OK, as promised here is the repainted Minifigs troll. The others I decided to strip first, so the Grenadier is soaking in Brake Fluid and the Ral Partha will soak in Pine Sol. I’ve been meaning to determine which works best. I hope it is the Pine Sol, brake fluid is nasty carcinogenic stuff.
Looks a little like Richard Nixon, doesn’t he? This model was produced around 1978, so I guess it could be intentional. Apparently he’s actually very rare. Score!
I also dug up a couple of Dragon Strike trolls. Dragon Strike was a D&D board game that came out in 1993 and had some really horrible plastic figures, but an awesomely bad “introduction to roleplaying games” video. I found a few sprues cheap at the same Origins, and the trolls were hunched over and looking perpendicular to where they are attacking, due no doubt to the very limit possibilities for a one-piece hard plastic casting. Original on left. I decided to turn their heads by sawing off the face and recreating the head with epoxy putty. I used the blue+white plumber’s stuff and that dries a little too fast to get a lot of detail added, but these guys are already pretty blobby.
The finished trolls looked like this:
The poses aren’t too dissimilar, huh?
I couldn’t find the original Dragon Strike video, but it is featured (and ripped on) here.
[…] Trolls three Some time ago I was going to repaint a few old troll figures. On my vacation a couple of weeks ago to Pennsylvania, I took along a toolbox of paints of figs and got them done, along with some henchmen. Before I stripped them, they looked like this. (The Minifigs troll was finished much sooner and posted here.) […]