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Orc Big Boss with Battle Standard
Now this is a gaming piece not a display piece. That said, he was to be a Battle Standard Bearer for my Warhammer army so I went to town on him a little (by my standards at any rate). He's a conversion from a 40K OrK character. Now this guy came with a banner pole to glue on his back but it was small and would only fit a metal plate shaped like an ork skull. I wanted him hefting a big and colorful banner so I lleft the pole off. If I remember right, the right arm is from a savage orc boar boy command set. The banner pole is from the standard plastic orc boxed set with a few alterations. First the original skull (a human one) was cut off, then so were the ends of the crossbar the banner hangs from. The spiky metal balls were taken from a plastic undead banner and the animal skull came from a plastic goblin banner. I dont remember where the severed hand hanging under the skull came from but I do recall wishing I waited until I painted the banner before I glued it on. It got in the way of my painting so I had to paint the skull lower than I wanted too. Other problems were the checkered pattern on the banner sides, which were harder to make than I thought, but hey it was my first time and painting one of them. Aside from that my only real regret is the left arm, which is one of the original arms from the mini. I kept it because I wanted him hefting a huge and nasty axe, this was a mistake. First of all the arm sticks out to the side so much I can only get this guy to rank up by placing him on the left side of my unit. Also for some strange reason I completely failed to notice it had bullets strapped to it above the biceps until painting time. ??? Anyways, I painted the bullets the colour I paint the teeth of my orcs. (I like to think just like their 40K cousins, Warhammer greenskins use orc teeth for money, after they beat them out of their fellow greenskins of course.) He's a special character, so it makes sense for him to have some "extra cash" right? :D The axe originally was one bladed and had some gizmos attached to the other side. I sawed off the gizmos, then took a spare of the same arm (from a 40K Ork I converted earlier into a chariot rider) and sawed off that axe's blade. Then I glued the second blade onto the back of the first axe. That's about it
Posted: 4 Mar 2005
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