Resin Busts & Display Pieces for Miniature Painting
Ausminiatures produces high-quality busts, centrepieces and display pieces for your next miniature painting project. We curate our designer collection to find the absolute best busts for painting, featuring licensed prints from top sculptors like Archvillain Games and Artisan Guild
Busts are a fantastic way to push your miniature painting skills. The larger format is forgiving while requiring different techniques than your standard 28mm/32mm miniature. You can play with large volumes, paint details too small for a standard gaming mini, drybrush with reckless abandon, or get your airbrush out and really have fun with it. They’re a large canvas, ready for you to express your vision.
We’re extra careful when producing busts. We aim for top quality prints, meaning no paint-catching layer lines, crisp textures, no dimensional warping, and minimal support removal marks. We use our own custom blend of resin to hit the sweet spot of detail and durability. We want to produce a bust worthy of your best paint job and hardy enough to survive a couple of falls off a tabletop.
Take a look through our curated selection below.
Featured Busts
All Busts
Why Choose a Bust for Your Next Project?
While 32mm gaming miniatures are perfect for the tabletop, larger scale busts are designed purely for the display cabinet. Painting a bust allows you to shift your focus from “getting an army done” to mastering high-level artistic techniques. Without the constraint of base rims or gaming rules, you can dedicate hours to perfecting skin tones, non-metallic metal (NMM) armor, and object source lighting (OSL).
Many professional painters use busts to practice volumetric highlighting and texture sketching. Because the surface area is larger, it is much easier to understand how light interacts with shapes—skills that will translate back to your smaller gaming minis.
Our Designers: Archvillain Games, Artisan Guild, and More
At Ausminiatures, we don’t just print anything. We carefully select sculpts that offer the best painting experience.
Archvillain Games: Known for hyper-detailed, dark fantasy aesthetics. Their busts often feature intricate armor, flowing cloth, and dynamic poses perfect for practicing different material textures.
Artisan Guild: Fan favorites for their expressive faces and classic Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) style fantasy tropes. If you want to paint a characterful Orc, Dwarf, or Elf, these are the gold standard.
FAQs
What scale are our fantasy/sci-fi busts?
Most of our collection falls in the 1:9-1:12 scale range. This is considered the standard for fantasy/sci-fi busts, offering a head size large enough to paint realistic details like eyes, but small enough to fit in a display case.
How do I prepare a resin bust for painting?
Sand off any mould lines or print artifacts. Prime the bust with your choice of hobby primer. An airbrush is useful to prime the miniature and base coat larger volumes, but not required.
Most of our busts come as a single piece. If assembly is required, use superglue to bond pieces together. Our busts are resin, so avoid polystyrene glues like model cement. Epoxy resin is preferred if the pieces are especially heavy. Fill gaps with hobby putty.