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.
Good repair skills and another nice model.
ReplyDeleteI really should start my little broo/beastman posse.
Thanks as always Mike.
DeleteIf I end up with any doubles/swapsies I'll put them to one side for you.
That would be great!
DeleteThank you.
Well, that certainly turned out well! I wouldn’t likely notice that it was a rebuild if I didn’t know in advance. It’s always fun seeing your classic figures!
DeleteYo! Pat! How the devil are you, Sir? Thank you for the kind comment. What are you working on at the moment? I (very) occasionally pop onto LAF to see if you've posted anything new in 'Fantasy', but it's always possible I'm looking in the wrong Forum...
DeleteI’ve been doing well! I did some traveling last fall and over the winter, which slowed down some projects, but I’m still making progress. Nothing recent on the LAF Fantasy board, though. I’ve been working on some models for modern horror and near future post-apocalypse games. There are some posts showing the zombie horde in a thread on LAF’s post-apocalypse page, and some modern monster hunters in the “what I painted in April 2026” thread on the Workbench board. I’m hoping to put some game reports on the Cthulhu board soon.
ReplyDeleteAwesome. I'll go take a look over the weekend. Hope you had some interesting travels.
DeleteI sort of drifted away from LAF after Imgur nuked access for UK customers and I couldn't see any of my old photos (which was gutting) and many of the images on new posts. It's a shame, because so much of the work on there is so good.