Rust Monster in Frostgrave

A while ago I painted (post here) up the little plastic toy that was the inspiration for the iconic D&D monster, The Rust Monster. I loved how it came out so I decided to add it to my Frostgrave games.

I recently ran 3 huge games at Historicon down in Fredricksburg VA. I thought I'd share the rules I used for him.

Feel free to use these rules in your games.

Here is a pic of my Rust Monster in Action against some unsuspecting Thug.

I changed the base on him from the original base. I felt he needed the bigger base.

Xin

An Iconic D&D monster, The Rust Monster

Back in the early days of creating D&D Gary Gygax, was looking for figures to represent monsters. In a Dime Store(think Dollar Store) he found a bag of "prehistoric animals" from Hong Kong. He took it home and started to come up with names and stats for the weird plastic animals.

I don't know where I got it but I've had one lying around for years and years. It's been lost and found about 2 or 3 times in moves. The other day I was struck with inspiration to paint it. So once again I had to go find it. I was in luck, only 3 boxes searched and I had it.

He's a big fella so I used a 40mm base. As with all my plastic figures I glue lead fishing weights to the underside to add stability and just a nice feeling of "heft". I primed him up and was ready to go. It came out pretty good. 

I should have color adjusted the image. In reality it's more red than brown.

 You might notice my hack attempts at blending. A technique I suck at.

 Fireforge figure for scale.

Classic D&D art.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the way it came out. What image I had in my head was writing checks my painting skill couldn't cash. I have to finish the base, and add a heavy level of sealer. The plastic figure doesn't like the paint I used. It already scratched off on one leg. Maybe this guy needs to travel to Frostgrave.

Xin

Something stirs in Frostgrave...

Here is a Pathfinder Battles figure I picked up on ebay. It's an Owlbear from the Rusty Dragon Inn set of pre painted plastic figures. Named Beaky. The Owlbear is a classic D&D monster. Great for terrifying lower level parties. 

I loved the model when I first saw it, as I wanted to add it to Frostgrave. I decided to come up with an arctic paint job to make it fit Frostgrave.

As you can see from the picture, he's a big fellow. I think I will add him to the Cold Wars game in March.


Xin