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This year has really limited my leisure time, so I have been absent around the forums. I have been unwilling to give up my painting time, though, as it has been keeping me sane. Fortunately I had been working on speed-painting in previous years, and it has served me well of late, allowing me to complete pieces in just a session or two every other week.

As a result I have built up a nice backlog of miniatures in my collection that no one has ever seen. I had a free moment today, and the weather was cooperative, so I dusted them off (literally), and snapped some photos. The rockmaws are the fist to be shared! I love having multiple variants of monsters, even more so when there are young. I like a touch of realism in my high fantasy, and it is nice to have miniatures reflect that these creatures have an ecology and lifecycle of sorts (even if completely fantastical).

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Yeah, being radial creatures that lack a natural focal point I knew right away that the eyes would be key. I waffled about the direction to go in, so I'm glad the simple bright pupil-less eyes ended up catching your attention. 

@William please do share - I haven't seen many versions of this model and I'd like to see your take.

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Yeah, being radial creatures that lack a natural focal point I knew right away that the eyes would be key. I waffled about the direction to go in, so I'm glad the simple bright pupil-less eyes ended up catching your attention. 

@William please do share - I haven't seen many versions of this model and I'd like to see your take.

 

I'll have some free time to paint tomorrow so I'll add it to the list and hopefully get it posted by the end of the day

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