Creepy Crawlers

[BobbieTheDamned]

Love the centipede, really nice model. If you're after terracotta you might want to try getting hold of some of the Vallejo paints, the game colour range is a copy of the citadel one and I just checked and they do a terracotta.

The slug thing looks like a pretty good generic 'wandering monster'.

Guess you could use the fat lizard thing as a squig or something, not that you're short of them.

[MortiS-the-Lost]

RobertTheDamned wrote

If you're after terracotta you might want to try getting hold of some of the Vallejo paints, the game colour range is a copy of the citadel one and I just checked and they do a terracotta.

What I'm planning to do is to buy Coat D'arms paints to replace my old Citadel colours as they run out, Coat D'arms is the nearest range you can get to Citadel because they used to make the paints in the MK1 pots.

RobertTheDamned wrote

The slug thing looks like a pretty good generic 'wandering monster'.

Yea I've used it in games a few times now, I originally decided it was going to used it as a Nurgle creature (hence the colour scheme), but I've also used it as a Giant Chameleoleech and a variant on a Carrion Crawler.

I don't know about using the 3rd model as a Squig, it hasn't really got a very Squig-like feel to it and as you said I've got loads of Squigs to paint up besides. I'm toying with the idea of sculpting some scales onto it to make it more lizard like, but I'm not sure if that would work. I haven't as yet found anything like this creature in any of my Monster Manuals, Bestiaries, ect. The head kinda makes me think of a deep sea fish, I'll see where that idea takes me, but I'm still open to suggestions...

[Scumdog47]

Gross but good. :D

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Thanks dude
any ideas on what I can do with the 3rd creature?

[Marchomer]

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

any ideas on what I can do with the 3rd creature?

Mmmh... a Basilisk?

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Not enough legs and I'm not even sure it's really that lizard-like.
Plus I already have a very nice Basilisk from Reaper

[SamuelF]

After the well known D&D tradition of amalgamating two or more beasts into one fantastical creature of whimsey;

I hereby name creature number 3:

Scorpion Lizard 

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Interesting, but not really that scorpion like either (however that does give me an idea for a different miniature)

[Delves]

How about a Chaos Toad?

[MortiS-the-Lost]

hmm, yes it's got some toad like qualities to it ... Armoured Toadlizard?

[Delves]

Yes!  And maybe it has a tongue attack so it can draw Heroes into melee from 2 spaces away :D

[MortiS-the-Lost]

yea, now to paint the darn thing!

[Umboman]

3 & 4 remind me of the sandworms in Dune-the colouring/painting on the centipede is great.As for number 5 from what I can see it reminds me of the alien/species artist- Hans Geiger? or something.....I saw a lovely painted model from the Alien 3 film (with the long head) painted nutshell shiny brown & black,like a snails shell.The back is definitely like the alien creature-sorry cannot make out the face.It could be done in black & white but would be difficult.Needs finishing in varnish to give a shiny reptile shell appearance?Just a suggestion.I would be tempted to alter the mouth.

[MortiS-the-Lost]

I see what you getting at with the overlapping plates down the spine yea ... the old Citadel Hormagaunts from the 90's are a much better candidate for converting into Giger-esque Xenomorphs though all you'd need to do is replace the arms with the 'hand-ed' ones from a Genestealer

^ 90's Hormagaunts in typical horrible 90's colours (Photo © copyright Grayson Pike, November 2005. Used without permission)

Hmm a nutshell like brown sounds interesting, it's not one of the colours I considered for this mini but I might just go with it. I can do black pretty well, but the one in the Painted Example picture on Scotia-Grendel's website is painted in shiny black and white but I've got to say I'm not that keen on it.

Details never show that well in photos of unpainted miniatures, the head is somewhat like that of a deep sea fish, with large overlapping fangs, I've got a second set of these to get painted up at and I'll probably be doing some conversion work on them, but the first ones will remain 'as stock'

[uncle phil]

Old style metal Hornagaunts do make pretty workable Aliens.



and how I did it here..

http://www.cheddarmongers.org/prod/blog/uncle_phil/alienids

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Nice! that's pretty much exactly the conversion I had in mind

[Marchomer]

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

^ 90's Hormagaunts in typical horrible 90's colours...

Do I appear unpopular if I say that I like these colours?

[MortiS-the-Lost]

OK, so it's been a frikkidikidinking long time but I've finally finished painting the 3rd creature!


The green fleshy bits make use of Privateer Press's Formula P3 Battledress Green and Traitor Green as well as Citadel Camo Green. The Claws and teeth got my regular bone method treatment, while the more yellow looking plates on the spine were built up from a base of Citadel Iyanden Darksun, through Bubonic Brown and a mixture of Bleached Bone and Sunburst Yellow to pure Bleached Bone before being re-shaded with Griphone Sepia Wash to bring the tone down. Griphone Sepia and Thrakka Green washes were also used to bring out the details on the head. The eyes are Iyanden Darksun highlighted up to Badmoon Yellow with a Badab Black Pupil  

I still have no idea what to call this creature or how to use it in game, any suggestions?

[Marchomer]

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

I still have no idea what to call this creature or how to use it in game, any suggestions?

This is my propose:

He is known as "The third Creature", he looks like a stupid lizard-like creature but actually he's the aspect of a powerful and poisonous demon-like creature. He has two brothers, more lucky than him concerning the look, but weaker than him. Each of them were trapped long time ago in a different dungeon by a famous Archmage.

(Obviously: great paintjob as always!)