or as those Texans keep spelling it, “Griffon”. (Texans are lovely people, I wouldn’t dream of antagonizing them over their simpleton spelling. These folks have GUNS. I mean, not even the more common “Griffin”…)

I went with the African Bateleur Eagle, as it has a striking black, white and red colouration with large creamy panels on the top of the wings. The back bit is just a generic big cat, with reddish brown hairy bits to balance all the red on the front.

This model is made in regular 3rd generation Bones plastic. Which in spite of being much more rigid than earlier Bonesium, is not nearly strong enough to hold any weight in awkward positions over time. If one of its front talons had been sculpted touching the base in some way, this would probably not have been a problem. As it was the talon was involuntarily touching the rim of the base anyway together with the wingtip dragging along the ground. This was discovered and fixed some time ago, and I forgot to take any pictures of the listin’ gryphon.

Anyway, since it drooped quite a bit after just standing around on the shelf, it was nessecary to brace it. I did this by drilling up into the leg and inserting a 1mm diameter metal rod (I used a part of a paperclip for this) to make it stand up properly and discourage further drooping. The pin goes up into the hip or so from beneath the base. This fix has now held in the several months since I fixed it.

A long time being exposed to the enormous monsters from Warhammer has skewed my size perception. For some reason I have been thinking about this gryphon as “the small one”.

 

Drybrushed from a black undercoat. Yeah, it is a bit rough in places, but perfectly serviceable.

 

 

#82 The “Griffon” 

Bones 4 Core set, 2019

Reaper Miniatures

unknown sculptor

Made in Bonesium PVC

50mm base.

should be available from reapermini.com some time in the future in Bones.

 

Painted so far this year:   (Miniatures:  77 /365 goal // scenery and terrain: 10)

January: 32

Feburary: 19

March: 26 / 10

 

Bones 4 core set: 161/163 just 2 to go! 

The Bones 4 core set: