Minifigs pig-faced orc

 

Here's a Minifigs pig-faced orc I painted up in a sort of comic-book style (heavy blacklining in ink). I'm quite pleased with it; I see this style as the best way to get the most out of the wonderful old Minfigs ranges, which have quite spare and shallow detail. 

This fellow's not quite finished; I need to touch up some of the highlights on his jerkin and perhaps add a sigil of some sort to his chest and backplates. I may well change the base to a slightly less textured surface.

More Minfigs gnolls

 Here are a couple more Minifigs gnolls to go with the one I painted up last week. The new ones are from the 80s (?) Greyhawk range rather than the 70s D&D range and are somewhat more hyena-like. But I like the look of both types together - some more manlike, others bearing more heavily the Mark of the Beast.

A Minifigs gnoll

 

Here's an old Minifigs gnoll. This range is clearly based on the Tom Wham illustration from the Basic D&D set:

And the Wham drawing is based on Dave Sutherland's illustration in the Monster Manual, though the former seems to have lost some of the more hyena-ish elements along the way:

A later range of Minfigs gnolls (World of Greyhawk, below) make the creatures more hyena-like, but they still retain some similarities to the original range - especially in stature. 

I'll be fielding the two types together in games: it would be odd to expect creatures of chaos (which is what gnolls are in early D&D) to lack variety!