A Minifigs knight

 This is a Minifigs knight that I've painted up for use in RPGs: an old-school D&D fighter, I fancy. 

I find Minifigs miniatures interesting to paint. They were sculpted with solder, I believe, so they're quite unlike modern miniatures, and there's plenty of room for freehand and imagination. I think they also work particularly well for RPGs for the same reason: there's no oversupply of detail, so there's plenty of scope to imagine what the character looks like aside from the miniature representation. 

I'm experimenting with a very basic form of non-metallic metal on these figures; I hope to improve as I go. As they're based on 20mm squares, they'll also form up nicely in threes as Hordes of the Things elements with 60mm frontage. I plan to base cavalry on 20 x 40mm for that reason and to make them more manoeuvrable in RPGs (big bases are quite limiting in that regard).

I've got quite a lot of Minifigs knights to work on (eBay acquisitions over the years). I'm also going to be using other old-school figures in the same project: Lamming, Heritage and very early Ral Partha (the cruder Wizards, Warriors and Warlocks range from before Tom Meier really hit his stride).