I put this Expensive D&D Nolzur's dragons to the test... 

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I love the nolzur's sculpts, they all have a lot of action and implied movement, but the state of mould lines, flash, and in some of their bigger minis the gaps definitely leave a lot to be desired. its not on the same level of egregious as Forge World minis, but its still more issues than the price point would imply

I love jen's craft. She really takes her time with model prep and makes things look so good.

Could you guys do a metallic dragon next please? I feel like good dragons rarely get any love.

I painted my first model with color shifts (turbodork) about a month ago, and yeah it was super nerve-wracking because you feel like there's no going back and if you mess it up or scratch it you'll ruin the whole effect, but I think it's a lot more "organic" than that and it all kinda works out in the end. Great job!

The colors you guys use for your line highlighting / edge highlighting and base coats are always so nice. I can never think to use different colors outside of the shade im using, and it just makes everything look flat. Im assuming that will come with practice and studying, but how you guys make everything work together is so satisfying and just looks so high quality (not surprising by any means coming from TTT!)

Outstanding work Jenn! I love him. You've inspired me to attempt my own, much smaller dragon mini who has been sitting naked for the longest time. So, as Murray so eloquently put it, DRAGONS!!!!

My Nolzurs dragon collection is MASSIVE! Lol I really need to paint them all. I haven’t got this size though. Wow so cool!

Awesome work! I love how the focused use of color shift added something really special without looking overblown

it looks fantastic!! And I absolutely love the base as well

I think this turned out really great over all, I feel it might of brought it more together to hit the body with a dry brush of the gold to brown. But I really do like that contrast between the more plated scails of the neck and tail.

Jenn. . . This is an absolutely beautiful model! I know the pain of painting a large model that’s fully put together, so massive props to you for doing this. I’m jelly of the skill, patience and persistent that you had to see this one through. The colour changing paint was a great call too. If I ever saw something like this on my dnd table, I would be completely blow away. Thank you for an amazing video! Can’t wait for the next one!

Beautiful job, Jen! This looks great. I really enjoyed the intro as well. Delightful.

Always love dragons! Nice paint job, Jenn!

You guys need to do that reverse centuar model from the sponsor!

Amazing! Paint job turned out really great, nicely done!

Great paint job! Love the color shift paint! Going to try it on my next dragon!

little tip on the wings: Place it in hot water first, put the wings in the desired position, then once you get them in place, remove from the hot water and dunk immediately in ice cold water to set them :)

Ohhhh this turned out gorgeous great job Jenn!

excellent paint job, very inspiring. Also the basing worked very, very well. Really pulled everything together. I will steal a few ideas ;)

Awesome paint job Jen!!! 😊

Beautifully done!

Nice paint job jen it turned out really well

Size CAN be important but only for two specific subclass namely Rune Knight and Path of the Giant. Because they're normally built to be grapplers and they can grow to Large size, which means they can grapple huge creatures but not Gargantuan until level 18 where they can grow to Huge size (or if someone casts Enlarge on them) and then can grapple Gargantuan creatures. As someone who played Rune Knight in a 3-20 campaign, the different between Huge and Gargantuan actually was something you had to consider.

That paint shift! Well worth the risk. I'm looking forwards to Murray painting his own dragon. It's always cool to compare all of your paint styles and approaches.

Jen, you did such an amazing job! I had always wanted to paint a dragon… until I got one. Lol. My son got me the biggest dragon he could find - and i’ve been painting it for two years now! I had assumed (incorrectly), that such a large mini would be a dream to paint, but alas, she’s hard work - there are sooo many scales. You made her really beautiful and I hope that you guys have a great time playing with her and putting her to great use. And that was a brilliant use of the colour shifting paint!

Amazing work Jenn! Huge mini, I would have no idea where to even start 😅

Well done Jen! That dragon looks awesome. And the base!! *chefskiss*

I adore your hair colour so much! The dragon is cute too but that shade of pink is so nice

That’s dangerous Jenn; don’t get between a Murray and his dragons.

The mold lines, flashing and price of adult dragon minis drove me to get a resin 3D printer a few years ago. Best mini hobby decision I have ever made. It literally paid for itself with 2 adult dragon prints.

The edits are amazing

That is STUNNING

Had to go back and see if Jen was under the table the whole time or editing. Love this channel. Also I hate working with wizkids minis.

Don't know why, but this vid out of all the recent ones made me realize something : I'm glad to see Jen smiling, speaking more and having fun, compared to her shy behavior at the relaunch of TTT 2 years ago. Feels like she's way more confortable on and behind camera, which makes the vids themselves more fun to watch ^^

i almost always press like in videos that i enjoyed in the end, but there has been many times where there was a single moment in the intro that made me press the button right away. for this video it was the "hello there"

If you want something that can turn out well, in small quantities when creating ponds. That transparent blue glue. Can't remember the brand, but I'm pretty sure that it's Elmer's Glue.

Turned out really well, Jen

I've been working on a few of the younger versions of these dragons so your timing is perfect! The weird thing is both the dragons I have, the wings are in a similar position, which has made it more difficult to get in on the tops of the wings. I'm sure I'll figure it out though. Thanks for sharing the process!🤘🏼😎

If you stick the tail in to some hot water, you should then be able to push it on to the stump on the body. Jen under the desk made me giggle.

Looks really good

Oh my God, Jen! He's beautiful! Awesome job!

"hey lets get some lunch" "yea sick"

Awesome video love the paint scheme, may I suggest you add ammo mig masking putty to your tool box, it would have made painting the dragon easier and its reusable.

DRAGONS!!!

Im so glad I have a 3D printer and can print a model like this for only a couple of bucks. After 2 of these you even have paid for the printer itself.

just wow top job

It's quite odd that the tail fits worse than it does whenever I 3d print big models. You'd think that at this price point pieces work together better than they do with resin prints made with cheap resin. Like if I used something nice like TGM-7 those parts would fit perfectly because of minimal, if any shrinkage, but nah I use Sunlu ABS-like, which is by no means a perfect resin.

Amazing job on the dragon, its super hype! Just not sure how i feel about the vicious price tag on a model that costs the same as nearly 2 Archaeons though

I'd love to see Dave explore Battlefleet Gothic like he has Epic!

Jenn's Quote of 2023 - "I don't think size is incredibly important....thing when it comes to D&D." Mmmmmmhmmmmm.

Great job, just wondering what paints you used?

What a dragon! Love it! Also love the music during the display at the end, what is it?

Jen the covetous, the dragon thief

Dragons? Dragons!

oh no i have to do some modeling

Try magenta under yellow, works surprisingly well

Dragons!

Looks good but i wonder why you didn't just go to your local Bong and Wolf T-shirt shop (you know the ones) to pick up a big dragon miniature. You could have got it for like 40 bucks along with a cool lighter with a weed sign on it and maybe some Crystal Pepsi flavour vape juice.

I'm curious why Isopropyl Alcohol was used for the Milliput rather than Water 🤔... I always use water with success but maybe its better with alcohol? Anyone know why?

Nice beasty

“Line-moulds”

I love dragons

Ive found the prepriming sufficient to keep paint sticking to them and their pricepoint is so much lower then GW. Not having to build or prime them has made me lazy and they keep sneaking to the front of the painting que

The dnd dragons often are bigger that AOS or 40k

For a moment I thought the sposnser would be dragon city

Nolzur was supposed to be this cheap alternative to prepainted models and now they price them twice what they should cost xD

why does it come pre primed when you have to remove a bunch of it when cleaning moldlines seems counter intuitive lol

Is there a channel where they play a campaign on a realistic game table? D&D channels seem to be either building cool looking terrain to play on, or people just sitting around a table playing a campaign. Why don't any of them use these as visuals while filming themselves playing a campaign? You could add cool low camera angles, a couple of sound effects. Anything that would keep the audience following and engaged. That would be really cool.

I have a 3D printer, so I don’t buy preprinted minis anymore…this dragon is freaking rad, but I think that’s largely because Jen made it rad.

I believe that Nolzur's models and all Wizkids models have preapplied Vallejo Grey primer, idk how it's applied, though.

Heat in mouth watching u carve away mould lines 😅

😍😍😍😍😍

A model at that price should fit right in place? Laughs in forge world …

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Just soften the tail in boiling water, slips right on.

No need to carve the tail unless it is massively mismolded. Just put it in recently boiled water. Similar heat then cold can fix bent bits on nolzur minis or to move limbs on minis temporarily or permanently(I also now know I have to dip my green dragon in some hot water as one wing is drooping).

Save yourselves the trouble by priming Nolzur minis yourself. Every one I've owned that came "pre primed" seemed to be paint repellant.

The Nolzur's sculps are cool... as a 3D render. The quality of the casting (injection molding?) is often very poor and I've found they are not designed in a way to be easily painted. Cloaks, wings, arms, and weapons often get in the way of your brush more than with other manufacturers.

It is a cool model, but to be honest? I paid that much for my resin printer... And there are A LOT of cool models for printing available (Archvillain Games has a very nice green dragon in their welcome pack, for instance, and Loot Studios has an absolutely amazing red dragon in an earlier bundle) and those don't have the disadvantage of being pre-assembled in such an awkward pose for painting. It's a great option if you don't want to print your models, but if you do, there are far better options out there!

I don’t think any of the Nolzur’s models are made with mini painters in mind

I kinda like most of the Nolzur sculpts, but the price they ask does in no way reflect the absolutely atrocious quality of the minis. I recently bought a modron quadrone to kitbash into a character for my D&D game, and it was such a frustrating experience. The molds had obviously slipped at some point, mold lines and flash everywhere, and their primer had clogged so many details... sigh.

The metallic on a chromatic dragon annoys me to a stupid degree. The models looks awesome but I can’t get around that

Why is Jenn always under tables?

Next time instead of carving the dragon, try to boil the "MALE" part for like 5 minute. Is molecule will be malleable and more easy to "mold" the tail part!

Yeah the sad part about a lot of these overpriced models is sadly there so poorly done like the outside looks nice but when you have to put pieces together they don't fit well you think it was a knockoff that you just paid an exorbitant amount of price for but ironically enough a lot of them knockoffs there's people that take pride in their work even if it is a 3D print of an already done model I've seen 3D print models that go flush together better than gamesworkshop models I've seen kitbashed 3d printed models that go together more seamlessly and fluidly then any games workshop or do you need or any model I've had before they go together as fluidly as like a gundam model kit I had someone 3D print the giant bust sized model it was almost 2 ft tall it came in 38 pieces thing fit together completely flawlessly

While it was a cool experiment, I don't think the color shift worked at all. It would have needed to be used on ALL the scales, it made way to much of a shiny contrast.

After the my little pony comment please do a diorama of a black templar duelling a my little pony lol

I hate the way the wings are straight up.

Did I really hear her say, "Size doesn't matter in D..." Just asking.

After buying a nolzur goblin, i decided to stop buying nolzur in the future. The size was insanely small even for a goblin, and it was filled with mold lines with almost no details either. Imma just use my 3d printer from now on.

I dont get why they sculpt all their dragons in flying poses so they have to add that ugly clear plastic, just pose them in standing positions. Incredibly overpriced.

lazy painting

The official D&D model are terrible quality and the prepainted ones are just horrible.

Put the wings in hot water

I wish these miniatures weren't so damn expensive.

Why not cut the wings off and re attach later pin and glue

DRAGONS!!!