This is my paint job on Yasashii’s “Mind Flayer / Illithid Tabletop Miniature” from Thingiverse.
This was one of the first prints off of my resin printer, and the first piece I attempted air brushing; to make both of these a little easier, I scaled him up a bit, so he isn’t quite “tabletop minature” scale, but still much smaller than what I’d been used to painting (~70mm tall).
Everything except for the red eyes and purple highlights on the armor was done with a 0.3mm airbrush.
Here are a couple different angles:
Unfortunately one of the robe dangly bits snapped off the back before I could start painting. I didn’t expect the paint job to turn out this decent so I didn’t bother reprinting, kinda wish I had.
Thank you!
The mind flayer is a monster that is found in the DnD universe. As the name suggests, they consume the mind of their prey.
They do look quite a lot a humanoid Cthulhu. Slightly larger than the average human, so much smaller than the real thing, and they don’t have the crazy tentacle aura type things, just the ones coming from their face.