As a bit of a side project while the Orcs were drying I decided to have some fun with the Reaper Bones Minotaur figures I had gotten my hands on.

Now for those of you that have never encountered this range of figures the company Reaper has been transitioning from metal to a flexible plastic to make the figures cheaper and less likely to get damaged.

Now my first thoughs were, no, NO, HELL NO.

I was wrong. They are flexible but not so much that it reduced the useability of the figures and whilst the detail is not as great as a resin master figure it is about 95 to 98% as good which when you need loads of a figure is ok and the price is great. These figures retail at under £2.60 each.

The one down side is that there is only one pose. Not a problem for those willing to wield the knife and super glue.

The plastic is easy to cut with a sharp blade. You just need to be firm and careful.

For the first of the conversions I decided to just do a weapon swap. the figure comes with an axe in one hand and a cleaver in the other (middle figure in the picture). So to get some variety I turned one into a 2 axe wielder and the other into a 2 cleaver wielder.

Total time to cut and glue was about 10 minutes.

The plan is to do a little more mixing and matching with some Bugbear weapons, some extras left over from some Mantic Ogres and to add in at least a standard bearer. More on that next time though.