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If only Willy could save all these Orcs?

Last weekend I decided to get a wriggle on and get some more figures .. mostly done.

I wanted to do something quick and Orcs seem to be easy to paint.. and they are.

These are not highlighted but seriously some of them don’t need it.

Many have no weapon as these are all second hand figs that I have stripped , re primed and now painted.

There are others that need arms sculpted on and I have decided to do that later… crazy I know.. but I wanted it now…

 

Anyways… on with he pictures.. as per usual..
Hand weapon and shield warriors group 1

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Hand weapon and shield warriors group 2
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Spear armed warriors group 3
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Two handed weapon warriors group 4
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two handed weapon warrior, Spear armed warriors (Spear fixed up by adding a blade so could be a two handed weapon or spear really. The third one needs arms added and weapon as conversion)
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These three are really interesting… these are Uruk-Hai. I trimmed off the big engineers helmets and segmented armour to make them look like leather bodice, two of them need weapons added. I may beat some copper wire flat to make crude swords..thats another article.
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Two handed weapon warrior fixed up to make as a spear
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Flash mob photo…

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There you have it 24 Orcs… is that 2 Dozen or a a pod?
Now all I nee is a little Hobbit.. called Willy maybe even…

one eyed Willey … Goonies. One eyed Willey you remember him don't you?

 

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Rohirim charge

I have just finally collected enough figures to create an impressive Rohirim army. 

I have been very reluctant to create a Rohirim army that is what alot of other people do.. pretty much a whole bunch of Rohirm on foot.

I have admitedly collected a few footmen in my endevours to get Horse Lords however.

So as I am nearing the completion of my Haradrim cavalry I am soon (read as “have”) started on 26 mounted Rohirim.  That will include 2 Heroes. Probbly need a third for the new source book system of having 1 hero per 10 models.  (I’m still struggling with how that affects a Moria Goblin swarm?)

This will be an interesting task as I am going to ue the airbrush alot. Especially for horses and the Rohirim cloaks and cloths. Mostly as a time saver.

Ther will be some conversion required and alot of repair as these are all 2nd hand models that ostly suffer from missing spears and broken bows.

I will edit in some photos later but ther is a small (read as big ) army amassing from this.

I’m hoping we might try some games over Christmas time if were lucky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don’t sit under the apple tree…

with anyone but me….

Hey… I have been a busy little bee (as Nero once said)..

I have spray painted the tigers… the king and the IE… the king was painted too wet and I will need to respray it as much or the exposed edges are still grey.

I also spray painted all the Sherman tanks… that’s 2 command tanks plus a 105mm Sherman and six 75mm Sherman’s.

And I have laid base putty on the rifle platoons that hadn’t been based… still have the Airborne troops to base tonight.

so I have some 18 bases done last night to add to about 32 odd already done.. just need to paint the bases and flock them and they will be done.

The Shermans buy the way look excellent… I think I will stick to a olive drab green finish over all… I was thinking of doing the brown colour??? but I’m not so sure.

Things learnt:
Don’t mix spackle to vigorously or it will become aerated and shrink when drying.

Liquefying medium is terrific as a way of making your paint spray paintable and go further. A very thin coverage of this stuff mixed 50/50 with paint colour over two coats is excellent.

However I always add.. paint retardant (1 drop) and alcohol 5-7 drops to the 5 fl oz cup on the badger.

Always add a little more paint to the dry wall plaster that you think you will need as it whitens down a lot after drying.