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Yes, managed to grab the dwarfs and elves.

I was thinking the half orcs would work well.

Hey all. Here are some Easterlings. Samurai from the board game Ikusa painted Peter Jackson style

Great to see this. Personally I do fantasy in 6mm. But then I like really tiny figures!

i love how the smaller human models really shift the perspective on the scale of the GW minis like the Warhawk and Spider...
very fun photos

cheers
jah

This is really cool. I've been tempted to do a 1/72 project and this is definitely inspiring me some more!

Lovely stuff here. Such an effective but simple way to make Orcs (just cutting the nose off and changing the skin) but it works really well.

I've seen some fantasy 1/72 stuff in my local shop, and due to this thread I was mightily tempted!

Some of those cheap 1/72 figures are now made of a plastic that holds paint. Caesar. Emhar and Italeri.

Though I have been warned that enamels never dry properly on the Caesar plastic.

Lovely project, and some inspired mixing of scales! I love the GW orcs as trolls!

1/72 pikes can be a pain - use the plastic bristles from brushes - that's floor or hand brushes, not paint brushes!

Thanks for the tip. I just grabbed a box of zevda Macedonians Pikemen to use as elite orcs....will try it. And yes, juts snip the nose and change the color of the skin...I use a reddish brown. Here is a closer look.

I am inspired by The Silmarilian and see the orcs as corrupted beings, scavenging what they can rather than these hulking uniform gw/peter jackson brutes. Anything eastern painted black works.

I have had luck with Krylon Plastic fusion primer...but some older ones flake even with that..that's one of the main reason I made them into mini-dioramas so they would stay upright and not be thrown around.

One more...I use 25 mm on round bases for the heroes. Found this one in my bitz box