Yesterday in the mail i received my Trollkin Long Riders. I’ve been waiting for these for a while and was slightly disappointed that of the 5 i received 4 were the same miniature. Not a huge issue though as i like to convert and sculpt so this was a great opportunity to get in some more practice. So far I've managed to modify two of these big bad boyz.
The first one seen in the picture about i decided to reposition the head so it was looking more up and to do this i needed to pin the head into position and then re-sculpt the whole neck. Quite easy and took maybe 20 minutes if that.
For the second bison i decided to pose him more like he was just butting something with its head. To do this i had to hack the leg off and pin it in a new position and then re-sculpt some of the muscle shape and hair. I also bent the position of the rear legs slightly and had to tidy up a few areas which had been damaged during this process. (the material the Privateer Press casts there miniatures out of is pretty tough and large models like these are difficult to bend without applying a lot of force!!). For this model i also decided that i wanted the head of the rider to be different so out came my trusty clippers again and i clipped off the head and replaced it with an armoured Kreil head that i had spare from my Kreil warriors box. A little bit of putty to rebuild the neck and it was done.
Overall I'm happy with how these have turned out. I will probably modify one more of the long riders so that all 5 miniatures are different. (after all I'm unlikely to ever do up a second unit so i might as well make them look as good as i can.)
- after noticing how bad the pictures turned out here are a couple of quick close ups.
Keen to know what you guys think.
5 comments:
Bit hard to see the details in the pics, but knowing you the details will be awesome. You might want to do a bit of base work on one of them, running up a rock or bounding over a log or similar, I reckon that would look fantastic if one was doing the lookout type of thing on a big rocky outcrop.
Looks good, but as Rob pointed out, its a bit hard to see the details.
yeah thanks for the info guys - that will teach me for not checking the photos before i put them up. Ill see if i can add some better shots.
That's better, they are looking good.
Hows it going man hope you've got plenty of work and enjoying it all,
Cheers
Kent
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