It’s been a long time since I posted up the first of this trio of models. More than four years, to be precise. Back then I was still using Photobucket, as you’ll be able to see, if you check out that link. It’s another post I need to delete from there and then rehost the pics here on WordPress, but I’ll get to that later. Too much on right now. Which trio of models, you (probably don’t) ask? They’re from the Scotia Grendel Dungeon Crawlers kit that I picked up bout 15-20 years ago. I still haven’t painted the froggy one, and in fact have NFI where it is right now. I’m sure that when/if it turns up, I’ll be able to knock it out relatively quickly using the Nurgle’s Wash technique I used the other day on that The Others model.
Anyway, this is another of those rather generic monster-types that can work equally well in any pretty generic fantasy setting like D&D or EverQuest or as another Deathworld beastie in 40k, alongside the resurrected Ambulls and whatnot. It was pretty uninspiring to paint, which is why it took a few years to get it over the line (and I also pried it off the original base I glued it to put it onto this oval and build up the ground a little with putty – that much looks much better now.
In the end, the hazard-ish, natural-ish colouration I went with was good enough, and for good measure, I did the eyes in one of the Greenstuff World Colourshift Paints, because fly-compound-eyes are close enough to this not-insect’s eyes.
So with that – and this updated Monster-Group-Shot, I’m dedicating this model both to my own Gender-Ambiguous challenge as well as another (small) submission for Swordmaster of Hoeth’s Monster March. This leaves me with one more day to see if I can get that Dracoliche done. Will it happen? We’ll see, but even if it happens, there’ll be a small delay of at least a couple of days before it goes up due to base-flocking, varnishing and then writing and photography. Let’s hope the next few days go well…
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Very nice! I do like the striking orange and black colouring!
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Thanks John! 🙂
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Nicely done mate – looks like you could get high by licking it!
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Just wait until I paint the toad!
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Very nice, building into quite a collection.
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Yep, there’s quite a menagerie of generic weird animalia gathering up…
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Great crawler. The orange is not easy, and you really pulled that off. I’ll have to check out the paint you used for the eyes, nice choice there too.
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Thanks Mark. I admit, I wasn’t convinced on the orange – especially when it was at an earlier stage. I think it’s more luck than talent if it looks good in the end here!
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Orange, like yellow, are a modeller’s bane – you did well.
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A good point, Mark. I plan to keep my Yellow Space Marines to a single squad and Lt/NCO to use for colour and interest to add in with a closely allied force. No time for an army of those!
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Excellent work mate, has a fantasy feel with a grounding in actual ! Can’t ask for anything more
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Cheers Dave. I wanted to go with a naturalistic bug-style scheme, but avoid a boring black.
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That is cool- my favourite so far. Made me think of the Tremors film for some reason too.
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Pete.
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I really need to rewatch that – all I really remember is Kevin Bacon and the VHS cover!
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Great pop on the orange, that’s really nice.
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Cheers, Mikko. Glad you like it!
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Paint job is brilliant mate, orange really pops👍
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Thanks mate, I certainly got lucky on that one!
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