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| Evil Cleric: Front View |
This week, Miniatures Monday goes way back to the very early 1980s and to one of the earliest sets of miniatures that I owned. I'd been playing D&D for a good while at that point, but the only miniatures that I had gotten were the Grenadier Dwarves boxed set (#2003), so I was pretty excited to get the Grenadier Action Art Monsters set (#8002) for Christmas one year. That set contained two of my all time favorite miniatures, the Assassin, and the Lawful Evil Cleric. I loved the cleric because of his awesome demon shield. That things is just fantastic. Heck, I even made several magic items for some of my games from it. In one game the shield acted as a bag of holding that was large enough for the PCs to crawl into. In another, the shield could exhale wind from its mouth and knock enemies down. I was fascinated with the miniature, but I just never got around to painting it. For over 35 years it sat unpainted until recently I decided to finally give it the full color treatment. To some extent, I guess 35 years of expectation was too much to ever live up to. This clearly isn't among my best work. I could claim that it's an old miniature, and the detail isn't that great, or that my eyes just aren't what they were, but the end result is that I just didn't do as good a job on this one as I'd hoped. I don't think that it's bad, but rather just disappointing. At least the shield turned out OK, and that was my favorite part of the figure anyway. Man, I love that shield. :-)
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| Evil Cleric: Rear View (The Shield!) |
That Drider is probably still around here somewhere...
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