A little more D&D today, both figuratively as well as quite literally. These four figures are “Grung“, apparently, and no doubt predate and serves as inspiration for EverQuest’s Frogloks and in turn, Warcraft’s Murlocs. I checked out the D&D Wiki’s page foir the first time while writing this text, and so have just found out that the Elite Warrior “should” apparently be coloured either orange or golden. I had instead painted him/her/it with a series of black and yellow Rorscharch-like spot-markings to distinguish it as the elite. Ah well, keeping ’em green was good enough for Guk and it’s certainly good enough for me. 😀
Painting of these models was done pretty simply – a mix of VGC Escorpena Green (similar to GW Moot Green) mixed with a lot of yellow to achieve something like old-GW Bilious Green. This was then covered with medium-thinned Contrast Warp Lightning and left to baste for about three months. By which I mean they sat on the paint desk for about that long untouched. Then this week after finishing Murial, I did their bases, gear and eyeballs. Job done! I’ve included the “action shot” here alongside Murial, an official D&D humanoid and a Warhammer model to provide scale for both the man-scorpion and the not-murlocs. As with their boxmate, Murial, I’ve had them for long enough to qualify for Ann’s “Neglected But Not Forgotten” painting challenge – so 4 more done for that!
I like them! 🙂 That’s a nice green!
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Thanks John. Sometimes I like to go different, but sometimes I’ll take the obvious/easy road! 🙂
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Nice work, I think you did the eyes perfectly!
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Thanks Dave – nice and simple, but they work!
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The lizard wizard looks great! What company is it from? 🙂
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Thanks Angelos! He’s Heskan from WotC’s older D&D line.
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I got him as part of the Ashardalon board game.
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Very nice. I really like the mottling effect on the skin – very effective for frog humanoids whether that was intentional or not.
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Thanks! We’ll go with semi-intentional in that contrast on a smooth-but-uneven surface *is* going to do that, though exactly *how* it’ll turn out is down to the will of the paint gods!
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Nice work- It is a great green colour that you achieved.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete – bright, froggy green!
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They are very cool, but at the same time extremely cute as well 😄 great work
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Thanks Steve. I wonder if they’ll seem less cute once we have to fighht them on a semi-regular basis? 😀
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It’s a possibility 😄
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I’m hoping that they’re the kinds of mobs that you *want* to see from a random card-spawn – not too nasty, kill ’em quick and get some loots.. 😉
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Nice work I really like the markings on the lead frog.
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Cheers mate – I felt like I should do something with him to make him stand out a little more in gameplay situations, and since I hadn’t read the whole thing about them being orangey yet….
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I think it looks better this way than a totally different colour
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Yeah, this way they look like they’re part of the same group.
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Love ’em – the vivid green works really well. Top work on the eyes too, I always find big boogly eyes harder to get right than “normal human” sized eyes but from what I can see you’ve got them spot on.
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Thanbks Wudu! They were relatively simple to do as big yellow dots over black but looked a little plain so I highlighted and shaded them with Dorn Yellow and thinned light orange respectively. Of course, you can’t tell in the photos at all, but hopefully they just add a subtle unconsious look in hand. The real cincher is just the ultra-thin line, and credit to that goes to my W&N S7 000! 😉
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Hey mate I just love the Frogs! I just don’t know what to do with them if I purchased some! OH shit being retired is so busy!!
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Don’t say that! What will I have to look forward to? 😮
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Busy in a great way mate !!!🤓
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Not so bad then – hopefully – that’s how I already am now! (except for the work and the shitty parts!)
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damn right!
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These look great and hopefully they don’t terrorize your adventurers too much on the tabletop. Might be a bit embarrassing to die to a couple of frogs 😀
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Excellent looking Frogmen mate, with their shape I would have gone with poison treefrog colours but your green looks excellent. ( never guess I don’t like painting green ! LOL)
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Man oh man I love the green on these frogs! Brings me back to my F.R.O.G. platoon I did a few years back. It’s NOT easy to pick the right colors for frogs, and you did this exceptionally well. And Wudu’s comment on the eyes are spot -on. Really nice work!
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I am quite fond of anthropomorphic frogs and these look like fun little sculpts. The markings on the elite froglett are a nice touch. The green is also exactly as I would imagine for such frogs.
If the sculpts would be a tad better that would be a great base for a unit.
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