This is an old Ral Partha frost giant. It’s quite different than Boerogg. This one is from before things got quite so cartoony in D&D art. Early versions of D&D had giants conceptualized as extra large humans, with frost giants modeled after vikings, like this guy.
The snow is washed out in these photos, sorry. But that’s just as well; I didn’t get he snow mixture quite right here. It was a little too thick, so it didn’t self-level well and had some bubbles in it that show in real life.
Here are nine more oldies I painted ages ago.
The first group I left with the bases I originally gave them. They include:
The second group I’ve spruced the bases up a bit. The second group includes:
The last mini I have not modified; it is my first attempt at a snow base. I used cotton, which you can see is now discolored. I was also shooting for a frosted armor appearance. He is from 1994 Games Workshop, like the female fighter above.
Here is the female counterpart to the Ral Partha 11-001 Fighters male in the previous post.
I was tinkering with making scrolls and banners. I don’t really have any idea why there would be a large scroll sitting in the grass behind this warrior. Maybe she just read some proclamation of death and destruction against her enemy, and now she is sallying forth to dish it out…or something…
Way back in 2008, I was paring down everything I owned to just the bare essentials. I gave away my entire mini collection to my great friend Jim.
I went to visit Jim a couple weeks ago and he gave me all my old minis back! What a guy.
They had seen some rough treatment over the years (Jim plays a lot of D&D!) Many of them were never put on proper bases. So I gave them just a little TLC to cover up some of the chipped paint, and then gave them some more interesting bases.
Back when I painted these, I was tinkering with adding colors to silver to make colored metal. Thus, the two axe fighters here have reddish armor. The red was the least satisfactory color to mix because red + silver comes out a bit pink. Other minis, that I’ll post later, have green or blue steel armor
Most of these are from Ral Partha packs that each came with a male and female pair. From left to right:
