.
Thus it was that it wasn't till my teen years that I could return to things that were obviously fun. By then though we’d moved back to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka in the 90s was quite the cultural backwater. You couldn’t find Dragonlance in bookstores (though you did find Dickens). I only encountered it when a friend from New Zealand lent a couple of books - and taught me about this thing called Dungeons and Dragons. That was in 1993.
It wasnt until I went to college in the US that I finally came across it again. By then, however, it had already peaked and gone. There were so many other things in those expanding early days of mass Internet access to steal a young person’s attention - like White Wolf games, Shadowrun, and 3rd Edition.
As such, I was surprised and pleased when we were asked to paint a Ral Partha Red Dragon of Kryn for him and put it in a little diorama. Always nice to be asked to work on a piece of the D&D heritage. I'm also always a sucker for a diorama.
Here's the one we put together. The main components were 3D printed. The flames were sculpted, and the acrylic case was put together by hand.
This was painted to Exhibition Quality.
Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.
And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).
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