Operation: Spidicules

I took a 4-year break from painting. Unfortunately, Spidicules was on the table when I shut down and decided I couldn’t paint for a while.

This mini has been in a box, half-clipped and half-cleaned, with a bare minimum base prepared… for 4 years. Then the news that the Gambler’s Chest was fulfilling kind of kicked me into gear and I pulled it out again.

Let’s see if we can make all the ideas I had about Spidicules a reality.

Above, I’ve included a picture taken directly from the Kingdom Death build website. This mini is spectacular, standing astride a huge portion of the game board, looming over the survivor figures. All in all, I am really excited to bring this to my KDM group.

Unfortunately, I’ve read about the problems other gamers have experienced when trying to run Spidicules showdowns.

• Its legs can knock into survivor minis and tiles when the model moves around.
• The legs can also make it difficult to reach the blind spot directly underneath the model’s body
• The dangles under its main body also interefere with getting survivor minis into the blind spot
• Its huge front hands sit on top of game board spaces that a survivor might need to stand on
• It is large and difficult to store

So this project aims to complete the Spidicules miniature while addressing 2 issues with the miniature as it is intended to be built:

• playability
• storage

Additionally… I want to magnetise the legs. I think this will help with storage, but it would also be really cool for other reasons that I won’t spoil in this project blog.

So let’s see how much of this I can get to work.