Saturday, February 5, 2022

Kicking off 22 with some larger monsters


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.


Citadel DG4 - Black Dragon - Tom Meier 1984




Reaper - Cavern Crawler 02730 - Bob Olley


Date, as ever with Reaper, a mystery.




 


4 comments:

  1. Brilliant stuff as usual! That Minifigs piece is really weird isn’t it!

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  2. The 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.

    I'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.

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  3. Great work on some classic sculpts, both old and new.

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  4. These are superb - especially the dragonnel!

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