dbartman wrote:Hello Egg,I need to get with you sometime on that little dragon project we discussed on Dragonsfoot a while back. I've got to figure out how to ship it to you at a reasonable cost and have it remain intact going and returning...
stumbling tiger wrote:Definitely giants! They may not be an underrepresented monster, but they're rarely done well. As different species from homo sapiens, giants should look mythic, or at least fairy-tale. Most I've seen just look like humans on a bigger scale, and some are just plain terrible. Tom Meier's 70's work for Ral Partha is IMHO the gold standard: http://www.sodemons.com/rhrp01gallery/r ... tgiant.jpgNow that's a frost giant not just some 52mm viking.
MShipley88 wrote:One other thing about giants is that they should be broad. A "real" giant would have to be almost as broad as it is tall in order to stand and move without snapping.
stumbling tiger wrote:Hi MarkThat makes good sense, but I have to say one of the things I like most about the Partha frost giant is the way he gets narrower the further up you get: it gives you a foreshortened, worm's eye view effect, as if he were really that tall!http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p85/ ... giants.jpgAs you say, giants' clothing should look like a primitive patchwork of scavenged materials. What do you think about the way this Grenadier giant dressed himself?http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p85/ ... ntGren.jpg
darkseraphim wrote:Here's some monsters that are rarely done justice that I think people would love to see.• Bugbear (correctly proportioned)• Carrion Crawler• Demons (correctly proportioned; Type VI especially, although V probably represents the greatest challenge)• Dragon (Monster Manual / Sutherland style)• Ghoul (in suitably animated poses, crouching, pouncing, stalking, etc., instead of just a stand-around-zombie thing)• Giant Spider• Hobgoblins (with the intriguing Japanese armor overtones)• Hydra• Manticore (some compromise between Sutherland, Trampier from M&T and the S2 orange cover)• Ogre• Orcs (with swine-like features, but still realistic)• Owlbear (I've never been pleased with any; one like the B2 cover, less chubby and more muscular, would be great!)• Shadow (something evocative; I like the old Grenadier undead figure that's an animate robe without hands or face, for example)• Skeleton (the skulls tend to be exaggerated, the ribcages where all the detail is are rarely done right)• Slimes (that look animate and sculpted, as opposed to a cast-off)• Troll (Sutherland, again correctly proportioned)• Umber Hulk
