Today we have the second model in my “piggy” trilogy of models. A Dire Boar from Reaper’s Bones line. I’ve had this thing sitting around for a few years now, with a vague plan to probably paint it for one of these Monster MayHem ’23 painting challenges, but also with no real urgency to spend even the small amount of time needed on it.
With us currently playing through the D&D Adventure System Drizzt Boardgame presently, and the character Athrogate having a summonable boar called Snort, I picked up a pair of Wizkids Wild Boar recently to replace the card token in the game. Now, I’ll admit I really wasn’t fully paying attention, as it turns out that Athrogate’s boar Snort is a summonable Hellboar, and the card token’s footprint is equivalent to a 50mm base. I didn’t find either of these things out though, until I was writing up the text for the board the other day.
Sooo.. that meant finding the Reaper boar. Mold-lining/basing/prepping/priming and then quickly getting it painted. And now, having gotten it finished last night and also having polayed the second-last of the Drizzt missions last night, we’ll have Snort painted and ready for the final mission! While it’s unlikely that we’ll play through this boardgame campaign ever again, there is future use for these figures and components via the cross-compatability between each boxed game so you can make your own adventures with any combination of heroes and monsters as well as the recently-released Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign expansion. So either way, even after the last game of the Drizzt campaign that will have been played less than 24 hours before this post goes up, Snort should see a table top again one day in the future…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Great pig. Far from boring. Great likeness as well.
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Haha thank mate! One more to go if I can finish it today sometime…
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Ha HA !!
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That’s another mean lookin’ critter! 🙂 I like the colour scheme – quite distinctive!
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Thanks John! I guess if an animal has the name “Hell” in it, it’s probably going to end up being quite reddish! 😉
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Now THAT is a Hell boar! Nicely done mate 👍
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Thanks Alex! I thought I’d based it on a too-large base at first, but turns out I got lucky!
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Now that’s a hellboar ! Great colour usage to identify the beast, and works really well with the art.
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Cheers Dave! It can be handy to have these essentially-disposable models on hand sometimes!
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I’m fond of the original little piggies but this one clearly fits the bill better!
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Thanks Nicolas – the others will go in with my other wild beasties like the Moose family until they’re needed. 🙂
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Great Hellboy!! Oops, wrong blog! That is an awesome Hell Boar though. Honestly I wasn’t crazy when they started templating D&D monsters (in 3e?). Dire, Undead, Vampiric, whatever. Things just start to lose their uniqueness. I get it, technically anything could have those traits, but why would you want to run a Dire Vampiric Beholder? That’s too much for the DM to keep track of! Anyways, having said that…your Dire Boar is damned cool looking and now I’m rethinking this whole Dire business, haha! 😃
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I’m not sorry that I missed that era of D&D, I have to say! I mean, I could see some of them that make sense for various creatures but stacking them just seems – as you said – a bit much. Dire works for me when it comes to animals – just means big and nasty and potentially rabid (to my mind, anyway) – though this Boar isn’t “Dire” in this instance – it’s just “Hell”! 😉
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Building off what Brian said, I like the Hell tinged Boar. For some reason, it makes sense that those two things might be linked and your paint job certainly makes the boar look pretty intimidating. If I had a choice between two regular wild boars or this one, I know which one I’d opt for 🙂
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I guess it’s just a porcine version of something like the readily accepted Hell Hound or Hell Bat etc
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