Hello all!!

I have a bit of an update for now; Ruzgag has been based and Burzwakh has been painted but not yet based. I'll get some pictures up soon.
And for several reasons we have restarted our battle companies campaign. My main opponent is now Moria and hopefully also Rohan.

Oh, and I had a game today. I had to kill the goblin leader, the goblins had to kill half of my guys. All the goblins ran from my amazing uruks and thier archers killed an uruk (Bofurkrut). Another uruk (One of my bowmen) was killed by a single goblin with a spear in a one on one combat!!!
We didn't do injuries as it was the first game and I'd killed all the goblins. I gained an orc with spear, Ishluk has 2 attacks and Ruzgag is now a hero. That's the thing with goblins, there's a hell of a lot of kills on offer.

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman

Good job. I miss battle companies but the companies got to big and we just moved on rather then restarting . Have fun, I'm looking forwards to seeing updates of you company.

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“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8

Update!!

Heres the promised pics:




As you can see, I've gained a wildman after my second game. It was a three way game where you had to dig up some weapons from the center of the board to win. When you where near the objective you had to roll a 6 so you would win.
The rohirrem won and my uruks didn't kill anything but nothing of mine died which was okay.

P.S. I've built a hill thing for scenery, it's drying ATM.

2nd P.S The orc with spear is called snaka and the wild man is called Rushgarr.

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman

I think I've had another 3 or more games since the last update, drew one and won the others. I've gained one uruk-hai w/ sword, one more orc w/ spear, a warg rider and one of my uruk-hai swordsmen (Grotwakh) has become a berserker. Ruzgag has also been given a crossbow.
And the crossbow model has been painted:



comments welcomed!

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman

The skin looks really nice as does quite a lot of the details. My greatest complaint would be that the yellow hair doesn't really fit. Dark grey or brown hair would look better in my opinion. I would also suggest you watch how much sand gets on the feet. It might help if you painted the shoes and the sand on it more brown to distinguish them more from the rest of the base.

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“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8

Excuse the double post, not to make use of it. Congratulations with the games. I'll be looking forwards to seeing the new additions, do you plan on doing anything special with the warg rider?

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“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8

I also think the skin looks nice, but IMO the armor is not quite as good. The paint on the armor looks preatty thick and the drybrushing looks fairly messy as well. Watering down your paints, even when drybrushing, can really help. Great work on the Uruk!

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" I think I'm... quite ready for another adventure!"

Bilbo

Nice job on the crossbowman. I actually like the yellow hair.

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My WIP Thread: http://www.one-ring.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17771

Thanks for the comments!
I've given the yellow hair a wash of devlin mud and it looks more like a lighter brown rather than yellow (I haven't taken any pictures because i couldn't get the light to go where I wanted it; it either looked too dark or way too light). With the watering down of paints, I'm still trying to get the right consistency (I do the basecoat fine, then for the drybrushing it goes all runny ), I'll get it right eventually.
I haven't played any more battle company games since my last post, the moria player is finding it hard to win so we're doing some 'learning tactics' games to help. We might restart again, or not.

Update Time

I've painted my Uruk-hai captain, 2 uruk-hai and a random goblin captain I made (not based).





Comments welcomed!

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman

I haven't done any more painting, however I have spend some time building several ladders out of matchsticks. Very fiddly, but easy when you get the hang of it.





In front are the ladders (and proof they work), and behind is what they were made out out.
But wait, before you disappear off thinking that my log has become boring and ladder obsessed, there's more! I'm planning to build a castle following the instructions provided in a number of the BGiME magazines. Apparently it'll look like helms deep, but it's more of a representation in my opinion. Construction begins as soon as my hot wore cutter arrives!!!

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman

I love the face of your goblin - the dark skin and bright eyes really look great together!

Seems ages since my last update, my hot wire cutter arrived yesterday and has been a godsend at cutting the polystyrene. So far I've completed 2 wall sections and 2 more are in the making. The fourth has been delayed as I have run out of ceiling tiles .
I'll try and take some pictures tomorrow (possibly not though because I'm going skiing for the day!!! so maybe the day after that).

In the mean time here are two uruk-hai pikemen I've managed to paint up.




The hair isn't as bright in real life...

C&C welcome!!

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman

The pikemen look awesome!

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"Woe to the Vanquished!"
-Brennus-

Missed the uruk captain post...WOW, great conversion!

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No one feels as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

The pike men are really good. You've definitely improved.
The captain also turned out quite well. I'm looking forwards to seeing the wall.
Also, whatever became of the ring wraith you sculpted and house?

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“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8

cool captain and awsome pikemen

Thanks for the nice replies! I haven't done anything with the house & sculpted ringwraith. Don't expect much with the house, it might get painted sometime, but like most of my terrain pieces, it'll stay unpainted for A LONG LONG TIME! I am planning to get the castle painted, or at least undercoated.

And as promised, here are the pictures of the castle:






I have one more section of wall to finish, a gatehouse, a corner tower and a smaller section of wall.
I'll try to get some done over the weekend.

C&C welcome!

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman

No comments then?
Anywho I've got the 4th piece ready for painting. But because I ran out of polystyrene and couldn't find any more (any where, I have ordered some from ebay though) I used some weird plasterboard stuff which worked okay.

Don't expect any more major updates for about 2 weeks though as I'm going back to school on Tuesday and have a DofE walk that weekend.

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman

It looks pretty nice! Are you going to make the rest of the castle

Yes, well sort of. Two wall sections and the gate will be first, then there'll be a sort of right angle of walls behind that (with a small gap in round the side) and a keep of some sort will be inside the right angle.
Sounds a bit weird I know, but hopefully you'll see it when i get it all together.
I will probably build a few other pieces so I can reorganise it a bit.

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"We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc"
-Saruman