{"id":12229,"date":"2021-08-06T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/?p=12229"},"modified":"2021-08-06T23:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:00:41","slug":"the-captain-america-orcs-get-reinforcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2021\/08\/06\/the-captain-america-orcs-get-reinforcements\/","title":{"rendered":"The Captain America Orcs Get Reinforcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in 1983 Mark Morin painted 12 Minifigs orcs. \u00a0As Mark and I are old groganrds, he and I remember the story differently. \u00a0As I<\/em> remember the story, Mark found these figures somewhere and gifted a set to me and Patty’s New Wave Bar and Grill Militia to Dave Wood. \u00a0As Mark<\/em> remembers the story, he was looking for something to paint as he was just entering the hobby. \u00a0I handed him these figures, and he painted them. \u00a0In any event, they were a gift that I have maintained for many years. \u00a0Due to the garish painting scheme, these became known as the “Captain America Orcs.”<\/p>\n

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The Captain America Orcs. In this picture the flocked base is one of Mark’s originals. The unlocked bases are the new ones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A year ago (or so) when I started working on Wars of Orcs and Dwarves<\/em>, I found the few fantasy figures I had and remounted them on two-inch square bases. \u00a0In the intervening years, I had forgotten who produced these figures.<\/p>\n

I had enough figures to make three bases. \u00a0I wanted two more bases worth of these figures. \u00a0After all these years, I couldn’t remember who produced the figures, so I posted a picture to the Vintage Lead Facebook page. \u00a0Not only did someone (several actually) identify the figures, but it turns out they were still in production. \u00a0I found the Minifigs Web site. \u00a0(Searching for Minifigs is tricky, because the search results are mostly Lego mini figures.) \u00a0I ordered the missing figures (and some others in different poses, and the order shipped quickly.<\/p>\n

Last weekend I finished painting them and one evening I based them and flocked the bases. \u00a0The tricky bit was trying to match the colors. \u00a0They were originally painted with Poly-S. \u00a0I think they turned out pretty close to the originals. \u00a0I block painted them like Mark’s.<\/p>\n

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The original figures participated in a recent fight (and got spanked). \u00a0Buck’s Law says that the first time a new unit participates in a game, it usually gets smacked around. \u00a0Since I am adding two more bases to the unit, I don’t know if Buck’s Law will be invoked in the next game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in 1983 Mark Morin painted 12 Minifigs orcs. \u00a0As Mark and I are old groganrds, he and I remember the story differently. \u00a0As I remember the story, Mark found these figures somewhere and gifted a set to me and Patty’s New Wave Bar and Grill Militia to Dave Wood. \u00a0As Mark remembers the … Continue reading The Captain America Orcs Get Reinforcements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12230,"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12229\/revisions\/12230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}