Tolkien Orc Kitbash p.17 - Haradrim troop and Mumakil #1 painted

[Rick W.]

Great work yet again! I love your kitbashing and thanks again for the continuing inspiration.

[killshot]

Exceptional as usual!  Can’t wait to see your interpretation of the color scheme for them.

[Blackwolf]

Very nice Richard 
But please get on and do some goodies(tho’ you’re probably waiting on the Vitrix Normans ).

[Romark]

Outstanding kit bashing of the highest order,as usual Richard
But what I'd really like to see is a picture of your sprue collection!
Now that would be a thread to view (pic heavy) 

[TWD]

Lovely kitbashing. Pretty sure the unidentified head on the final footsoldier is from the GW Mordheim "hairy head" sprue.

[onlysix]

Very clean paintwork, nice bright colors, love 'em 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks chaps

Lovely kitbashing. Pretty sure the unidentified head on the final footsoldier is from the GW Mordheim "hairy head" sprue.

Ah, thank you Tom. Yes, that would make sense. Mason kindly donated a batch of those heads to me a few years ago, and every now and then, one of them finds its way out of the bits box and into a kitbash

Very nice Richard 
But please get on and do some goodies(tho’ you’re probably waiting on the Vitrix Normans ).

Cheers Guy. You are so right. The Victrix Norman cavalry will form the basis of my Rohirrim / Gondorians. Eventually. Got to make a viable army of baddies first though

oh, and if you don’t like the FF Byzantine heads, I’d be happy to take them off your hands...I ended up trimming some of them to fit, but I can always do with more for my unsullied 

Thanks Matt
Luckily I only bought one frame off an eBay reseller. Like I say, the bodies are rather nice and I've used three of the five already. But the heads are almost Alien-like in their extraordinary length. However, I'll probably hang onto them, just in case...
You have more than enough plastic to be going on with

[gamer Mac]

Exceptional as usual!  Can’t wait to see your interpretation of the color scheme for them.

Just what he said

[Hincmar]

A superb thread - I really like your vision of how troops from the end of the Third Age should "look", and your use of the vast array of plastic options these days to realise it.   And the kit bashing and painting is as always top notch.   

I working on a mid Third Age Fornost / Angmar project at the moment to do games using Oathmark.  GB plastic late romans, dark age infantry, saxons and vikings, FF Russians and metals by Wargames Foundry (Late Romans, Arthurians) and Newline (Arthurians and Late Romans - underrated in my view) are all going into the mix.

[Captain Blood]

Thank you. Your project sounds interesting! Looking forward to seeing it 

[Silent Invader]

Excellent work Richard; very much enjoying and being informed by your ‘novel’ interpretations (though I’m a ‘movie’ man myself). 

[OSHIROmodels]

Brill. Those nellies really do the trick 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks friends

Excellent work Richard; very much enjoying and being informed by your ‘novel’ interpretations (though I’m a ‘movie’ man myself). 

Thanks Steve. Don't get me wrong, I love Peter Jackson's movies beyond reason (well the LOTR trilogy, maybe not The Hobbit trilogy quite so much). I just wanted to recreate something closer to what Tolkien actually describes (fundamentally simple, Dark Ages / early medieval arms and armour). Rather than the roccoco output of the overheated imaginations of a generation of 'Tolkien interpreters'

Anyway... Here's the first group of Uruk-Hai. As mentioned above, some are more deliberately manlike / half-orcish - certainly bigger and less 'creature-like' than regular orcs...
They're meant to have an S-rune on their helms, but I figured that would be a step too far even for me









The orcish kitbash company thus far...



Plenty more to come! Haradrim, Mumakil, Trolls, warg riders, and more of both varieties of orc...

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

Wonderful figures and painting. 
You are the undisputed master of kit bashing.

I find the bright green a bit Elvish rather than Uruk Hai but the standard of modelling and painting is magnificent

[AKULA]

At the risk of repeating myself, they look bloody marvellous mate.

Particularly like the white hand shields and the weathering, oh...and the choice of   palette, kitbashing...poses etc etc etc