D&D Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt – Dinin Do’Urden, Drow Drider #Monstermarch7

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D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider

Another of the few remaining outstanding models from The Legend of Drizzt Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Boardgame to show today. This model is a “Drider”, which is to say a hybrid of “Drow” (aka Dark Elf) and “Spider” (you should already know these things).

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider

Apparently this particular Drider is also a relevant character from the Drizzt “universe”. I googled it and it turns out that Dinin is Drizzt’s Brother. I may or may not have read the relevant book back in the day (I read a few of the first ones) but don’t recall a whole lot about them now, 20+ years later except that they were enjoyable enough pulp fantasy affairs to read while travelling on a trip overseas.

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider

Again, I wanted to give a “naturalistic” look to the unnatural colour, and so have mottled the spider-abdomen on old Dinero here. It’s a little washed out in the photo, but you ger the idea.

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider, Massive Darkness Giant Spider

In something that should come as no real surprise, I painted Din Djarin here alongside the Giant Spider from Massive Darkness a couple of weeks ago. I’d wanted to hold off posting him until I had some more of those D&D models from the same set completed to post alongside, but as I’ve lost a lot of time over the past three weekends with other matters and the month is drawing towards the end, I decided to just get him posted up today.

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider

The main reason I’ve needed to get him posted today was of course for the Monster March painting challenge, over at Path of an Outcast I’ve got one more week to see how much more I can get painted and posted…

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat #Monstermarch7

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Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

Today’s post features another Zombicide model, but not from 2nd Edition, but from the original Zombicide Black Plague campaign. Another one of the really wacky Abominations, a sibling of sorts to the three others that I painted a couple of years ago. We have the Abominarat.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

Aside from Zombicide, this model does have several other uses in games – when I finish building my Age of Sigmar Skaven (I’ve got plenty of models waiting in the wings), it can serve as a slightly-underscale Hell Pit Abomination (which is good, because I really don’t like the official model) and also as a (more “officially” scaled) Mutant Ratfiend when I use that same Skaven army as Kings of War Ratkin. I’ll just sabot him onto a large MDF square, or we’ll just live with the round-bases in friendlies.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

Being a fairly large critter, this model also slots very nicely into the Monstery McMonsterface challenge run by Swordmaster at Path of an Outcast also known as the Monster March painting challenge. Which, let’s face it, is certainly helping me to get these larger models that have been sitting around for literally years (2, in this case) completed…

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

This model was kind of a tricky one to photograph as it’s very much a 3D model. What I mean by that is that the model has something of significant size sticking out on each of the four angles of the model – the head, tail and both outstretched arms.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

Of course, he’s still covered in boils and pustules and growths, so I still gave them the usual red-yellow-ivory look to make them stand out a little from the rest of the Abominarat’s unhealthy looking flesh.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

As you can see, I also added a bit of gore to the Abominarat’s left claw – this was made up of the messed-up, congealed remnants of my first pot of Citadel’s Blood for the Blood God paint. I later added some more BftBG over the top – and did the same to the little pile of gore on the model’s base.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

The blood spatter was kept to just a bit on each claw as I didn’t want the model to be overwhelmed by little flecks of blood paint as it’s already a pretty busy model with all of the boils and folds and creases and spikes and scars, and of course those bulbous veins that I had to tint with a touch of blue to make them more lifelike. Berkeley once again comes to the rescue and does the hard work to show us a scale shot!