I thought I’d break up the relentless monotony of scenery posts with a miniature. Remember when I used to paint those? It is another D&D board game model, though I think it’s a pretty nice one – from the Tomb of Annihilaiton set. The Girallon is apparently a four-armed, white-furred gorilla with tusks. Ok, I’m fine with that. It’s a lot less silly than many other D&D critters I’ve painted and posted here over the years, after all!
Pretty straightforward to paint. I added a tiny bit of purple and then brown washes to the grey-white fur to give it some hopefully-subtle depth and variation, though not so much to make him look like a punk rock fan out for a night on the town. I’m quite happy with how well the flesh tones came out. A pretty nice model in the end, and something I’m happy enough with for the 50th D&D post!
Since the Tomb of Annihilation board game seems to be set in a thickly wooded outdoor area, I’ve modified my D&D monster bases for that set just by a subtle amount. There’s more brown in the grey of the flagstones, and I’m adding some cut down moss tufts to give a little more colour and reference the wild outdoors, while still leaving them sparse enough to fit in with the other games’ models. After all, a bit of moss growth between cracks in a dungeon is also feasable enough, right? Just ignore how large these “moss” tufts actually are…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Looking good mate – I do love me a good gorilla based monster 😊
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Cheers Alex. It was surprisingly pleasant to paint as well!
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Not heard of this one before, reminds me of the white apes from John Carter, but you’ve done a great job on it. As for the size of the tufts, perhaps there is a Gnoll who is tending his garden, and this beast has just lumbered through his vegetable patch ! LOL
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Next D&D splatbook monster: Gnoll Gardener!
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Nice work, I love the white fur. Presumably the smaller, lower set of arms are used exclusively for beating its chest, King Kong style?
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Yes.
I’m sure they are exclusively for beating it’s ….chest.
Nothing else.
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Very nice, as said above John Carter immediately sprang to mind!
Cheers Roger.
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Thjanks Roger – and i really need to read/watch John Carter some day…
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Quite a menacing beast there, very nice! 🙂 My first thoughts also were of white apes of Mars, but I think it’ll be a beast to be avoided just about anywhere!
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Yeah, I’d probably give it a bit of an avoid it I saw it out and about in real life…
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D&D really has some blood weird monsters don’t they? Great work as ever!
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D&D really has thrown everything at the wall, and I think they’ve also used it all, whether it figuratively stuck or not!
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This is one of the better sculpts I’ve seen you tackle and you did a nice job painting it. I think the bright face and light colored fur really look top-notch! While many of the D&D sculpts seem to be trying a bit too hard to me, I think this guy is perfect as an adversary in a lot of games. I could see him in Shadows of Brimstone for example 🙂
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Meant to say better D&D sculpts. I wouldn’t so far as to say this is higher quality than GW!
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Yep, that’s what I assumed from the start. 🙂
It’s a really nice model from that range, and really it’s head and shoulders above most of the Brimstone ones as well, though it’d also be head and shoulders shorter than them! 😉
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Haha, good glad to hear it 🙂
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