Category Archives: Marouda’s Models

WizKids WZK90068 D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Grick and Grick Alpha (D&D Monster Manual 86) (Monster MAYhem ’23)

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WizKids WZK90068 Dungeons and Dragons D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Grick and Grick Alpha Miniatures

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.

WizKids WZK90068 Dungeons and Dragons D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Grick and Grick Alpha Miniatures

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.

WizKids WZK90068 Dungeons and Dragons D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Grick and Grick Alpha Miniatures

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.

WizKids WZK90068 Dungeons and Dragons D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Grick and Grick Alpha Miniatures

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.

WizKids WZK90068 Dungeons and Dragons D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Grick and Grick Alpha Miniatures

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…

WizKids WZK90068 Dungeons and Dragons D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Grick and Grick Alpha Miniatures, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

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

WizKids WZK73357 Pathfinder – Deep Cuts Minis: Medium Earth Elemental (D&D Monster Manual 72) (Monster MAYhem ’22)

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WizKids WZK73357 Pathfinder - Deep Cuts Minis: Medium Earth Elemental

I just wish these titles could get longer. There is still a point to these long, unweildy blog post titles, though – and that’s so they can be found via a google search. After all, a lot of these models’ primary purpose ends up simply being painted models on the internet, as I paint a wide variety of models and don’t get to play any of the games they go with nearly as often as I’d like to – and so in order to give the models a longer online “shelf” life than the little bump of regular readers once the post goes up, it’s also important to ensure that they can be easily found using a google image search. That applies whether it’s a detailed paint job that’s taken me weeks to get finished, or something siomple like these models that were largely drybrushed over the course of a single afternoon.

WizKids WZK73357 Pathfinder - Deep Cuts Minis: Medium Earth Elemental

The trade-off, then, is generally not being able to use amusing puns for post titles as I used to do, as a lot of my fellow bloggers still do (and I do enjoy that lowest form of comedy myself!). I guess I should talk about the paint process… Uh.. after some cleanup/mold line removal, I mounted these on 50mm bases, added a bunch of slate chips around the eges to blend in a little with the rocks that surround the models, painted dark grey and then drybrushed both up with browns and greys. They then got toned with Green Stuff World’s Liquid Pigments – one in green and the oither brown, and then finally both drybrushed again with light grey and finally white on the highest points to desturate them and tone the pigments back down.

WizKids WZK73357 Pathfinder - Deep Cuts Minis: Medium Earth Elemental

The transparent crystals were masked with blu-tac (poster putty to some of you) and then painted with Green Contrast paint, and after the matte varnish of the entire model gloss varnished by brush. Eyes were simply painted in, red over yellow, though you can barely see them in most circumstances due to the hunched posture. That’s really the majority of the work. After all, we’re talking about a pair of cheap & cheerful PVC models meant for tabletop use.

WizKids WZK73357 Pathfinder - Deep Cuts Minis: Medium Earth Elemental, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

Good old Berkeley provides us with the scale shot, as is usual, and we have another two minor monsters completed for this month’s Monster MAYhem challenge!