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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 WK73554 Deep Cuts Miniatures Wild Boars (D&D Monster Manual 84)

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WizKids WK73554 Deep Cuts Miniatures Wild Boars

So not exactly heavyweight monsters from the old Dungeons and Dragons catalogue this post – instead we have a pair of piggies. The WizKids Deep Cuts Wild Boar Miniatures to be exact.

“But why..” You might rightly ask “..are you buying and painting piglet models?”

The answer is pretty simple – it’s part of my “shoring up” of the Drizzt set before I plunge back into the depths of painting the next of these D&D Adventure System Boxed sets.

WizKids WK73554 Deep Cuts Miniatures Wild Boars, Athrogate

As regular readers will know, I’m not exactly a D&D lore expert, but it seems that our Dwarf friend Athrogate from the set has a friendly boar companion that the Drizzt box provides in the form of a card token. As I’m sure you’ll understand, I could not let such an affront stand, and so I spent a few bucks on this set of Two Little Piggies so I could, erm, plug that gap.

Apparently Athrogate’s Boar is AKSHULLY called “Snort”, is summoned from something called a figurine of wondrous power”, is large enough for him to ride on, and is actually a summoned Hellboar. And yes, I did read all of those details after purchasing and painting these two. All I can do in response is point to these models and say the words “Look! Piggies!” I mean, still better than a cardboard token, amirite?