More vikings.

Getting some more vikings ready for paint. 

I needed a few more berserkers, so I picked up the Warlord Games barbarians to convert up a few.

The armored torsos below also make for some dynamic models with little effort.

 If I was a young viking, I would have hair.

 Below a Gripping Beast conversion, murder and mayhem is the name of the game.

I'm leaving all of the shields off to make it easier to paint.....

Saxon Miniatures' Arthurian Review....

 From orcs to King Arthur.  These are miniatures from Saxon Miniatures.  They are some of the Arthurian Warlords.  Saxon sent me some samples after my Viking Warlord order. 

 They are very dynamic and cool looking miniatures.  Although the heads to me just seem to be slightly on the large side.  I was only sent some swords and thought spears would work a bit better with them.  The spears are left over hands cut off of some Gripping Beast plastics.  The hands fit the scale well.

That's also a good thing as I really don't care for the metal open hands.  I understand why that is done by Saxon, but to me it just did not real well with the exception being the one with the sword.

I am not much into Arthurians, Vikings and Saxons are more my thing.  I plan to paint these up, with shields of course and auction them off on eBay.

Below you can see a scale comparison for those that are interested.  From left to right:  My converted Warlord Games Barbarian with a Gripping Beast plastic viking head, an Arthurian, a Foundry viking, an Arthurian, a Gripping Beast plastic Dark Ages mini, and a Gripping Beast metal viking.

More Boar Boyz....

 Yea I definitely liked the looks of the guy above.  If I was still doing more of these I would have to do more of that mail armor. More stowage.

This one uses a head form Max Mini.  Thought it was an appropriate head and it was well made by there skill sculptors.

That's it for these....project is aborted....on to the new projects.

More of those Orky Razorback Riders

 Yeee! Haaa!

 As typical there are some areas on these plastic models that always need a bit of adjustment, and that would be the seams.  You really need to take some time and fill those seams areas.

 Yea no arm on this guy.  As I said these are going to a new home.

 As I was doing these, some of them just jump out at you as you throw down a bunch of ideas in a flurry of excitement.  The one below is like that.  I'll have some more pics of him later...

 Added some armor to the snout on this one like that older command model boar or should I say boring model.

 Yea sure goblins are also suitable for having their heads removed from their bodies.....

Waaagghhhh Suey!!

That's right its the boar boyz in various incomplete stages.  I was working on these just prior to my surgery.  As usual, I wanted every model to be unique.  The models are already pretty dynamic, but I was looking for that sort of feral Lord of the Rings Warg riders.  If I was keeping these I would be doing a bunch more work on them to make them more unique, but these are spoken for by a buddy of mine. 

So onward.  That means, spikes, trophies, hooks, food, fur, mail, armor plates.....am I missing anything...

 Oh yea more weapons...

 This one has a head by Spell Crow....

And as always....well you know....

More of the Black Orcs!

 Well yea....this guy is pretty plain.  What's wrong with me?  I do like the head.

 Ah...that's more like it.  Spikey blades, glyphs, a decapitated dapper Empire head.

 Yea this was what I was going for in bashing 'da Humies!

 And then there were more glyphs.....

 And I'm a sucker for skulls....

 Murder and mayhem do not make for boring orcs.....ever.

And much more to come......