is not a real big fan of pre-painted minis, and he positively despises randomly-packed "collectable" ones - so why is he writing this article?
Last year, I showed you the 'oldie' 15mm Ancients that I repainted as Half-Orcs:
Now, that was a valuable step forward for my small Half-Orc forces, but one thing kept nagging at me: They would look better with a command stand. Now, the rules I'm playing lately don't even care about command stands, but it just looks nice to have a leader figure and a banner!
Then I remembered I had some Orc command figures around here somewhere…
These are Jacobite 15mm Orcs, which are probably the same as the Ork Command figures now sold by Elite Wargames and Models (but no pictures of these figures on their website, so can't be sure). The chain-whip figure was broken, so I added a cane to his left hand.
Half-Orcs can have Orcs in command, right? 
I've done the Half-Orcs with yellow-green skin tones, and the Orcs with deeper green skin tones.
These were quick to base up and paint, and the stand adds just the right touch to the finished unit.