Not the only miniatures I worked on in January, but the ones I finished.
Something Old
Minifigs AD&D Greyhawk series - 64 Aquatic Dragonnel
75mm Base
This wonderful creature was a Christmas present from my Old School miniatures Secret Santa. I had never seen it before but vowed to make it the first thing I painted this year. So it has been released from its packaging after 40 years and can be found lurking in coastal shallows and estuaries.
Something New
Reaper Miniatures - Carnivorous Pudding 4406 - Julie Guthrie 2019
Produced in smoke colored translucent plastic this giant beast required very little effort.
I magnetized it to allow it to be used off the 75mm base.
Something Borrowed
Grenadier - Fantasy Lords 138 Hippogriff - 1983
Color selection 100% stolen from the amazing Steve Dean
(but I cant get close to his wonderfully clean style). See page 2 of the link below.
http://www.steve-dean.co.uk/search/label/28mm%20Fantasy%20Monsters
Some Blue Things
These dragons came to me painted - rather than strip them I opted to use the original color as a basecoat and rebase, repair and tweak.
Reaper - Cavern Crawler 02730 - Bob Olley
Brilliant stuff as usual! That Minifigs piece is really weird isn’t it!
ReplyDeleteThe Bob Olley cavern crawler is a renamed version of the classic behir, from S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. It was wonderfully illustrated by Erol Otus on the cover: https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/modpages/modscans/s4.jpg.
ReplyDeleteI've not seen a painted Aquatic Dragonnel to date, and am surprised how undead-ishly skeletal it looks. I suppose that's an exoskeleton of sorts on it?? Regardless, your coloring was masterful and makes it blend into the water nicely (as a whale does).
Allan.
Great work on some classic sculpts, both old and new.
ReplyDeleteThese are superb - especially the dragonnel!
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