Salvage Gors Pt. 2

The group of Gors were missing bits, mainly weapon arms. I wanted to keep consistent with them being from the old 6th ed era, so I wanted to find bits from the original kit. I mentioned in the last post, I was lucky to find some 6th ed Beastmen bits sellers on Ebay and snagged a group of weapon arms. I took some time to clean them up; I noticed that the older plastics were lighter in color and seemed somewhat more "waxy" and softer to scrape (who knows?).

I forgot that the older models were sculpted by hand and sometimes have muddier details. For example on the arm with the sword, the trim of the bracer is less defined, so I decided to scrape down the material to create a more obvious lip:

The edge of the trim of the bracer is not very defined

Did some scrapping to give the trim more of a noticeable lip

It's been a while, lets get these put together!

Most of the already assembled Gors had axes, so I decided to add more weapon types for variety

As I'm gluing these guys together, I realized there was a musician in the group, which required a left arm bit. Also, a couple shields had damaged contact points. Luckily I have more unassembled Gors (which I'll get into later) from the lot I got second hand off of my friend. I dipped into the remaining unassembled Gors and pilfered an arm and new shields:

Sonovah!

The left arm with single jingle jangle on the blade back (ironically on the right side of this image, lol)

New shields (Rear)

New Shields (Front); one with skull was a shield I never noticed before

This restoration was like a mini project unto themselves...took me a couple weeks of nibbling at the task: cleaning/scrubbing what paint residue I could remove, finding and ordering bits and cleaning those up, then having to find additional bits from my collection to fill more missing pieces, and finally assembling these guys:

All this work for these guys!

Another thing, these guys are a pain to rank! I should've dry fitted these guys first, but I have a tendency for perfectionism and wanted to not dwell too much. The weapon arms really need to be glued in a position where they are raised up high to clear the shield of the Gor next to them. I managed to tetris them together for this shot, but this issue might slow things down during games. Maybe when I have some time I'll revisit and do some clipping and re-gluing/re-positioning....though I don't look forward to that right now lol.

I remember my friend mentioning these guys are a pain and on the underside of bases of Gors that I didn't strip yet, you can see a number scheme of sorts that my friend went by to rank em up.....

I don't know how to decipher the numbering, but Novo had a system!

After it was all said and done, I thought about how much effort it took versus just getting a box of the current Gors (which were around 7th ed if I reckon); they would've been easier to just clip, cleanup, and glue, with all the parts needed (except the bases as the teased Beastmen Arcane Journal and old model re-release was teased about a month ago and stuff is largely unavailable at the moment). Dunno....I have a lot of these old Gor models (and Ungors) that I thought would be a waste not to rescue/salvage...old models for The Old World is fitting!