Tag: Uruk-hai

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Project Mordor

One does not just paint up a Mordor army… it much more torturous than that … so I pulled all my mordor models today and are sorting them so I can paint them all… I had few more than I thought however. In fact enough for 15 bands at least. oh damm that is like 310 minis…

Contemplated selling a heap off.. but then I just can’t do that… so I’m going to pint them up and box them.

So stock take:
Morannon orcs: I have 48 of these. None of them painted. There second last to be painted.
Morannon orcs

Mordor Orcs: 262
Mostly all are standard but some have been converted and need fixing up.
Mordor orcs

Mordor Uruks: 3 plus 5 Uruk hai conversions. so 8.
Mordor uruks

Warg riders: 25 of those. Will paint them last
warg riders

Trolls: 3 one troll chiftan and one mordor troll in the box to be made and one metal one made but to be painted.
troll chieften

Very much like this one

Mordor shaman: 1
like this one

So .. how am I going to do it….

12 figure batches this time… I usually do the whole lot in a production line.. not this time… each batch will have the same skin tone.. so I can mix them up later and they will all look some what different.

Mordor ors have all sorts of skin tones… and most importantly your 40k players… these orcs don’t have bright green skin.. ha ha!
Mordor orc faces
more faces of orcs
the last of the summer wine cast....today

I think this is going to be fun.
plenty of posts to follow.

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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..

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uruk1a

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

uruk2
uruk2a

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

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uruk4

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

uruk5

uruk6

uruk7

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.