Painting Trolls

Introduction

This pair of venerable trolls has served me well all throughout Storm King's Thunder as different giants, and I thought to finally repay them by applying a couple of paint schemes from Warhammer TV.

Light green color scheme

Spray Death Guard Green.

Drybrush Dead Flesh.

Lighter drybrush Bonewhite.

Athonian Camoshade all over.

Drybrush Bonewhite, but keep it light and focused on the face.

Edge highlight Bonewhite all the small details, and accentuate the muscles.

Superhighlight Wraithbone.

Green to beige transition color scheme

Spray Caliban Green.

Paint his front with a mix of Heavy Green and Dead Flesh.

Keep the transition rough.

Now his insides with a mix of Heavy Goldbrown and Khaki.

With all three basecoats down, time for washes. Nuln Oil inside the dark green parts.

Athonian Camoshade where the Nuln Oil ends, up to where the beige begins.

Reikland Fleshshade on the beige parts, with small splodges across into green territory.

Drybrush with the green mix, across all the green parts, not quite up to where the beige begins.

Drybrush with the beige mix up to and a bit over where the green begins.

Bonewhite highlights.

The theme here was color transitions without blending. I suppose the results are OK.

Common details

Brown fur.
Leather bracers.
Skulls and fangs, with a bit of Gore Grunta Fur added to the toenails.
Black hair. I thought that the surface is already dark enough, and a single coat of Black Templar will solve it. Well yes, but actually no: the raised surfaces let the green shine through. I drybrushed Cold Grey, but it got too stark. A coat of Nuln Oil darkened it down sufficiently, then a lighter drybrush of Cold Grey provided the highlights.

Silver bracers. Eyes but with Heavy Orange instead of white and Carroburg Crimson instead of black wash.

Basing

Glue them on 50mm bases, which I prefer due to being hard plastic. Their built-in bases are soft and have deformed slightly due to handling while painting. I also glued washers in between, just in case they ever get magnetized movement trays.

Cover up the gaps with home-made putty. Also use it to add texture to the base.

Woodland terrain.

Finished!