About Halfling Sarah
Sarah Randolph is an audio engineer, musician, miniature painter, and owner of The Halfling Painter miniature printing business. What started as a hobby became a full time career. Now between weekends of recording sessions and gigs, Sarah prints and paints minis for Table Top RPGs and Wargames.
The Halfling Painter Story
In early 2015, some friends I played Magic the Gathering with asked me if I wanted to try my hand at Dungeons & Dragons, and my life was changed. From the minis, to the maps, journals, and character creation, I fell completely in love with the unfettered creative potential of role playing games. Since then I have been developing my miniature painting as my career and most favorite hobby.
I was in school for music, specifically sound recording: a half science, half music degree. My career was my passion and I landed internships and a full time job before I graduated. For 6 years, I worked at and eventually managed a state of the art recording studio. While working as an audio engineer, I still painted minis. At the beginning of 2020, I decided to put some minis I had painted up for sale on Etsy. I was running out of room for models at home, and I wanted to start playing Warhammer 40k, so needed some extra cash. I recycled an old rule we used to use while playing magic: Any money made from trading cards must be spent on buying more cards. So, I would sell a mini, buy some minis, sell a mini, buy some minis.
Then, the pandemic hit, and I was working from home, taking care of the recording studio remotely. I was selling a mini or two a week and thought that, if I had a printer that I could run while working from home, I could paint more, and sell more minis. I decided then that instead of buying minis with revenue from painted models, I would save up for a printer, and in June, 2020, I was able to buy one. By August, 2020, I decided to go part time at the studio, and focus more on minis and on freelance audio work. Throughout the second half of 2020, I worked harder than ever before: training my replacement at the studio, developing a successful freelance audio career, and printing and painting more miniatures for games.
I'm typing this little bio and it's 2022. What started as my little mini business created so I could just fund the hobby has turned into my main gig. I still do freelance audio/video because I love it, but the mini biz is my focus and priority, and it has been unbelievably rewarding. I sit with a paint cue a mile long, 8 printers (and counting) running day and night, and a fully functioning business. I celebrate every day. Thank you for supporting my shop!
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- Sarah