Here's a Caesar orc and a Dark Alliance one, the latter mounted on some sort of hyenadon.
I'm having a go at painting up the Caesar orcs as some sort of subhuman Bronze Age marauders: Fomorians, perhaps, or Gloranthan Tusk Riders (dismounted).
The nice thing about 1/72 is that you get lots of duplicates in a pack. That creates scope for creating several warbands from the same box, each distinguished by a different paintjob.
I wonder if the Caesar orcs might also work as Gloranthan dark trolls, if painted appropriately. They're roughly the right size (7' if they stood up straight). At this scale, the niceties of muzzle length are less of a problem than they would be in 28mm.
The hyena rider is the first of several. I painted him ages ago, but only got round to the base last night.
A key advantage of 1/72 is the ability to get cavalry done relatively quickly: our 28mm forces boast only a handful of wolfriders and the odd dinosaur rider among hundreds of infantry. So I'm increasingly looking to 1/72 for Dragon Rampant and Of Gods and Mortals and similar games.
Ah, excellent color scheme for the hyena, and its rider too! I should copy that one day, I still have about 30 wargs to paint... Regarding Glorantha, I don't enough on this universe to help you, sorry, but the comparison between the Orc and the hoplite is very interesting.
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ReplyDeleteYes, I think the photo makes the orc look almost the same size as the hoplite when he's really quite a bit bigger. He's about right for a Gloranthan Tusk Rider (troll-human hybrid), but the Caesar orcs could work as dark trolls as well. They're not *exactly* right, as Runequest trolls have a long muzzle, but they're close enough (especially at this scale and with an appropriate paintjob).
Actually, the first set of Caesar orcs might be better as Runequest trolls, because they're a bit more pot-bellied and have more bludgeoning weapons. I'd dismissed them as inferior to the second set, but I might acquire some to serve as dark trolls - and then use some spare Dark Alliance goblins as trollkin (the stunted offspring of the true trolls).