The last miniature of the Frost Giants from the Reaper Miniatures Bones 3 Kickstarter for me was the Frost Giant King. It’s a heavily armored and armed Frost Giant with a stupidly large horned helmet. He fits well into the group and definitely looks like their leader.
Reaper Miniatures also released a new Frost Giant Queen model as part of their Bones 3 Kickstarter. Although I don’t have immediate plans to use her in my D&D campaigns, she fits in very well with the rest of the Frost Giant group.
Another great miniature is the Frost Giant Bodyguard with his two-handed axe by Reaper Miniatures. This guy perfectly fits into any Frost Giant war band, and I really love his greataxe!
Roaming the cold wastelands and stalking adventurers or serving as pets to the mighty Frost Giants, Winter Wolves have a long history in Dungeons & Dragons. They are perfect for a mixed combat encounter and I really like the figures from Reaper Miniatures for them!
Frost Giants are also a big part of the Storm King’s Thunder campaign. They came into play a lot later at my table, when the players visited their iceberg fortress in the Sea of Moving Ice. Reaper and WizKids have nice miniatures for Frost Giants! This one is the Frost Giant Warrior from Reaper Miniatures.
The Fire Giants are not complete without their queen. So for this final Fire Giant post, I present Reapers new version of Vanja, Fire Giant Queen. There is no official artwork for Duke Zaltos wife, Duchess Brimskarda, but I think Vanja represents her perfectly for my Storm King’s Thunder campaign.
Duke Zalto is one of the main antagonists the players face in the Storm King’s Thunder campaign. He is the leader of the Fire Giants, and he has a devious plan to raise the station of the Fire Giants. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get my hands on the official WizKids Minature of Duke Zalto. But the new version of Reaper’s Skorg Ironskull, the Fire Giant King, shares some similarities with Zalto. So I was happy to use the Reaper miniature for the Duke.
The Fire Giant Jailor is a new miniature that was released with the huge versions of Reaper’s Fire Giants. It was part of the corresponding Reaper Bones Kickstarter, and I was in love with the figure the moment I saw it. The figure gives off the same vibe as some Fire Giant artworks in the Storm King’s Thunder book, so I used Bluferg as the keeper of Giants’ hellhounds.
Similar to the Fire Giant Bodyguard (77615) from Reaper, the “huge” version of the Fire Giant Warrior (77616) is a very nice updated version of the previous “large” Fire Giants, now using the gray bones material. The figure has a different sword compared to the original artwork and the large version, but it still looks great as a sculpt. I reduced the amount of gold on the miniature to make it look more like a standard grunt.
A couple of years ago, I painted the Fire Giants from Reaper Miniatures. These were great figures, even if they were a little small for D&D 5th edition. Apparently more people thought so, and Reaper redid these figures in the third Kickstarter. They are more or less the same figures, but at 150% the size of the older minis. Also, they are made of the new gray Bones material and have finer details. Of course I bought them and painted them for my Storm King’s Thunder campaign! Let’s start with the Fire Giant Bodyguard.