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So I'm calling the gigalion done. Was trying to paint fur on him. I don't feel like I pulled it off. Of course it might be only be me feeling that way. #kingdomdeath #kingdomdeathmonster #paintingminis #painting #paintingminiatures @artisopusltd #gigalion #kdm #tabletopgaming #wargaming #miniatureswargaming #minis #miniaturespainting #miniatures #minipainting #gexodrom #sharethehobby #sharethehobbylove https://www.instagram.com/p/CGTM6xmnxjC/?igshid=e2kpfreb4ky1

I didn’t realize that the Gigalion from Kingdom Death Monster came with survivors until it arrived and wow! What great survivor sculpts!! 

Gigalion wip update. Trying to do fur, not sure how it coming out. Looks ok 1 min then not the next. #paintingminis #painting #paintingminiatures #wipupdate #wip #kingdomdeath #kingdomdeathmonster #gigalion #minis #miniaturespainting #miniatures #tabletopgaming #gexodrom #sharethehobbylove https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvUP-gnBvh/?igshid=vfev8oqn7x05

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White Gigalion from Kingdom Death . Finished this guy on day 3 of 3 from my solo-at-home hobby weekend. Between this guy, the Lion God, and the original White Lion, I've effectively painted a "white lion" in three different ways. I thought about giving him some fur texture, but those muscle forms were so well-defined and human flesh colored hands and feet wouldn't make sense if they were furry. Ultimately, I consciously made this guy kind of bare-skinned (or am I just lazy?). . I also wanted to keep the gore to a minimum... mainly 'cause painting blood and such is a crutch for covering up mistakes, so that's kind of where my mind goes when I see lots of gore; it looks lazy. . The Gigalion's "stash" under the giant stone face is something I kind of wrestled with. I wanted to raise the contrast, but having such strong highlights, though it'd look "better", just wouldn't make sense since it's in a heavily shaded area, so highlights were kept to a minimum. . Finally the eyes... I confess to wanting to paint glowing eyes (like the original white lion in the rulebook), in part because "canon"... but also because in other people's paint-ups, deciding where he's looking is a challenge. I've seen some derpy gazes, gazes looking at the body, straight forward, etc. All of it just seemed to not fit. Glowing eyes may be a cop-out and a bit of a lazy approach to that challenge, but it also adds a general ferocity. Besides... by the time I got to the eyes, the body was largely done and I wanted a splash of color to draw focus, and I definitely didn't want that to be gore. . And I don't care what you say, my head-canon feels like the reason the Lion has glowing eyes is because he also eats his victims' lanterns. =) There seems to be what looks like a lantern in his stash with a big hole, like it was bitten... or it could just be a skull with a lantern on top of it, but not sure. . #miniatures #miniaturepainting #kingdomdeath #kingdomdeathmonster #gigalion https://www.instagram.com/p/B19W4VCHG-3/?igshid=1jyj7tr2zdwqc