Beast of Gorgoroth more completed !

Then I remembered the base!

There is a nice oval base which I've seen well decorated, by others, with broken spears and shields, even dead troops,

However, I've stuck with my Mordor theme of grey splintered rock merely suggesting that, arid though it is, there is some grass growing there, even some that's green.

How else do the great beasts survive?

Sorry John, no room, behind the beast for a pile of Beast poo!

Shame. I was considering plastic wood.

I also tackled the toe nails.

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The top two shots show that, if the hand lines up, the shoulder doesn't and if the shoulder does then, of course the hand doesn't.

I cut the prod near the rear hand, then gouged out the part of the prod being held by that hand.

I removed about three sixteenths of the prod, cut away a little underneath at the back end and glued it in with the excellent 'Bond It' high viscosity superglue that John recommended.

It not only glues well enough but it's a gap filler.

Perfectly suited to this job.

Here he is with his kinky prod firmly held in both hands.

Not far to go now and I'm already thinking that I must make a new ruin next.

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Here are the last three passengers, one with a most unrealistic rock.

I presume he's been chucking them for a while as that must be his last one.

There are none left in the pannier, not that there would be room for them.

 I might try to do something about this 'Blue Tack'  orc to dull his skin down a bit.

I think all 9 of them will need a bit of rusting before they go for their ride.

Just the driver to do (tricky because the hands don't line up) and the dangling heads which have, of course, become detached from the pannier.

They require pinning with some stripped garden wire.

 

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The next three 'passengers' (crew).

I'm pleased to say that the driver's arm and prod have turned up.

I'm not pleased to say that the prod is exceedingly bent and arm and hand don't line up.

They are nearly a quarter of an inch out.

GW!

I guess I'll have to glue the arm then cut the prod so that the hand fits.

If I think on, I'll take a shot of the problem and add it here.

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The first three passengers are ready to come on board the Beast of Gorgoroth.

There is a problem though.

The driver seems to be missing an arm and it's the one holding the 'beast prod'!

The damn thing will be totally uncontrollable.

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 Here's the Orc people carrier, the Great Beast of Gorgoroth, with his pannier.

He was sprayed black and then dry brushed with Mechanised, Dawnstone and Admin greys.

The horn was painted Steel Legion Drab and then drybrushed with Karak Stone and Usmabti Bone.

 I regret the Mournfang Brown toenails though.

They could have used a similar treatment.

The copper bronze areas were Warlock Bronze dry brushed Dwarf Bronze and the fabric is Mechrite with Blood Red highlights washed with Agrax.

Now for the tricky bit - these guys, there are ten of them!

I did think about magnetising each one so that they could be removed when killed but they'd only get lost or damaged.

Yes - just noticed that I've not painted the quivers on the beasts back.