Favorite 28mm dragon?

[Nathaniel Weber]

Hi everyone—I have a hankering to paint a 28mm dragon*, but fantasy ranges (outside of GW) are not ones I have much familiarity with, and I haven’t been able to refine my google search terms enough to get me a nice view of what’s out there.

What’s your favorite dragon model?

I have a 3d resin printer, so if it’s an STL that’s fine.

*meaning one that scales well with 28mm minis, not a 28mm-tall dragon

[Olaf Meys]

I have no idea where you’d find one, but the Great Spined Dragon by Nick Bibby has always been my favourite.

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[Andrew Beasley]

A more reasonable sized one of this would be nice (links to Geek Gaming on YouTube) and Etsy is way OTT now (1000+ on this search).

Sandra Garrity has done some great ‘classic’ ones – Cinder being one though care needs to be taken to hide the wing join.

A more evil Wyvern (maybe OK in your book as a type of dragon) is from Bob Olly – Bile

Hatchlings are sadly under used in games – the Blue is a nice one.

For a smile there always are the cute dragons from Reaper – Rocky ‘sneaking’ is my current fave.

But the current love of my life is the Pathfinder White Dragon – can be hard to find so here’s a video of one being painted!

[Kitfox]

Another one that’s harder to get hold of from me I’m afraid, the Heresy Miniatures Dragon.  I believe Andy may still cast a few of these to order in what he calls “imperfect”.  However, his idea of imperfect is in my experience entirely acceptable.

Fantastic figure, with a sense of scale and movement and despite the size it was dead easy to build albeit somewhat intimidating to paint…and yes that is a 28mm figure for scale.

Death to all fanatics!

[Mike Headden]

Reaper miniatures have a number of dragons available. My favourite is the Julie Guthrie designed Narthrax in their Reaper Bones (plastic) range. About a tenth of the price of the Heresy one and lighter to boot, I imagine.

 

 

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[Sane Max]

I second Reaper Bones. Cheap as chips and fun to paint, plus one very very important bonus.

Many years ago, a young lad brought in his High Elf Dragon to the shop to show us his paint job. I think it was an excellent, wonderous paint job, but cannot be sure because as he lifted it from the foam he had transported it in, he dropped it roughly a foot and a half and it smashed into about 8 pieces. Heartbreaking.

My painted Reaper Bones Marthrangul can be bounced off walls like a ping-pong ball without suffering damage. I have tested this and it’s no exaggeration.

[Geof Downton]

Anything by Tom Meier…

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[Nathaniel Weber]

Thanks everyone—great suggestions!

[Andrew Beasley]

Just come across this mud dragon – very very different.

 

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