Dungeonalia - The Monstrous Denizens of Palooka Four

For clarity and helping me focus I’ve broken up the Palooka Four project into parts A, B, and C. The goal is to complete all three parts before March 1st, although if I don’t for some reason, they are in alphabetical order of importance. The parts are:

A) The fungi bandits. All members of Terribilis Dolorus, they are a species which includes people with many talents, abilities, and emotional ranges. This group, however, are nothing more than poor space pirates living in ramshackle accommodations. Planning their next score, I am thinking of painting them like Brazil’s Mycena lucentipes or America’s Cortinarius iodes. These dudes are the Shroomnoids from Oldschool Miniatures in resin.

B) A lone hunter, the Ferradversus Diaboli is a monster which blends into the rocky and mossy crevices of Palooka Four. Using it’s sharp blade-like beak and claws, they slice and dice would-be settlers and wanders into bite sized pieces. I’m excited to paint this dude in a naturalish camouflage, including mossy elements into the process. This dude is a Hooked Daemon from Oldschool Miniatures in white metal.

C) The insectivorous but highly territorial Homosimilis Scarabaeus is the last part of the Palooka Four project. Partially because I have no idea how to paint it up, partially because something had to be last. I want to be inspired by my native fauna of British Columbia, so I’m looking at pictures of beetles as Laricobius nigrinus, Rosalia funebris, Scaphinotus augusticollis, and Neoclytus acuminatus. I haven’t made up my mind yet. This dude is a Crawling Insectoid from Knightmare Miniatures in white metal.

My day 1 progress was fairly simple. I cleaned the most heinous resin lines off the Terribilis Dolorus and did my darnedest to super glue all the Homosimilis Scarabaeus bits on. Unfortunately, besides frying my sinuses all I managed to get on were the arms. I will have to tackle the pincers on day 2 using putty. I’m using putty to make the Terribilis Dolorus stay on the bases with a modicum of stability due to my absolute hackjob of cleaning up their bottoms.

Oh well. Work done is work done. I’m happy with it.