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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: dadlamassu on November 13, 2021, 03:07:00 PM
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I had been looking for ideas for new, different, warriors to add to my fantasy project. In our “world” of Morval Earth the closest we have to Tolkien’s Harad is an area called Harachan. It is a sort of mix of Harad and The Black Kingdoms of the Conan stories .
Then I was impressed by Wilgut Spleen’s interpretation of the u’bhadi
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=133598.msg1696347#msg1696347 (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=133598.msg1696347#msg1696347)
Not wishing to copy these exactly I did a search on the internet and found an illustration by Angus McBride that I liked. Now this was something that I had been looking for.
(http://tolkiengateway.net/w/images/7/72/Angus_McBride_-_Half-trolls.jpg)
Most of my Middle Earth Far Harad, Morval Earth Harachan and Hyborean Black Kingdoms’ armies are light infantry as they are composed of Foundry Darkest Africa and other similar ranges. So these chaps would make a welcome and powerful addition!
So looking through my piles of figures yielded nothing until I came across a box of Combat Hex figures from way back that the kids have left behind. The Orcs and Uruk Hai received head swops and some repainting resulted in:-
Converted figure with Perry plastic Mahdist for size
(https://i.imgur.com/uOAonvw.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PLWPz3f.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/E3qIa3e.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/xZbz8ru.jpg)
Because I liked the idea of the Grakhuul but had no large vultures I used these Reaper Bones demons
(https://i.imgur.com/Y0EHOGd.jpg)