Another Monster MAYhem post today – I’ve now gotten to the point of having quite a few models to post up, and since I like to keep my posts more individual to a type or set becasue it makes it much easier for me to find and refernce models in the future, we’re going to have a little run of daily posts rather than every two days so these May models don’t run into the middle of June.

Don’t speak to me or my son ever again!

So first up, we have a Grick. Well, a pair of Gricks. A couple of right Gricks. Specifically, a Grick and Grick Alpha, which I presume is the bigger one. I’m not sure what the difference is in D&D terms, but I have to presume the Alpha is simply the “boss monster” version of the species.

Pretty simple miniatures. I went with more or less the official colouration, but decided to do a little experiement, After the base coat and wash part, instead of drybrushing highlights I instead used a bit of foam and tweezers to use the “foam weathering” technique on the hide to try and create a naturalistic looking, uneven pattern to the creatures’ colouration.

As I mentioned with the Chaos Toad Savage in yesterday’s post, I do like using low-importance models like these as experimentation, and I’m pretty happy with how the “sponge weathering” technique worked out for weathered looking creature hide while also being pretty quick and easy. I’ll definitely be pulling this technique out again in future.

This pair of Grick (Gricks?) also work as my next submissions for the Monster MayHem ’23 painting challenge. There should be a few more of these beasts coming in the next week or two…

Berkeley once again provides us with a scale shot as she adds to the no doubt endless collection of trophies mounted on her walls!