Dori

Completing my mini project is Dori. The reds took a bit long to paint but pleased with that and the hair in particular.

The brothers unite.

Not a bad likeness?

Nori

Another quick update. Nori is now finished. Ive got to say i'm enjoying hero painting much more than army painting.

Nori

And next on the bloc is good old Dori

Ori

Today I completed the forgeworld version of Ori. Here is a comparison to the plastic one from back in 2014. Both painted using taleofpainters tutorial. The details are better defined in the resin especially the face. Although I prefer the more action pose of the plastic one . At least my painting is slightly better for the skin and eyes at least. Next up will be Nori and Dori.

May and June

Welcome back. A bit of a delay in the usual schedule but here is my finally finished Dunland section. Along with some wargs painted for a tournament  this weekend. Interestingly i have now reached 1022 points within 6 months
, although that does include saruman and Sharkey. So mission accompished to an extent but i do still have around 30 uruk warriors and some orc allies to do before the Isenguard force is truly finished.

So thats all for now. I will do another post with the whole Tale of gamers army as well as choose something new to work on.

April

A wizard is never late. Disappointingly i only finished one model this month. I have been finding the dunland warriors quite tricky to paint with lots of overlapping fur, cloth and armour details so they have been postponed briefly.

Last week, and heralding the end of april, was the Seven Stones tournament. I teamed up with Kieran and we used a Dol Guldur all hero army (all villain!?). I have taken a few pictures of tne games so will endeavour to do a post dedicated to it soon. To round out the army i had one model to paint up which was the intimidating Keeper of the Dungeon...

I really enjoyed focusing in on this model, there is lots of nice detail and despite being resin the sculpt had reallly sharp detail. I found a nice blood effect can be found by mixing the technical blood paint with carroburg crimson wash which i used on the beard. 

I also created 7 palantir style objectives, nothing too elaboratd but they do the job.

More to follow, there may also be some forces of good...(elves!)

Wildmen and April wip

A week later than planned, i have finished my Dunlending wild men. It is pretty rare to see these guys on the battlefield so i am pleased to have done an atleast a decent paint job. They are a cheap choice in the game at just 5 points each and will help offset the more expensive uruks. We will have to see if there defense 3 is too much of a weakness!

 

We will fight for Saruman

Burn every village!

And for this month, fingers crossed, there will be more Dunland joining the army to bring it up to 750 points.

March

The target for march was to add another warband. For the hero i choose the dubious duo of sharkey and worm. Quite different poses from usual and i am pleased how they turned out.

The second half of the month didnt go so well. I am still working on 12x dunland wildmen. I have the basecoats down but still need to add some more washes and highlights, at my usual speed about another week to finish!

To get the force up to 750 points for april i am going to continue the dunland theme with Trydan and a band of warriors. So more dunland on the way soon.