'Old Citadel Nostalgia' - an ongoing project.

[Dr Mathias]

Damn, those skin tones are perfect. Well done man!

[syrinx0]

Those are wonderfully realistic.  They really look like they live a rough life!

[DeafNala]

The Giants are OUTSTANDING pieces; BEAUTIFULLY painted & based. You did a fine job bringing out their abundance of personality.  VERY WELL DONE!
I had never seen either one of the Big Fellows before. That made the viewing even more of a treat.

[Grumpy Gnome]

Yeah, those giants are brilliant!

[Roo]

Incredible giants, the skin tones are amazing and love those old sculpts.
 

[Hobgoblin]

Amazing painting!

I know those giants more from the old line drawings in Citadel catalogues than from photos, so it's great to see them done so splendidly.

Something I've always liked about those Perry designs is that some of the giants are decidedly different from just outsized ugly humans. Your second fellow here epitomises that, with his Bauer-troll nose and his three-fingered hands. I recall there was one head variant with no hair and a goblinish look - and was there a cyclops too?

[Cubs]

Amazing painting!

I know those giants more from the old line drawings in Citadel catalogues than from photos, so it's great to see them done so splendidly.

Something I've always liked about those Perry designs is that some of the giants are decidedly different from just outsized ugly humans. Your second fellow here epitomises that, with his Bauer-troll nose and his three-fingered hands. I recall there was one head variant with no hair and a goblinish look - and was there a cyclops too?

Yeah, it was an early experiment with multi-parts, with heads and weapons separate. Presumably you could select your own on mail order or just try your luck in a shop! They were great old models and truly TRUE GIANTS under the old rules with their wacky attack options, as opposed to standard Giants and Small Giants (which usually consisted of Nick Lund Ogres, Runequest Trolls, Cyclopes, Minotaurs etc.. in our games).

Picture is from Stuff of Legends.

[Hobgoblin]

Ah - that brings back memories! I always coveted the spiky head, second top in the right-hand column.

I'd forgotten that old Warhammer distinction between giant types. It's a great idea: the biggest "what you see is what you get" difficulty with most fantasy rules is reflecting the fact that one giant might be a quarter of the size of another.

[Cubs]

But then my brother had a plastic Ogre model from the big 54mm Fighting Fantasy range, which was bigger again! At some point you just have to say "Ah, it's close enough!"

[Bloggard]

Such character in these old miniatures

yep, and fantastic paint-jobs.

[Captain Blood]

Cubbin amazing! 
Those are some big old dirty boys...

[Too Bo Coo]

Just fantastic!!!!!

[Blasphemia Blackwood]

The palette and painting style you use fit so well on these old minis. Such eye candy!

[Battle Brush Sigur]

Not even sure I've ever seen these C28 giants. Great sculpts, and you really did a good job on the skin on those. Very cool.

[thebinmann]

But then my brother had a plastic Ogre model from the big 54mm Fighting Fantasy range, which was bigger again! At some point you just have to say "Ah, it's close enough!"

I had the cyclopes f'ing enormous. But, the painting kept cracking and flaking, I think it end in the bin....

oh for shame