Reaper Bones Black 44040: Giant Bats (D&D Monster Manual 68)

Reaper Bones Black 44040: Giant Bats

Quick and easy win today – though it still took awhile longer than it should have to get them done, even after I started them – but here’s a trio of Giant Bats from Reaper’s Bones Black line of models, though I got these from whichever Kickstarter they dropped in. I know including them in the D&D series is kinda borderline, but Giant Bats are very much a D&D thing, and we all know that Reaper’s biggest thing is off-brand D&D models, so…

Reaper Bones Black 44040: Giant Bats

These are destined to maybe used in a D&D boardgame if needed, but otherwise will work as swarm models for Marouda’s Undead Kings of War army, and possibly as somethingorother in Vampire Counts …I mean “Soulblight Gravelords” for AoS.

Shadows of Brimstone: Slashers

Shadows of Brimstone: Slashers

Following up from the Void Sorcerers we have even more Shadows of Brimstone models. Don’t worry – we’ve got a break from these for awhile after these! These models are “Slashers”, though I keep thinking of them as Hook Horrors (I know D&D’s HHs are actually avian-inspired, not insectoid – but since I’m not a D&D guy the huge talons on these things keep beinging the name to mind.

Shadows of Brimstone: Slashers

They come from the Swamps of Death core set, and were painted as part of my attempt to try and get the core set models painted and finished (hopefully) in 2021 so we can actually try the game. The other impetus for getting started on them was Monster MAYhem (yet again). These almost got completed in June, but just slipped into the start of July, so they’re here.

Shadows of Brimstone: Slashers

The actual box comes with three, but the initial SoB kickstarter came with a set of bonus core set sprues, so I painted both sets and just did a trio each in green and in brown in case I run two sets of them for some reason down the line – and within each trio I also added some additional markings should I need to distinguish a “leader” from either group.

Shadows of Brimstone: Slashers, Reaper Berkeley, Zombie Survivor

Once again, Chainsaw Girl Berkerly makes a cameo to help show the size of these creatures.