Miniature Monday: Undercover Whatevers

Greetings, fellow super stealthers! We’ve got an extra sneaky DnD blog post for you today, so keep your head down and be mindful! Trouble lurks ahead.

We’ve got a couple of tongue-in-cheek, free downloads today of the covert kind. These were a snap to 3D print and darn fun to paint. DM Ben is looking forward to sneaking these into our DnD campaign. Keep your game fun, y’all – that’s what it’s all about.

Look, we all don’t start out as excellent robbers. It’s tricky business and requires a lot of repetition to work out all the kinks. We’ve got one STL that is deceptively brilliant and another that, well… there’s plenty of room for improvement.

We’ll start with this fabulous Bacon Moose by the magnificent mz4250. No idea how he even came up with this silly STL in the first place, but we knew instantly that it had a place in our display case. We just had a different spin on this one.

This DnD scatter terrain piece certainly could have been painted like bacon, but that would be a tough insert in a game. Maybe as a kitchen monster in a house robbery gone bad, but instead, our new moose would serve as an excellent decoy.

DM Ben plans to place this one in a dense forest where the players might be on the hunt. Our adventurers will see what they think is a prized moose barely sticking out in the thick underbrush. Then, as the players approach their intended prey, a group of bandits will spring from their excellent cover, and swords will be a swingin’!

For painting, we tried Green Stuff World’s Walnut Brown Dipping Ink. It’s our newest favorite wood color, and we’re absolutely adding it to our arsenal as a go-to pick. DM Ben just added a dark tone wash and finished it with a nice forest flock job. Easy peasy.

Now we move from the sneaky and stealthy to woolfully baaaad (puns intended). This time we lean on one of our favorite new DnD creators, good ol’ Toadstool Weaver. He dubbed this one “Two Kobolds Pretending,” and we instantly fell in love with this RPG print. His library is full of fantastic free 3D prints (but of course, tips are encouraged).

You’re going to love this one, as it was a snap to paint. Novice painter DM Ben stepped up to color this one and get it on the game table, so let’s see his simple steps.

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Head: ASP Holy White.
• Eyes: ASP Blood Red.
• Tarp: GSW Komodo Khaki + Soft Tone Wash.
• Tarp Stitching: GSW Skull Linen Dipping Ink.
• Feet: WAR Scaly Hide + Green Wash + Dark Tone Wash.

Once all those steps were done, DM Ben added the Soft Tone Wash to the tarp stitching (to make it look more worn), then he did a very light drybrush on the entire tarp for a little more weathering. Lastly, he slapped it on a clear base – doneso.

Could our adventurers mistake this moose for fair game at a farther distance? Absolutely. Do wandering sheep have green, reptilian feet and bright red eyes? Nooooope. But hey, we applaud the effort.

Until next time!