Uruk Hai, the return! And more……..much much more

Or KinderWAaarrrgggh’s, as I could call them when flinging them at a wall.

Starting at the latest episode and slowly going back in time on UHH! Enjoying the show immensely while painting. Just watched it where Gerry and Timberly share their feelings on GW’s the wargs sculpts (or as I see them now, my ugly children. We have to accept them being ugly, just don’t tell the parent to his face!)

I have to accept the clear fact of their crudity. It’s been a slog to get through then, the amount of fecking gap filling alone!!! And now I’ve finished them, 60 is a fair few wargs, possibly too many. They have been a ball ache to make, massive gaps on occasion and a little trifling to paint. This is in comparison to the Perry’s mounted knights I’ve done recently, which are a dream to go together with loads of crisp detail. A bit of time separates these sculpts mind.

The biggest negative here though is the inconsistency in design. Gerry fairly assumed I had wolves from other ranges in there.

Nope. They are all GW wargs from different times, but supposedly in the same range. ?. The original metal sculpts are better than the plastic. The latest resin sculpt for a warg captain beats them all hands down, shame it’s not metal?. Can’t have it all though it seems. Aren’t GW meant to be the best??? Not always, sadly. But my love for the films and committing to a theme had me down here in semi-nostalgia valley loving my ugly geese children.

Oh and Timberly was right too, I began to not give a flying horses arse towards the end of painting them. Tried to force it through, not a good idea.
So I ended up having a breeak and finishing them afterwards and also going back and adding a couple washes here and there to soften the warg skin a bit. But I have to admit my peak of frustration, I had a hammer. I had flashes of violently applying the hammer, sticking the remains to a Frisby, and flinging it over a rainbow.

lesson: if you loose your mojo, just do something else for a bit and come back to it. It’s not worth it.