Saturday, 30 August 2014

Half Orc WIP


Hello everyone,

This week i've been painting. A lot. I've been working through my box of Wood Elves, and also started painting a few members of the Fellowship. I've been recently putting together an idea as mentioned in a previous post, involving the Half Orc/Southerners that where likely involved in the Ambush on the way to Weathertop Scenario. So below I present, my first half orc (before washes etc).


As you can see it is a very simple concept, i've snipped the end of the spear off and painted him with scruffy greens and browns to give him a rough look. The 'Spear' has now become a 2 handed club/large stick which will count as a 2 handed weapon. This should give them a bit of an edge when they win a fight against Aragorn!



Also planned, I will be attempting to convert a goblin shield warrior to be holding just his sword, with no shield to act as the 1 handed brigands! As well as painting up bow men in the same scheme (this I have already started). I'm even thinking of getting a model to be Bill Ferny, and giving it a special rule to make the scenario more interesting, after all, a greedy, cruel human being such as Bill Ferny is likely to do anything for wealth and / or power!

Two handed, stick holding Half Orc





And the back.
I think these make interesting little troops, as they come in to play quite a bit in The Fellowship, if I wanted to add multiple custom scenarios to my playthrough, or as standalone scenarios. For example, What is to stop these half-orc creatures impeding the Hobbits on their way from Maggots farm to the Buckleberry ferry? Or even later on as the Fellowship breaks and branches off in different directions, when the Rangers leave to find Aragorn, what is to step them, along with forces from Angmar from terrorizing Bree and the surrounding villages of Breeland, such as Archet in the Chetwood just to the East of Bree? And it was also mentioned in the books that some of these creatures in league with Saruman were present at the Battle of the Hornburg, along with Uruks and Wild men, so they can also come in to play there. So, as you can see they can come in to play in a variety of different situations. I'm going to paint up hopefully 10 with bow, 10 with sword and 10 with two handed weapons, this way there is enough of them for small scenarios, but also enough to act as cannon fodder for Uruk-hai, or whatever else, which I'm sure is what Saruman would of intended them to be once he had bred his superior breed of evil.


So watch this space, I have quite a few blog posts to put up, but the earliest will be atleast a week from now. Thanks for reading, any criticism welcome as always.

Until next time...

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