I bought 2 of the Otherworld Miniatures Stone Giants a couple years ago at Salute. I loved the model, it was sculpted by my pal Paul Muller (we used to share an office back when we worked at GW). However, I wanted each one to look individual, so I converted one of them with a new face, turn of the head, and I sculpted 2 new arms on him carrying a club and barrel from my bits box. I also gave him some bone armor (more bits from by bits box) and when I was done, he looked pretty different from the original model. He looks a bit like he's returning from a raid on some town, with a big barrel of ale he's stolen from the inn!
In the picture below, the Stone Giant in the middle was a Citadel Miniatures C28 Giant, sculpted by Michael and Alan Perry way back in the 1980's. One of the Giants in this series was clearly meant to be a D&D Stone Giant, and it matched up pretty nicely with the Otherworld Giant in scale. The only problems were his head and feet -- the head looked too big and the feet were to small (in comparison with the Otherworld minis). So I did a quicky sculpt of a new head that was a little smaller, and added some putty to bulk out the feet. In the end, when based in the same manner, all 3 looked like they were made for the same range.
I painted them with a pallet of neutral tones, as I wanted them to have a cold, stony look. I picture Stone Giants to be a bit like neolithic man, making weapons & gear from stone and hide. The scenery in the photo is some of my neolithic stuff I made last year for WarGods of Hyperborea (the Wendigo), if you like it you can see more color photos of these in the Wendigo Warband Book, available from Crocodile Games.
I hope Otherworld does a couple more poses for their Giants range -- I'd love to have a Stone Giant throwing a rock to go with these guys!
Now, the question is, can I get anything else painted before the year is over and I have to get back to work???
Superb miniatures and some great conversions.
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I'd like to see the Reaper Stone Giant in the mix, too.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen the Reaper giant firsthand, just pics on the web. I wonder if it would be correctly scaled to the Otherworld and old GW models?
ReplyDeleteThe Reaper and Otherworld stone giants are both about 58mm from foot to eye. The Reaper mini is a little thicker.
ReplyDeleteWow! Top job all round!
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how much I love these.
ReplyDeleteI'm painting a tribe of Reaper Stone Giants similar to these and I'm blown away. I copied the Stone Giant with photogrammetry and reposed it Blender. Ended up losing a lot of the small details.
GAWD I want these!