Just a wee post of the latest beastie. He's 'Zolkor' from the Citadel CH4 Chaos Beastmen range (1987). The range was sculpted by Kev Adams, Jes Goodwin and Mark Copplestone. While it's not 100% clear who sculpted what, I reckon Zolkor is probably one of Kev's.
Look at this poor little fella. Not only is his spear broken, but some mongrel has cut off his horns! Who would do such a thing?
He was also going cheap on eBay, so I decided to rescue him and see if I couldn't fix him up.
I am far from competent with greenstuff, but 'good enough' horns were fairly straight forward. I decided I would convert him into a standard bearer, so scanned eBay for a suitable totem. The criteria was a) skulls and b) not too expensive. I found this one which had an appropriate number of skulls and a severed head (the broo has another severed head tucked under his shield). I wasn't sure where it was from so I asked on the Oldhammer Forum. Apparently it's a Chaos Space Marine Icon (1997) sculpted by Aly Morrison. I've been calling it the Evil Spaceman Thingy.
I drilled out the spear hand to take a banner pole. For my hobgoblin standard bearer I used a bulked out wire spear for the pole. This has needed gluing back on several times... This time around I've used a cocktail stick, which seems much more sturdy. I then bulked out the lower half of the spear shaft with greenstuff.
Anyway, here's the finished article, ready for release back into the forests of the Empire.
