Monster (May)hem 2026

several weeks ago i was reading some posts on Dave's Wargames Terrain Workshop blog page,
and he was in the process of adding some terrifying Gnarloc Raiders for i assume is a Kroot army.
but i noticed it was for a painting challenge that i did not know about.

so i went over to Dead Dick's Tavern and checked out what this challenge was about.
for the month of May, this challenge you had to paint a monstrous creature or something big.
i thought this challenge would be cool,
but unfortunately i didn't really have any big monsters to paint or whatnot.
until i remembered i did have some things somewhere.

last year i bought a terrain crate from Mantic Games called "the Haunted Manor".
and in it was what they called a goliath monstrosity.
which basically to me was a chunk of hard plastic in the shape of an eldritch monster of sorts.

picking the color scheme for it i didn't want to go with the green i have been doing lately
for these Lovecraft creatures.
and what came out was almost the same color palette i used back in the late 90's on a small
Tyranid army i had for Warhammer 40k.

after i got that painted and done i found the skeletal dragon i got a while back
from Wizkids/Pathfinder.
now the thing is i went on Amazon to find such a figure and found this one.
it's called,
Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts - Gargantuan Skeletal Dragon...
for not that much so i was excited.
several days later i got the package and i was like what the hell is this.

i used it once in one of our old D&D sessions and that was it.
it's like i am embarrassed to call it gargantuan.

i gave it a quick black wash and added some watered down green wash for the wings,
and added a little color to the eyes to give it some life.
this thing is like a young dragon compared to some of the Wizkids Dungeons and Dragons
Nolzur's Marvelous Miniature line.

i like finding these painting challenges because it helps me get some of my pile of shame
painted and completed.
i tend to drag my feet and wait until the last minute or life gets in the way,
but overall i enjoy these challenges.
i look at these challenges as a kick in the butt to get stuff done.