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Kind of an interesting conversion for me here.

When Everquest came out in 1999, I was deeply into it for a few years. My character was a Troll Shadowknight, a shadowknight basically being a anti-paladin - the healing touch was converted into a harm touch that did damage, you could summon undead, etc. It was a very challenging race\class combination to play. Large characters had an XP penalty, hybrid characters had an xp penalty, so I had both. They eventually removed the hybrid penalty but that wasn't until years later. The flip side is that although it took much longer to level up, if you stuck with it, the Troll Shadowknight was an extremely tough character.

There are no EQ minis that I am aware of, so I had to roll my own. The original Trolls in EQ were extremely fat, and then when they did a graphical revamp they were less so, so I found a model that was in the middle ground: a Black Orc Warlord by Bobby Jackon / Reaper.

Using greenstuff, I lengthened the ears slightly, and lengthened the nose greatly.

I recast the shield arm, and then cut the shield off the casting so I had a bare left arm. I made the Hateful Rigid Mistmoore Shield out of a piece of styrene, and scribed it with a hobby knife to look like wood. I sculpted the skull out of procreate. I think it came out... OK, but I'm never going to be a great sculptor.

My Troll Shadowknight had the Greenmist sword, so I chopped off the axe, and replaced it with a Kromlech Vibro Katana that I shaved the sci-fi elements off of. I considered doing some green glowing stuff on the sword but decided the actual Greenmist was just a plain looking Katana, so left it alone.

My Troll was from the swamp, so I found a sunken tree base from Secret Weapon. After everything was painted and dullcoted, I glued some lichen and grass into place and then filled the base with water effects.

Shadowknights have undead pets, so I represented this with a skeleton of some kind from Reaper. You could give the skeletons weapons, so this is pretty legit, although daggers were more common than scimitars.

I'm relatively happy with how this came out. My character wore platemail at this point in his career, but you can't find what you can't find and I sure can't sculpt a suit of armor. The one thing I really wanted to make was a Lodizal shield, which was a turtle shell shield that you could wear on your back. I tried sculpting once twice and it came out terrible both times, but I may try again at some point. For now though, it's done.

The mismatched styles and colors on the armor really seals it as a EQ mini. At least before they added dyes and cosmetics.

Love the pet. “Pulling a train, master”

Nothing like playing obscure, difficult combos. ERU PAL here. Deepwater knight for life.

I miss the old days...

 Nevelon wrote:
The mismatched styles and colors on the armor really seals it as a EQ mini. At least before they added dyes and cosmetics.

I agree!
Trolls had a slightly more brownish skin in my memory, but green works well too.
The shield is perfect, I remember SK running around with this.

ERU PAL was a tough combo. Troll SK had a huge xp penalty, but at least they got good HP/regen for it.
High elf wizard here, I went the easy way