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.
