Dwellers Below box art by Ray Rubin, acquired into the personal collection (of not very many miniatures, to be honest) in June 2, 2011. (Contains unpainted lead #miniatures for AD&D by Grenadier.)
My favorite Rust Monster. Circa 1970s #toy#chinasaur plastic figure which served as the inspiration for the D&D monster. I’d like to snag more of these someday.
Circa 1970s #chinasaur#toy plastic figure made in Hong Kong (possibly, there’s no indicator of origin, but it is in the same style as the others). #Troglodyte inspiry for D&D.
The ugly, ugly Neo-Otyugh, a D&D monster #toy from LJN toys. Bit of a bendy, actually, with wire embedded in the plastic for some posability (until the wire breaks).
I’m … fond of it. I suppose. It does look like it gives nice hugs.
This is the really deadly (and really ugly) #Grell, another LJN-made D&D monster bendable #toy which likely got little to no respect in the early 1980s.
There’s a lot going for it. Brains, tentacles, and … a beak. The Fiend Folio creature has these features, but the accompanying illustration is better than the effect here, which is sort of brains-on-a-cracker with green extremities.
This #watercolor entry, released 7th of November, 2011, abandons the notion of using toys as models. I don't think I even penciled it, and I think it shows (though there was a prior pencil sketch attempted). I still think it's cute, though.
So for D is for Displacer Beast, I had a little assistance from Mickelson, B., “Ecology of the Displacer Beast”, Dragon Magazine #109, TSR, 1986.
Third of that short-lived, incomplete series once attempted (back in 3 November 2011, a late entry) of Monster Manual monsters in #watercolor: monsters of the alphabet. It's the carrion crawler, present in nigh every edition and iteration of the game.
Like the previous entry, this was also based on a #toy, this time something officially licensed: LJN Toys' bendable rubber critter.
