Draconis does….. The Silver Bayonet

4th November 2024

A troll is required in the third scenario. I knew I had several old trolls, and went looking for my old C20 Hill Troll in particular (1987).

Well, I couldn’t find that, but I did find a couple of 1984 C20 Trolls, and an ADD59 Troll as well.

The friend, that I will be playing SB with initially, said he preferred the look of ADD59, so I went with that.

First out I had to strip it back to bare metal, and then find a round base (50mm) for it. I have gone with round because it is a skirmish game and round seems to work best for this.

After adding some sand/gravel basing material I then sprayed it black. This was followed by several stages of drybrushing (and highlighting in places the drybrush wouldn’t fit). I went from a Bronze Green (AK, that I used on my tanks), through two other greens (GW Warpstone Glow and Moot green) that I had used on the gobbos, and finally finished with yellow just on the upper arms, upper back and face.

The claws were picked out in dark Prussian blue, then highlighted up a couple of stages. I painted the teeth with a yellow brown (leather), highlighted up a couple of stages by adding ivory. Mouth and tongue were Khorne Red/Black mix, highlighted up. For the eyes I went from Khorne red, through Mephiston and Evil Sunz, then painted an orange pupil. I perhaps shouldn’t have used so many reds, as the pupil doesn’t stand out as well as it would have done against Khorne red I feel. I gave the troll a gloss varnish coat all over – this was to make it look as if it was wet. (Doesn’t photograph as well though).

So, with this finished I now have all the bad guys needed for the core book’s four cooperative scenarios (and some for later scenarios).

Now I will need to look at doing some terrain……