Beregond and the Troll
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Hi guys,
all the paintshops are really wonderful. As a professional nitpicker *g+ I’ll have to note one detail unrelated to the painting
It seems to me that the position of the Troll’s weapon hand does not match the supposed sequence of events. He has smashed Beregond’s shield with a swing from (his) right to the left, where the hand and the hammer are at the end of their swing. Now, if I had to make such a swing, I’d have a downhand grip (fingers and thumb on top and palm below shaft). Anatomically, it does not make sense (as a right-handed guy) at all to swing from right to left with the thumb to the left, as the force of the swing rests on the thumb rather than the edge of the hand and the firmness of four fingers. IMO it is natural to do it the other way round (thumb on right and the palm below the shaft of the hammer and the other four fingers gripping tightly upwards). From this perspective, it looks like the Troll is preparing to swing his hammer from left to right (e.g. before the stroke), but since his opponent’s shield is already cracked from the previous one, he obviously struck him in a very strange way
Cheers
TolwenWell, one could reason that he struck him “correctly” and already changed his grip/hand positioning for the next swing from the left to the right. In context with the staggering Beregond that’s only partly satisfying from the perspective of directly correlating hit and effect though (IMHO!). But it looks very nice anyway as Master Barliman noted
I already bought it too, but I think I’ll take a Troll from another company (if I ever get to paint minis again – only collecting nowadays unfortunately…) as I personally don’t deem the Mithril trolls a good representation of Middle-earth’s Trolls. But I already have some ideas for other uses for them
Cheers
TolwenEDIT: This does not reduce in any way my judgement of the superior craftsmanship of the Trolls – it only refers to their design!
I know it’s a bit late to unbury this topic… but I thought I would share the final result of my own version… it took me months to achieve this beregond vignette, by lack of time to paint it on a regular basis
.. Tonight I achieved it and took pics (though the pics I consider awful… but mostly because the light was not good at all I think… I will retake some during daytime…)Well here is my Beregond, excuse the poor quality (of pics and painting…)
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