https://wordpress.com/It’s been a while since I posted anything on the blog. It’s not that I haven’t been painting rather the opportunities for taking pictures (I haven’t advanced beyond using natural lighting yet) and finding time to actually write the posts have been limited lately. Life you know… Well, what I have been doing is painting stuff for and from the legendary Orc’s Drift campaign from 1985 for Warhammer Fantasy Battle 2ed – the first large campaign-box Games workshop produced – which you of course all know.
What you see here is the orc characters for the second scenario “Ashak Rise”. First we have my take on Hagar Sheol – the leader of The Severed Hand Tribe. I was debating myself for some time what to do with this character as it gradually dawned on me that I probably would not be able to lay my hands on the original scenario model anytime soon.
The Hagar Sheol scenario model. A rare and expensive Little chap
Thus I started looking for a replacement. However, once I accepted that I would not be able to use the original I thought why not try to make my own Hagar. So that’s what I did. I rummaged through my pile of unpainted orcs and found a suitable model to convert and set out to make the model resemble Gary Chalk’s fine, fine portrait of Hagar on the cover of the Orc’s Drift scenario booklet. I must say that it was an extremely fun project, but the collector-part of my brain is still nagging me and I’ll probably never be complete at ease before I tracked the original Hagar down. Nevertheless I must admit that I’m very fond of my version.
Frontcover of the Orc’s Drift booklet with a drawing by Gary Chalk
The other orc is a ‘scenario model’ who goes under the name of Grashak Kra. A fierce, cool orc champion of the sort I love; punky, wild and wicked. He also appears outside the Orc’s Drift universe as an ordinary orc champion and is very easy to find and thus not expensive in any way.
That’s it for now. Stay tuned for more Orc’s Drift stuff coming up soon.
Cheers
Martin
Shamutantis 
That’s a great take on Hagar! Especially love the shield. What’s the base mini and how much conversion did it take?
Thanks! I have been trying to find a picture of the original without luck so far, but I added horns, cloak, shield, fur pants and the clasps for the cloak. To be honest it took me quite a while to make the conversions but it certainly was a fun project and something I do much too rarely.
Very characterful duo, nice work on the conversion and shield.