I got this figure who has a beakie helemet… and he looks great.. but like alot of the figures you get they often are missing thier hands and spear.
So I made some.
There pretty rough.. but they are tatty gloves and anything rough on a orc looks fine.
Everyone should start conversions with orcs… you can get away with faults.
So I drilled the arms and bent some florist wire and Super glued them in, after test fitting of course.
Mixed some hard green stuff and sculpted as well as I could in place.
The polystyrene rod is 1.1mm diameter and works well.
I have tried brass rod and even tooth picks but after shelling out some money on propper Poly rod stock I have to say I love it. And it glues so well too.
Anyway.. about eight years ago I made some weapons parts from DAS (which is very good polymer clay from NZ) I had a tri fork I made roughly and I decided this guy was going to get it.
Total pin to attach… I was going to socket it.. nope that didn’t work. tried wrapping paper sleeve.. nope. In the end it was a big blob of super glue and three windings of copper wire strands.
And he looks .. good!
And the figure finished prior to basing material being added and static grass…
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/Martin_Ellis/Martins%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20Minitures%20Photos/IMG_1849.jpg
And the completed model
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/Martin_Ellis/Martins%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20Minitures%20Photos/IMG_1852.jpg