The Yhetee Refurbishment Plan (Part 1)

 Can you get more seasonal than a ...snowman? 

While digging around in my fantasy bitz bin*,  I stumbled upon the icy club that I hacked off of an Ogre Kingdoms Yhetee miniature way back in the late oughties. This provoked a desire to find the rest of the miniature. After a bit of searching I found him inside the old box for the original metal Norse Blood Bowl team. At the time, Blood Bowl was out of print and the rules were being kept alive on one of GW's Specialist/Fanatic websites as a 'Living Rules' edition. Warfrog and I had started a BB league with our D&D group at the time and we had a day or two of games and for whatever reason now lost in time, we just didn't pick it back up. The rules at the time had a Yhetee option (Ice Troll specifically) for the Norse and I just had to model it up. l located a Yhetee model locally (they were sold in blisters for semi-sane prices back then). I picked this guy because that out stretched arm gave the impression that perhaps he was trying to intercept a flying ball. 

All bitz found and ready for reassembly.

This particular miniature has an extreme lean, which wasn't a problem on the 40mm square base he was packaged with, but on a 25mm round, that tbe Blood Bowl game was requiring in that edition, I just couldn't get the thing to balance.  So I had to use a 25mm square base with weights glued into the bottom of it (see top pic).  It wasn't a perfect fix but it helped a lot.

25mm square.

And that's as far as we got with the whole project and I haven't played BB since! Now, in the present, I want to restore this guy for use in The Old World game. I have a small assortment of Ogre Kingdoms models that I might be able to cobble together into a small army. The problem is that I need two more of these models to meet their minimum Unit Size. 

Expanded base. 

Meanwhile I have gone forward with updating this fellow to The Old World. I simply glued him onto a 40mm base; He was just too well attached to the 25mm one. Using my trusty old pinvise, I drilled and pinned the weapon back onto his hand.. Then I used green-stuff to distort the edges of the 25mm base. I added a few rocks and skulls also.  I am contemplating adding some snow to it's base to help sell the notion that this guy is from the Mountains of Mourn. But I won't make a decision on that until well after these things are painted. 

Expanded base with decor.

I added some grit and skulls and now he is ready to be primed. I also added three more Yhetees (I won them  in a sweet deal off of ebay!) Which now gives me a unit of four. These guys didn't require nearly the amount of work the first one did, so they too are now ready to be primed. I just need a warm day to make it happen. 

Don't lose your heads guys. 

*It isn't nearly as awesome as you might've  just imagined.