Playing with green stuff isn’t just for hippies and Wallstreet

OK this is a short picture artical on conversion with green stuff.

This is all about having fun… there is no stunning stuff here.. rough sculpting and showing how you can make those extra figures you have go further.

SO the problem here is you can get about three different poses of metal figure for Mordor Uruk-hai from GW.
But when I buy second hand figures there is always a bunch of Uruk-hai engineers from Sarumans White hand Uruk-hai (WHU) army mixed in with the lot.. what to do?
Yep I decided to make them Mordor Uruk-hai (MUH). But MUH look different.. they have predominantly dark skin, wear basic plate Armour and lots of mail.
WHU have big brimmed helmets (for siege ops) I suppose), segmented plate armor and other uniform features… so.. lets make them un-uniform and give them trousers.

Lets start..

A = Helmet rims come off
B = Shoulder segments come off and reduce to two parts only
C = Chest plate is reduced and leather straps are removed
D = Stomach segments are removed
E = groin plate (sporren?) removed

F = Rear engineers helemet piece is removed
G = Wrist plates are removed


After carving off details
Added greenstuff.. making:
Crude mail skirt sections on sides
smoothed plate section on chest
added cloth interleave on right shoulder
added helmet crest
Filled in bare legs with rough torn trouser material



Still need to add leather strap sections but mostly done.. on the way to looking like Mordor Uruk-hai now.

I also need to add some better weapons.. big swords.. and maybe a mace or flail… I have five of them now so lets play game … you suggest to me the armament and I will make it and add it.

LOTR SBG Converting Minis Tirith to Citadel Gaurd

These are archers of Minis Tirith on their way to being Citadel Gaurd.

citadel-gaurd-conversion-archer-1
First up this guy isn’t exactly finished.
The cape needs to come around his neck more and across his chest.
The eye openings a re wrong shape but I am not changing these as i will no doubt damage the eyes.
there is a pattern to be added to the nose protector.
The tab-bard is extended but quite roughly.. the paint job will hide a billion sculpting sins here.
The cape is very thin and has been bulked out in the small of the back. This is visible from the sides.. but I don’t care.
Ultimately these Citadel Guard give me the 3+ archery skill needed with long bows as opposed to just a bow. These boys are sharp shooters and aren’t needed for volley fire.. which hits on 6’s instead of 3’s















LOTR SBG Repairing lost sword

Repairing a lost sword is hard if you don’t have the missing plastic blade.. otherwise you just glue it back on.

Here is how to do it the proper way.


Add florist or brass wire. Brass wire is better for swords as it come straight.. and is much harder and won’t bend so easily. I have used florist wire here.


After a good half hour of filing the set Milliput while watching TV with a square sided needle file and filing the blade edge with a half round needle file I get a good blade.


I will use this method my Orcs too.. but I will set the putty on the wire before adding to the miniature. This lets me make several blades and pick the gnarliest of them.
Also I can make the blades from polymer clay and can cook them before attaching.

I will post later with a better picture of the completed blade. I was considering a war axe or mace.. but they weren’t issued in the movie.. but in LOTRSBG a hand weapon is a hand weapon.. so I could issue him a dagger and it would be just as effective.
The finished sword is narrower than this stage shown.
I hope you like this short article.