New year, new project, as
Orko is the inaugural mini in what I hope to build as a
Masters of the Universe (MotU) Project.
Before continuing I just wanted to apologise to other bloggers for not commenting on your posts in the past couple of months as I have been in something of a hobby slump on the painting side of things.
So a new project eh? Simply put - yes!
MotU is one of my grail IPs along with
DC Comics, Marvel Comics, G.I. Joe and
Star Wars. I see
FFG are doing an excellent looking game with
Star Wars Legion, but I don't have the appetite for mass-battle painting, so I am passing on that, but recently I have started to look at options for
MotU and when more have materialised, a plan was hatched!
This mini is a
Halfling Wizard from the excellent
Heresy Miniatures. Although not an exact likeness of
Orko from the 80's
MotU cartoons (and soon after made into an action figure when he became a popular character), he was close enough for my needs. Like most characters made into action figures, Orko's look has evolved over the years, and so I took some hints from a few different versions in painting him. Strangely enough, I probably like the character more than I did as a youngster when he lacked the cool factor of
He-Man, Man-At-Arms, Teela et al.
I bought the mini years ago and he sat in the minis pile for far too long. When I finally tackled him,
Orko was actually painted quickly by my standards, in a couple of sittings yesterday afternoon. The only change I made to the mini was to snip away the long hair it had at its back. Unfortunately the paint-on varnish came out a bit shiny but I can live with that (weather too poor to use my usual
Purity Seal).
I have a few other minis on order to represent other classic
MotU characters, and I have already started gaming plans, which has involved writing a game and I think I will find a use for that
dungeon terrain I showed in a post a couple of months ago (which could be tunnels beneath
Castle Grayskull, Snake Mountain or
Castle Eternia).
