Jay’s Azogs Hunters
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About the Project
This is my first project on this site, and thought it would be a decent way to organise and collate my hobby experiences. I remember when Lord of the rings first came out, I got heavily involved in GW's Two Towers, owning 100s of models and painting them (appallingly). Our local meta has found a new love for LOTR, and with this I am attending my first tournament in January on the 25/26th. I've been on and off gaming for years, but I now feel like I did when I was younger, fully into this hobby again with supportive friends egging me on to do more, build more, push myself. Any way, my first delve back into LOTR is Azog's hunters, I have 24 hunter orcs, 6 Feral Wargs, a few named heros, Bolg and azog. Will be recording my progress on this project to see my improvements, take feedback and genuinely become a better nerd.
Related Game: Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Fantasy
This Project is Active
Building my models
Having gone through 3 or 4 days of building these guys, I couldn’t wait to get some spray on them and begin the painting!
How ever, after completing the Feral Wargs, I realised that weirdly there are 2 gaps on the bases! I remember from days past making Rohan miniatures, and wild wargs, there being a tuft of grass and a foot that went into these holes!
This was not the case with the Feral wargs:
I filled them with some plastic, and waited for the cement to dry so I could then chop the excess off.
After this I then moved on to building the heros. All of them are finecast… so as you can imagine it’s all fun and games until theres a gap…
After some dipping of poor Bolg and his Warg, I managed to reduce the gap by a considerable amount, but you could still see that there was something not quite right.
After finishing the hunter orcs, I then moved on with what I can only describe as probably 3 or 4 hours of green stuffing fur hell.
It’s been years since I’ve needed to bust out my sculpting tools, I remember doing it for a set of Wild Wargs and hopped to it:
I spent some time thinking about what exactly I wanted to do with the bases of these guys.
I have experience making ice bases, but I wasn’t feeling that for the hunters, mainly because they don’t spend a lot of time on the ice (bar Azog). So I went with some mixed size sand, which I will paint with browns and highlight adding some tufts of grass and then some fake snow from GW. Start of the bases:
I was actually extremely shocked at the result. Not only did it not look out of place, but it made the model more pleasing to the eye.
This only came to fruition when I sprayed the model and low and behold it looks like it belongs on Bolg:
So I’ve never been the most confident painter, or the best. But I am so determined to not get beaten down by the project ahead.
For the tournament in January I want a fully painted Azogs hunter force. Whether that means sleepless nights, I hope not.
Any how, I wanted to run a few test models on just the plain infantry dudes, so I based them grey and did some highlights.
I made a wash/glaze/shade what ever you want to call it out of Bugmans Glow and some Lhaman medium. I want to try a few other colours, red and green for example but I’m pleased with the result that I got from the test.
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed the entry to this project, and more to come.
Any questions or advice let me know!
Jay
I will be adding another wash, Seraphim Sepia. I want the skin to look a dirtier than it is, and I think that Agrax is too heavy a wash for that.
Any way here is the current WIP:
