What a Tangled Bed We Weave

Greetings, fellow Araknid hunters! Let’s welcome another weekend of delightful RPG gaming by giving you some sticky scatter terrain that’s sure to get several appearances across your DnD campaigns.

Spiders are as common as sliced bread in Dungeons and Dragons, and it’s safe to say that we all have plenty of web-spinner miniatures. However, do we really have enough complementary scatter terrain to make their creepy impact hit that much harder in an encounter?!

The other week, we showed off the first series of pieces from Tiny Furniture’s Spiders Attack set. There were so many fun 3D prints to share that we had to split the series up into two distinct posts! We’re quite fond of Tiny Furniture as an RPG STL creator, as their designs are highly detailed, very durable, and quite clever. Their Patreon is also a very reasonable $8 a month.

Last time, we focused on several coocooned casualities and some yucky spider eggs. This time, we’re highlighting the anchor pieces of the set: these web-drenched beds. These clever STLs are what caught our eye when we saw their post on MMF initially, and instantly knew they were going to be ours!

You’ll notice a few insanely good details here, including the web-covered eggs, partial limb exposure, and different bed frame styles. Overall, these 3D prints are nice and hearty, with no risk of any elements snapping off the model (which can be insanely frustrating). Whether you’re a DM or a player, we just know you’re going to love ’em.

So, besides the two partially web-covered body versions, they also have these two larger, thicker web-soaked versions. You can paint the few exposed sections a slimy color or even a skin color. We love Army Painter’s FAN Barbarian Flesh as a skin tone color (with a light black wash over it).

For the spider eggs, DM Ben wasn’t exactly sure what paints to try, so he did the handy Google Q&A trick: “What are the best Green Stuff World paints for spider eggs?” Google search has gotten insanely good over the past 12+ months, and we use these types of paint queries all the time these days to give us a starting point. You easily swap name brands depending on the sets you have, too… meaning you could switch Green Stuff World for Army Painter, for example.

Google suggested we try several shades of green, including: Green Stuff World’s Rotten Green (slimy), Olivegrove Green (dirty), and Kraken Green (lightest of the three) as three potential spider egg colors. We then applied a black wash followed by a light drybrush of white to finish ’em off. If we were forced to pick one egg shade, the darker Olivegrove Green would be our top pick (and the lighter green being the runner-up).

Until next time.