Uruk Hai, the return! And more……..much much more
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About the Project
I got carried away..... and this means the original core army would never, ever be finished if I keep expanding as I go along. So here is everything! I want to do a massive game somewhere around 10 or 12 thousand points a side. And I want the miniatures to be suitable for as many other game systems as possible. I don’t want to do things twice! Whom do we serve? “SARUMAN!”
Related Game: Warhammer Fantasy Battles
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Fantasy
This Project is Completed
OPEN QUESTION, to all comers
The latest XLBS mentioned asymmetrical gaming. Asymmetrical games would entirely solve my problem!
The chaps are not keeping up with the Uruk hai progress, I’m easily twice the points or more than them, at this stage.
Suggestions please! What could I get them playing in Warhammer 6th or Kings of War that might be fun and isn’t a siege of a castle. I haven’t made a castle yet, got a semi fortified town but no castle. It’s about 6 thousand points to 3 thousand (at most) at the moment.
Kinder egg Wargs
Or KinderWAaarrrgggh’s, as I could call them when flinging them at a wall.
Starting at the latest episode and slowly going back in time on UHH! Enjoying the show immensely while painting. Just watched it where Gerry and Timberly share their feelings on GW’s the wargs sculpts (or as I see them now, my ugly children. We have to accept them being ugly, just don’t tell the parent to his face!)
I have to accept the clear fact of their crudity. It’s been a slog to get through then, the amount of fecking gap filling alone!!! And now I’ve finished them, 60 is a fair few wargs, possibly too many. They have been a ball ache to make, massive gaps on occasion and a little trifling to paint. This is in comparison to the Perry’s mounted knights I’ve done recently, which are a dream to go together with loads of crisp detail. A bit of time separates these sculpts mind.
The biggest negative here though is the inconsistency in design. Gerry fairly assumed I had wolves from other ranges in there.
Nope. They are all GW wargs from different times, but supposedly in the same range. ?. The original metal sculpts are better than the plastic. The latest resin sculpt for a warg captain beats them all hands down, shame it’s not metal?. Can’t have it all though it seems. Aren’t GW meant to be the best??? Not always, sadly. But my love for the films and committing to a theme had me down here in semi-nostalgia valley loving my ugly geese children.
Oh and Timberly was right too, I began to not give a flying horses arse towards the end of painting them. Tried to force it through, not a good idea.
So I ended up having a breeak and finishing them afterwards and also going back and adding a couple washes here and there to soften the warg skin a bit. But I have to admit my peak of frustration, I had a hammer. I had flashes of violently applying the hammer, sticking the remains to a Frisby, and flinging it over a rainbow.
lesson: if you loose your mojo, just do something else for a bit and come back to it. It’s not worth it.
Group shot for the pike and giant family photo opportunity.
Scouts
Finished, it’s taken 3 weeks due to stranger things being on the telly. It’s a program too important and good to not pay it my full attention. So I was down to 20-40 mins a night 3 times a week but I’ve done the metal scouts. I could not resist having merry and pippin ,the hobbit not children, being abducted by the regiment. Well they would take em would t they!?!













































