Reaper Bones Troll

Here's a Reaper Bones Troll.   This mini has been painted for a few years and like the bugs has never made it up here until now.  It collected a lot of dust and had to be touched up.

 I call him a Tongue Troll.  He is a fairly crazy looking monster that would likely scare the (&*@ out of most adventurers...

I spent a lot of time trying to blend the lighter skin on the underside of the hands and on the knuckles with the darker skin.  The Tongue was fun to paint and coat with gloss .

Here is a final shot from the other side.   Overall a cool miniature.  If I had to do it again , I would do more contrasting colors on this one...perhaps the back scales or moss would be much more contrasting.

Grenadier AD&D Charging Warrior

 This mini in the middle  must have come from the bits

bin at my local game store 4 years ago.  I finally got around to painting him up.  He now joins the other Grenadier AD&D brave souls!!!

I spent a lot of time trying to get a clean look on the different sections of this guy. These old Grenadier minis are hard to get right.

Here is another group shor of my AD&D minis from Grenadier. There are some adventurers, hirelings, and fighters!!

Norien, Female Magic User

 This is Norien. She came out of my Grenadier AD&D boxed set called adventuring party. I do not know what she is holding so I painted it in non metallic metal Silver.

I assume she is casting a spell here.

She had a really old coat of primer from the 80s on her. I tried painting over it and that was a mistake. I should have stripped all the old primer off and then painted her. Her face was really tough for me to paint oh, and I actually had to do it twice to get it to where I liked it. 

Anyways, it is fun to try and make these old Grenadier Miniatures look good. It's also nice to get the lead pile smaller.

Reaper Bones Bugs

 Below are a couple of Bones miniatures that have been painted for several years but never posted.  I love painting monsters...and weird ones even more.  The first one is  an Ankheg, a kind of large burrowing bug you hope to never find in your garden...

Farmers and gardeners in all fantasy worlds fear these creatures the most...

This next one is a Charnel Grub...which I assume is kind of a baby carrion crawler?   Nature's dungeon cleaners I say.

Ral Partha Gremlin

 Here is another Ral Partha mini from the collection. Thus little guy is a gremlin, and I painted him up to look like one of the gremlins in the movie.