Talk to Your Mom with that Mouth?!

Here we go rumblin’ and stumblin’ into another Wandering Wednesday! We’ve got a brand new monster for your 3D printer, but can’t decide where this meanie should go! Let’s talk it out!

Is today’s DnD 3D print more likely to show up in a dungeon delve or wandering the wilderness? The 3DRPG team went back and forth on how to best categorize our newest bad guy. We’ve put him indoors for now, but honestly, this one could go either way, and we’ll share why later in the post.

Our featured miniature comes from good ol’ Schlossbauer and his robust library of completely free STLs. Like, seriously, follow this amazing creator. We saw this nasty Black Imp in his library and instantly got all the right feels. This Black Imp has no eyes, but his mouth and creapy suction-cup feet do all the heavy sensory lifting.

No microscopic eyes to worry about here, so DM Ben “volunteered” to color up a pack of these nasty creatures over the weekend. We had recently watched a cool monster skin-tone video by our favorite YouTuber, Miniature Hobbyist, and wanted to try his tutorial out anyway.

The crouching pose on this model is so intense. We can feel that menace coming out of nowhere to try and make us his lunch. The big mouth, pointy teeth, and oversized tongue are so darn cool.

This uninvited enemy seems like a dead ringer to travel in packs and use group tactics to overwhelm a tired and surprised adventuring party. When it comes to Wandering Monsters, we like to print five to seven of them so DM Ben has plenty of encounter-building options.

So, let’s cover the paint steps here in case you want a quick, easy set of steps to work off of before you introduce your players to these chatty chomping cathys.

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Skin P1: ASP Pastel Salmon.
• Skin P2: FAN Red Tone Wash.
• Skin P3: Soft drybrush of FAN Tourmaline Skin.
• Tongue: FAN Wyvern Fury (with a FAN Soft Tone Wash).
• Teeth: GSW Skull Linen Dip (with a FAN Soft Tone Wash).
• Feet Tips: ASP Malignant Green.
• Mohawk: ASP Nobel Skin with FAN Wasteland Clay drybrush.
• Base: Americana Burnt Umber with ASP Forest Sprite.

We should have done a better job of edging the Mohawk, but that’s an easy fix. We also might go back and add a little GSW Fang White to portions of the teeth.

Initially, we thought maybe this could be our ambush monster for Briar Thorne’s hostel, The Bramble Bush Boarding House. That’s our homebrewed Hovertrain pitstop encampment for dropping off passengers and taking on new ones. However, we’re not sure these guys are woodsy enough. They seem more dungeon-esque to us. The Wendigo miniatures we 3D-printed the other week seem like a much better fit for a forest ambush.

We’re not quite sure yet which specific DnD 5e stats work best here. Maybe we use an Ethereal Marauder as our base reskin here: AC 14, HP 32, multi-attack +6/3d8+4 damage. We couldn’t reach a team consensus here at press time, so we’re going to ponder the numbers a bit more.

Until next time!