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You could cut-and-refit his crossbow wrist so the butt end of the crossbow is on the ground and he's supporting it with one hand as he fends off an attacker?

 

I would say turn the sword into a crossbow bolt, but you'll need to rotate the hand around, say, 90 degrees clockwise to look more like he's going to reload his crossbow rather than using said bolt to hit his enemy over the head with (which wouldn't be the best way to use it even for a strong Uruk).

 

I think you are supposed to use warriors with pikes as basis.

 

He already has made some of the pike warriors with those crossbows if I remember rightly, but you can't fault him for wanting to experiment with the other poses as well

 

Oh, I must have forgotten. I just wanted to help to find more natural poses.

 

Thanks all for the advise really helpfull.

@Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl correctly said I already converted two (broken) pike Uruk-hai to crossbow Uruk-hai. @JTSleep Exactly in the way that you proposed

My thought for the new crossbow conversion is to use the warriors with shield, because there are too much of them in a box.

I will give this one a try, thanks I will let you guys know how it turns out.

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Update on the guy



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Great success!

 

First bronze unit of the Dungeon faction: Troglodytes



First one done

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Second bronze unit of the Dungeon faction: Harpies



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The trog looks fun

 

Thanks mate.

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Got myself the time to finish up Lurtz




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Lovely work there!

 

Thank you

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Family picture of all Isengard models (except 10 scouts still on sprue and a second Lurtz that I might convert into a scout captain )



Painted 748 pts of the total 1400-ish points
One of the goals I like to tackle this year is to paint all of them


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More than half way done! Keep it up!