I’ve decided to keep hitting the D&D models in an effort to knock those remaining numbers down so we can play the boxed games at our leisure. Today’s fodder is a trio of Bugbears and a trio of Doppelgangers. Or to put it another way – a trio of decent-for-boardgame models and a trio of trash.

The Bugbears are some of the better sculpts to come out of these Adventure Boardgame boxes – solidly “Nolzurs” quality, which makes total sense.

They do at least manage to have a little bit of character along with some reasonable detail. Of course, I’m judging these things on a sliding scale. They’re not Citadel nor Rackham nor Tre’ Manor or even FFG Boardgame sculpts. They’re very comparable to random Reaper models, for example.

But yeah, ultimately they’ll do the job, and I’m happy with this trio of Wookiee-wannabes. Browns and metals, pretty simple, but enough details on them so I needed to have my eyes open to paint them over the course of a few days.

The Doppelgangers on the other hand are much more on the trash side and were two coats of Contrast over white spray, two or three layers of drybrush, a little bit on the faces and eyes, and then the bases. I guess it’s probably a byproduct of trying to create finely detailed models in this scale in this material.

They look pretty much like Greys to me, but I guess this is their “unchanged” form before they use their polymorphine to take the shape of that Ork Bodyguard model before assassinating the Warboss to put an end to the WAAAGH for the God-Emperor of Mankind. Or summat like that.

I thought I’d add in a Player Character model here so the size difference can be seen. The Bugbears have a bit of bulk to them, while the Doppelgangers look pretty weedy. If you enjoy looking at Bugbears, why not wander over to Faust’s Blog, Double Down Dice and check out his recently-painted gang of bears that don’t actually look like bugs.