Still passing time rekindling my joy for painting by doing these fans.
So here is a GW troll. He is converted, basically because he was damaged, and so he ended up with legs out of green stuff and a forsaken-sprue. Not a great choice in retrospect, perhaps. Still, I am not unhappy with it as such, but it could be better.
I obviously abandoned the traditional colour scheme for stone trolls, so call this guy a chaos troll.
I finished this a while ago, but I have not had the mental energy and testicular fortitude to revisit it again untill now.
It blew. I liked the previous tale of Gilead for its melancholy, even if that too had its stale bits. This one, however, read like a bedtime story specifically designed to induce sleep, and the story withina story that it featured (like the previous book) added nothing to it, save perhaps an excuse for a very tedious style.
To sum up: Now Gilead, sad husk of an elf that he was in the first book is now basically fine AND he can kick as much ass as you could possibly have. His personality is that of a damp towel, but he makes up for it by being able to do anything. He has his faithful retainer, and an annoying cousin, and they fight evil, seemingly just out of some sort of ... Well, you get the impression that this is just what they do, much like birds flying South or planets orbiting, mold growing... all equally exciting, actually.
Pass on this book.
One star out of five. Sleep tight.
An ogre talent scout with an eye out for talented youngsters as well as junk food.
I wanted to catch that contrast between drab colours and gaudy that certain types of people seem to enjoy, but admittedly the character changed a few times as I was painting him.
He is a converted, of course. Originally he was a strange 35 mm or so human who looked like that guy from NYPD Blue. Sipowicz? Anyway, off with his head, and on with a GW ogre head. Collar is green stuffed.
Asked and answered. Here they are, side by side, to show the effects of the conversion as well as different approaches to the paint job. One lot was painted with my left, the other with my right...
That's right, sports fan-fans... more drunken dwarves.
In an attempt to up my game, I created four more fans out of the same three drunken dwarf minis. A keen observer may have already spotted that those three are clearly already done from the same dummy. They are identical waist down. Taking this into account, I wanted them to look different, and I wanted to make them more modern. First step was to lose the fantasy helmets. I made two go bare-headed, one got a silly hat, and the last one got a cap. All fairly easy sculpting. Second step was to give them shorts instead of... tunics. Or whatever you call those. Not terribly difficult, and all done by knife.
Two og them were identical. I gave one a hat abd trimmed his moustache, and I repositioned the hand for the other guy.
They all got different beard colours, of course, but they are all wearing Packers-colours.
