I’ve recently started adding to my Uruk-hai collection again. It started with 6 more crossbowmen and has snowballed from there.

I just got a lot of 20 uruk-hai pikemen off of ebay as well as a handful of berserkers and a banner bearer that should be arriving this week. In the meantime, however, I remembered that I had some old warg riders sitting in a box somewhere. Now that my army of Uruks is growing to be a decent size, it might be time to add some mounted warriors to the mix.

Digging out my old unused LotR SBG models… I was pleasantly surprised by what I found. Apparently I had bought 3 boxes of Warg Riders back in the day… I have no recollection of owning so many but at this point, I’m not going to complain.

They are in a pretty bad state, most of em. I had done some really simple arm position conversions to change up the poses and about half are missing their bases but it’s no matter! They will do the job.

Overall, I have 6 with bows, 6 with swords, and 6 with throwing spears. I decided that for my Uruk-hai army I wanted to add just 5 with swords and shields to the mix. So I grabbed up the models, put the rest back in their bitz box and got started.

The two riders pictured above are standard warg riders. The wargs themselves are pretty bare models because they also double as wild warg models if you don’t attach the rider. You can also note my lovely early in the hobby paint job going on here ;0

Here we have the first round of greenstuffing. It’s primarily an addition of straps tot eh warg to act as a harness and the riders are given a few splotchy pieces to cover re positioned arms or mishaps from their earlier careers. One warg got a little crazy with an armored headpiece and an additional Uruk-hai shield to tie him in with the rest of the army.

I still want to work on getting the straps thinner and adding studs where the straps intersect. But for now it’s a start and I am already much happier with these models compared tot he stock versions. I think I will be even happier with them once I get the old paint job covered up.

UPDATE: I finished sculpting

the last 2-1/2. Now to paint!