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The setting for All Of Them VVitches is just full of cults. We've seen the masked and horned cult of the PIPER IN THE WOODS and the slimy-tentacled cult of the HUNGER IN THE GULF. There are regular Margaret Murray style witches and plague doctor sects. One of the rarer cults is that of HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. It's not really a social sort of cult. And the transformations visited upon its votaries are...abject. The lucky ones find themselves hosts for a writhing mass of HIS MAJESTY's subjects (03023, Worm Corpse, posted long ago but retouched here). Of these Ibn Schacabao has written plenty and no more need be said. But there is another manifestation of HIS MAJESTY's favor, and this is not wholesome to look upon. Too bad! You're about to look upon it! Ligotti wrote of transmogrifications like this. Perhaps the transformed cultists meet and communicate together, but if so, it is deep under the earth, and silently. Notice the strategic placement of tombstones: while it would be an insult to medicine and humanity to call this model 'anatomically complete,' it certainly will not pass decency standards uncensored. As above, so below. as it were. This horrible model is also from CP Miniatures, again their Night Terrors line. This one is listed as a Night Horror and certainly that checks out. I think I've alluded to the indie RPG "Deep Morphean Transmissions" before. The Night Horror above would be a perfect model for the Burrowing Vorm, a transdimensional gestalt entity of leech-faced creeps. I need to find some more like this, but perhaps with pants.

Hi All, I haven't posted in a good while, so I thought Id share a pair of pieces that are special to me - Giant Leeches! This was my contribution to bones 4, and it is always a gratifying (and edifying) experience to paint a mini I have sculpted. Despite the special spot in my collection, I didn't go crazy with the paint jobs. It is a pretty basic palate and only took me a day or two to complete. As sculpts, the goal was to make easy to paint minis that filled a gap in the lineup and hit the table pretty often - I think these achieved that. The anatomy was based on observations of several leech species, combined to make it suitably monstrous. Similarly, the green and orange color scheme was based on real critters.

Worked on some critters. The leeches were painted Walnut Brown and highlighted in medium grey. Then I went over them with Turbo Dork - 3D Glasses. Then wash of Nuln Oil Glossy. Ended up with the slimy/glossy look I was trying for. Dire Crab, I was inspired by the color scheme that many have posted here, which i think they were modeling a Blue Crab which seems to be more green with many interesting colors in it. I painted the whole thing Ivory, and then glazed inks and washes up and tried to be careful on where I laid the wash/ink down. Some were just one coat, like Reikland Fleshshade for the edges of shell and claws. Also uded Army Painter green ink and Nuln Oil (for mix with green for darkest part on top of shell) for shell/legs/claws, Reaper Sepia wash for in-between colors and the underside. Only paint I used was bit of black at tips of claws, and Tropical blue watered down to thickish wash for blue on claws/legs.

For Black Friday, I took advantage of Otherworld Miniature's sale to pick up a lot of minis I've been eyeing for a while for half-off. Fortunately, a lot of the minis I've really been after seem to be the least popular sculpt on their mold, if I understood the sale criteria correctly... I plan to paint up most of my picks over the next week or two, starting with the really excellent Giant Leeches. This is a fantastic sculpt, made super-easy to work with by the lack of any sort of broccoli base - meaning GSing up a base was super simple, one of my favorite aspects of the Otherworld Miniatures I've seen so far. However, I had a moment of hesitation: I've seen a couple of really good giant leech sculpts I'd like to do, but I don't like mixing sculpts by different artists... and I don't really need a huge number of leeches, to be honest. But at 4 for 6$, they were definately too good to pass up... So I thought: Hm, that mouth looks familiar... maybe... and then they arrived, and they were perfect. And now all of my players are going to die, alone and helpless, to a swarm of Purple Wurmlings... I kept my paint job pretty simple here, befitting the simplicity of the worms themselves! First, I basecoated the primed and based worms with a lighter purple, then drybrushed the backs with an even lighter one to get a little more of the texture. Then I washed with a coat of Citadel's Druchii Violet Shade, which really sank into the cracks, and darkened them a bit. From there, it was just a matter of filling the mouths in with Fresh Blood, then washing them with Army Painter Soft and using a fine brush to do the teeth in Leather White. Then I just did the bases up like all my other desert creatures, and called it a night! The whole group took around 3 hours start-to-finish; and a lot of drying time where I got a little carried away with the washes... There are four different sculpts for this set. I like the third one best (it has a commanding, leech-like presence.) I decided to stat it out as a CR5 monster, although for a group this large, a CR3 would probably be closer to what I'd use. Storm King's Thunder has an entirely adequate CR2 version, but it's a little weak tbh, especially since it's large... I'm sorry, a large sized monster should be packing some serious punch. That said, these minis are solidly medium - larger than a human, but they definitely couldn't be based on anything larger than a 30mm base like I used here. Their lack of limbs is a bit of a restriction in that way - ordinarily, a little bending and posing could have something this size on a 40mm base no problem, but it would leave them looking lost, especially the smaller one. That said, I like medium as a size category for larval wurms, so I'm happy with that - I feel like having them able to engulf a person fresh from the egg is a bit much. Maybe for a halfling or village child I'd pull those rules in. The super-deadly stinger and vicious bite will do for now... As a side note, I wish Barbarians had an ability, like Evasion for rogues, that turned con-for-half rolls into half-or-con-for-none rolls. I get that they get advantage instead, I just think it would be neat.

Hey, all! Its been a little while and I finally sat down and painted something. I put these guys together and I'm really happy with the shading. I wanted to put some water on the bases, so I tried wrapping them with plastic and pouring realistic water in. It... did not go according to plan. The water cured unevenly, shrank, left weird tide lines, partially peeled off... Basically everything that could go wrong with it went wrong. Luckily, I had sealed the model before pouring the water, so I was able to peel it off with an exacto and some tweezers. I salvaged what I could and I think they still look pretty good.

Howdy, For International Mini Painting Month, in the same vein... Leach it, Kev!

Howdy, For International Mini Painting Month I'm starting off slow... Suck it, Kev!