C31 giant hill troll

[Andrew May]

I picked up this old figure from a second hand stall at Salute this year. He was plastered in enamels with no clue as to if he was any good underneath. Well a bath in nitromors revealed that no, he's not the nicest mini in the world but I thought that I would still give him a decent lick of paint as I'd already taken the trouble of prepping him!


Thanks to Otherworld for IDing this mini over on Frothers.

[Mason]

Dunno wotchoo meen!
Eez a nice enuff looking mini to me!

Nice paintjob, Andrew, on a good classic mini.
Loads of character in that chap.
Well done, Old Bean!

[DeafNala]

Goes to prove that one man's junk is another man's treasure...& that is a TREASURE! While the mini may not have been state of the art to begin with, you did FINE WORK turning him/it into a beautifully done piece. VERY WELL DONE!

[Deep One]

Great! I love that kind of mini.

[phreedh]

One of my fave trolls, and one of few minis I'm missing for my Orc's Drift collection. Nice paintjob to boot! Let me know if you ever want to flog it!

[Drachenklinge]

like it, too! It looks dipped (or washed), and with a very well outcome!!

beste wishes
Drachenklinge

[Andrew May]

@Phreedh, ah! I almost started a ID thread before painting it. I probably would have sold it if I hadn't painted it!

[Spooktalker]

I like it Andrew! It's a fine vintage. 

Is that un-thinned brush on varnish though? If so, I recognize it cause I've been there. Careful there!

[Andrew May]

 
It's been varnished with testors dullcoat spray.
I don't know what you're looking at.

[Spooktalker]

It's been varnished with testors dullcoat spray.
I don't know what you're looking at.

Oh, was wrong in my guess. The fig is reflecting light out of the crevices--the knuckles, folds and face in particular, and it looks like the varnish went on thick. I had a fig look just like when I used some old brush on dullcoat that had become a bit too concentrated and I failed to thin it. After that, no amount (or at least not the four I tried) coats of spray dullcoat could full remedy the situation. You can see a something that might look a bit similar but which has a completely different cause on some of my d&d figs. There I use a thicker "matte" varnish as a first coat and top it off with dullcoat, and occasionally in the knuckles and folds you see some glimmers. Of course it's most obvious in the pics because of the lights staring right at the fig from inches away. If it was a show piece I would go in there with and fix it up but for gaming figs I sometimes just let it be... or I mean to return with another coat and let it be for the time being. 

[Andrew May]

Ah, to be fair it's (as you said) the strong light inches away from the mini that's doing it. Cheers 

[Alxbates]

Wow!  Lovely work on a cool old mini.  I don't think I've seen that figure before - but I like it!