LotR Gimli

Here's Gimli from GW's Lord of the Rings line. I tried to follow the paints as described in one of the old White Dwarf magazines (more or less). I still have an over-abundance of old White Dwarf mags, and should get rid of a lot of them, but I'll keep all of the ones with LotR articles, regardless. The fig is based in the old style, and maybe I'll get around to changing it one of these days. Great fig, though!

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P.S. I'm currently working on Star Wars Imperial Assault figs generic Wookie and Chewbacca. And I finally finished building the Orlock gang - what a royal pain that was! They are all built and primed, and I plan on starting them next week, after the Wookies are finished! All I need now is to figure out a paint scheme for them...

LoTR: Radagast the Brown

Next up for all of us Middle-Earth Mavens is everybody's favorite elusive wizard, Radagast the Brown. Despite his re-tooled look in the Hobbit movies, I find this sculpt much closer to my vision of Radagast. It seems to show him as somewhat detached, yet still powerful - in marked contrast to the bumbling depiction of him in the movies. Another great Perry sculpt (not sure which brother, though).

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LoTR: Gandalf

The next Lord of the Rings installment brings us Gandalf. We needed a wizard for the free peoples to counter that nasty Saruman! I really like this model, as well - I think that it's a classic. You may notice that Gandalf's base is different from the other LoTR figs I've shown so far. It was done in my newer style, which is how I base all of my figures now (with slight adjustments).

One of the reasons that I haven't painted as many LoTR figs as I'd like is that I'm intimidated by them. They are such incredible sculpts, that I hesitate to paint them for fear of screwing them up somehow. Silly, I know. Hopefully, I'll be adding more to the queue soon.

Also, I've got a few new things painted up and based, but I'd like to seal them with matt varnish before I take photos of them, and since I'd like to do it at above-freezing temperatures (re: outside), it looks like I'll have to wait a bit more before I break out the spray can!

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LotR: Saruman

Time for another GW Lord of the Rings fig. This time it's everybody's favorite corrupted wizard - Saruman! Not the most dynamic sculpt, but I like it nonetheless. The Perry twins have produced some great figs in their time, and this line is among their best. It's unfortunate that the metals are out of production (and that I'm still missing a few of them!).

Projects for this weekend include finishing up a couple of Frostgrave figs and a few others that I have to just paint the metals on (and a classic Umber Hulk retouch-up). I may also paint up a D&D plastics Dire Wolf fig that I recently picked up, if I have the time.


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LoTR

While I try and get my digital camera figured out for proper pics of some newly painted mini's, I thought that I'd post a couple of pics from one of my favorite lines of miniatures - GW's Lord of the Rings. In my opinion, they are the best looking and sculpted Elves and Dwarves available. I love the vast majority of the entire line (though there are some duds, I admit), and I have most of them (naturally, the majority are unpainted). First up is Legolas -  his base is finished in an old style, which I soon changed in favor of other methods, but I still think it looks alright. Anyway, great sculpt!

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LotR Corsair of Umbar

I wanted to take a short break from 15mm sci-fi and just paint something completely different. I still have more than half a box of GW's Lord of the Rings 28mm Corsairs of Umbar remaining, so I dug one out and gave it a go!

Second only to the LotR Dwarves, I feel like the Corsairs are some of the finest plastic models GW has ever done.  This guy will go very nicely with my Sinbad warband I did a while back. Check him out!

Now I need to retrieve my Sinbad and crew from storage, add this guy in, and play a game or two of something with them!

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

The Hobbit: Balin

Finished Balin this morning!  The event last night was a blast! Someone had an app loaded onto a computer where you could enter your real name and it would give you a Hobbit name.  Mine was Lotho Bumbleroot!

We had some enthusiastic players, and the Dwarves and Bilbo fought their way to freedom, suffering the loss of the redoubtable Dwalin in the process!

Thanks for visiting! 

--Scott

The Hobbit: Bilbo

You can't have a Hobbit game without Bilbo Baggins, and so here he is!

While the smallest member of the company, I also found Bilbo easiest to paint, and I decided to give him his walking stick instead of Sting.

Tonight is the event, so I am not sure I will have the next member of the Company done first thing Friday, but we'll see. 

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

The Hobbit: Bofur

With the completion of Bofur, I now have 9 of Thorin's Company done!  This is plenty for the event Thursday night, but I also feel like I need Bilbo, so I plan to get him done next.

In the meantime, give Bofur a look!

Bofur may have been the toughest to complete so far. Sort of sticking to GW's color scheme, he almost got away from me, but I managed to reel him back in with judicious use of inks and subtle highlights.

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

The Hobbit: Thorin

What would Thorin's Company be without Thorin Oakenshield?  This rather tall Dwarf included two options for armament, Orcrist, or a short blade and the eponymous Oakenshield.

I agonized for a while, but ended up choosing the Orcrist.  If I am ever lucky enough to land a second one, I will do him with the Oakenshield.

Anyway, here he is!

He's a head taller than this Dwarf Ranger--must be the Ent Wash!

A true fighting company!

Having used 7 of the company in a game on Sunday, I can attest they are awesome to behold in battle.  Now with Thorin they'll be even deadlier!  I think using these guys will work best with a single player fielding a sub-group of his favorites. They've got a lot of special rules, but they also have a lot of Might, Will, and Fate, so there's some game resources to keep track of.  They're perfect for demo games where you want the new players to feel cool and special.  You field the goblins and let the newbie play a couple of stout Dwarves!

  Now, a brief digression!  I was nominated for an online blogger award called a Liebster Award by Rothgar of Rothgar's Workbench.  Thanks! The way this works is I now list my 5 favorite blogs, and let those bloggers know I've named them (why does this feel like a chain letter with no money involved? is time still money?).  Anyway, here are 5 of my favorites!

http://clearhorizonsalvage.blogspot.com/
(for all of my 15mm sci-fi inspiration)

http://brummieswargamingblog.blogspot.com/
(for general miniature hobby coolness)

http://baronvonj.blogspot.com/
(because the Baron's a righteous dude and I envy his painting, wargame group, and basement)

http://ironworkersminiatures.blogspot.com/
(because Nathan's another gamer whose drive and talent inspire me)

http://leadaddict.blogspot.com/
(while a member of the Baron's crew, Ken is a fearsome blogger in his own right)

And very special mention to Tenz at the Basement Motive:

http://basementmotive.blogspot.com/

An awesome Goalsystem blog!


So yeah, get ready guys, because like the blogger-chain-letter-santa-claus I will be visiting each of your blogs today and leaving a message that you have earned a Leibster too!  Although I think the Baron already won one. But oh well.

Thanks again, Rothgar!

And thanks to you all for visiting!

--Scott

The Hobbit: Kili

It's now time to show off the most dashing member of Thorin's Company, Kili!  He looks a lot like a Dwarvish version of Aragorn, and he will synergize perfectly with this brother. Fili!

Check him out!

Check out that 5-o'clock shadow!

Thorin's Co.--8 strong!

I may try for either Thorin or Bilbo next, we'll see! 


Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

The Hobbit: Gloin

Gloin is done!  He's another gem, and it's obvious that he is Gimli's father! I love the fact that his axes are similar in style and heft to the ones we've seen on the Gimli figures--nice touch GW!

Seven company members down, seven to go!

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

The Hobbit: Dori

Dori has been done!

One of the elder statesman of Thorin's company, GW's color palette for Dori was pretty easy to match with my own paints. And he's another great mini!

Next up, Gloin, father of Gimli!

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

The Hobbit: Bifur

 Bifur is done! He also looks to be a really nasty melee fighter for the company, but we'll see!

Plenty of earth tones on this guy!

Sizes up well with the Rangers.

Five Dwarves strong!

Next up, Dori!

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott

The Hobbit: Nori

Nori comes next in my march toward completion of Thorin's Company.  I actually bought the GW color Skavenblight Dinge for his coat, and I really like it!

I actually glued his twin knives on upside down, but I don't mind, they look just as cool like this!

  

 

Thanks for visiting!

--Scott