Army Of The White hand

[razhburz]

I have finally got a chance to start on my Isengard army.
My plan is to have different poses for all minis in the army, which gives me a good excuse to practise my convertion and sculpting skills.

Here is the first Scout I painted. As you can see he is not painted to the best standard but i hope it will do for an army standard.




Thanks for looking,


Razh

[mutantpotato]

Looking really good razh. I really like the face, the eyes are awesome! I am working on a Isengard army too, so I'll draw some inspiration from you ;D I hope to learn something too

Jättebra!

[Tim C]

Very nice mate, it looks suitably dark and grimy for an orc.

[razhburz]

@mikkel
thanks mate. feel free to get inspired by my work . and you uruks have inspired me too.
it was when I saw some of your convertions I got the idea to make an army with every model beeing uniqe (even though it could just be to put the head in another angle).

@tim thanks mate:)

[razhburz]

Here are two simple convertions. I've just put the arms in different angels and made new sleevs from GS.

This is what they looked like on the sprue:



And what they look like now (not much different, but still different ) :




Thanks for looking,

Razh

[racssirt]

Good luck with this project Razh! It seems to be coming along nicely so far!

[razhburz]

Thanks Steven .

I've just got the minis I ordered; the evil of isengard box (20 uruks and 18 warg riders), Sharku and two Ork boyz with 'eavy weapons. So I've quite a lot to do, I'll start a WIP thread for the boyz soon too.


Thanks again,


Razh

[mutantpotato]

razhburz said:

@mikkel
thanks mate. feel free to get inspired by my work . and you uruks have inspired me too.
it was when I saw some of your convertions I got the idea to make an army with every model beeing uniqe (even though it could just be to put the head in another angle).

Great to be a source of inspration for an awesome painter ;D

I think it's great that we do the same army at the same time. Then we can learn from eachother and help eachother. I am a slow and lazy painter, so your army will probably be finished a long time before mine ;D

I have a question. How did you paint the eyes/face on the sqout? It looks amazing. The shading around the eyes looks really grim, and suits the uruk perfectly.

Btw, nice qonversions

[mminiatures]

VERY nice work on the paint job! It looks as good as the metal scouts, which is impressive as its just the plastic one. The face is great.

[razhburz]

Thank you mminiatures and Mikkel!

As for the eyes I simply painted them black first, then a dot of bleached bone and for the pupil chaos black. the area around the eyes are painted with dark flesh mixed with black.


Thanks again,


Razh

[razhburz]

Oh I saw first now that you (Mikkel) asked how I painted the face aswell, sorry.

Well it was painted like this:
Over a black undercoat I painted it with a mix of dark flesh and chaos black approx 2:5. than I highlighted it by adding more and more dark flesh untill you have a mix of approx three parts of dark flesh and one part of black.
after this I added a little bit of bleach bone to the mix for a final highlight.

hope it helps


Razh

[mutantpotato]

Thanks Andrè. Yeah I think it will help.

Uruks are actually the minis I have painted the most. I think I have painted at least 40 uruks. But that was at least three years ago, and then I used this technique:
- Drybrush chainmail on metal areas
- Paint all colours in basic colours (in the eavy metal paint scheme)
- Then drybrush the entire mini with chaos black to represent dirt and weathering (lol) ;D

This way of painting is very basic, but was actually a big turning point in my mini painting. When I first learned how to drybrush, I used it all the time, everywhere! ;D And And after I learned drybrushing I slowly started to learn all the other techniques ;D

[matty1001]

Drybrushing was THE stuff to do when your just starting! I cranked out a 1000 point Nid army in a month just drybrushing! But now (6 month later) I don't drybrush anything, save for fur and a little hair now and then.

[dansemacabre]

Hey i like a lot the leather on the first pictures! it have a nice worn look that fits with orcs perfectly imho.

[razhburz]

Thanks everyone

Here is another convertion:




Cheers,

Razh

[razhburz]

Thanks for your comments guys


The problem with me and painting is that I get bored after I have painted more than one warrior of the same kind very often. but since my Isengard army will have loads of different minis I can paint on orc tis day an uruk the next etc.

After seeing good ol' Clarkmonsters (on OR) Wildmen I got really inspired. and luckily I got some today

here is what one of them look like at the moment. its still a wip.




I really like the wildmen an I'm getting a big bunch of these


Thanks for looking

[dansemacabre]

I like a lot the mini itself and you've done a great work on it, imho better than the uruk

[razhburz]

Thanks mate


Soon the wild man will be finished. I just need to add some static grass (which I still need to buy) and if you have any suggestions on how to improve him just let me know




Thanks for looking,


Razh

[Tim C]

I realy like the wild man Rahz, I have yet to get some of those myself and seeing yours makes me think I ought to go and get some.

[razhburz]

Cheers Tim

You really should get some of these. they are some of my favorite LOTR minis

[racssirt]

Andre mate that Wildman is one of the best minis I have ever seen you paint! I might have to try some of these too!

[razhburz]

Thanks guys


I got some more converting done when I was waiting for something on my nurgle chap to dry.

here is the least complicated conversion I have done so far for the army. just added a pike tip.


and here is my version of Vrasku (sp?). I did not lik his crossbow so I changed it for a normal one. and i also did a head swap.




Thanks for looking,

Razh

[mutantpotato]

The conversions look good. I think I would have kept the head, but the crossbow looks good. And what did you use for the crossbow string?

And your wildman looks ambsolutely amazing, I think it's the best I have seen from you yet.

[racssirt]

Some neat conversions here Razh!

What you can do whcih is more complex but looks effective if you pull it off is if you get a normal pikeman and sculpt a banner onto the pike! Just something you might want to try.

Cheers, Raccy.

[Tim C]

Again mate some excellent conversions, this will be an army that will make Saruman proud.