Three more giant or giant-adjacent figs toward our 2025 goal this week which is going to be the end of our mini-giant-and-giant-adjacent non-theme. So let's get to it.
First up we have an
Ettin from bones 4. He's not as big as the other giants we've seen but without a frame of reference it'd be hard to pick that out. This guy's got a lot of character from his "hey, look over there head" to his improvised anvil-hammer. Also, because he's not quite as large, he wasn't quite as tedious to paint which is a nice bonus for me. There was definitely a bunch more that I could have done with this guy not limited to picking out the leather straps better, doing something with the bulby things on his bracelet, putting any color on the shield, etc. etc. but when I got here at the end of the batch, I was super done. Occasionally I take a look at these shots and think that I should come back some day and punch them up when I don't feel the weight of several hundred unpainted minis and this guy is one of them.
These two are
Frost Giant Heroine and
Frost Giant Ranger and more or less why I was so done when I got to the Ettin. I like that these two have so much character. I dislike that they have quite so many tiny details. The edge highlighting I did on these has really paid off by making them look cleaner than they actually are and just like last week, the stitching is really doing some heavy lifting here. The ranger is in a harder plastic, possibly the predecessor of bones black which made it really hard to un-warp the spear and made the antlers on the stag kind of brittle despite having glued it twice. More work was probably warranted across both, especially since I like them, but again there aren't many giants in my world much less sentient ones. Will they ever see screen time? Unlikely but hard to say for sure. At any rate, they're painted and I'm happy for that.
2025 finished mini counter: 66, 2025 specific figs remaining: 78
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