Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser

Only one photo added today, although I hope you enjoy it.

I'm a big fan of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books and recently brought myself a set to read again. Of course it was not long before I began to think about these in miniature form. I did suggest that they might make a nice addition to the Spyglass range but sadly this didn't ring Steve's bell. As a bonus, however, Balgin of the Forum of Doom did post an image of a Reaper figure that he suggested would make a good Fafhrd. Turns out Reaper also had several potential candidates for the Grey Mouser too. So I placed an order and a pair of figures arrived on friday evening. By saturday evening, while others wasted their time with Eurovision I was placing the last licks of paint to this duo.

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Both figures have undergone some conversion. Fafhrd's Swords most commonly had pomegranate-shaped pommels so I added one to this sword, which involved sawing of the arm and then reattaching it. In the books Fafhrd sometimes fights with an axe in his left hand so I added one in place of the dagger it originally had. The "Mouser" figure came with a rather crude looking knife so I removed this and gave him the Mouser's weapon of choice, a rapier.

I'm fairly happy with how these have come out. Fafhrd could be taller, Mouser smaller and I'd make the swords longer and the axe smaller, but they are pretty close to how I always imagined the characters.