I finally started painting up the box of Grenadier Fighting Men I picked up at last year's gaming auction. It wasn't without pitfall, I'm afraid; I snapped the frail lead leg off the first guy I picked up. But the next three fellows ended up looking like they walked right out of the old AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide.
My favorite part? The beards. They're all different. Not sure why, but that just tickles me.Here's hoping I can avoid destroying the rest of these miniatures. They really are quite soft.
Curious what the originals look like? Here's a pic of the boxed set as it appeared when I bought it four months ago.
6 comments:
Man, in the day, did Grenadier ever do a crappy job with their sculpts. Great job with the paint, yes, these figures definitely take me back
If i'm not mistaken, I had a boxed set of grenadier minis. Dungeoneers perhaps?
@PatrickWR - Time to break out the green stuff. If you need help with the leg, let me know... hopefully you kept it!?
@Paladin Not all Grenadiers - Jane Guthrie's stuff rocks. Mega Minis sells her minis now - the old school stuff. RPG Diehard has seen her stuff on my table.
Anybody remember Broadsword miniatures? I had two of them and they were pretty awesome. Time to scour the Blogwebs.
Nice painting - especially the basing. Too bad about the leg.
Im way to new school to know much about Grenadier. But great job!
I have a tyranid 40k army sitting around here somewhere, I could probably sell them, with the custom paint, for about $1200 USD now.
You did a great job with those!
Nice job. I've always had a soft spot for early Grenadier models. They evoke the Trampier illustrations in the AD&D books, intentionally or not. I would say all the old AD&D Grenadiers paint up very nicely. The sculptor went a little overboard with the folds in the clothing, and the limbs have funky proportions (especially the dwarves and hobbits), though.
The fighting men was one of the first sets I got (I think I actually got the halflings first, for some reason). The polearms and two-handed sword broke very quickly though.
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