Post Xmas blues....er Greens...

Well the madness that is Xmas has come and gone. I failed to complete my task of global domination but I did manage to do more work on the Minotaur unit and the unit of Bigguns for the Orc army.

The Reaper Bones Minotaurs proved to be a delight to convert even further then I had previously. Every one of the 10 figures is now unique.

As I was busy doing these I also sorted out the Reaper Bones Bugbears I will be using as Bigguns. I wanted a compact unit of 12 armed with spears but they only came with clubs so out came the hobby tools ;)

I removed the standard shields, will reuse those on another project, maybe the Fimir one :) The clubs came off too and some were used on the Minotaur project. Once weaponless I drilled out the hands with a cordless drill on very slow speed and the slid wide wooden skewers that had been cut to the right length through the hole. Tight work but it was worth it. The front rank of the unit I reposed slightly so that arms were not in the way of the 2nd rank. I then added slightly better sized and shaped shields as the ones they came with have all manner of spikes on them.

As a size comparison the figure on the left is a metal Big Orc from the Grenadier range. The right hand figure is a standard orc.

All told the conversions went rather well. Now to paint them.