A little while back I tried out the old Grenadier Fantasy Warriors rules, but had to commit the terrible crime of using a proxy figure for an Orc Wizard. Whilst looking around for a suitable model (now found, typically), I decided to make my own using a spare orc with a polearm. As a friend of mine (hi Matt!) is fond of saying 'how hard could it be'?
Here's the mini, I used. The blade of the pole-arm had already snapped off, so the plan was to keep the staff, and add some robes to hide the chainmail.
First job was to remove the sword scabbard on the rear. (it didn't need to be a neat job, fortunately).
Greenstuff was then used to build up robes and a hood. Unfortunately the green stuff I used was quite old, so I had trouble with some lumpy bits and splits, which I tried to disguise with some tears and stitches.
Not great, I'll admit, but it'll do. I've used Green Stuff before, to add details to the old plastic GW knights, or furs or other details.
Spot of paint covers up the worst of it.
Hunted out an old plastic skeleton head for the top of the staff, and hey presto!
