Albeit fun, and with models time accurate they didn`t really do much for me, but this all changed when I received my own sculpts in pewter.
The first batch of Orcs sculpted. These will be sold through Horde of Colors.The theme is that this warband has taken down a company of knights and then flogged them of their equipment. You can see scatterings of examples of this.All of my minis are barefoot as it just makes more sense. Like, would they really care about shoes or would they care about what can bash your head in. At least that was my reasoning, and I believe looted shoes would chafe and give blisters being to small for the larger more simian bodytype of the green skins.The troll has horse armor on his head, and a saddle as a shoulder pad.The boss has a knights helmet on his head and a smattering of armor cobbled on him.The shaman has flogged the horse and uses the pelt.The goblins has also nicked a few bits and bobs from the knights.Note that my take on gobs has an overbite, while the orcs have the more traditional underbite.
So that was a sample of my sculpts in pewter. I will paint up the entire stock set for my own use late summer/early autumn. As for the sculpting I do all on an iPad in Nomad Pro. Here are some of the sculpts in 3d;
So back to the “Ard Boyz. Getting three complete sets meant I could spare a few into proper nobs as mine are taller/more upright than the standard GW orcs.
A fun unit combining my sculpted bits with oldhammer era appropriate bits (and then some newer albeit pewter ones).Three nobs where not enough so I made a few more, but I’ll get back to these in a later blog post! Can you spot the source models for these?
But what of the original Ard Boyz mob I imaginary can hear you say!(?) Fear not, no lead is spared here!
Oh my, reimagined as Genestealer Orks! Note my two squid sculpts on those iconic old spiders from the goblin spider rider models. The printed genestealer inspired bits are made by Fordalminiatures and something I used in my 2nd ed Tyranid army.Much more happy with these as you can see the original sculpts a lot better! I don`t really know what to use them for in-game but they look cool at least 🙂
So two new mobs and even more pewter in the army – hard times! The Genestealer inspired bits can be bought and downloaded as STLs here at Fordal miniatures over on Cults 3d. Horde of Colors havent opened the web store yet but you can see his current and ongoing kickstarter here, and on instagram here.
I will keep you updated when my sculpts hit his webstore 🙂
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