Heroforge "Butler" Hill Giant Butler/Servant - Against The Giants

[Magic Lantern]

Reducted painting & forumming this week due to fibro but have finished this guy. I have an ambition to paint all the miniatures for Against The Giants - 30 odd years ago we had 3 actual "giant" figures and improvised.... Reaper Bones have been fantastic but A lot of the monsters are giant servants -weaker than the fighters ( hill giant servants fight as ogres), Gary did allow room for the servants to make deals with the party to avoid being killed ( we just killed them - twice...). I couldn't find any Giant Servant figures but then I thought of Heroforge....turns out that XL figures printed double size make very reasonable giants - and they are fun to design. I added the patch and the waistcoat belt ends with Green Stuff

This is the first one finished. I made a big cock-up in the design -the cat was meant to be Mrs Norris like - but I managed to have it overlap with a bottle - so one paw is missing and the other goes through the bottle...I thought it could be a ghost, then an alcoholic delusion so a pink cat...a cat that was only part there...

Butler is probably the brightest hill giant, being part-cloud giant. On a visit to relatives, he noticed that the cloud giants' servants tended to be in control of cellars, food, etc., and spotted an opportunity. Filching a velvet waistcoat, now extremely worn, and adding pinstripes to his trousers, he effectively placed himself in charge of the steading's supplies, and has built up quite a collection of coins and potions (etc.). Unfortunately, he has also been drinking sneakily from both the alcohol supplies and the potion stocks. Hence now he is followed by an irritating pink and purple cat who most of the time no one else can see...

[Chaoswolf]

Good job.

[Glitterwolf]

Good work!

I really like how you tackled the cat problem.

Looks great this way!

[Magic Lantern]

Thank you- I had been pretty pissed off with myself

12 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Good work!

I really like how you tackled the cat problem.

Looks great this way!

 

[Count Urlik]

Wonderful!  Those pinstripes really elevate the narrative of that piece - and the cat (Harvey?) is lovely!

[Magic Lantern]

1 hour ago, Count Urlik said:

Wonderful!  Those pinstripes really elevate the narrative of that piece - and the cat (Harvey?) is lovely!

Thank you so much - I love the image of his grabbing a paintbrush and some tar and slopping the lines on 🙂 ( If I ever get to an actual Cloud Giant butler I may go for a look like the Munshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Karim_(the_Munshi)

 

[Iridil]

Cool idea. I love the cat too