AMAZING, awesome job gaarew!!!!
one of the best uruk armies i've ever seen!
keep up the good work

Awsome uruk army how many uruks is that???

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I lost count after 116. Then I realized I had been counting the wildmen as well...and you were just asking about the uruks, right?

You want to have a go?

Epic army right there. Good to see you posting again John.

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Not enough...


Off the top of my head.

20 Uruk-hai with Shields
19 Uruk-hai with Pikes
3 Banners
4 Captains
2 Shamen
9 Crossbowmen
16 Berserkers
16 Siege-crew
2 Ballistae with Crew
2 Trolls
48 assorted Scouts
7 Warg Riders and Sharku
Ugluk
Vrasku
Lurtz
Saruman (twice)
Grima
26 Orcs with Captain and Banner
16 Dunlendings
8 Wildmen.



I have 29 Pikemen, A Captain, Banner and 28 Warriors on the paintstation at the moment.

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that`s a LOT bigger then my tiny uruk force

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Hey, everybody has got to start somewhere.

That started off as a box of Scouts, a box of Warg Riders, the Sharku and Ugluk/Vrasku blister, and a blister of Feral Uruk-hai.

That there is one full years work though.

I do have big, and I mean BIG plans for the army now.

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That is a nice picture of your army John. It's great to see you back and posting too.

Btw, is that a gaming table the army is on? Did you finally play a second game of the sbg with your new army?

Gaarew, that is truly an epic army!!!

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Gaarew, it looks great. Always nice to see an Isengard army with a decent representation of "normal" Orcs.

It's an impressive force to say the least. Have they been one of your projects for a long time or did you just decide to embarrass us all by painting them in a week.

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amazing and a very inspiring army

Thanks everyone.



That is actually a RoB board in GW Falkirk, I took the pictures when I finally took them off of display. Sadly, the bastion in the background is neither black enough, and has too many visible heavy bolters to look like Orthanc. Never fear, they were replaced by Gothmog and a bunch of Morannon Orcs, and a box of the new Morgul Knights I painted for the store.

Yes, I did indeed play a second game. I managed to get a draw, using mostly Scouts and Berserkers vs. a High Elf army including Glorfindel and Erestor. My normally lacklustre rolling was on vacation, and I was firing out 6's left right and centre.



Well, ya know, sometimes there is just nothing to do on a Tuesday...

No, that is the finished shot of my complete 2009 Tale of 9 Gamers force, plus the 2-3 months MPV forces (Wildmen and Dunlendings) plus the Isengard Troll and Saruman the White I'd painted purely for pleasure.

I do have another box of Orcs to add to that, although the bases are yet to be finished. Ugluk needs someone to decapitate after all...

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Well, it's a good start, John.

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Wow, that is an incredible Uruk army - and it's only the start?

I don't think the bastion in the background is going to stand much chance against that lot.

nice army gaarew! really nice painting too. here is a pic of my recently finished uruk- hai.

This is the latest batch of Uruks I've painted. The models were from a trade with aqan. Three broken pikes allowed me to arm three pikemen.









That's all my Uruk backlog painted (if I don't include all the models that I need to repaint... and will over the next year if all goes to plan).

This week I'm expecting the arrival of 200 Uruks to add to my army - they'll need painting too.

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They look great.
And it's very nice to see my old minis painted and ready for battle.
looking forward to the next 200.

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My wip

Preparing pikemen for painting.

These are all 'new' ones from eBay.

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wow! There a alot of great pics in this thread!

@Natarn I like your models, but i personnaly think the skin is just a
little bit to dark ( not that i could paint it any better XD)

But i have read why, so i understand, however, i sorta cant get used to it

anyway very nice

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Don't worry about it. We all have our preferences.

I used to paint the skin completely black after reading about 'black uruks of Mordor' but think that some red tones do look good.

Look at the skin tones in the films - they are really dark. Sure, there's a bit of reddish hue in there, but not much. Check out the scouts carrying Pippin and Merry and cut to the siege of Helm's Deep - again, really dark skin tones.

I've found that painting them with chaos black just doesn't look good in my opinion and that painting them red and giving them a black wash does the trick for me.

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That's a lot of pikes! This is going to take you a while, but it looks like fun. Can't wait to see them all painted up.