Wood Elf Warriors

 

I am trying to clear the painting table of half-finished figures in preparation for the Xth Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. Thankfully this is the last of the figures, so I am all set to start painting on the 21st of December. 

As previously discussed, I am putting my large LotR Games Workshop collection (which had never seen the table) to work in the SAGA Age of Magic universe. My goblins have already seen the table as a Masters of the Underearth warband. I am putting together a Lords of the Wild warband using my LotR Elves.

Here is another warrior unit this time armed with swords.

 

 

They are certainly weaker in cast than the original iteration of figures when Games Workshop first put out their LotR line. But they will do for SAGA. Some of the original figures will hopefully re-appear in the AHPC as I am repainting the orginal figures.

I was having some problems thinking of creatures for this warband but I think I have it sorted now.

Adventures with Contrast Paints

I bought 8-10 of these paints a couple of months ago and thought I would give them a go on some Games Workshop figures. I am building up an Elven based army for SAGA Age of Magic. These figures are from the plastic Warior Wood Elves box.

Contrast paints only, generally ok, but really to much pooling especially with the purple, the flesh colour did not work that well eiher, the browns are nice.

 

After they have been repainted with Citadel coulours and then washes.

 

So here is how they look based and matt varnished.

 

 

I have a sense that these figures were a poor choice to try out these paints on, they are nice enough  but the casts are a little weak. I suspect, I will not be buying more.

The Company of Thorin Oakenshield

Grim Hammers

The minute I saw these figures two weekends ago in the GW store in Montreal, I knew that I had to have them. They are just really cool. Painting them was great because I could see immediately how I wanted to do it. No googling away this time. Here we have 12 dynamic poses of heavily armoured dwarves. It took a bit of time assembling them, but all in all they went together easily. They were primed white, I know this sounds strange, but the car primer I use, has really a great bite. They were then airbrushed with the old GW Boltgun Metal. I then heavily washed them with a really oldie Citadel Tin Bitz. A very new paint Citadel Dry Necron Compound was brushed on. The beards and the clothing was then painted and AP Dark Tone was sparingly applied. I then touched up only the beards and the clothes with AP brush on Antishine, leaving a lot of the metal shiny. I really like how they came out. 

These were my 13th submission to the Painting Challenge, and I am finally all caught up. I have just finished a unit of Brunswick Lights and have almost completed my Andalusian Warband for SAGA, so I believe I will make my quota.

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Goblins

As part of my plan for the Painting Challenge, I thought I would find something that would be fun and quick to paint. I conceived what I thought was a Cunning Plan. 

Well here is the first of my 3 planned submissions of my Cunning Plan: GW Figures from the Hobbit.  Here we have 39 goblins. Why cunning you ask, well I thought that I could throw these together at a rate of less then 10 minutes a figure. So 195 points in 6 hours, I thought that was clever. This was my 11th submission to the challenge.

Fallen Realms: Harad Warriors and Mumak

I have been slowly documenting my son's LotR collection while rebasing and touching some of them up. By the time he got the Mamuk of Harad box set, his interest had waned. He did the Mamuk, but that was it. I decided to paint the 13 Harad warriors for the Painting Challenge. Unfortunately I find out that only the GW figures released for the Hobbit are fair game, so I could not submit them. That was OK as I really enjoyed painting them, good practice for my upcoming Andalusian SAGA warband. I also painted the base of the Mamuk, as well the fighting platform on the Mamuk's back. These are the first LotR figures I have ever painted. You can say what you want about Games Workshop, but they really have a fantastic product.

The figures were primed white and base colours using Citadel Midnight Blue, Purple Liche and Red Gore were applied. The Red was drybrushed with Blazing Orange and the blue and purple with VMC Blue Grey. The accruements were all painted and AP darktone applied. 

I like how they came out, who knows I may do more.

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Rohan: Rider of Rohan and Théoden

This will be the last post for a while of my son's LotR collection. The Painting Challenge has to take precedence, and that is where I will have to focus my attention.

The scenes involving the Rohirrim in the LotR films are really my favourite. Who can forget Aragorn's, Legolas and Gimli's initial meeting with Éomer when they are pursuing the Uruk-hai. Or Théoden's speech where he exhorts his riders to Rack and Ruin to ride out among the Uruk hoards in the siege of Helm's Deep. Equally inspiring is their charge to relieve the Siege of Minas Tirith.

The Dwarf Holds: Khazad Guard

A very short post to show off my son's Dwarves from his LotR collection. These are from the Khazad Guard collection and I think the chap in green (second from the right) is a Dwarf king of some sort. After looking at Nicolas's Nowhere to Lead Soldiers collection one really has to be impressed with the Games Workshop's LotR Dwarf figures, they really are superb.

Mordor: Orks, Warg Riders and the Mouth of Sauron

Next up in my son's LotR collection is Mordor. He has a size-able collection here, and I thought he did a nice job on these figures. I recently painted 6 orcs that were unpainted in order to fill the trays. I wonder if you can pick them out.

The Forgotten Kindoms: The Fellowship and Treebeard

Next in the series of our LotR collection is the figures from the Forgotten Kingdoms, I presume this means the kingdoms that existed in the Northwest of Middle Earth. We do not have a whole lot here aside from the Fellowship and Treebeard.

Moria Goblins and they have a Cave Troll!!

This is the first post in a planned series to exhibit my son Simon's LotR collection. I would think that he probably painted these figures half way through his 3 year figure painting stint. I have taken the figures and have redone the bases in an attempt to unify the figures. I have also obtained some War of the Ring movement trays and have terrained them in order to more carefully display the figures. As you can see we have 3 missing slots. I am really having to control myself in not ordering any figures in order to fill these trays. Gamesworkshop figures are not only incredibly expensive approaching $5 each in some cases even for the grunts, but I really do not want to take on any extra painting tasks. This is quite difficult for me as I am a completist and seeing those empty slots will probably drive me crazy. Additionally, I am much more likely to play the LotR SBG rather than the WoR ruleset in the future, so  no need for complete trays....keep saying that to yourself.

Good vs Evil!

I believe most of my readers have heard me make an occasional negative remark about non-historical wargaming. It is not that I have anything against people who enjoy fantasy wargaming and their figures are certainly fascinating, but really to catch my imagination there has to be some attachment to reality. Although, one could argue of course that history is not an absolute reality, but really someone's version of reality. Still though fro me it is nice to think that my wargaming has some basis in the past. What about your attachment to Sharpe, you say, he was not real! Well Sharpe's adventures are set in a very exciting period in history, just like with Uthred or Balista. And I am good with that.