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January 22, 2013

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.

April 20, 2012April 22, 2012

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

April 3, 2011

116th Panzer Division – Panzer IV’s

Well my army has always been modeled on the 331st Grenadier Division. Unfortunately they didn’t have any tanks but they did serve with the 5th Panzer army in Normandy before being systematically slaughtered in the Falaise Pocket.

And as a part of the 5th Panzer army they had opportunity to serve with some very veteran tank divisions. Being a couple of SS divisions, Lehr Division and 116th. As I’m not a real big fan of the SS units I have adopted the 116th as the stable mate for my 331st.

116th was also a Veteran of the Eastern Front, they had Panthers and Panzer IV’s.

So anyways for my upcoming tournament army I am having Stug IIIG’s organic of the 331st. Numbered inappropriately as the 4th Battalion.. even though they only had two.

And the Panzer support is a platoon of three PzIV’s. I finished four tanks even though I only needed three, so as I can field a decent or larger platoon later.

These tanks are PzIVG late tanks.. in the tournament the book says PzIVH should be used.. they almost look the same except the big air filters that should be on the right hand side… but I’m cool with it. And I don’t think they will notice. (Which reminds me I must sculpt some Panzerfausts to lay on the base of some of the command teams to stay WYSIWYG legal.

Going on… the tanks are numbered from the BF decal sheet except the black crosses which are command decision decals. The swastika flag is green stuff. I have a sculpted whippet dog to sit beside the platoon commander but I wasn’t happy with it..looked more like a German Shepard.. wasn’t thin enough. So I left that off..You will notice his hand seems to be resting in mid air.

The command figures on the Stug III G are Peter Pig figures.. Craig Courtis put me on to these years back. You need only buy these and glue (or in my case putty GS) them on. I find these very good as they are stronger and look right. You will notice I left the MG42’s open on the earlier two Stug’s .. because of he fidliness of the figures and MG’s.

The Stugs have got some of that paint rot that seems to have plagued some of my earlier figures and vehicles. Which I am sure is associated with the floor polish glaze and the polyurethane Matt varnish… but i also have a suspicion it is a Tamya paint issue too as I have some that aren’t glazed or varnished which have it really bad. But I digress… the Shurtzen has some obvious parts where the paint has rotted off… however it looks like a white or light gray has been added to the cammo pattern.. and I like the effect so instead of totally stuffing it up and trying to repair the paint job, I have kept it as is.

Anyway enough of this Jibber Jabber as a TV famous Judge in a Boston court who also played the part in a very funny Blues Brother movie as a Nazi once said (yes I’m loosing it) on to my poor photography…

Platoon commander