"Cree-ee-eepy Crawlers" - Conan Scorpion and Spider

Why spiders? Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Happy Hallowe'en on The Art of Caesura!

In addition to Hallowe'en, another exciting occurrence this week was I passed my first 100 followers on Instagram. It's a platform that I've only gotten into in the past couple of weeks (I know, I sound so old!), and I think it'll be handy to post pics during the week (but don't worry, I'll still post everything here)!  I'll try to fashion a link at the bottom of the page, but in the meantime:

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Remember this!? I LOVED mine! I remember they even released glow-in-the-dark and edible goop. Man, those were the days when you could give a kid an oven as a toy! Anyway, that's not the creepy crawlers we're talking about today...

I've been saving this post for a while to have it correspond with Hallowe'en. We're going to capitalize on many people's arachnophobia today with a double-header (and 16-legger) of two miniatures from the Conan board game!

It's the Giant Scorpion and Giant Spider!

We'll start with the Giant Scorpion:

They may not look too "giant" in miniature format, but they're in 32mm scale, so scaled up they'd be over 6 feet long! Yikes!

Painting this guy was quick and easy! After undercoating it in black, I painted the whole thing Steel Legion Drab.

I then painted the pincers, "knees," "feet" and bulb of the tail red (Evil Sunz Scarlet).

The rest was just numerous coats (at least 5 of each) of Agrax Earthshade and Nuln Oil (letting them dry in between , before a heavy coat of gloss varnish.Ta DA: creepy-ass scorpion!

Next is the Giant Spider:

The spider started life much the same way as the scorpion: with a base of Steel Legion Drab (clearly I get a lot of mileage out of this colour. As a total aside, I love this colour because it has great coverage and provides a nice neutral organic brown/grey. It's not as red as Doombull Brown and not as yellow as a Scrag Brown). 

Once I had a nice base of neutral brown I gave 2 washes of Agrax Earthshade and one of Nuln Oil (probably about half the number of washes that I used for the scorpion).

All that remained then was to try to pick out the skull detailing on his abdomen. For this I used Ushabti Bone and washed again with Agrax.

I then dotted his many eyes with Stormhost Silver and then the red gem paint (Spiritstone Red) to give them a nice glow. I kept the rest of his body a lovely furry matte. 

There isn't much contrast between the spider's colour-scheme and his base and that was intentional to reflect his natural camouflage. 

Have a great Hallowe'en, and see you next week on The Art of Caesura!

Reading: Londonstani - Malkani

Watching: Happy Death Day - Christopher Landon

Next Week:

Tonight we dine in hell...