The Green Horde: Heavy Wolf Riders

 Good evening all of you.

After yesterday's archers, it's time to show you another unit of the Green Horde, a troop of Heavy Wolf Riders.

As for the other units, there's a mix of several manufacturers here:

- 2 Orcs (#3 and #4 from left to right) and 3 wolves by Grenadier

- 2 Orcs (#1 and #5) by Old Glory

- 1 Orc by Alternative Armies (#2)

- 2 Wolves by RAFM

As usual, a closer look:

This mini was made by Grenadier (and by Mirliton nowadays). It was sculpted by Nick Lund and designed for his Fantasy Warriors game.

Next one looks very dynamic, and deserved a larger wolf than his own since he has been recruited in a heavy cav unit (have a look at the 3rd picture below), so he exchanged his mount with a Grenadier Wolf:

You will have noticed that I also changed his shield for a plastic one, coming from GW's skeleton warriors.

The next one is the leader of the pack, a Grenadier Orc named Takka the Head Cutter, and he looks fierce:

 The scholars among you know that I replaced the original banner attached on his back - here you are a picture of the original figure below:

Two reasons for this small conversion:

- the original banner was missing when I bought this figure

- even if I had it, I found it too massive

The missing part was then replaced by an element from GW's Flagellants, an excuse to add some more skulls on the mini, and to paint a banner in the color of the army.

Tough those minis have all been designed in the 80s/90s, it is still possible to buy them online -the plastic parts would know be the most difficult elements to find :)

Of course I have plans for next year: add 5 more heavy riders (work in progress) and a unit of 5 archers on wolves (work in progress too).

Hope you like them. So, when do you dive into Old school Orc miniatures ?

See you tomorrow for the next unit.