"Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader.
But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you
guess? "Luck."
"Was I wrong?"
Calandra is another one of the warlocks I completed a conversion for relatively early on. It's only a head and an arm swap, but it did present us with a new challenge as the first of the female trollkin models we'd added to the lineup. As it turns out, the GW style orc heads we'd been using are not, as a rule, especially feminine.
Now, there are some 3rd party makers out there that sell either head kits or entire models for female orcs. In my opinion most of them take the dimorphism too far though, veering in to the tropey "male monsters look monstrous / female monsters look human(ish)" territory. With all due respect to Gene Roddenberry, Garona the Half-Orc, and the 3500 extant species of mosquito, we wanted our orcs to look like orcs, irrespective of gender.
What we ended up doing was perusing over the whole range of orcy heads we had available, and pulling out all those we thought might work well for the women of the ravening kriels. While the original orc line we started from consists entirely of apparently-male orcs (actually genderless fungus hooligans, per the manufacturer), Hordes' trollkin force contains a number of women including both named characters - Calandra, Janissa, Grissel, etc - and generic trooper models. The head we ultimately selected to use here is from an old WHFB Orc Shaman model.
The arms were taken from warhammer's orc infantry and savage orc sprues, and positioned to maintain the pose of the original model. It really took a good paint job to bring this one to life though, and I think you'll agree my associate was successful in that respect.
