Tuesday 2 February 2016

From PaulS - 28mm Critter Tuesday (85 points)


This week has mostly been spent painting critters to overwhelm heroic adventurers, whether they are deep in a dungeon, or stalking the ruins of a cold, ruined city.

The 9 rats and 6 bats came from the Dungeon Saga kickstarter and came with a selection of spiders as well, but those are still lurking on the painting table as we're both slightly arachnophobic ;)

The figures are all resin and, surprisingly, really nicely sculpted, with some great dynamic poses. The bats are insanely fragile though as the colonies of bats are only held together by the wings touching each other. I accidentally snapped two of these while painting them, they are that fragile. Thankfully, some superglue came to the rescue. I've added Sven the Viking as a scale point for these critters.

 

Speaking of scale... at the other end of the spectrum I also finally got round to painting Goliath. This is one of the end bosses from Shadows of Brimstone. Like most of the other monsters from SoB, the detail is soft and it needed a lot of filling and resculpting... but he looks pretty imposing now he's finished. That base he's on? That's 70mm... he's one biiiiig critter. Sven once again provides a scale reference.

So that is 9 rats, 6 bats and one Goliath to add to the totals. Only the giant rats count towards the Frostgrave totals sadly


Lovely work as always Paul. Hmmm, how to score these? Given that I've been scoring halflings as full 28mm foot figures, I think the rats and bats should be as well. As for Goliath, I'm going to score him as a 28mm mounted.

20 comments:

  1. The rats and bats are great and the Goliath is really really horrible. The mouth tentacles are really creepy. Love it

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  2. Fantastic! The rats and bats are wonderful but that 'Goliath' is something I must get for my collection. Brilliant work Paul!

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    1. Normally Goliath comes as part of the big Shadows of Brimstone game, but Flying Frog are currently selling them individually on their website.

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  3. Excellent work on these Dungeon critters and a freaky green dude puking strange tentacles. Sushi will do that to ya. :) Cheers

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  4. Nice looking bunch of critters Paul. Goliath is wonderful, but the rats are my favourites. But they do bring back memories of "Willard"

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    1. Yeah, it does rather. I only vaguely recall the Crispin Glover version... I think I need to go and dig out the original

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  5. Very nice indeed! I love a good swarm but the prize goes to Goliath who is most impressive and more than a little Lovecraftian to boot.

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    1. The model construction was fairly lovecraftian as well ;)

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  6. Very nice mate. I have already taken mental notes on the goliath, superb

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  7. I suppose I'd also better go for a new target goal of 1200 points please Tamsin

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  8. All three subjects are excellent, I want me some of those rats as they are GIANT rats

    Ian

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  9. Damn! That is a great bunch of creepy-crawlies, Paul, excellently executed!

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  10. Goliath is awesomely unpleasant...well done!

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  11. nice paintwork, the rats are really nasty and seem to be ready for the race ;-)

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  12. Great stuff, specially the green monster with the purple tentacles!

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