Anyway, I have started out on my long delayed Lord of the Rings project only to find that most of the figures are no longer made so my box of figures has been reinforced by several purchases and swops for second hand figures. First up are the Uruk Hai now increased to a sizeable army.
The Command - Saruman, Ugluk, Lurtz and Gorbag amongst others:
The Core of the army lies in 3 warbands of Pikemen - note that there are no figures with levelled pikes (more on that later)
The Pike command - all converted plastic figures, the captain has an old Citadel Chaos shield and the drum is the top part of a Biro pen cap and his drumsticks are pins with a blob of superglue on the end.
Pikemen
The main support troops are the swordsmen:
Crossbowmen make up the missile troops and these were hard and very expensive. So I decided on conversions, the first warband was made from the pikemen with levelled pikes and Gripping Beast metal crossbows, the second warband again used more pikemen with levelled pikes and various crossbow arms from plastic medieval figures bought on the internet. The pikemen with levelled pikes were chosen because they were easier to convert.
Out in front of the army are the Scouts
And last but not least - the Sappers.
Still to come are a few more conversions to make a Shaman and another couple of captains/characters.
