Behold!

I love beholders. They've always been my favorite D&D monster, even before I'd played D&D. I just have a thing for eyeballs. Lately, I've been picking up multiple copies of Nolzur's Beholder miniature. It's just a fantastic miniature, and it's fun to paint. Every time I finish one up, I get an idea (eye-dea?) for another one. Here's the ones I've done so far. 

First up, we have the Death Metal Beholder. My original idea was to make it look like the Death Star, but that didn't really work out. So instead, I tried to make the scariest, most evil-looking Beholder possible. Mostly black and silver, with red eyes, firing four eyebeams.

Death Metal Beholder

Next up, we have the Pride Beholder. Black with rainbow plates and eyebeams.

Pride Beholder

Side View

This is the Pineapple Beholder. While painting one of the others, it occurred to me how much the back of this model looked like a pineapple.

Pineapple Beholder

Back View

Here is a Beauty Beholder. I stole the eyelashes idea from this reddit thread. More pictures of her here.

Beauty Beholder

Eyelash Close-Up

Here is a Jester Beholder:

Jester Beholder

Here's a Joker Beholder. A lot of people have been painting this beholder model to look like the Joker, so this is my attempt.

Joker Beholder

Back View

Finally, here's a Metallic Beholder. Originally I wanted to go for disco ball, but then I started thinking of Bubo the owl from Clash of the Titans. Anyway, he ended up a little bland, but I like having a metal Beholder in my collection.

Metallic Beholder

Here's a group shot:

Group Shot

As long as I'm here, here's one I printed with my 3D printer, using this model. It didn't turn out very well, but it was kind of a tasteless idea anyway.

Coronavirus Beholder

All of these go really well with the pre-painted Beholders I already owned: