Orc's Drift - Hagar

[aiteal]

Superb painting (as ever)! And a terrific model too. I spotted one on eBay earlier this year, along with a less illustrious orc. They were simply labelled "orcs", and I thought I might get away with buying them for three quid or so. No such luck - they eventually went for nearer £40.

I was unlucky on that one too
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252290626284?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Beautiful (can I say that about an Orc?) work.

[Cubs]

I've always wondered if the Perry orcs from Hagar's companion range were in part a dry run for the 80s LotR figures. Although many of the Orc's Drift-era models share bodies or heads with the preslotta Armoured Orcs, those that don't tend to be squatter and are often armed with bows besides their melee weapons.

They certainly did recycle a lot of the sculpting for other stuff back then didn't they? I guess they figured it was mad to let good work go to waste. In collecting the Black Mountain Boys I noticed that variants of the heroes and troopers cropped up as part of the regular Orcs.

Hagar also raises a wave of nostalgia for the fact that he's the chief orc in the campaign but is neither outsized nor equipped with over-the-top armour and weapons. The same's true for his fellow chieftains: Magyar Ironfist, Fangor Gripe and that fellow with the Mohican crest. They're all great figures, but they're all normal-sized and relatively unobtrusive by later GW standards.

Yeah, ditto. When he and the McDeaths (lovely couple, lots of fun) were on my desk I noticed Hagar was the shortest out of the three of them. I sighed and felt that all was well with the world somehow. Orc Heroes don't need to be 7ft tall and built like balloon animals.

[Vermis]

Orc Heroes don't need to be 7ft tall and built like balloon animals.

 

[marrony]

Fine work.

[DeafNala]

Hagar is most definitely an UBERCOOL miniature when pained to the FANTASTIC standards you achieve, & embellished with all the LOVELY details you lavished on the Old Orc. OUTSTANDINGLY WELL DONE!

[Quendil]

Lovely paintwork    And what an awesome figure, I so want one now