I love the existing metal Longbeard figures, but there are two things wrong with them - They are equipped with great weapons, and they have very few poses which are all quite static (leaning on their great-axes). The new plastic kit suggests that all you need to do to make longbeards is add the little helmet bits that cover their eyes, but I didn't find these pieces to fit very well or look all that great. But you still need some way to distinguish your longbeards from your warriors - and while I plan to paint them differently, with more gold perhaps, and more grey and white beards, I also wanted to model them differently. Plus this was a good chance to work on my sculting skills, and beards can't be that hard, right?
I wish they made the banner pole a bit taller so standard bearer could see under the banner, but oh well. You may notice that, in addition to the longer beards, every one of them has horned helms as well.
Some of the sculpts are not so much significant lengthenings as just adding more beard variations, and not every figure has additional beard added, but I think it should be more than enough to make it clear that these are the longbeards.
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