Chthon from Reaper, or maybe a grick?

A tentacle monstrosity from Reaper, a Chthon. I have no idea what that is but I might use it as a grick in our D&D campaign, or just an unspecified disgusting tentacled monster.

Mine is from the Bones range (77228) but you can also get a metal one from the Dark Heaven Legends range (03603).

Another fast paintjob. Vallejo 881 Yellow Green with an Army Painter Strong Tone Ink wash, followed by a drybrush of 881 and finally a very light drybrush of 912 tan Yellow. Tentacles got a wash of Citadel Washes Baal Red. Fangs are Bone White.

Gamer pal Gunnar has written a piece on our latest Pulp Alley adventure that is very well written and fun (but a bit short on truth). Go check it out if Pulp Alley is your thing.

If you want the true story you will find it here J

Sea Serpent from Blood Rage Boardgame

I backed the Blood Rage kickstarter earlier this year and I got the loot in in October. The first miniature is painted now - the sea serpent. It will obviously be used in the game when we start playing, but it could also see use in both fantasy and pulp settings. A great mini.

It’s made in a grey rather hard plastic that is easy to clean from the very faint mold lines.

Paints used:

Skin – Vallejo 928 Dark Yellow + wash with Army painter Strong Tone Ink

Tentacles - 982 Dark Yellow and got several washes with Citadel Washes Baal Red, more on the tips and only one close to the body

Mouth – 985 Hull Red highlighted with Citadel Scab Red

Teeth – Vallejo Game Colour Bone White with a Strong Tone wash and more Bone White as highlight.

Water – 962 Flat Blue with a wash of Citadel Washes Asurmen Blue. Highlighted with a mix of Flat Blue, Citadel Ice Blue and white getting progressively more white at edges.

Everything got a coat of gloss varnish and is ready for the table.

First stop will probably be in our Pulp Alley campaign on Perilous Island.

Shadows of Brimstone – Stranglers

Six Stranglers in the Shadow of Brimstone – City of Ancients box. These are multi-part miniatures - body with two legs and one arm, separate arm, 2 separate tentacles and a tail. There are some mould-lines you have to scrape off, but nothing serious.

The fit is decent but you will get some gaps that needs filling.

 I used green stuff.

Paints used:

Skin – Citadel Vomit Brown washed with several coats of Citadel Washes Baal Red around maw and on tentacles and Army Painter Strong Tone ink on the rest of the body.

Maw – progressively darker Citadel Red Gore/Citadel Scab Red/Vallejo 859 Black Red

Teeth and claws – Vallejo 034 Bone White washed with AP Strong Tone

Varnished with Vallejo Matt Varnish, tentacles and maw-area (essentially everything red) got a coat of Vallejo Gloss Varnish.

I based these on 25mm transparent bases from Sally 4^th instead of the original 30mm bases.

I’m very satisfied with the result, they look real icky and weren’t too time-consuming to do.

Next on the paint table will be the Night Terrors. I’m not too sure about those, not my favourites. See what I can do about them.
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Shadows of Brimstone - Tentacles

The first group of monsters from my Brimstone boxes is finished – tentacles! My philosophy on the Brimstone minis is essentially to get it all painted in a relatively short time, so I’ll try to use simple paint schemes, washes and drybrushing. Nothing fancy, but I’ll try to make decent paintjobs.

To be able to start playing with my toys I will concentrate on one of the boxes to start with. City of the Ancients have most appealing monsters as a whole, in my opinion, so they go first.

You’ll find six tentacles in each of the boxes, so these were the perfect ‘monsters’ to begin with. I did all 12 of them in one go, to get an assembly line going. They are one-part but have rather disappointing mould-lines. I had to accentuate the folds in the hide and also carve out some of the suction cups as some of them started out as lumps more or less. Not too difficult though, and well worth the little extra effort.

Adventuring really sucks!

Paints used:

Skin – Formula P3 Traitor Green with an Army Painter Strong Tone wash and drybrushed with Vallejo 914 Green Ochre.

Suction cups were drybrushed Vallejo 944 Old Rose.

Rocks – 987 Medium Grey with Strong Tone wash.

Finally a group-shot of some of the monsters. As you can probably see there will be a lot of green-stuffing the next couple of weeks…

Next on the painting table will be the spider thingies.
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Tentacles, I need tentacles! Gricks in 28mm

I’m eagerly waiting for figures from two Cthulhu-inspired kickstarters, Shadows of Brimstone and RAFM Call of Cthulhu. I have to wait a long time still, before anything shows up… but I want tentacles now!

Checking all my boxes I found something with at least tiny tentacles. Prepainted plastic gricks by WotC, made in 2008 and sold for their AD&D skirmish game.

The paintjob on them was horrible, bright blue… argh.

A fast paint-job, made yesterday evening.

Paints used

Body – Citadel Foundation Charadon Granite

Stomach drybrushed with Vallejo 870 Medium Sea Grey

Rest of the body and tentacles drybrushed with Foundation Calthan Brown

Suction cups – drybrushed Vallejo 944 Old Rose

Tongue – Citadel Scab Red

Army Painter Dark Tone Wash painted in creases

The base is coated in a household grafite-grey paint with some added fine-grained sand, and drybrushed with Vallejo 884 Stone Grey