I added some armour plates to the back as well, as that area looked a bit too smooth. Notice the one using an axe blade as armour.
Here you can see how well the legs joined. I think if I had been really skilled I could have done the join perfectly without needing greenstuff at all.
Lastly a shot from the top, so you can see how I got them to rank up.
I’ve been wanting to do these since the plastic black orcs came out, but the rubbish GW boars always stopped me.
I was saying over on da warpath that if I were to build a full Orc list I’d use these as orc big uns. What I am probably going to do is to make a display army only, and convert/sculpt some proper black orcs on boars and put them on 40mm bases. Those would be seriously huge models, the boars would have barding.
As a display unit I was thinking of making these to 15 models, and use all the spare parts towards a decent looking unit of orcs on foot. Then I’d just have to bulk them out with new GW orc boyz (which I am reliably told will be redone when they finally get a new book).