You didn’t think these D&D-themed posts would end with the final Ashardalon boxed minis, did you? There’s a bunch of these still to work through – and since we’re actively playing them, it only makes sense for me to be painting the models. So with that in mind, I’ve cracked open the boxes to both The Legend of Drizzt and The Temple of Elemental Evil and have been working on the models that looked the quickest and easiest to get done before I settle into the ones that require a bit more work. So with that in mind, here’s a yellow blob with an eyeball.
Yochlols are handmaidens of Lolth, the Spider Queen. Which should mean something to the fans of the Drizzt Do’Urden books by R.A.Salvatore. Now I’m not going to shit on them, though I understand it’s popular to do so. I read 2 or 3 of them 20-odd years ago and enjoyed them well enough as easy-to-read and enjoyable fantasy fiction. I haven’t felt compelled to chase them down again, but I barely have time to read anything for pleasure aside from the net between work, blogging and my preferred hobbies of painting and occasionally gaming. Here’s the writeup for Yochlols. To which I say “Sure, whatever. Why not?”
Painting was thankfully a doddle. Prime white, spray yellow. touch up. Contrast Nazdreg Yellow over the top, which gave those almost-cartoony-looking outlines to the sculpt. I wasn’t expecting that, but you know what? Sure, whatever. Why not? Paint the eye with a bit of care, do the base, gloss varnish. Matt varnish the base. Done!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
A simple model and quick colour scheme, but the eye detail is exquisite, only faced them a couple of times in D&D but remember they weren’t as easy to defeat than their look
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Thank you – it’s large enough that I could do a little something with it, and also the only part of the model that I could really do anything at all with!
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Great work on the eye.
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Thanks! 🙂
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Ive been interested for years on trying to pick uu the first Drizzt novel, but they seem to be rare books to find…. Nice weird looking model and paint job mate.
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That’s interesting. I’d have thought they would be in omnibus/collected books in pretty much perpetual reprints, given how popular Drizzt seems to be…
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Maybe it was a rare in South Africa thing more, i do not know.
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That makes sense, especially if they’d have been translated into Afrikaans for the local market?
Anyway, just did a search and there’s tons of them available right now:
https://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=drizzt&search=Find+book
It may well still be worth picking up the first one at some stage to see if you enjoy them.. 🙂
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Very nice. The gloss varnish over the contrast paint certainly gives a slimy look which I feel is perfect for the “column of ooze” that a Yochlol often is. 🙂
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Yeah,m the description was “like melted wax” which isn’t exactly the slimy look that I’ve gone for, but the model implies slimy ooze..
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Looking good
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Cheers!
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Very nice! 🙂 It’s come out really well with such a simple painting method!
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Good enough for a boardgame table, for sure!
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Cool work on that eye ball mate, I love this guy – he looks like an evil creme brûlée!
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Delicious but with very little in terms of health benefits! 😉
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Very nice- the work you put into the eye really lifts the whole mini.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete! There’s really nowhere else to do much on it! ;D
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It came out well and glad it was something you could turn around quickly. While the monster may have a simple design, I think he looks perfect as a foe while dungeon crawling! 🙂
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Yeah, I’m quite satisfied with it since it was so quick from start to finish. Didn’t take so long for me to start resenting the model. 😀
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The eyes have it!! Great stuff Azazel. It looks so slimy
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We’ll poke’im inna eye!
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I actually really like the look of it, sorry for the late comment but it was driving me mad trying to think of what it reminded me of, then Alex nailed it…” evil creme brûlée!”.
Top work, cheers Roger.
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Hahah thanks Roger! 🙂
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