Gladiatrix with Bullwhip

I wonder how many dodgy Google hits that blogpost title will get then? Hah! I was having some real issues finding an arm to complete this female gladiator - I'd decided on the whip due to the size of the Dark Eldar arm, but unfortunately I was at a loss as to what I could use to replace the other missing arm. I've also trimmed the crest off the helmet on this one, just for a little variety, as the poses between two of the female gladiators were very similar and they had the same basic helmet.

After digging through the various Eldar and Elf parts (not many...) I have, I remembered that I had a bag of Heroclix from my fledgling (even after 3 years) Superhero project that could provide a suitable donor - in this case, Livewire from the Legion of Superheroes. The arm was a suitable size, fit nicely with the pose and the figure was a duplicate (although, I'm not a fan of the Legion of Superheroes, I'd have happily chopped his head/arm/legs off, even if I only had the one...). 

The arm was amputated with clippers, the moldlines were cleaned up with a scalpel and finally the arm was drilled and pinned into place! I'm going to do the green stuff filling on the whole bunch of gladiators at once, so that will be coming up shortly! Just a few more of these to go and then I'll have to find a few more miniatures to add to them - luckily the Junker Gladiators range has a few more candidates!

Comments most welcome - I'll be starting to paint some miniatures for Zomtober shortly!

Post-Apoc Gladiators - Pit Beast

This is another of the Urban War Junker Gladiator figures - In this case, a large ogre-sized Pit Beast. Normally it would have a boar-like head, so I'm guessing that it's the result of either mutation or genetic engineering - the only problem is, the head was missing from the bunch of figures I traded for - I'm looking for suggestings as to what I could use in place of it...

He's now been pinned approximately 8 different times - the arms and hands were seperate to the body. I ended up using an old action figure base for him - seemed to fit perfectly!

More Post-Apoc Gladiators Built

Spent the day building a few more characters for the post-apoc gladiator project:

• The gent with the sort-of trident (what do you call a trident with two spikes instead of three? A bident? Hah!) was a duplicate, so he had a bit of surgery and a road-sign shield made out of plasticard (my post-apoc is vaguely set in the US, apparently "YIELD" is their version of "Give Way" in the UK...I think). 
• The lady with the bladed fighting staff was an awkward one, a bunch more trimming and some putty filling is required. She was quite a poor cast with some major mold lines, so the helmet was trimmed as well as her shoulder pads. 
• Finally my favourite - a former grenadier who received a club wrapped with barbed wire from the Chaos Cultist plastics, plus a shield from the fantasy skeleton warriors which had the raised details removed and surface scratched up - this will also be a roadsign. The pieces just seem to fit well together on him.

More to come...