From SylvainR: 28mm Mountains of Muscle for D&D (30 points)

This week, to "flesh out" my collection of D&D monsters, I worked on 3 giants and there were plenty of bulging muscles to paint. These are all vinyl figurines from Reaper. First, I need to give my minion a sense of the size of these baddies. Below is a picture of one of the giants with a 28mm cleric I painted a few weeks ago for comparison.

 

On this an ape-bodied giant, each of the muscle in his arms appears bigger than his head. He is described as a hill giant on the Reaper Miniatures web site. I found it challenging to highlight the hair on his arms and legs with a dry brush without the result looking "burnt" or dirty. Would any challengers have suggestions on how to paint decent hairy arms and legs?

Below is another hill giant, on of many that can be found in the Reaper catalog. Almost of the giants are posed to look downward on the hapless heroes, which makes it difficult to see their face. I rarely paint eyes on my 28mm figurines (and never on my 6mm figurines :-)) but for a giant, I felt comfortable enough to do so. As I was painting his back, I noticed a few bubbles in the cast. Too lazy to throw in some putty and redo my paint job, I just added some blood and pretended these holes were wounds.

 

 

The last fellow is a storm giant. For the metal parts, I used the techniques I developed last week with the "metal heavy" chaos war band. You will note on the bases many little green bushes that I got for cheap on Temu. I find them a little too bright, but hey, a finished figurine is a finished figurine.

 

Points claimed:

3 x 54mm foot figurines at 10 points each = 30 points

Total = 30 points 

Thanks for reading!

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From 6mm to 54mm...now THAT is some variety. 

Great brushwork once again Sylvain! I fear the lighting in these photos has let you down a touch - these brutes look the business, and you have achieved an excellent result on these figures. The character - and associated "anger issues" really shine through. 

Painting hairy arms...well...I fear I lack the authorized Scottish heritage in order to offer suggestions, but I will say that I feel you have achieved a pretty good result here. For my part, I would suggest dry brushing as the way to go, but perhaps involving a while or light grey dry brush first, and then a wash from one of the many paint varieties out there made to cover such a dry brush.

I can feel the tread of these giants approaching! Well done Sylvain!

GregB