A dark Kingdom rises in the north……

Kurl Veranek · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:38 pm

Greetings! New member here!

I had an Angmar Army from the moment it was first introduced in a WD all those years ago and I have been a faithful servant of the Witch King ever since.

A few Weeks ago I decided to motivate other players in my club to start Lotr again. And what better way then to make a small campaign finished of by a massive multiplayer battle?

We decided that we wanted to play an "alternate history" campaign.

What if instead of Saruman turning evil, the Witch King somehow was able to resurrect his ancient kingdom in the north? Angmar would be the threat for the free peoples in the west while Mordor attacked from the east. We found it to be an interesting concept for our campaign.

So I decided to start my Angmar Army all over. At least 2000 points are my goal at the moment. In this thread I will present you my progress in the creation of this army, as well as the campaign.

I had a few days of from university and so i started my project.

First off a small selection of species you will get to see in this thread.

from left to right: An Orc from Mount Gundabad (made from different bits of historical minis and tons of green stuff), a cave troll, a Barrow Wight and a Warrior of Carn Dum (again tons of bits and GS)

More to come soon!

orc-archer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:15 am

Welcome!

Brilliant conversions and paint jobs, what miniature did you use for the conversion of the Warrior of Carn Dum?

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:40 am

What a great first post and welcome

I would love to see some closer up shots of your miniatures, looks like there's going to be some nice conversions and painting in there.

Argish · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 12:16 pm

Awesome work dude! We don't see Angmar miniatures too often and they have an intriguin atmosphere.

Please upload some individual photographs of them.

Kurl Veranek · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 1:10 pm

Thanks Guys!

The Carn Dun Warrior is based on a Gripping Beast Viking, Fireforge Games bits for helmet, shield and sword. The Spikes on the helmet are bayonets from Victrix :-D

the rest is GS

close ups:

30 Gundabads

first heroes join the horde

the first 750Points

ste271276 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 1:57 pm

awesome work pal!

Galanur · **Joined:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:28 am **Posts:** 1389

Death to Angmar! Death to Kurl Veranek who lead em! :P

Apart from that, awesome painting work pal, hope I see more of that army soon :)

haradrim · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:13 pm

i love this type of work !
different color scheme , never seen before !
it's beautiful mixing part of differents miniatures to create something that doesn't exist !
i always want to create a carn dum army and this is very similiar to my idea !
these fantastic weapons are form fireforge?! i will buy immediately !

YOrcShire · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:09 pm

Welcome and a superbly painted army you have there.

Kurl Veranek · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:24 pm

Thanks a lot for the kind words!

Yes the Gundabads are largely based on the Fireforge Sergants. Some weapons are Perry and GB!. But mostly Fireforge. I also found the crouched guys perfect for Ork anatomy.

If you are interested I can post some WIPs of whats next in line.....

Paradigm · **Joined:** Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:56 am **Posts:** 264

Very impressive stuff! Oddly, I never thought of kitbashing Orcs from Historicals, I may have to try that in future!

Mars_2000 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:30 pm

Awesome work ! Really brave and great conversions. Trully, admire your "individuals" shown on photos.

Kurl Veranek · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:44 pm

A few WIP shots:

First off my stand in for Gothmog/Agandaur as you con see a high born Dark Numenorian. The model is based on an old Theoden miniature and finished of with some historical bits. Didn't bother to strip the paint of it since it was so thin.

and then a few lowly Orks I just love the old metal ones so much

Still much to do for these

a Hobbit · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:40 am

Looking good!

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:26 am

Very nice conversions. I especially like the Troll!

Elladan & Elrohir · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:16 am

Nice Angmar force! Converted armies are always inspiring! You have a good feeling for conversions!

Looking forward to more! :-D

Elladan & Elrohir

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:08 pm

Some inspired conversions using the historicals and it works really well.

Ridgeback · **Joined:** Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:25 pm **Posts:** 105

Awesome Thread! :yay:

That painting jobs are outstanding!
The diffrent color schemes are awesome.
Hope too see more.
Ridgeback

Valadorn · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2015 9:04 pm

Fantastic !! Lovely scheme!

paliouras · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2015 9:55 pm

lots of creativity put into this warband, I really like them, my only criticism is the uniformity in the paint scheme, not of my taste for orcs, except for Morannon orcs.
Beautiful work with GS and I'm anticipating the hero based on Theoden to be finished.

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