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Author Topic: Tolkien Orc Kitbash p.24 - Second batch of Uruk-Hai, and more trolls painted.  (Read 54497 times)

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #60 on: June 06, 2020, 11:44:45 AM »
Plenty of dimension to him too.
One of the advantages of plastic kitbashing; not being constrained by the necessity of lifting out of a mould

This exactly.

Top work Richard

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #62 on: June 06, 2020, 12:07:33 PM »
He looks just great Richard ,the term "loaded for bear" springs to mind  :)


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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #63 on: June 06, 2020, 02:26:25 PM »
Excellent! That flesh works well  8)
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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #64 on: June 06, 2020, 06:11:05 PM »
Excellent work! He looks fantastic - and that combination of gear is just spot on: bow, spear and 'darts', as well as heavy mail. Tolkien's uruks seem to occupy a military slot that didn't frequently occur in history (at least in the West): the bow-armed heavy infantryman. The build for this fellow fulfils that perfectly.

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #65 on: June 06, 2020, 08:15:17 PM »
Niiiice.
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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #66 on: June 07, 2020, 01:43:52 AM »
Brilliant. The orc is full of character. The skin colour is excellent too
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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #67 on: June 07, 2020, 05:02:00 AM »
I really have to jon the fan club again. Your painting is great with not so bright colors also.
And the kitbashing is once again inspiring. The somewhat too bendy legs of that medieval warrior fit well into an orcs desription and the use you made of that celtic shield is just "in the right place ".

Please keep the inspiraton coming.

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #68 on: June 07, 2020, 08:51:37 AM »
Very nice Richard :-* :-* :-*
How many of these are planned?

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #69 on: June 07, 2020, 09:04:40 AM »
Thanks gents  :)


Very nice Richard :-* :-* :-*
How many of these are planned?

Well I’ve built a dozen so far. I’ll see how I get on with painting them, and then I might do a dozen more. And then maybe a few Gondorians... and some Rohirrim... just for small skirmishes, you know ;)

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #70 on: June 07, 2020, 09:44:41 AM »
Thanks gents  :)


Well I’ve built a dozen so far. I’ll see how I get on with painting them, and then I might do a dozen more. And then maybe a few Gondorians... and some Rohirrim... just for small skirmishes, you know ;)

....and so it begins

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #71 on: June 07, 2020, 09:51:32 AM »

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Very, very nice.

The longbow is an interesting details. As I am sure many Tolien-fans know, longbows of yew, was, for orcs, an atypical attribute of The uruk-hai under Sarumans sway.

As I am about to paint ten uruk-hai archers I recently had a bit of a think about this. Orcs make things badly, without art and precision. The making of longbows is an advanced craft. One have to assume that Saruman morally corrupt bowyers in his employ (which is in a general way alluded to).

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #72 on: June 07, 2020, 10:21:05 AM »
I seem to recall Tolkien saying some Orcs were highly skilled craftsmen, but they made no beautiful things. They delighted in instruments of destruction or torment.

So maybe Uruks could come up with functioning, but ugly longbows.

But he also said Orc-made things were crude compared to those of Elves and Men, so you may well be right (though something can be both crude and effective, I suppose).


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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #73 on: June 07, 2020, 11:11:43 AM »
Orcs make things badly, without art and precision.

Not sure if that's quite right (as Plynkes has noted above):

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Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones. … Hammers, axes, swords, daggers, pickaxes, tongs, and also instruments of torture, they make very well or get others to make to their design ... It is not unlikely that they invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once, for wheels and engines and explosions always delighted them.

And they do engage in art:

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'It was an orc-weapon,' he said, holding it gingerly, and looking with disgust at the carved handle: it had been shaped like a hideous head with squinting eyes and leering mouth.

As for the Isengarders' bows, Aragorn does say that those Orcs' grear is more like that of Men. But in The Battle of the Fords of the Isen, Tolkien indicates that the Isengarder Orcs were more technologically advanced than the Dunlendings: specifically, the only mail made in Isengard was made by the Orcs for their own uses.

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Re: Captain Blood's Tolkien Orc Kitbash (#1 painted p.4)
« Reply #74 on: June 07, 2020, 09:49:05 PM »
Only just seen this - late to the party!  Fine work and am enjoying the orc debate.

 

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