Yeh I'm getting used to that unarmoured head now, any of the elves would look great as captains, I can't find a pose that I don't like.
Couldn't take a good picture of the Uruks without it appearing too dark or the flash giving the appearance of shiny cloaks
so I will make an effort tomorrow morning before I go away to post some pictures.
In the meantime here are some Helms Deep WIP photos
The layout, to scale
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The building of basic shapes
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The height difference is going to be one polystyrene sheet as in the image. The outer wall will be 3 sheets high, the inner 4.
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The base for the inner courtyard and walls
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I only have a limited supply of the blue stuff so I will be using the nasty white stuff where ever I can
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As I haven't decided how I am going to complete the wall surface, I am taking care to use the same material through out incase I do decide to carve into the polystyrene. The arch and stairs are carved out to maintain that effect.
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The beginnings of the horse ramp into the inner courtyard
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The pieces positioned. Nothing stuck in place yet.
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Outer wall
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The underside of the inner wall now (now 3 sheets high)
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Horse ramp carved
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What these images don't say, is the countless hours spent watching the Helms Deep scenes, the documentaries on the Extended Edition and looking at other peoples work all over the net. There is a wealth of material not only on the English LOTR sites but all (what looks like) German, Polish and probably many others I've yet to discover.
Here are a few interesting links
http://www.tabletop-hdr.de/gelaendebau/ ... nd-turgor/
http://www.haehnsen.net/html/helms_klamm.html
At the very least I can now translate Helms Klamm
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) Armoured Wood Elves!
but being colourblind it doesn't look all that different. I don't know why but Red uruks have always made sense to me up until now. Looking closely at the bareheaded scout in the second picture it seems it has had a light drybrush of Bestial Brown and a wash of Scorched Brown. If you guys think it looks decent, it will definitely save time so I think I'll use this method for the rest of them. I may add a little red into the mix though... 
i just added that the gryphonne sepia wash over it will look amazing.
