November 2023 Monthly Round-Up

Now we have a very belated round-up for November of 2023. As you can see with the count of only 11 models, this was when I just petered out and stopped painting for the year – taking a break from painting and blogging to pretty much just play video games and do other things until mid-January when I started painting again, and mid-February and a resumption of posting.

So let’s do the numbers. I had 364 models at the end of October – we add the 11 more and I’m barely over my personal annual “soft target” of 365 with a total of 375 models painted in 2023.

Obviously I could have gotten far more done if I’d kept painting in November and then gone hard in December, but to be honest, the end of year stretch at work was a lot more taxing for multiple reasons than it’s been the past few years, so another excursion into Azeroth was what I needed instead. I’ll do one of them “hobby reflection and new years goals” posts a bit later, but in the meantime I understand that Dave Stone is still running challenges, so I need to get the stuff I’ve done in 2024 posted up before February ends…

WizKids WZK90248 D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Otyugh (D&D Monster Manual 99)

WizKids WZK90248 D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Otyugh

Today we have the first model I finished this month, one that I started for Monster March/Monster MAYhem but didn’t manage to finish for either challenge – a literal shit monster (apparently), the Nolzurs’ take on an Otyugh.

WizKids WZK90248 D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Otyugh

As you can see, it’s a pretty simple model, and there’s really no especially good reason for it to have taken so long, but when it comes down to it – it’s just a pretty uninspiring model since I don’t have a strong connection to D&D and this model was a lot smaller than I expected.

WizKids WZK90248 D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Otyugh

I mean, it’s not a terrible model or anything. I was pretty surprised at how small it is compared to the other Otyugh that I have, via the Wrath of Ashardalon boardgame model. This one is a much nicer, more detailed and dynamic sculpt, it’s just so much smaller. I’d have done a direct size comparison, but there’s a bunch of crap in the way of the case that the WoA model is in, and I didn’t want to delay getting my October posts up.

WizKids WZK90248 D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Otyugh

I did also want to give this model at least my own minimum amount of effort rather than just slapping some wash or contrast on it and calling it done, so I still tried to make it look a bit naturalistic in its colouration, and I had a little bit of enjoyment painting in some exture on the tongue.

WizKids WZK90248 D&D Nolzurs Marvelous Miniatures Otyugh

Anyway, this one is done now, so that’s never a bad thing. I do notice that this is the 99th D&D Monster Manual post, so I should probably try to come up with something cool for the 100th post… 😬