From SylvainR: 28mm Fauna for D&D (35 points)

 

If you ask my family, they will tell you I'm a cheapskate because, among other despicable habits, I love to "re-purpose" stuff, including miniatures. In the above photos, most of the animals you see are from my kids' toy box, except the bison, which is a souvenir from Alberta, and the dire wolf, which is from Reaper. With my kids' permission, I washed them, primed them and painted them for D&D.

Below, we have 3 pachyderms: an African elephant, an Asian elephant and an Indian rhino. Since these guys use dust to fight parasites, I give them a generous dry brush of beige paint. Now I can imagine the conversation when a party of adventurers will meet one of these:

DM: "An angry elephant is charging tusks first at you."

Player: "But this is an endangered species, we can't shoot..."

DM: "We are playing in a fantasy universe..."

Player: "... we can't shoot, it's protected..."

DM: "You're all trampled to death..."

For the bison and the dire wolf, I tried to recreate a grassland environment on their base. Not much else to say except the bison is a hefty piece of pewter and is quite heavy.

For the two marine animals, the challenge was the base. I wanted to represent shallow waters. I found plastic plants that look enough like seaweed, so added some to the shark's base but not to the octopus' since there was not enough room left with the spread out tentacles. I also tried to represent the wavy effect of light diffracted by the surface of the sea. I should have used the same technique on the animals but I chickened out as I did not want to take the risk of ruining my paint job, especially on the octopus whose skin was painted with inks.

 

Points claimed:

7 x 28mm foot figurines at 5 points each = 35 points

Total = 35 points

Thanks for reading!

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Great stuff Sylvain! I know many us share this habit of ensuring game-usable bits are preserved, painted and given over to the higher purpose known as tabletop wargaming. This is the Hobby Lord's work, and you have great examples here. While my prairie roots draw my eye to the bison, I have to say the coolest result here is with the shark - you achieved a great effect here, it pops and works - really great.

Also have to say I enjoyed your speculative elephant encounter with the elephant - a fitting end to that character and her/his party... 

35 points to kick off Wednesday!

GregB