Monday, November 4, 2013

Savage Orc tests

My collection of Greenskins is short on Savage Orcs or at least not enough to make large 30+ man units.

So I ran a couple tests using on older plastics to see about cheaply expanding units.

One is an old plastic Orc from the Warhammer Fantasy Regiments set, the other is a 5th edition Lizardman.

I shaved off the right side of the Orcs chainmail and used Apoxie Sculpt to cover up the rest of the chainmail giving him what I hope looks like a caveman fur tunic and replaced his sword with a sculpted club.
The 'lizardman' had his head replaced and his scales shaved off.  Also sculpted a fur cape on his back to cover up the scales.

The lizardmen came out quite well I think.


8 comments:

  1. I think both look quite good.! Where is the shield on the lizard Orc from?

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    1. Both shields are from the multi-part Goblin box set.

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  2. Very nice paint jobs, totally assume!

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  3. Both look quite good. I can see in the close up where you carved the plastic orcs back, but it's not too bad and I don't think it would show at gaming distance. Also add some tribal body paint to break up the lines and you'd never know. I think both conversions really work well.

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    1. Thank s for the input, I'll definitely try some war paint on them once/if this Savage Orc project gets off the back burner.

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  4. Great figures well painted.I look forward to seeing more of this conversion work...

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  5. These work very, very well indeed.Its incredible how some subtle conversion work can make something new out of a 25 year old model. Well done! I would like to see a whole unit of these!

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