Tuesday 19 January 2016

From BillA - 28mm Frostgrave Trolls and Barbarian (25 points)

Today I've got a few more Frostgrave pieces, starting with a pair of  Reaper Ice Trolls (#77344).  Both of them are attached to 50mm round bases, also from Reaper.  I tried to keep the colors as muted and cool as possible to keep them as "cold" as I could, and I think I succeeded - the skin-tones are Reaper's Blue-Gray triad, with the softer skin of the chest, arms, face and legs highlighted one step lighter than the scaly area on the back.  I gave one of them green scraps of cloth around his hips, as well as a few green straps on his gauntlet (and for his, erm, G-string) to differentiate the two.  Additionally, the one wearing green had his right arm repositioned a little bit, bringing his hand up and forward, which I think adds a sense of momentum - like he's barreling towards a group of adventurers.





"I'm Thorgrim!" "Und I'm Einar!" "And we're going to slow roast your flesh, boil your bones for soup, and EAT" *clap* "YOU UP!"

Second, we have Reaper's "Nadia of the Blade" (Dark Heaven Legends #03409), which was part of an assortment of figures my girlfriend Gina got me for Christmas.  She'll be a Barbarian in a second, all-female Frostgrave warband I'm putting together.  I love that she has actual musculature instead of being cheesecake-in-chainmail, and her posture suggests some serious attitude.


I definitely went with a Red Sonja-influenced color scheme for her, and I tried to keep everything else as "cool" as I could to emphasize the bright red hair - silver chainmail, pale gray fur vest, wrist-band and boots, pale skin.


Apparently her sword is supposed to be straight, but on the piece I got it was bent juuuuuuuuuust right to look like a scimitar instead of a longsword.  Sure fooled me!

Here's a final comparison shot of Nadia and the Trolls to give a sense of scale.  Nadia's worth 5 points, and I'm hoping the wise and benevolent Tamsin will count the Trolls as a larger scale :)



Very nice work Bill! Great use of blue on the trolls - I'm going to score them as 54 mm figures, so this submission will give you 25 points.As for Nadia, I believe she was modelled on a certain redheaded flight attendant, not Red Sonja :)

16 comments:

  1. Ann Margaret musical gone fantasy. Well done!

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  2. Love the trolls, very evocative.

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  3. I have that troll too he's a great figur but I am using him as a Frostgiant. Very well painted.

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  4. very nice Bill. I like the barbarian for once a realistic barbarian with a normal sized weapon.

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  5. Great figures Bill. I love the SNL reference. Cheers Peter

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  6. Tamsin, does this mean that you'll be modelling your fur and chain mail bikini collection for us? Peter

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  7. You got the skin just right, they do look frightful in a good way ;-)

    Ian

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  8. Great work! Especialy like the trolls.

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  9. Nice work on these. Reaper do make some lovely figures.

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  10. Oh, very cool! (No pun intended...)

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  11. You're rockin' it with these Trolls Adam. Literally and figuratively. :)

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  12. Very nice trolls, I really like the rocky armour skin on them. Very nice brushwork!

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