I didn’t manage to get anything complete yesterday, but I did get lot of movement on a bunch of models – and this evening I’ve been getting some of them over the line – so now I’ve got a small backlog of May models to get posted up over the next couple of days. The first one of these is another of my Nolzur’s D&D models – the Carrion Crawler. Once again this one is for the Monster MAYhem painting challenge.
As with a lot of these monsters, it’s a pretty simple paintjob on a model that’s not exactly overflowing with fine details. D&D’s Carrion Crawlers appear to be some form of giant maggot-creature, and so painting it with maggoty colours seemed appropriate. I did give it a little bit of diffentiation with the underbelly, and went with prismatic paint for fly-eyes rather than the black beady ones this time.
I did heat the model up to pry it off its warped PVC base in order to glue it down to a plastic 50mm round base from Reaper. Often I’ll glue these Nolzurs-or-Reaper PVC model bases down to a real base, but given how warped (and uninteresting) this one was I just went with disposal instead. Aside from rare D&D gaming, I can use this thing in almost-as-rare 40k gaming alongside models like Reaper’s Giant Maggots or their Carrion Worms (I wonder what they’re supposed to proxy?) in either a Nurgle or Undead force.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
The maggot colour work great on this model! I am really liking how you have been giving these models a paint job that goes over and above what the casting has provided you to work with.
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Thanks Dave – to their credit, I’ll give this model from the Nolzurs line a “simple but still nice” grade for overall sculpt. Not unlike the Uber Hulk, really….
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Foul – I love it! Looks uncomfortably like the kind of thing I’ve seen under the microscope all too often…
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eww… I shouldn’t ask what it is you’re doing when you’re seeing these critters!
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Haha – yeah, best not to think about it too much! To save your imagination from running too wild – in real life I’m an ecologist and for my sins I’ve done a fair bit of lab work looking down a microscope at hideous maggots. Maybe not something anyone has hoped to grow up to do but it’s paid the bills.
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Ah yes, you’ve mentioned that before at some point. Maybe not the funnest part of the job I understand, but I have to assume that very few of our jobs are all-fun, all-the-time!
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Have to agree with Wudugast on this one! 🙂 Looks great and horrible at the same time!
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Haha thanks John. Glad to help! 😉
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Creepy! Needs slime. 😛 Nice work. 😀
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I may have to look into some clear-slime solutions that won’t get sticky (or yellow *too* much…)
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Lovely Beast of Nurgle proxy, very cool
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Cheers, Alex. Going to perhaps need to play the Nurgle force on the table one day!
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Great multi tones mate, makes it stand out from the rest, but not too far as they wouldn’t work as a group
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Thanks Dave. I need to get the rest of my actual OG Beasts of Nurgle painted sometime as well. Hopefully before the next monster month, but if it comes to that…
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The soft tones on the body really work. This creature is so revolting, and your giving it this pale look really adds to the revulsion.
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Thanks Matt – I’m not really a D&D guy so I sometimes go with “official” colours but just as often (or more) I just go with how I “see” the unpainted model looking…
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Loving the colours on those
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Thanks Steve! 🙂
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That looks a nice beastie- the maggot colour looks spot on too.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete – yup, maggot-esque it what I thought the model called for when I first saw the render in the listing!
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So creepy. I love it! Great work! 😀
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Thank you, IM! Glad I could paint something *you* could find creepy. 🙂
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I’ve got/seen green carrion crawlers, but the maggot colours are much much better! I’ve been thinking of getting a few of that figure in the Nozlurs range, and I might repaint the figure I have to match yours!
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I suppose if you have a few of them you could always keep the tones varied to tell them apart if needed. They seem like a nasty critter to have to fight in groups, given the size of this thing!
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Interesting, didn’t know they had moved away from the green color.
Looks quite creepy!
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I didn’t know they were green – I just saw the model and assumed/decided it would look good painted in a maggot-inspired scheme!
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Nice work on this creepy sculpt, mate! I would think a monster like that should be pretty handy and can substitute for any worm or insect-like enemy.
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Yeah, I figure something like this can be pretty versatile across quite a few genres and games – and you know how much I love that! 😀
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That looks very nice, or at least very gribbly. The pink underbelly works really well. I would certainly be glad of a chainsaw if I saw one of those coming at me.
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Yeah – either a chainsaw or really great cardio! 😀
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