Bog Trog Ambushers 1: The Assessment

I had originally intended to use the Bog Trog Ambushers as sahuagin in my Vian campaign. However, I never did more than put them together (the major reason being that 4th Edition and Pathfinder essentially nullified all the work I'd done with 3rd Edition OGL).

That's them -- the bases are about an inch and a quarter wide. That's a package of Hi-Chew in the background to give you some scale (and because I didn't bother clearing off the workspace before snapping these pics).

The first photo is of an average grunt; the second is of the leader, who wears an alligator-skin cap. (That's the swamp equivalent of a coonskin cap. He's like the Davy Crockett of the marshes.) Already, though, you can see some of the problems with the figures -- there's an awful lot of flash. On the sample grunt, it's very prominent along the top of his left arm; on the leader, there's a good deal of it along the bottom edge of his weapon. It's especially obvious along the blade and on the bit at the bottom. That's fix No. 1 -- remove all that nasty flash. It looks bad now, but it really, really comes out when it's painted.

More problems:

The leader's got a terrible gash where his head piece was glued to his body. It's really, really noticeable, and will have to get filled and molded with putty.

Ditto here behind an arm joint on a grunt. This is by far the most common problem; many of Privateer Press's molds have large gaps in them, so it's somthing that you just get used to fixing. (There's also the fact that I tend to force things to go where I want them, then green stuff the difference. It's not always the model's fault.)

This weapon is pretty warped, another common problem. Just a few small tweaks should fix it, but if not, the haft can be clipped out and replaced with a brass pin and some green stuff will replace the detail.

Once those fixes are made, I'll prime these guys (in white, unfortunately, since I'm not aware of an acrylic spray in a medium tan) and get started painting them.