Painted up some classic Grenadier minis

Picked up some classics on Ebay, a Hill Giant and Ogre to help me run the players through G1 and possibly more of the giants series.  I've been using GW contrast paints for the past few years.  I can get them to a level of slightly sloppy but detailed in record time.  Throw a wash of Agrax Earthshade Gloss and they look quite good on the tabletop.  

This is a classic Wizard sculpt I've never owned until now.  I'm going to use it as my Boldvay the Blackened mini

On left is an excellent female Dwarf sculpt, not enough female dwarf minis out there.  The mini on the right is the first mini I ever used in a D&D game.  My DM gave it to me after helping me convert my Moldvay Basic Dwarf to an AD&D Dwarf Fighter and running me through some sessions.  Yeah it's a halfling thief mini but it was nice of my DM to give it to me, I was just a kid probably 4th grade.  He was a much older kid who was very kind for showing me the game I was so fascinated with.  Lost years ago, it was nice to reacquire.

I don't know why Grenadier sculpted the Ogre to be taller than the Hill Giant but there you go.  They both are 1985 Grenadier releases.  

 

My Mostly Complete 25-28mm Fantasy+ Collection

 

20mm Spanish Civil War Nationalists from Irregular Miniatures

 

Spanish Civil War 20mm minis from Irregular Miniatures

 Started my Spanish Civil War collection by painting up these beauties from Irregular minis.  Painted up my Student Revolutionaries and Anarchists, a Republican officer, 2 clergy and 2 peasants.  

Using this awesome osprey book to approximate the uniform colors.

The Complete 6mm Sci Fi Collection

 Minis from Irregular Miniatures

More 6mm Vietnam from Irregular minis

 Finished my Vietnam collection with a Huey, more troops, and the chateau terrain.

Grenadier Thieves 2008 25mm

 Scored another box of Grenadier AD&D minis, speed painted 5 with contrast paint.  Box is in good shape, minis were terribly painted with acrylics.  

Grenadier AD&D minis painted with contrast paint

 They took the contrast paint well.  Easy to speed paint. From the specialist and hirelings boxes.

Newly Completed 1/72 Historical Minis Projects

Steppes Riders, Viet Cong, and American Colonials

 

1/72 horsemen, medieval fighters, and colonial infantry

 

Samurai minis and some random 28mm minis I recently painted

 

Boot Hill Minis

 Finished and based some models we were using in the Boot Hill game.