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This was my first shot at airbrushing, and my all time favorite D&D monster... I think I was surprised to see how quickly airbrushing got me 90% towards finished, then the last 10% expanded to take more time than I'd ever spent before... By the time I got to the mouth/gaping maw I was getting nervous... 'don't screw it up now!' I'm pretty sure this was the funnest figure to paint - the sculpt is really amazing! I couldn't stop making growling sounds every time I looked at his face! best, -t -t

It's definitely a worm, and it's definitely purple. Speed paint. .

This specific miniature awed and amazed me ever since I saw it. I started painting since bones 3 was just on the market (missed it myself, didn't find Reaper yet back then). The size, the pose, the vigor, it was just amazing. But sold out. Everywhere. Always. Untill it wasn't! And at a later time at a fair, I even scored another so I can add the Frost wyrm variety at a later moment! This beast of a mini is done and ready to terrorize my D&D players! Apologies for the MANY photo's but I'm just so excited 😄

I finally tried out the airbrush I got this past year. Spent the day getting used to it and testing it out. I've had a set of Croak Raiders from Hordes that I've been excited to paint up. I figured an airbrush would really help speed up the process. However, I knew better than to test out a new tool on something so detailed that I cared so much about. So I broke out this Great Worm that I got for use in Rangers of Shadow Deep. I documented my process for once as I was sharing it with some friends, so I figured I'd show it off here too. The worm got glued to a 2in base and I used sand to help build up a transition from the rocky sculpt to the base. More super glue and some baking soda were added to the whole thing to create a finer texture that looks better at scale. This is my go-to basing method. I use more or less sand depending on my purpose. I don't yet have a primer for the airbrush so I primed this mini with craft paint as usual. I did use a darker gray than normally as I had a feeling this would work better for airbrushing. So I broke out my new airbrush. Got an Iwata from some friends last summer. I've only ever used an airbrush a few times before but never for minis. Decided to paint this as a Purple Worm so it could serve double duty in D&D. Slapped on a few shades of purple. My takeaway here is that I could use colors with more contrast and really push the light values. I had a bit more contrast in the under belly, painted the mouth deep red, and then slapped some brown on to the base. I figured this was as much as I could accomplish with the airbrush. I wasn't happy with the contrast so I added some washes to darken the shadows before moving on to some layering for highlights and detail work. I'll get around to taking better pictures later, but this was the final result. I still spent nearly 4 hours working on this after the airbrush, but I think it saved me a lot of time at least with the base colors. The airbrush was definitely helpful but also annoying. Spent half the time I was using it cleaning the dang thing. Also just getting comfortable with paint it techniques. You might have spotted in the background that I did work up the confidence to put some color on the frogs. I was inspired by the box art for these guys so I tried giving them lighter yellow bellies and orange hands/feet. I also tested out zenithal highlighting a bit. Unfortunately these guys were primed grey like I usually do so the contrast wasn't that noticeable. Will have to try it out properly next time.

Here's a simple one for you. Painted the Great Worm as a Purple Worm to the surprise of no one. More Photos Below the Spoiler:

A breezy, cool night in the high desert. Heat lightning crackles on the horizon. Gusts of wind bring the faintest scent of far-off rains. The full moon illuminates a strange crater in the parched earth. Was that there yesterday? All at once, a rumble. The earth quivers and vibrates. Grains of sand begin to dance about near the lip of the hole; then, pebbles. A frenzied writhing that sets the land in tumult! A great roar, the sound of it almost a solid thing, impossibly basso. Again, and again. There is a faint reply on the desert wind: an echo? or another of the unfathomably great burrowers beneath? It's hard for you to tell, but eventually the titanic bulk subsides and the desert is quiet once more, save for a faint shifting of sand and a ripple on the dunes heading for the horizon. This was an old project I never posted; painted back when washes were almost all the paints I had. A great sculpt, dynamic and expressive. The purples are alternating layers of midnight blue and a sort of pinkish red. I should go back and add some razzamatazz to that belly, now I'm seeing the big photographs. While a lot of people think purple worms are D&D cribbing Frank Herbert's sandworms as it did Margaret St. Clair and John Wyndham's fungal underdarks and dark elves--and they ARE pretty rad--I'm convinced that the genesis of both was far earlier, in a 1929 David Henry Keller short from "Amazing Stories." It's called, appropriately enough, "The Worm," and is worth the few minutes of your time to track down and read. Come to think of it, this story might have also partly inspired Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn," though the tone of that story is much more wistful and melancholy and less increasing dread. And without THAT, and another tonal shift, monster movies and kaiju movies might have been very different indeed.

Goremaw, the great purple worm, I made lots of mistakes while painting this mini. I had to go back and correct a lot of over painting. Tried to use Army painter paints, didn’t care for them. Constructive criticism is welcome. Sticking to Reaper paint from now on.

My time has been limited as of late, so when I get to paint I tend to overwhelm myself a bit. Lots of progress but nothing finished!

I'm just really proud of this, my first work with an airbrush ever. Maybe it's not the best skill & craft work out there for finishing a figure, but I think I win some points for originality. What I learned... Sometimes, inspiration comes when you think your finished (my son said "I thought you were going for a nebula") Sometimes, your wife says "It needs something iridescent" when you think you're done and she's right. Sparkling Amethyst on the spines Airbrushing means mixing and getting your consistency exactly right - I got lucky on my first try Airbrushing base colors is insanely fast, uses almost no paint and produces something much more even than I could dry-brushing Dry brushing is great for aging/leathering a piece - airbrushing is all about consistency of coverage. Trying to add red-shifted & blue-shifted stars to the star field looked like birthday cake sprinkles. Nature always has better color schemes than I can come up with on my own. I still need to figure out how to layer/thin/build up my colors. After initial airbrushing with Violet Shadow and Clear Magenta and maybe a mix with aged bonne for the belly. First pass at layering for the spikes. I've got some learning to do. Another angle at the "ready for detailing" stage. My son said "nebula" and I broke out the clear blue and thinned it, but probably not enough. Here's the "finished" product. I detailed so many stars in the blue areas. Then my wife said "iridescent" and I added Sparkling Amethyst to the spines. It's a great touch and highlights the raised part of the body instead of leaving it the same as the rest. For scale against another recent work, my lizardman army.

Greetings! I don't seem to have as much time to paint miniatures as usual at the moment but I have been working on this beastie here & there lately. I really like this sculpt & I couldn't resist painting it purple. I did have a bit of a nightmare trying to paint the areas between the base of the worm & the (worm)hole so, if I was to paint another one, I would definately paint the parts up separately & glue them afterwards. Thanks for looking!

Here's a few pics of my Bones Great Worm, completed during my July paint binge. Here's some pics of rats. I especially like the cow patterned one. WIP is here:

Some little friends ........for dangerous adventures Cheers Eric

BEHOLD! GOREMAW! Done as a classic purple worm from D&D. My favorite mini in Bones 3!

I decided to be traditional and go for a purple worm. Since I will be needing one for a future game and lets face it. The DDM one is just meh. Here is some comparison shots of Goremaw and the theme I'm going for. I decided to prime him with Pokorny Paints: Black. Now this paint is not the best option for priming I still believe liner goes on much smoother. However, for big guys like this its not so bad. You may notice a few spots that didn't get coverage. That seem to be common with this paint so you have to watch out for those if you decide to use this stuff. I will go hunting for said spots with a smaller brush as I want to ensure completely coverage.

Hey all, Here's the very preliminary stages of my next project, Bones Great Worm, which I'll be painting pretty close to WOTC's Purple Worm from the DND 5E Monster Manual. Backside purple, front a sort of bone or dark ivory that leans toward yellow. The sculpt doesn't have the bony plate sort of look the MM has for worms, but I still like the color scheme. The "seams" that connect the belly to the dorsal side will probably be a varying gray, similar to the stones he's bursting up out of. (Colored marker selection is, like my paint selection, very limited) Some fun notes about this project: First time using my new wet palette, WNS7 brushes, and a new drybrush. I may end up experimenting with some homemade washes if I'm feeling squirrelly. Will probably use this guy as my maiden voyage into custom basing, though that will probably be a couple weeks away. Very excited to paint this sculpt, since it's a very dynamic pose with lots of topography, this will demand great highlights and shadows, an area I need serious practice in. Either I'll rise to the challenge and produce something I'll be proud to terrorize my players with, or when I bring it out they'll assume it's a CR1/4 monster ;) Stay tuned to find out! Rob

http://makezine.com/2015/12/04/make-this-awesome-dune-inspired-sandworm-bread/ "It's Shai Hullicious!" (No, seriously, that's a quote from the page.)

Stefan d'Marque moved through the abandoned town quickly. The large holes in the ground disturbed him greatly. Could that be where townsfolk had disappeared to? What manner of creature could move through the rock and dirt in such a manner? His answer came quick and sudden, as the ground beneath his feet shift. Into the air he went, though he was not thrown. The bone crushing, flesh tearing pain surged through his body. Stefan cried out in pain, stabbing downward. It was all for not, as the great beast beneath him swallowed his torso. Stefan took his last gasp of air... his vision blurred, and went dark. The great beast disappeared into the earth, its appetite sated... for now. This one was so much fun to paint. Though I had the idea of a purple worm when I started, I kind of had the joker in mind when I started putting paint to mini. I am very pleased with the end result. CAH

It was quite a busy semester, and on top of that I bought a house (my first!) and then I had to move into it!. Between all the mowing and stuff I now have to do, I got my craft room all set up. After working my way through a slew of Dwarven Forge Cavern tiles, I finally got a proper mini painted. I'd base-coated this little nasty before Christmas time last year, with blue liner and then didn't get any painting done after that. Until today... For a neophyte with a six-month hiatus, I'm pretty happy with it. This will definitely make an appearance on the table.

I finally got the confidence to paint up my GF9 purple worm. Beautiful sculpt, but not fun to put together for such a simple design. He had a lot of gaps, and nothing seemed to fit together snugly. What do you think?

I received my Reaper Bones II Kickstarter stuff a few weeks ago, and while I had a little bit of Buyer's Remorse at not having purchased a few additional bits and pieces from the campaign, that's mostly due to having started new projects that things would have worked well for in the time since the campaign ended, and then finally delivered however many months late it was. I didn't even bother keeping track of that this time around. Overall it's a solid bunch of models for PVC, and I picked out a few that I thought would make nice, quick painting projects. The first was the Bronze Bull/Brass Bull/"Gorgon" which I have been working on, and just need to finish the final touches on (probably later this weekend). The second and third are these two ...thingies. Now, my nerd-background is solidly on the Warhammer/LotR side rather than the D&D side, so when I saw the 03603 "Cython" and 03582 "Mind Eater", I saw silly-weird Rogue-Trader-esque space aliens, rather than D&D critters, and decided to paint them up in that spirit - somewhat inspired by Cheetor's Alien Flora and Fauna project (and the fact that they looked like they'd be quick and easy enough). So in the spirit of all that, I thought I'd paint these suckers up. Knowing that of course, the things must be "inspired by" some kind of D&D or Pathfinder critters, I also asked Tarmor if he knew what these things actually not-are. He informed me that the 03603 "Cython" looks a lot like a Grick from 3rd edition D&D and that 03582 "Mind Eater" is a direct "copy" (ripoff) of an Intellect Devourer from all editions! Tarmor also kindly provided me with a couple of pictures that I then used as paint references. Now that I've done the photography, I'll be adding some Gloss Varnish to the Brain Diner, and these two will be done and dusted. Since I rarely play D&D/Pathfinder (every few months I play the occasional session run by Orez. I think we're level 3 or so?) I don't know when or if these will ever see the table in their "proper" form, much like that not-Purple Worm. Anyway, both figures were reasonably quick and easy to paint, and the various blending of tones was fun and turned out pretty decently as well. Now it's back to bloody goblins!

This worm is from DIY Purple Worm model cheap/easy (The DM's Craft, EP 73) Newer pictures few posts later. I did few differences to theDMsCraft version. 1. I cutted the paper cores into 3 parts, so I could easier bending (if I will make another one, I will make photos) 2. I didn't have model magic, but every kind of putty like green stuff or air drying stuff will to it, too. 3. I gave him a mouth similiar to the Dune Sandworm. It is made also out of toilet cores. 4. about the plates on the back, I did it reverse to theDMsCraft version, because I think it would be hard for the worm to tunnel under the earth if they are otherwise placed. Sorry for the photos, I couldn't hold the camera without shaking... I will try it again to get better photos. The Miniatures for scale are Zombicide survivors.

These are listed in the order in which I painted them. Purple Worm: Werewolf: Gnoll Warrior: I sure wish I hadn't messed up his face. Bugbear: I have no idea where his eyes are supposed to be. Ghost:

All of the purple on this one was applied with an airbrush. I'm pretty pleased with the speed painting effect. Overall time spent on this was 2 hours.

Just made a short video of this Purple Worm that I painted up using mostly oil based paints. Let me know what you think.

Hello everyone, This will be my first WIP post. While I've been painting minis for a while now, I've never been too creative when it comes to basing. Because of this, I recently went on a shopping "spree" and spent 5 bucks on small wooden bases! I seem to have the cart before the horse as my actual worm model is *almost* done. I tried a couple new things on this mini and did them out of order, so now I have to go back and fix some things, but for the most part you can see where I'm going with the mini. New stuff I tried on this mini: Inks & Drool. I used my matte sealer after affixing the drool and now I have matte drool . Oh well, live and learn right? This post will mainly be about basing this guy, and right now I'm stuck between a desert or jungle base. I'm leaning towards desert even though the colors don't really match, because I think it will be easier. And while I'm not against challenging myself, I want to have the base be of sufficient quality to match the mini. Well, what do you guys think?