Train Tuesday Part 127: Shark Bait

Greetings, fellow treasureseekers! Hope you had the best three-day holiday weekend and your TTRPG dice were kind to thee! Let’s see what’s biting in this week’s edition of Train Tuesday!

Today’s Hovertrain chatter features some intriguing follow-ups to earlier posts, all for the good of the game. One of the coolest features of our little ol’ DnD blog is that it really pushes us to be creative and try new 3D prints and paint schemes. Hopefully, we’re giving you some handy Bardic Inspiration, too. 🙂

DM Ben is all about creating a slew of new criminal factions to form this deep, dark underworld against The Forgotten Rails. Everyone wants a piece of the action or sees a slew of new heist opportunities. We think it will be really fun to have all these competing “families” trying to outmaneuver one another for a bigger piece of the pie.

We teased these slick Shark riders by Aether Studios in some earlier posts. Now, this same series does offer some stand-alone shark miniatures, but we haven’t been able to try painting any of those 3D prints quite yet. So, we thought we would show off some other fin gangsters by resident painter Kimmy Utah because they’re so darn cool.

We’re going right back to one of our favorite watering holes with EC3D Designs and Depths of Savage Atoll Kickstarter. These supportless STLs were a stretch goal, and boy howdy, are we glad the KS reached it. The biggest challenge here was honestly not printing a mittful of these. And we might still snap and do so.

Kimmy Utah really knows how to paint sharks, as we’ve sent her several nail several apex predators previously. The only thing we might do is add some AK Interactive Wet Effect (featured in our 2024 Gift Guide) to the fun bases she did. We’re also huge fans of the live-action One Piece series on Netflix, which has a great Shark storyline in season one.

Thankfully, we get a solid, go-to DnD 5e Stat Block for these Shark-folk. We have a sixth-level, six-person party in our office campaign, so this CR 4 is perfect for a small gang of these upright fish bruisers. We dig the stats just as they are here: AC 16, HP 73, multi-attack Harpoon x2 +7/2d6+5 and Bite +7/1d8+5. They also have some nasty abilities, including Blood Frenzy and Grapple.

Let’s finish today off with an alternate paint job on a Construct miniature we showcased last week. Despite being DnD players since the 80s, we’re not great on all the official lore. Hence, sometimes when we see 3D prints, we don’t necessarily know whether it’s an official monster or something under a different creative name (to avoid copyright issues).

So, we only realized that this Mighty Servant of Leuk-o was an official monster while doing our research for last week’s post. For its new paint job, the steps couldn’t have been easier:

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Body: Layer FAN Imperial Navy.
• Edging: FAN Greedy Gold.
• Wash: Dark Tone.

And then DM Ben decided to go with a flocked base as he felt the original one was too much of a snoozer.

Until next time!