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Author Topic: Tolkien Orc Kitbash p.24 - Second batch of Uruk-Hai, and more trolls painted.  (Read 54489 times)

Offline Keith

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2020, 05:04:25 AM »
Great work on these  :-*
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Offline Sunjester

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2020, 05:06:10 AM »
Absolutely brilliant work. I really look forward to seeing the final, painted, results.

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2020, 07:02:19 AM »
Wow!  :-* As always, an excellent idea, executed brilliantly! Really looking forward to seeing these chaps painted. I am very jealous that I lack both the originality to think of something such as these and, sadly, the kitbashing skills even if I did!

I am guessing you won't be going for the GW bright green skin colour??

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #18 on: May 26, 2020, 07:22:52 AM »
You've hit the nail on the head re: the perversion of our friends the Orcs by the wargames industry over the last ahem, how many years???  :o [feels old for a moment]

It will be very interesting to see what fort of treatment you give the flesh etc. Will you use some kind of 'livery' for the different regiments/types? Or will the shields portray their standing?

Look forward to seeing what you do! :)

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2020, 07:32:49 AM »
Brilliant work Richard, and excellent idea really well-executed as usual

 8)


They look great  8)

Not sure about the Conan wannabe in the middle of the second batch though  lol

Don’t listen to James, I bet his mum gave him that helmet when he was little  ;)

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2020, 07:35:28 AM »
Settles back into chair with a large tub of popcorn...seen the trailer and this is gonna be one amazing show....

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2020, 07:46:55 AM »
Brilliant conversion kit bashing, matching my favorite image of Tolkien’s Orcs. Thanks for inspiring some future Orcs of my own.
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Offline Emir of Askaristan

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #22 on: May 26, 2020, 07:55:37 AM »
You nailed it.
Those fit the bill perfectly.

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #23 on: May 26, 2020, 07:56:35 AM »
Just come back to this thread for the second time ths morning.
Fair warning - I'm knicking the idea of combining the Oathmark kits with Victrix Saxons. Might give Viking parts a go too. :-)

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #24 on: May 26, 2020, 08:40:13 AM »
Excellent! Can't wait to see the paint go on  :-*

Choose your skin tone well, I'll probably be nicking it  ;)
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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #25 on: May 26, 2020, 09:14:23 AM »
Best bunch of orcs I’ve seen, top work- and ideas stolen

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #26 on: May 26, 2020, 09:26:11 AM »
'Sir John ejaculated explosively, sitting up in his chair.' ... 'The Black Gang'.

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #27 on: May 26, 2020, 10:11:07 AM »
Superb stuff Richard  8) 8)
As ever you are the master of the kitbash

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #28 on: May 26, 2020, 10:26:15 AM »
Thanks chaps. These seem to have struck a bit of a chord :)

Choose your skin tone well, I'll probably be nicking it  ;)

Yes, the skin tone is definitely the dilemma. (It definitely won't be 'Goblin Green' though ;))
Again, the information in Tolkien's works is sketchy, conflicting and often misquoted / misinterpreted. When he refers to 'black orcs' for instance, does he mean 'black' in the poetic sense (as in black-hearted, wicked) or does he literally mean they look like Africans? Or coal miners coming off shift? Probably it's 'black' in the first sense. I don't recall if he ever actually says they have 'black skin', and I don't want to get into the whole mid-C20th attitudes to ethnicity thing, which I think is a red herring as far as Tolkien is concerned.
The specific descriptive terms that have stuck in my mind (used several times IIRC), are 'swart' and 'sallow'. Which suggests a darkish complexion - but with an unhealthy pallor!
So I'll probably go for a more browny-yellowy hue than my customary 'sunny skin tone'.

Fair warning - I'm knicking the idea of combining the Oathmark kits with Victrix Saxons. Might give Viking parts a go too. :-)

lol Nick away Keith.
(Godammit - yours are going to be better than mine, I just know it! >:(:D)


Don’t listen to James, I bet his mum gave him that helmet when he was little  ;)

I never listen to James, and I think you've got it right, Matt. That little orc's mama was a huge Conan fan ;)


Oh dear.  You already make me feel inadequate in WW2 and historicals - do you have to go and get into fantasy too?

lol
Hey, don't you dare feel inadequate - not after that brilliant post-apoc greenhouse!
I'm not exactly new to fantasy... As mentioned, at school I had a Minifigs 'ME' army around 1976 when D&D was just a quirky new thing, and Games Workshop was barely a thing at all!
You must have missed my previous forays into fantasy on LAF too ;)

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash
« Reply #29 on: May 26, 2020, 10:29:43 AM »
Great work. I did something similar last year, but yours look far better executed than mine, where GS hides many sins! I look forward to seeing your finished orcs.

 

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