So, my group just completed Racing to Ruins, and we're all ultra excited about City of Seven Spears. I'm reading through it and there are ton of interesting encounters to run and such, but one monster definitely stood out: Grugonoth. From the book...
"Named Grugonoth, the half-fiend dire ape is frightening indeed, even as a statue. He stands 20 feet tall, has horns and bat-like wings, and wears bracers carved to resemble dozens of interlocked skulls."
I had an immediate desire to try and find a miniature that would properly do justice to this description, especially since huge miniatures are so very rare. Fortunately, I found a a couple miniatures at a local Game Kastle I could use to make this work. It's still a work in progress but I really really want to show people I'm so excited.
(Note: My camera is truly truly terrible but I did my best. I'll take higher quality pictures when I can if anyone is interested.)
I started with this guy, named Kabaka Kwana. I don't know what it's from but it's Huge (in both senses of the word).
I took a plastic miniature's wings off (Cannot remember which one), sawed the connecting piece off, and attached it to Grugonoth's ape body. Here he stands hanging out with the Exile and his zombie troll guardian. I considered finding some horns and bracers, but after the difficulty of placing the wings on I decided it's good enough.
Prayed that spraying on primer would make this okay. It was okay. Looks good. Here Rottilius Havellar hopes to fire his crossbow at the fiend, but it's not looking good for him.
Product's painted and almost finished now. I tried to put some arcane runes on his body and wings.. It turned out iffy, I'm no artist so oh well. I'm going to paint his eyes white and apply some lacquer to add more exaggerated shading, but other than that it's done.
My only problem now is that this guy looks like a total monster, and I'm a little worried the Gorilla King just won't sound that threatening. To that end I'm definitely considering upgrading Grugonoth to Actual Servant of Anghazan. I'm not too sure yet.
Oh woah, I definitely didn't expect to see a response from one of the writers (woah)! I'm positively beaming over here.
I'm getting lacquer spray on Friday and a base for him on Friday, so it should be done Saturday. I'll post pictures of the finished product as soon as I possibly can.
It'll be a while before my group makes it here, but when they do I'll post pictures of the battle as well.
Hey Mr. McCreary, so I told you I'd show you my finished Grugonoth Project, and so, here I did!
He stares the group down. Later on he'd end up punching one unconscious and throwing another at a third player.
A somewhat more sensible angle.
Contrary to some opinions, book 3 has been my favorite thus far. A huge collection of awesome ideas and potential for reinterpretations, loose enough to really let the players be the proper stars.
