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Title: Help remembering an old giant...
Post by: Simlasa on 01 March 2012, 05:47:17 AM: Hi,
Recently, a memory surged into my feeble brain of an ad I saw, probably in an old issue of Dragon, for some figures of giants. This would have been late 70s, early 80s.
I don't remember who made them though.

What I do remember is that they looked fairly large... with big heads and, IIRC, big forearms ala Popeye. They were a bit cartoony. Given the poses on them, I'm pretty sure they must have been multi-part kits.
There may actually have been only one model with variant heads/arms. One head had a horned helmet. The figures in the ad were painted, though I'm not sure the pictures were color.
They had a lot of character to them.

I've searched Stuff Of Legends but can't spot them.
I'm sure they weren't Ral Partha or Grenadier... this was before the Giants' Club stuff.
When I was a kid I desperately wanted them but had no clue about how to go about getting them.

If I could figure out what they were I could start combing Ebay for them (though recent searches turned up nothing that resembled them).

Thanks for any suggestions,
K
Title: Re: Help remembering an old giant...
Post by: Simlasa on 01 March 2012, 06:14:18 AM: Op, nevermind... found them... Dragontooth giants.
Memory glorified them a bit, made them larger and more elaborate.
Still... give me something else to add to the Want pile.
Title: Re: Help remembering an old giant...
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on 01 March 2012, 08:18:28 AM: Once you've seen Big Meg and her stewpot, you never forget Dragontooth :)

(http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/images/d/d7/Dragontooth_-_Giants6.jpg)

I'm still trying to fill gaps in the DT ranges......always looking to trade!
Title: Re: Help remembering an old giant...
Post by: robh on 01 March 2012, 10:41:29 AM: Quote from: The Dozing Dragon on 01 March 2012, 08:18:28 AM
Once you've seen Big Meg and her stewpot, you never forget Dragontooth :)

Oh great.......another figure I cannot live without :-*
Looks like another eBay "saved search" coming up!
Rob
Title: Re: Help remembering an old giant...
Post by: Braxandur on 01 March 2012, 07:03:23 PM: Quote from: The Dozing Dragon on 01 March 2012, 08:18:28 AM
Once you've seen Big Meg and her stewpot, you never forget Dragontooth :)

(http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/images/d/d7/Dragontooth_-_Giants6.jpg)

I'm still trying to fill gaps in the DT ranges......always looking to trade!

:o
Never heard of Dragontooth before, but will indeed never forget from now on lol
Title: Re: Help remembering an old giant...
Post by: Roebeast45 on 01 March 2012, 08:24:15 PM: Dragontooth had some of the most creative sculpts of their era. There's an interview with founder Tom Loback in this issue of Fantasy Modeling:
http://roebeast.blogspot.com/2010/09/fantasy-modeling-issue-3.html
Title: Re: Help remembering an old giant...
Post by: sgarris on 02 March 2012, 05:52:53 AM: I have one of those primed in black and missing the pot and truncheon ladle. I'm willing to part with it if we can reach an agreement.