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Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:17 pm

Finished my first full Mordor Army, The Morannon Guard.
Now onto the 2nd half of my Black Numenorean Corsair Alliance

Warband 1
Gothmog, w/ Warg & Shield
Specter
5 Morannon Orc w/ Shield
5 Morannon Orc w/ Spear & Shield

Warband 2
Murgash, Morannon Captain w/ Shield

5 Morannon Orc w/ Shield
6 Morannon Orc w/ Spear

Warband 3
Guirtz, Morannon Captain w/ THW

Morannon Orc with Banner
Mordor Troll {Pu'Hed}
4 Morannon Orc with Shield
5 Morannon Orc with Spear & Shield

Warband 4
Kur'va, Orc Shaman w/ Warg

4 Orc Trackers w/ Wargs

Points 751
Might 8
Models 41 {Mostly S4 or better}

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:26 pm

All look good together, some closer photos would be nice.

Bartelomeus · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:29 pm

Kurva means hooker in Slovakian by the way, only fitting that it is the shaman I guess... enchanting

Nice thematic army, I like a hard hitting heroes like Gothmog but personally never can resist the urge to field some extra trolls.

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:31 pm

Some close ups

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:32 pm

[quote="Bartelomeus"]Kurva means hooker in Slovakian by the way, only fitting that it is the shaman I guess... enchanting

Yeah 1 of the polish Lads I now gave me the idea :roll:

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:37 pm

Thanks for the closer shots, they look good.

Sithious · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2014 7:19 pm

I like the colors on the marsh specter, the faded red looks good there and the pale skin on the orc. The red on other models is very bold and over powers the models, I would lighten it up on the tongues of the wrgs to break it up as well as find a shade and further highlight for the red to help with them, perhaps on future batches and adds to the force.

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

The details on the banner are amazing!

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:11 pm

Thanks Sticky fingersss.
I've been drawing up different heraldry for each of my armies depending on where they'er from, and since the average orc is as smart as a bag of spanners they will follow a banner that show's where they live

Red is the only colour that i'm finding difficult to balance out properly

Hodush · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:40 am

Nice work

What is written on the banner? Is that just using rune letters?

JamesR · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:50 am

For your reds have you tried mixing in browns to mute it? Browns are often the way to go when adding depth to reds

Lord of Winterfell · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:24 am

Great looking army.

I do like the orc tracker conversions...you don't see many...or I haven't anyway.

Keep up the good work!

:boromir

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:47 pm

Runes on the Banner are from Dante's Inferno the words over the gates of Hell ''Abaondon all Hope'' in German, looked better than in Irish or English

Thanks for the advice on the reds I'll try that on my next Mordor units

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:14 am

Part of my Easterling themed army

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:17 am

Sauron the Great

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Fri Sep 19, 2014 12:02 pm

I think Sauron needs to be darker, use some black and brown washes all over the figure to take away the clean look.

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:22 pm

Thanks I'll try that on the armour

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:18 pm

Part of my upcoming Black Numenorean / Corsair Alliance.

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:32 pm

Warband 1
Dukat Corsair Captain with THW & Parrot
5 Corsair Warriors with Shields
6 Corsair Warriors with Spears
Haradrim Warrior with Banner

Warband 2
Bra'Ka Corsair Overseer {Taskmaster}
6 Corsair Arbalesters

20 Models
4 Might
6 S4 Shots
294 Pts

Dalamyr also had a Sex change and is now Cora the Wavemistress.
I'm sure we wish her well

Alatar of Rhun · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:04 pm

Some more pics

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