Giants: the theme of the month!
I picked up the
GW giant last month, actually, but found myself horribly disappointed with it. The beer gut, the saggy love handles... I don't really want a model that looks to exercise slightly less infrequently than I do!
And it dawned on me - orcs would see this lump of fat and consider it slow food! Why not have a giant who's all kinds of buff and looks like he bench-presses henges in his spare time? And for that matter, why do orc giants always look human? Should orcs find, you know, larger orcs?
Fluff, you say. Hah! You'll have to deal with the existence of at least one orc giant in the world! But fear not, you'll never see him at a
GT.
First things first, the head just looked disgusting. I tool the slavegiant head (which I felt had a good mouth and pretty much nothing else) and applied a ton of greenstuff. In the end, you can see teeth , and if you look from the feet up, the bottom of the jaw.
Secondly, the gut's gotta go. When I assembled the model, I carved some pink foam to go in the chest cavity (I knew this was coming). The saw came out, and the gut was shorn down to a much more manageable size. Green stuff was applied over the foam to smooth out the interior and prevent it from damage. Since I use Rackham orcs for my big 'uns (another reason you'll never see me at a
GT), I decided to use their chestplate for inspiration... though I've not gotten that far in the process.
The orc club looked OK - I liked having a dinosaur/dragon's skull on there, but something was missing... so I took the jawbone that's supposed to go on the head and added it underneath the skull. It was actually pretty simple, and makes for a nice-looking conversion.
Fourth, time to BEEF UP! In my army, the giant has one role: to draw fire. If he makes it to combat, it's just gravy. With that in mind, I decided I needed the biggest, meanest, scariest giant that could be found anywhere. If he made Magnus von Magnusson look like a weak, flabby old man, so much the better! Over-the-top is the rule guiding the musculature structure on this giant. I mean Steven-Platt styled muscles and veins.
OK, so I can't come close to that level of coolness. But I can come up with some creepy looking stuff.
So, without further ado, here are a couple of shots of the giant - one side done to the bottom of the pectoral, the other done on the shoulder and bicep/tricep. I will keep updating as progress continues to get made!
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