…for something completely different - my wife and I have been watching the latest series of Critical Role, in which at one point the party is menaced by à Redcap, which inspired me to get this chap painted up:
I went for basic colours for his clothes, to give him a slightly Noddy-ish feel - Noddy is technically Fey isn’t he? Or not, I guess Big Ears was an elf, but I can’t remember if Noddy was actually a human living in Toyland or something else, but I digress.
His whacking great axe got tinted with some teals and greens to try to make it look like it’s made of some strange fey metal - the jury is still out on whether I was successful or not.
In D&D lore, their caps are red from being painted with blood, so I was briefly tempted to give his hat à coat of blood effect paint, but decided against it. From memory, they also have iron boots, and I didn’t green stuff him any of those either.
He was originally a Dreamblade miniature, so getting him ready for painting involved a certain amount of effort and manual labour:
He’s also tiny, that’s a 20mm base he’s on. To reduce the amount of time he spends tipping over due to the ridiculous size of his weapon, I had to glue some scrap metal underneath his base to try and weigh him down:
Painting him brings the Tally to:
7 vs 24 = -17
He’s not in the Monster Manual, so technically doesn’t add to the Monstrous Alphabet though.
What’s next? It was going to be back to focusing on the Firefly Stargrave project, but I needed to finish a couple of oddments to make space on my painting tile for all the new things that I’ve been adding to it…
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