More Fiend Factory Beasties

In 1981, TSR published the Fiend Folio, a collection of monsters for the AD&D game.  Many of the monsters in this book had first seen publication in the Fiend Factory column in White Dwarf, and the editor of the book was Don Turnbull, who had also edited the Fiend Factory column. 

All four of the monsters shown below; Phantom Stalker, Giant Bloodworm, Death Worm and Volt, appeared in the Fiend Folio, with the Death Worm being renamed as Necrophidius.

Fig. 2   FF2 – Phantom Stalker, FF6 – Giant Bloodworm, FF7 – Death Worm & FF8 – Volt.

 Again, these miniatures are not great sculpts, but they bear a close resemblance to the artwork in White Dwarf and the Fiend Folio.  My casting of the Death Worm needed some emergency surgery to keep it in one piece – it is rare these days to find an unbroken example of this model.

In 1982, a large number of Fiend Factory models were replaced, some with updated and improved versions of the earlier sculpts, but many were completely new subjects.  Most of the monsters which were specific to the Fiend Factory column and/or the Fiend Folio tome went out of production at this time, to be replaced by more generic fantasy monsters and characters.  This blog will be concentrating, for now, on the earlier versions of the range, but we’ll take a look at the remodelled versions at a later date.

The next article will showcase some of the early miniatures of the Fantasy Adventurers range.