I MADE MY OWN D&D MINIS! Let's paint! 

Ginny's Minis! Mini Di's! Mini Ginnys! GINNIATURES, if you will!! Get yours here: only-games.co/collections/ginny-di

As someone who struggles with mini painting, it's really nice to know that other people also just mess up and then repaint over and over and over and over..... they look amazing!

Those characters, all somehow thrown together into the same adventuring party, that'd be an amazing thing!

3:00 I took a hair (literally one hair off my head) and I use that for painting really tiny details such as Nakrasha's scar. If you use a stiff hairbrush bristle, that can do the same thing. Another option I've used is the very tip of a needle.

I love the logic of using makeup techniques to think about the shading on the face. So cool!

Ginny's Mini's! Brilliant!!! 😂 They look fantastic, it must be such a thrill to have miniaturised versions of your characters/cosplays!

The minis look amazing. Love all the details and to my untrained eye you did great on the paint job

Ginny's Minis!!! The excitement was definitely worth it!!

Welcome to miniature painting! I started a year and a half ago and love it! It's so therapeutic to just put on some music and focus on your painting, forgetting about everything else that's going in your life/in the world.

Just an amazing job painting Na'Krasha there. So good.

I'm thankful for Ginny Di releasing videos. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday.

That's an awesome paint job. I especially like that you mentioned using some of your make-up skills for determining highlight colors. People in the mini-painting community have been discussing that recently. For basing, you have sand and dirt and rocks right outside your door! Hobby tip though, bake them in an oven for a while to kill all the bacteria and make it safe for use!

Looks great! * turns head towards a bunch of unpainted framework and pre-set nolzur minis waiting to get painted * Thanks Ginny, you game me an inspirational kick to get some actual fun work done! Orange, Purple and Yellow dragonborns of Sorcerer, Ranger and Fighter classes 😁

Heck yeah, man! These are great! Sensibly dressed, fantasy women minis from a creator I already enjoy? Yes please! I know where some of my Christmas money is going already :)

The minis looks great! I'm so glad you're sharing these with us.

This is absolutely one of my favorite videos!!!!

Great job on painting those! It's a really great feeling when you bring minis to life with paint, even more so if they are your custom characters!

The minis look great, and you did a fantastic job painting and showcasing them! I especially liked the dice around each mini as you highlighted them.

Your minis are so beautiful!!! Great painting, Ginny! I completely agree with the notion that it is all-too-easy to lose hours in hyper focus on this amazingly meditative task. I think everyone should get to experience that at least once in their lifetime. So happy you’re having fun!!! Please keep sharing!

As someone that has been painting miniatures for about 30 years and has taught my friends and family how to paint, I gotta say that you're doing a great job! you've got the basics down pat and you understand layering concepts well. Just keep practicing and _enjoying_ the painting! The one suggestion I would make for you would be to set up a miniature stand for the mini's while you're painting. I use some poster tac to secure the miniature to an old paint bottle so I dont have to touch the miniature while painting. It also makes it a LOT easier to rotate the mini and get into hard to reach spaces. If you have videos of painting the other mini I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we'd love to see that!

I love her. Have her dice set and can't wait for the mini. Want to play her in our next campaign. You inspired my current character my tiefling barbarian

Oh wow!! You did such an incredible job Ginny! Cannot wait to add these lovely characters to my miniatures collection.

I cannot wait to get the whole set and paint 'em up!

Never added something to my cart so fast. I would love to see the paint process of the other models down the line. Helps me so much as a hobby painter seeing others who are rather new to the art share their experiences!

You've finally hit the big time. You don't just have minis, you have minis based on you. Next up, action figures and play-sets, board games, card games, comics, novels. Maybe even 1M subs. Who knows where you'll be in a year? "Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there's footprints on the moon!" Seriously, these are really cool. Good for you! ❤

YAY Mini Painting! They look amazing, they look like they were a lot of fun to paint

Got into mini painting with a reaper start painting set. It's one of my favorite hobbies now, and the paint jobs on these minis look really good to me! Really recommend it to anyone, there's always room to learn but you'd be surprised how good you can get a mini to look with just a few basic techniques.

Really cool work you! I can tell you're a creative because, even for someone uninitiated in mini painting, she turned out so well!

This video was brilliant. I enjoyed seeing your painting process. And I can't wait to add the whole set of your miniatures to my campaigns.

Ginny's Minis!! Woo hoo! I can hardly wait!!

They look amazing. Might add these to my game, my players all know your videos, so having them come up against this bunch would add an extra dimension to the game. Both the characters and players having heard of these adventurers would be a good twist!

as someone who is also an absolute beginner at mini painting, I am EXTREMELY impressed. mine have never looked that good

Your skills with makeup (which are awesome by the way) are totally transferable to mini painting! Great work Ginny 😊

The struggle is real! These minis are really nice - keep up the painting, you only get better the more you do it. Great work and nice video too 😁

ive been waiting patiently since the live for this video to come out and omg it was so worth the wait!

Awesome!!! Congrats Ginny!

As a miniatures painter, I do always like seeing others venturing into the hobby, very good job and glad you had fun with them too :D

Aww this was so cool to watch! I haven't painted minis in years but this brought me right back :') And you did great! Feel free to do chill painting videos any time you like, it's so relaxing to watch 😊

Amazing! I've been painting minis a decade and I'm still learning new techniques. You did amazing and it's cool to see your OC's as minis!

It's neat that your skills with makeup translate into miniature painting. I love how one form of art can influence another.

This is awesome! Love the commentary. Easily making me want to paint up my minis again!

25+ years mini painter here :) You did a pretty outstanding job!! (you should see the chaotic glob I did on my first Space Marine xD) You handled lights and details great. And special mention to the gradients in Wisteria's skirt, which are usually hardcore for an initiate. Very good!!

The greatest strength of mini painting imo is that it has a low floor and high ceiling. Extremely talented and experienced painter's make their minis into astounding works of art, but it's also fairly easy for a beginner to make something that looks pretty decent. It is essentially just a 3d coloring book.

Awesome work on the painting! I’ve ordered my set of minis and can’t wait to get them and ideally paint them (the pile of shame grows ever larger).

Love these figures and I adore those personalized dice sets for every character. Beauty is in the details.

Love the vid! I don't paint minis, but I love watching them get painted!

It’s really cool to see that the minis turned out really nice without much in terms of materials. I’ve been hoping to get back into painting minis myself. I think when I first started I was too impatient and tense but maybe this summer I’ll buy some and give it another go 💚💙

I only recently got into D&D but have been painting mini's for 20 years. Very nice job on these mini's!! For basing you could just scoop up sand from your yard and sift it in the grade you want and then bake it to kill the microbes. For the skulls i saw shooting by i would recomend a sepia wash. Also a wet-pallet makes a big diffrence!

You did a good job Ginny! They look great.

bloody awesome paint job ginny

As someone who used to get paid to teach people to paint miniatures, that's a really good job especially for a beginner. One thing to keep in mind when working with craft paints is that they are much thicker than miniature paints. While this isn't necessarily a problem if you can do what you need in one coat, going over the same spot to correct "mistakes" can obscure details over time. It's best to add water to get the proper texture (generally liquid chocolate is what you want your paint to be).

Literally painting minis as I watch this. Welcome to this corner of the hobby!

Ah, such a wonderful job! I love how your minis turned out!

She came out great! What I'd say when it comes to painting faces, I'd do things like the eyes first, or at least the whites of the eyes. That way, you can just shape them with the flesh tone afterwards. And yes.....I know all too well the pain of putting down a highlight, hating how it looks, then painting over it again lol. Wet paint will always appear brighter than how it will look after it's dried. Sorry for the ramble; she came out fantastic! And if you do base her, I use the Army Painter basing stuff with some PVC Glue (Tacky Glue) mixed with some water.

Good job! Looks better than my first attempt. Tips from friends was what took my minis to the next level. Dry brushing is great for armor and weapons but hell on a brush. I used an 000 brush for face detail.

What a great paintjob on all the miniatures :D

Army Painter makes some great basing supply, or you can use corkboard pieces for rock, air dry clay, baking soda and superglue, PVA glue and used dried coffee grounds... that's somethings that I've learned, as you know RU-vid has a lot of content to find. Just remember scale and you can even make grass texture paint with glue and pencil shavings. Love your tutorials and content. I've learned from your channel and thought I'd share some of my knowledge with you

Always happy to see new orc lady miniatures. Will be fun to see how that miniature response to ink-washes.

I just want to say that I've finally found a group and your tips help me be a better dm and make my players love dnd. Thank you Ginny

These are looking awesome

Those look fantastic especially for a beginner!

Killer work Ginny! Love watching you try out (or more so show off) other hobbies that I also love doing.

These look awesome! Well done, both on the sculpts and the paint! I also struggle to paint faces, you did really well!

These look great! And unlike a lot minis, they actually come across as distinct characters with personality!

There's a lot of cool ideas to be learned about mini painting from the warhammer community. Things like washes aren't as common for DnD minis but add SO MUCH DEPTH to them if you can recreate the look.

They look great. I highly recommend using a zenithal high light after priming. I own a airbrush, but still do my zenithal high light with a cheap makeup brush to dry brush the mini. It makes details and areas that catch light pop out. Making blocking, shading, and high lighting easier. Cheers!

This is so cool, also I would love to see some more pov role plays with Elliwyn

Your minis look really cool and I like the painting. I only started painting this year (as well as actually playing D&D) and I too find it meditative. As my life's been completely turned up side down in the last couple years (problems at work and lots of health issues for my partner), your humor has been a welcome light moment when I could find the time to watch your videos. But painting minis, that's really been helpful for me to discover this hobby and allow myself some time for it occasionally. Thank you and keep being yourself

Thanks for the video! Great job on the new mini. Keep at it and I look forward to seeing how you paint the others. 😀

I can not remember where I first saw this tip, but you can use dry tea (from a tea bag) and glue it down for a basing material. It is only important that the tea be dry. If the tea in your tea bag looks too big, crush it smaller. - If you want to put rocks in the base, tiny pebbles found in sand on the side of the road can be used. Just wash and fully dry them first.

This is amazing. Helloooooooo Christmas List!

Great job! And YAY, they're finally in the store!

Wonderful video! I would love to see more miniature painting videos from you - something I see fairly commonly in the "mini painting" RU-vid world is experienced miniature painters experimenting with tools and techniques from the makeup and cosplay world, and I think it would be absolutely grand to see what an expert in cosplay like yourself can bring to the creative table.

Na'Krasha looks amazing! +1 to all charisma checks

AAA I love her! Something that might help with the faces: watercolour pencils! I do doll repaints where those are commonly used, and I brought them into miniature painting. A super sharpened pencil point made doing tiny details SO much easier compared to even the tiniest brushes. (Another doll repainting hack: Mr. Super Clear UV is a great sealant and makes paints/pencils/pastels adhere WAY better to the mini!)

Awesome video as usual Ginny! The mini sculptors did an AMAZING job creating them and I love the way you painted them! So fun!!

Absolutely awesome work Ginni from a fellow DM and miniature painter, I combine both skillsets in my campaigns to create hugely evocative game sessions that my players have really enjoyed, and have left the table thinking wow! You got this! 👍

Thank you for introducing me to this site! I appreciate it!

Fabulous just fabulous

Love stuff like this!

The set looks great! It seems like you could achieve a bit more control over the paint by thinning it down some more. On another note: I don’t use smaller size brushes for detail work, I only make sure that my size 2 brush has a superbly sharp point to it. I always ran into the problem, that the tiny amount of paint in a super small brush would partially dry on the way from the palette to the mini. With a large body brush, the paint will keep its consistency and flow much better from the bristles. Larger brush, still more control over the results. I know it sounds backwards, but my painting has drastically improved since I switched to the larger brush. Positive side note, I don’t need to change brushes for any job (other than dry brushing of course). Just make sure to maintain the tip with proper cleaning.

Love these miniatures. Very D&D but very unique. I have been looking at proprietary makes of minis to get back into fantasy roleplaying. These fit the bill perfectly so I have treated myself to the set :) They will make great new players charactors.

Great work! We love how you are always willing to try something different and expand your artistic talents!

Super cool, I've got a ton of minis hanging around, and am intimidated by painting them. It's so cool to see them turn out well, props.

Awesome! While I can't afford this hobby I did enjoy painting some orks back in the day. I hope you get to see how others paint these figures.

Thank you for showing your work. It is intimidating to see the war gamers painting. As a fellow neb I hope I can get my miniatures to look half as good as yours.

u slayed as usual ofc

Dropping a like for the "Only" joke! Love the sense of humor.

Thank you for another great video!

So, so lovely and cool

Great! Definitely picking up a Na'Krasha and Augury!

I actually saw a video where you paint the whole figure black & then lightly dry brush some grayish paint over the black , which helps create shadows ! Then you can paint over it with some colors

That pile of skulls, indeed, so subtle!

How did I not see this video. So awesome!

Losing track of time while painting minis is super easy. Last year I painted over 30 minis in two months. I'm currently working on four ware wolves and one female tabaxi. Then I'm thinking of adding to my zombies by getting ten more zombies and getting four more skeletons for my skeletons. Eventually I'll get more kobolds for my kobolds. I like having enough monsters minis for a game of DND. I've got enough trolls, orcs, and devil's. A very good friend of mine printed out some minis that work good as ghost or shadows. Painting minis is a fun part of playing DND.

They look soooo good!! Awesome job!! 😊❤

The orc mini came out well. I haven't painted for a very long time, but I found the black undercoat intriguing. I would expect that to give a dark, moody atmosphere. However is it being used as a variation on black lining, where a white undercoat is used and a black edge is painted around all the joins (like around a backpack)? That gives a simple shading effect. I can see the black undercoat being more forgiving as holidays won't show up as badly. The approach to painting the axe blade was a surprise. Start with black, then paint light gray, then silver, then tone the shininess down seems quite involved. A metallic drybrush over the black undercoat would give a very good effect, at least with the paints I used. Metallics are difficult, and I did sometimes revert to using a spirit-based Humbrol enamel, especially if I wanted to put a transparent color wash on top.

Pretty good 👍 Wanna to see your lil witch in colours

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That‘s so epic! 😍🙌🏻