Shaved Dwarf's Conversion Adventure

[DivisMal]

Awesome! I had some of those, when I was a kid. Grenadier hat like 102 orcs and dwarfs (of this type) within their Fantasy Warriors boxed set.

Great to see them making it back on the big screen, and your conversion make these rusty old chaps look young again. Keep posting!

[nic-e]

I'm doing the same thing at the moment,although I'll admit, you're alot further along than I am! I got a little burned out after the tenth greenstuff orc hat!  Still,I think these figures brush up pretty good with some love!:)

[Shaved Dwarf]

Thank you.

nic-e, I agree, a little love is necessary, but if they get it, they can really shine.
Great custom standard you've made for them.

[Shaved Dwarf]

Started to build some light cavalry. The two without shields will have some, I simply  have taken the photographs before fixing them.

Sitting the orcs on the wolves' backs proved to be tricky. The infantry models stand with legs apart one would consider to be enough for a slender wolf back to fit in. No matter how much plastic I removed from the orcs' loinclothes and inner sides of legs, they did not fit well. In the end I cut off all the left legs, and pinned them and the orcs on the wolves, filling the gaps with putty. Now the orcs sat on the wolf backs, but it still didn't look right.
I figured that, though the orc bottoms now were touching the wolf backs, the orcs didn't really rest on them. The orcs looked like they didn't have weight, like they'd magically hover over the wolves. So I decided to give them a loincloth to link the two models. Looks better now.

     

     

[DeafNala]

You certainly have come up with a horde of SPLENDIDLY IMAGINATIVE variations on a limited number of minis. OUTSTANDING WORK!

[Roddy]

So I decided to give them a loincloth to link the two models. Looks better now.

That worked really well, they look pretty spiffy.

Where are the wolves from?

[Brandlin]

I have a hundred of these figures too.

They are indeed nick lund sculpts. first manufactured by grenadier in 1990 as part of their orc vs dwarfs starter box for the excellent Fantasy Warriors ruleset.

I use mine to bulk out some orc units in amongst the metal lund sculpts. It helps to add variety and to hide the more static poses.

really loving what you're doing here. you can come and do mine afterwards :-)

[white knight]

Actually, the plastic ones were sculpted by someone else, in a style to match the metal Nick Lund sculpts.

The mounted orcs look great, very effective conversions.

[Tactalvanic]

Really well mounted orcs.

cracking conversions.

Well beyond my abilities.

We want more 

[djbii]

They remind me of the brutes in Zardoz :-)

[sukhe_bator]

Lovely mounted orc conversions

[Shaved Dwarf]

Thank you, guys!

Where are the wolves from?

They're from Vendel Miniatures. It's a pity they've ceased business.  They had some very beautiful fantasy minis. And cheap, too: I remember that I've paid 4 £ for a blister of four.
One can still get them, though, as the ranges were sold to Sgt. Majors in the US, but postal charges and customs fees spoiled it... at least for me.

you can come and do mine afterwards :-)

Err...
 

We want more  

And you'll get them!

[tomrommel1]

I got some of the figures ,too . Will start converting them when time allows !

[Shaved Dwarf]

Meanwhile, I started to paint. The first four bases are finished:





After painting I noticed that I missed to photograph and show three of my orcs after converting them. They can be seen on the second image: the one with the lowered spear and the two with helmets.

[Reed]

The guys with helms look cool. All the conversions made on the head give a lot of personality to the figure, aside from the also much needed reposing.