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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: KGatch113 on 16 May 2025, 07:40:28 PM
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I need lots of Giants for a DnD game. Hill, Frost and Fire. I'm good using the same models for all three ( yes I know there are size differences).
I looked at using 54mm Tehnolog figures, but they are actually quite small. Most Ogre miniatures out there are the same size.
Do any toy companies make anything larger?
Thanks for any ideas.
I do not want to 3d print. Thanks again.
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If you're doing 28mm scale, look at Reaper Bones ($6-9 per mini depending on type), perhaps some kind of action figures? Maybe someone made something for the last D&D movie and you can find them cheap?
I looked up He-Man figures, and some of them are $10 a pop. Nothing dirt cheap. I scanned Hero Scape on eBay and they're rare and expensive. Maybe just endless amazon searching for action figures would work - find some cheap Chinese figure.
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Have a look at these, there may be something
Scheich https://schleich.org.uk/collections/schleich-fantasy (https://schleich.org.uk/collections/schleich-fantasy)
and Papo https://papo.org.uk/collections/papo-mutants (https://papo.org.uk/collections/papo-mutants)
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I'll second the Reaper Bones recommendation- for smaller miniatures the material is a bit soft on detail and bendy, but for big monsters like giants it works quite well, is very easy to convert, and in some cases is pretty darn cheap. Here's a tall skinny giant for just $5 in the US (not sure what market you're in, but prices are probably similar): https://www.reapermini.com/search/giant/latest/77336 (https://www.reapermini.com/search/giant/latest/77336), and they have a bunch more ranging up to around $12.
Here's a Reaper Bones Hill Giant model I converted a few years back into some type of monster (unfinished warhammer-y guy for scale):
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How big do you want to go?
I picked up a model on Ebay some while ago and it makes a superb Giant - 7-8" tall (I can't be bothered to dig it out to measure it) - a 1/24th scale Masterbox plastic kit, either on it's own in the 'World of Fantasy: Bergtroll' set, or with 2 other figures in the 'World of Fantasy: This is my Land' set, it's a whopper of a giant, even for 28-32mm.
You might find large scale orc's or trolls (Zvezda's 'Ring of Ruin' Troll miniature was a nice big size and can be easily converted into a giant), which may make a good, large sized giant figures.
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Walled City 3D Prints on Ebay does some bargain giants for less than a fiver. He does 2 Hill Giants and a Fire Giant. I have the hill giants and they are 90-100mm tall.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?ssPageName=&_ssn=walled_city_3d_prints
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have a read through this thread from more years ago than I care to admit - https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=128306.0 Hopefully a lot of it is still relevant
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Ha - was just going to post that thread! (In the end, we played The Steading of the Hill Giant Chief entirely as theatre of the mind - just as well, as the PCs didn't even enter the compound, but instead lured the giants out and put paid to them in ingenious ways - memorably, polymorphing the chief into a giant shark so that he suffocated on dry land ...)
We did use some of the giants in other adventures, though - this guy more than once:
(https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=128306.0;attach=138231;image)
In classic D&D giants aren't that big - not much bigger than ogres. I think that's because Gygax et. al. used 54mm or 60mm figures for giants.
So, in the Monster Manual, a hill giant is 10.5 feet tall compared with 12' for a stone giant, 15' for a frost giant and 9'+ for an ogre (so ogres and hill giants could well overlap).
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have a read through this thread from more years ago than I care to admit - https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=128306.0 Hopefully a lot of it is still relevant
A lot of the items are no longer available.
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You can definitely still get the Emhar 1:32 Vikings (for Frost giants) and the HAT 1:32 Celts and Pegasus 1:32 Gladiators (for Hill Giants). Those were going to have been the bulk of the giants in that thread (I had an idea that Hill Giants might be a bit 'Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' - which is where the masked gladiator helmets came in).
The Emhar figures are particularly good because they work with polystyrene cement - which makes conversion easier if you want to go down that route.
It's worth having a look through the Hannants catalogue of 1:32 figures (https://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?setPerPage=25&product_type_id=1878&scale_id=953&search_direction=asc&pageID=1): there are some interesting options in Incas, Aztecs and Zapotecs, etc., which would give you wild-looking giants with clubs (an essentially giantish feature, I feel!).
There are also some Rus in there that would work as frost giants, and you could even take something like these Holy Roman Empire soldiers (https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/CHT034?result-token=98jEN) and make some wild-looking fire giants (jet-black skin, plumes painted as flames, brass armour, etc.).
It strike me that there's nothing more quintessentially D&Dish than repurposing toy soldiers in different scales as giants and dwarfs, etc.: it's exactly what Gygax et al. did back in the day!
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Oh - and one tip if you want bigger giants: consider dropping the party from 28mm to 1/72 or 15mm. If you have only a few party members, it's cheap and easy to get them painted up in a smaller scale. I assembled figures to do this with our campaign, so I have miniatures for the party (including a bird man!) in all three scales.
It's also easy and inexpensive to get orcs, trolls, etc. for the giants' minions at that scale, if you need them.
(I confess I'm so tickled by the idea of using the Holy Roman Empire soldiers as fire giants that I'm tempted to do it myself ...)