Recently I managed to get my hands on some old orc sculpts from eBay. These rather crude orcs are from Gremlin Miniatures. I have a real soft spot for these old figures as I remember going to a games day and buying around twelve of these figures. I remember the owner telling me they were brand new and just released. The year was 1985 as marked on the bottom of the bases.
Unfortunately my needy cat jumped up and broke two spears off the old figures. I wasn't too worried as I planned to replace these flimsy weapons anyway. Brush bristles were called into action again and this spearman was turned into a standard bearer.
While I had the greenstuff out and warmed up, I added some details to my armoured Tommies.
I couldn't resist adding furs to some of these old figures.
Here is a shot of the figures before the cat incident.
Battered troll skin created by using a retractable pencil as a sculpting tool.
Another Tommy with some added pouches.
More troll skin, it's a nice touch to put some holes in the skin.
This figure sports my idea of combining brush bristles with plasticard for a bigger blade. He also wears a new orc helmet.
Some of old sculpts needed shields to finish them off.
To help hide the plasticard joint I used cotton covered in super glue. This will look good when painted.
Orc leader with added troll skin and large shield.
1 comment:
Great work on those Gremlin orcs! I've got that face-masked spearman somewhere - this could be just the nudge I need to do something with him.
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