Wandering Wednesday: Unbearable Chompers

Greetings, fellow big game hunters! We got some new, mighty woodland foes for your trophy room, so let’s see if you can handle these 3D prints, or if you end up on their wall!

We’re going to feature three mighty animal 3D prints today, but one is quite generic, so alas, sourcing that particular STL file was darn tricky. Still, we think these are excellent additions to our free Wandering Monster Wilderness Trek Table, so let’s dive in.

We’ll start with our primary inspiration for today’s DnD blog entry. We haven’t really made many bear 3D prints because we already have several from our WotC prepainted minis collection. Then, we came across this wicked good Werepolarbear sculpt by the mighty Schlossbauer. The timing was impeccable as DM Ben was chomping at the bit to try a furry-bear paint scheme.

Yes, technically ol’ Schlossbauer calls this one a Werepolarbear, but we don’t play a lot of cold climate scenarios, so we decided to go with the traditional bear necessities here (pun intended).

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Fur P1: Heavy Drybrush of ASP Hardened Leather.
• Fur P2: Light Drybrush of FAN Ancient Tree.
• Face/Tongue: FAN Moonstone Skin.
• Hands/Fur Pads: FAN Moonstone Skin.
• Tail: FAN Fur Brown.
• Claws: FAN Brainmatter Beige & light black drybrush.
• Teeth: Matt White.

We also wanted the base to complement this Wearbear’s mighty power. Hence, we put a big ol’ rock (from DM Ben’s backyard) and a broken tree. Toughness unlocked, baby!

Quite confident in his paint scheme, DM Ben wanted to do a little batch painting, so he grabbed another fuzzy wuzzy miniature from his Pile of Shame Opportunity. This one came from EC3D Designs and their awesome Beasts & Baddies II Kickstarter.

Pretty cool, right?! We love it when a paint scheme looks killer on multiple miniature sculpts. With a core brown bear scheme now in hand, we can try other color variations. We can also apply this fur scheme to other similiar miniatures and scatter terrain. A win-win.

Lastly, we wanted to share a paint-scheme transfer success story from a recent Tomb Thursday TTRPG blog entry, when we colored up these awesome Subek guards by mz4250.  We’ve been dying to pin down a crocodile paint scheme as we need it for a lot of our Egyptian stuff.

• Prime Flat Black | Slapchop Base.
• Body P1: WAR Scaly Hide + Green Wash + Strong Tone Wash.
• Body P2: Heavier black Drybrush & very light white drybrush.
• Eyes: WAR Lava Orange.
• Teeth: Matt White.
• Feet: FAN Uniform Grey.

The key to this miniature, though, was its base. DM Ben was sorting through his basing material box and pulled out a jar of AK Interactive Water Gel Swamp Green (which he still hadn’t opened). And boy howdy, did it go on and dry great (with a few swamp tufts added in for good measure).

Now, we already did a Brown Bear entry in our Wandering Monster table, with its minis previously done by resident painter Kimmy Utah. So, you could add our newest Bruin creations to this trio and make it a monster party of five. We also think the Schlossbauer Bear would make an excellent pappa bear, and the EC3D Designs STL could be momma bear. 😉

Until next time!