Plastic Uruk-hai crossbowmen

batpan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:28 pm

Hello again. Here some Uruk crossbowmen, whom I converted using Uruk pikemen and siege troops.
If someone wants, the whole formation is here:
http://dramatickatastases.blogspot.com/
Any comment is welcome.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:53 pm

i like the engineer with the bow

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:03 pm

Some great conversions, they work really well actually. My favourite is also the engineer with the bow on the bottom right.

Chris · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:27 pm

They look realy good! nice painting!

batpan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:20 am

Thank you very much for your comments! Here the whole formation :

Troll-king · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:40 am

That command unit looks scary, with Lurtz and Vrasku in one company! I really like the axeman behind Lurtz. As others have mentioned, the engineer with bow is especially good - did you splice them just above the gauntlet? And what colour did you use for the crossbow? The wood colour looks very convincing, much better than the normal Scorched Brown.

We did something similar with the Gripping Beast Crossbows. Curtis can't wait to use 16 of them, plus Vrasku, in action - will be about 10 days till they get their first blooding.
Paul

batpan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:54 am

Paul, I use Vallejo: Cork-Brown 70-843, washed with Citadel: Devlan-Mud, for spears, bows, crossbows, etc.
Thanks a lot for your comments.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:10 pm

Marvellous conversions, and I like to see new interesting techniques or variations used in both modelling and painting to produce very attractive minis.

Well, when I say attractive, I mean as in accurately representing the original characters, as in this case, uruk-hai.

A feisty bunch.

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Very nice

batpan · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:02 pm

Conversions are unique for a collector-player-painter. Put those three in the right order, as anyone of us likes better.
For me is just a trial to keep the cost low and simultaneously to have the armies which I want. There is another post here in WIP
about a Dunlending force. It is really an amazing army, but unfortunately a very expensive one. Here is mine, low badget Dunlending army:

batpan · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:48 pm

As I promised here is the Orc Chariots WIP. I will explain what do you see during the weekend. Sorry about this.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:10 pm

Missed your finished crossbowmen...very nice job!!

Really diggin' the chariot as well!

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 11:50 pm

WOW very nice

From what i can see, your orc chariots will end up looking a hell of a lot better than my orc war lord in chariot (which you can see in my werewolf wip)

Its very good work

i hate you :razz:

lol

Chris · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:02 am

Nice chariot batpan

batpan · **Posted:** Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:51 pm

Thank you all for your comments.
About the Chariots: I made them from balsa wood. They are "scythed" chariots, as scythes I used Uruk-hai pike heads. The flag is a Morgul Knight spear. The charioteers are a mix of Minas Tirith warriors, Orcs, Uruks and Corsairs miniatures. A big mess!
GtW, I saw your Orc Warlord in Chariot. Very-very nice biga, indeed! And your werewolves are extremely frightening! :shock:

Here are mine:

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:27 pm

Thank you batpan, your werewolves also look very nice, you are good at conversions. I can tell one was a WoMT, but the rest i cannot, they are nice, good luck with finishing your chariots.

orc-archer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:50 am

The chariots is most impressive, well done!

batpan · **Posted:** Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:48 am

Thanks a lot. Speaking about chariots here are my Dunlending Chariots. Enjoy these because the Orcs' chariots are behind the scheduled time.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:07 pm

Very nice job on these!

batpan · **Posted:** Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:18 am

If someone does not have enough miniatures of a kind to fill all the tray slots can easily use what I call "joker" miniatures. Here is an example with Gravestones markers. I was short of two Orc Stalkers and I used two Gravestones to reach number eight.

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