Opening the hobby horror closet

While I was listening to some good music on CoG Radio (and some weird folk babbeling around) I started building the “surplus” orcs I had in the box. So the remaining 11 orc bodies and 10 heads (oh oh) where clipped out, cleaned and the put in line with the ones that the previous owner already had build. I do that to make sure I have different heads on the bodies. It’s not much in the way of variety but it’s all you can do with them. I also re-based most of the already built orcs because they didn’t sit right on the bases.

After I sorted all that I pulled out my box of 40k orcs. Luckily the fantasy and 40k orcs are so similar in design that a 40k head doesn’t look wrong. Unless you use one of the ones with a cybernetic eye or something…

But then it went horribly wrong. In this box are sprues and parts from 40k editions 2nd – 5th. Loose parts, partial and complete sprues… all over the place!

So obviously I needed to sort that mess first and then I cut out a head… and I’m thinking of “de-sprueing” all partial sprues… put the sorted parts in little bags… HELP!

But I managed to ignore most of the urge to sort (for now) and have finished my little ones. Don’t they look neat?

Next up:

• Break the musician apart to straighten his back. He’s leaning so far forward it’s ridiculous. Even by orc standards.
• Break the arms of the chariot rider. That spear is hanging so low I can’t fit that guy into the chariot!
• Finish stripping paint from a banner, two boars, the musician, the chariot rider and a boar rider.

After that: repair and assembly.