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D&D Monster Manual 54: Dungeon of the Mad Mage – Grung Assassins & Elite Warrior

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D&D Miniatures, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Grung Assassins, Grung Elite Warrior

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. 😀

D&D Miniatures, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Grung Assassins, Grung Elite Warrior, Murial the Misshapen, Heskan Dragonborn Wizard, Warhammer Warrior Priest

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!

Zombicide “Lucius” (Jean Reno: Leon: The Professional) and “Seth” (Liam Neeson: Taken)

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Zombicide "Lucius" (Jean Reno: Leon: The Professional) and "Seth" (Liam Neeson: Taken)

Another pair of Not-figures from the various sets of Zombicide models I’ve accumulated over the years and seemingly-dozens of Kickstarter campaigns. This time we have “Lucius” (Jean Reno: Leon: The Professional) and “Seth” (Liam Neeson: Taken)

Zombicide "Lucius" (Jean Reno: Leon: The Professional)

Both of these models had something in common – an almost-entirely black wardrobe. Of course, black clothing is never truly black-black, so I used a variety of very dark greys and blue-greys to give the appearance of different textures and materials over the two figures.

Zombicide "Lucius" (Jean Reno: Leon: The Professional)

Again, I’ve had these for years now and it’s taken me until now to get to painting them. Zombicide and all of it’s many, many expansions and seasons and add-ons have produced a hell of a lot of survivor models over the years, and I’ve got quite a lot of them, and so outside of times when Zombicide is actively being played on the table, getting motivated to paint these isn’t so easy to keep up, so painting the Last Night on Earth models has been useful in getting motivated to get some Zombicide models done as well, as I kinda alternate between the sets…

Zombicide "Seth" (Liam Neeson: Taken)

The second model from this pair is Leam Neeson playing that well known character from Taken – the one that everyone refers to as “Taken” since the character is such a no-name creation.

These two characters were pretty straightforward and quick to paint up, largely due to their simple and not overly-detailed form and dark clothing. Even though I used different tones on their jackets, pants and shoes, I doubt anyone would even notice if I wasn’t pointing it out here! 😀

Zombicide "Seth" (Liam Neeson: Taken)

Anyway, another set of Zombicide models done that will work for the actual game, as well as a lot of other moden and Zombiepocalypse-type post-apoc games. Notsomuch the full on Mad Max/Fallout type of setting, though at least Fallout is actually broad enough that these could probably still work…

This pair (foursome) of models are all perfect fodder for Ann’s “Neglected But Not Forgotten” painting challenge.