Fimir are one of the few original things in the Warhammer setting. They were created, in fact, to be exactly that, at a moment when GW was dealing with the loss of rights over IP from their old suppliers. The credit for creating them goes to Graeme Davis and Jes Goodwin, who in turn inspired themselves from Alan Lee's Fomorian.
Truth be told, the effort to come up with something original was hardly monumental. Fimir had stronger limbs and an ankylosaurus-like tail to be used as a weapon. And that was it. Bryan Ansell probably found out too late, and Fimir became a thing.
Now, Fimir could really have become popular, if Nick Bibby, the sculptor charged to turn the concept art into miniature, had not botched spectacularly the size of the monsters, which in fluff were slightly heavier than humans, but in lead were Ogre-sized.
This meant that they were heavy and expensive to make and to buy, but in game terms they were not really strong: a line of few large Fimir was easily overcome by a line of smaller creatures. So Fimir didn't became popular, and eventually the Skaven filled their role, and became Warhammer's iconic monster.
Still, in the hearts of fans Fimir always had a place, and among Oldhammerers they remain a collector item, bought at dear price in eBay and other online markets.
I had this miniature for some time and I only managed to paint it because I wanted to test the new Contrast paints by GW. Well, what do you think? Not half bad I'd say, if you consider it took me less than half of the time I normally spend on a miniature this size.
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