I have painted six Mithril Miniatures M103 Giant Spiders. These were initially released in 1989 and were meant to represent the giant spiders of Mirkwood.
They are mounted on the larger bases (125mm x 100mm) partly to represent monstrosities in the Midgard rules, and partly because they are quite large models. I enjoyed assembling them more than I thought as the legs are all separate to the one piece body section. My experience with gluing GW Tomb Scorpions lead me to dread assembling these, but they fitted together nicely, and allowed a lot of customisation of poses to give that extra creepy feel.
I painted them in the vague style of false widow spiders, but avoided a direct copy as I thought it would spoil their own style. I don't like False Widow spiders after being bitten twice by them over the last few years, the first time requiring antibiotics! So the colour choice was an purposeful extra creepy choice for me. Anyway, I am very happy with the way they have turned out, and I was happy that my positioning of the legs on or around the rocks seemed to have turned out nicely.
Enjoy :)
(I though name them rather just type spider six times!).
Fantastic spiders Lee, and the variety in the posing adds a lot of character to them.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dave. I had fun posing them and matching the rocks to the poses. I wanted a variety to make them feel even more creep and crawly.
DeleteEeeeek! So scary! They are enormously unsettling, congratulations, well done!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
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