Isengard WIP, let's see some vicious uruk-hai!

Dain Ironfoot · **Joined:** Thu May 17, 2007 5:23 am **Posts:** 45

amazing and a very inspiring army

gaarew · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2010 7:08 am

Thanks everyone.

theavenger001 wrote:

Btw, is that a gaming table the army is on? Did you finally play a second game of the sbg with your new army?

That is actually a RoB board in GW Falkirk, I took the pictures when I finally took them off of display. Sadly, the bastion in the background is neither black enough, and has too many visible heavy bolters to look like Orthanc. Never fear, they were replaced by Gothmog and a bunch of Morannon Orcs, and a box of the new Morgul Knights I painted for the store.

Yes, I did indeed play a second game. I managed to get a draw, using mostly Scouts and Berserkers vs. a High Elf army including Glorfindel and Erestor. My normally lacklustre rolling was on vacation, and I was firing out 6's left right and centre.

Beowulf03809 wrote:

Gaarew, it looks great. Always nice to see an Isengard army with a decent representation of "normal" Orcs.

It's an impressive force to say the least. Have they been one of your projects for a long time or did you just decide to embarrass us all by painting them in a week. :rofl:

Well, ya know, sometimes there is just nothing to do on a Tuesday...

No, that is the finished shot of my complete 2009 Tale of 9 Gamers force, plus the 2-3 months MPV forces (Wildmen and Dunlendings) plus the Isengard Troll and Saruman the White I'd painted purely for pleasure.

I do have another box of Orcs to add to that, although the bases are yet to be finished. Ugluk needs someone to decapitate after all...

:-D

Natarn · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2010 10:54 am

gaarew wrote:

Hey, everybody has got to start somewhere.

Well, it's a good start, John. :wink:

wonkobaggins · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2010 11:28 am

Wow, that is an incredible Uruk army - and it's only the start?

I don't think the bastion in the background is going to stand much chance against that lot.

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2010 3:11 pm

nice army gaarew! really nice painting too. here is a pic of my recently finished uruk- hai.

Natarn · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2010 7:36 pm

This is the latest batch of Uruks I've painted. The models were from a trade with aqan. Three broken pikes allowed me to arm three pikemen.

That's all my Uruk backlog painted (if I don't include all the models that I need to repaint... and will over the next year if all goes to plan).

This week I'm expecting the arrival of 200 Uruks to add to my army - they'll need painting too.

aqan · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2010 4:43 pm

They look great. :yay:

And it's very nice to see my old minis painted and ready for battle.
looking forward to the next 200.

Natarn · **Posted:** Sun May 23, 2010 4:11 pm

Preparing pikemen for painting.

These are all 'new' ones from eBay.

Farmer Giles of Ham · **Posted:** Sun May 23, 2010 6:36 pm

wow! There a alot of great pics in this thread!

@Natarn I like your models, but i personnaly think the skin is just a
little bit to dark ( not that i could paint it any better XD)

But i have read why, so i understand, however, i sorta cant get used to it :-D

anyway very nice

Natarn · **Posted:** Sun May 23, 2010 7:28 pm

Don't worry about it. We all have our preferences.

I used to paint the skin completely black after reading about 'black uruks of Mordor' but think that some red tones do look good.

Look at the skin tones in the films - they are really dark. Sure, there's a bit of reddish hue in there, but not much. Check out the scouts carrying Pippin and Merry and cut to the siege of Helm's Deep - again, really dark skin tones.

I've found that painting them with chaos black just doesn't look good in my opinion and that painting them red and giving them a black wash does the trick for me.

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Sun May 23, 2010 10:09 pm

That's a lot of pikes! This is going to take you a while, but it looks like fun. Can't wait to see them all painted up.

Feanorthenoldor · **Joined:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:44 pm **Posts:** 879

for the uruks skin, whenever uruks are in sunlight, their skin gets "ashed up". Meaning it darkens, so the skin tone for your uruk's natarn are great!!!

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 2:30 pm

gaarew wrote:

I do have big, and I mean BIG plans for the army now.

Sounds interesting...

Battlehosts has just been released and the 5/6 Isengard Battlehosts would mean a big... BIG army...?

...I look forward to it all being revealed! :wink:

garmenhord · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 4:27 pm

i love those uruks i saw - really nice :yay:

Natarn · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 5:25 pm

King Elessar the Uniter wrote:

Battlehosts has just been released and the 5/6 Isengard Battlehosts would mean a big... BIG army...?

Excuse my ignorance but what does this mean? What is the 5/6 Battlehost?

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 6:43 pm

Natarn wrote:

King Elessar the Uniter wrote:

Battlehosts has just been released and the 5/6 Isengard Battlehosts would mean a big... BIG army...?

Excuse my ignorance but what does this mean? What is the 5/6 Battlehost?

It means I'm not sure how many Isengard Battlehosts there are. I think there's either 5 or 6...

Natarn · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 6:53 pm

What constitutes a 'Battlehost'?

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 7:00 pm

Natarn wrote:

What constitutes a 'Battlehost'?

Have a read through of this: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=8500001a

Natarn · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 7:14 pm

Ah, I see - a supplement.

Gaarew is into WotR, I think, so he may have something like that planned. My army is currently for SBG so I don't have to worry about grouping my minis in eights and can arrange them just as I wish.

25 of the pikemen are now painted (apart from their bases). Only another 70 to go (plus another load of Uruks on their way from IseneBaygard).

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 7:57 pm

Quote:

IseneBaygard

I must be missing the underlying joke here...or is that a username? :lol:

Isengard WIP, let's see some vicious uruk-hai!

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