Erny has been kind enough to invite a load of smelly oldhammerers over to his abode to play a dungeon delving version on his lovely looking terrain. So I was in need of an Adventurer of some sort. I rummaged around in my piles of lead and came up with several possibilities, Strider from my list of top ten minis , a conversion of the officer from the marksmen of miriglaino, a paladin from the old citadel d&d range. However, none of them were doing it for me. After having a look through the interwebs I decided to do a conversion based on an old Black Tree Design HYW knight. I snipped off his head and then had a hard time deciding which head to replace him with.
The different heads give the figure lots of differing characters. The capped head on the left makes him look like a serious, religious type - a bit of a templar. The cap on the right makes him look a bit shifty, maybe a mercenary.
The figure on the right looks young an inexperienced, the plan was to cut the cap off and replace with hair. The last head shows a more experienced retainer of some sort.
Hopefully he will survive the journey's into the depths and have many colourful adventures in the old world.
Love how he turned out, very nice work. Can't wait to hear how the dungeon crawling goes.
ReplyDeleteI have the BTD figure in my lead pile. I knew I recognised him, just couldn't place him due to the conversion. Looks very nice, this party is beginning to look like the cover of the Dragon Warriors reprint.
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Lardo? Lardo?! That's Ladro, boy, and don't you forget it!
ReplyDelete(NIce conversion and paint job, btw. Looking at him I think I should go back and do another highlight on the thief's hair after all)
You know Lardo's so gonna stick........................
DeleteYep, Lardo it is!
DeleteTempted to paint up a halfling just to keep making this joke in character! ;-)
DeleteWe all can anyhow, whenever we talk to him...........................
DeleteA Halfling Cleric (may need to be a conversion for such a random concept) may be quite cool, like a tiny Friar Tuck! (could call him Friar Tuckin or Friar Tuckshop). He could spend his time chasing Lardo around...........................
He does look awesome Col, great work!
ReplyDeleteCheers bud!
DeleteGreat job on the conversion, the paint job and the base too!
ReplyDeleteGreat work, lovely and bright as I expect from the Leadpile output.
ReplyDeleteIm envious of you guys getting together for a dungeoncrawl, it sounds like a recipe for fun :)
Nice conversion, great sculpt on the hair. Dungeon delve sounds great. I also really enjoyed catching up with your BOOYL reports.
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