In Critical Role’s fantasy setting of Exandria, Cyclops are reimagined as magically powerful giants who reign over smaller giants. Those that rule the Cyclops are Stormcallers, who, as the name suggests, have lightning and thunder-themed magical powers. These monsters and their kin serve as mid-level monsters for a Tal’Dorei campaign.

Frameworks Cyclops Stormcaller is a two-sprue plastic kit from Wizkids. You assemble and paint it yourself; that’s part of the fun, and if you don’t like painting and glueing things, then this is not for you. It’s a pretty straightforward kit. The pieces clip out of the frame quite easily, and the high-impact polystyrene parts are easy to glue together. One frame is grey, and the other is translucent. The latter frame contains ‘magical’ effects, so your Cyclops can be assembled in that act of summoning lightning or turning his arms into terrifying ice claws. 

We get plenty of extra bits for various modelling options, and these work well with other miniatures (especially other Frameworks Monsters), and it’s charmingly angry no matter how you put it together. (At best, you could paint it so it looked surprised rather than angry).   

The Cyclops Stormcaller is part of the Gilmore’s Fantastic Fabrications range, which is the brand for Exandria/Critical Role pieces, but honestly, this is a kit build for a really cool Cyclops model and will work well in most fantasy games. The design fits in with most heroic scale miniatures and would fit well with Mantic’s Kings of War models or in a game of Onslaught. 

This is a fun kit, suitable for most levels of skill, and it’s just detailed enough to be interesting but not so detailed that it can only ever be one thing. It’s the sort of model that’s designed to be modified, so if you’re looking for a ‘big humanoid monster’ for your table, check this one out.