Tree? I am no tree.

Today's model is the wonderful Ent who helps Merry and Pippin escape the Uruk-Hai, Treebeard.

Whilst the majority of the minis in my Middle Earth collection are the ones my friend gave me, I decided that each army needed a centrepiece model. I already have the Balrog for the side of Evil, but nothing for the Free Peoples. Hence Treebeard! It was really refreshing to be painting a model that is entirely natural surfaces like bark and leaves. I tried to use a few different colours layered up on the bark so the model has some depth. I then added a different coloured highlight on his face and beard so it stood out a little.

I painted Merry and Pippin separately and had to stick them to cocktail sticks to hold them because they are so tiny! I did my best to bring out the details on the Hobbits, but they are so small that it was very difficult. In the end, the model looks very cool and I reckon he will look excellent on the battlefield, towering over the enemy Orcs!

 

Well, that's pretty on the nose...

I finally finished my Gorechosen box, and I'm very happy with the results. I got a great burst of satisfaction from finishing painting a boxed game,which is handy, since I have a few boxed games that need doing! 

The basing is quite on the nose, being an actual pool of blood that's full of skulls, but when has Khorne ever been subtle?

 

Some nasty folks

Continuing the MIddle Earth updates, today is a few characters from the Evil army. 

There is Gorbag, Grisnakh and Shagrat, who lead the orcs into battle.

 

A Barrow Wight and two Mordor Uruk-Hai round off the post. I have an additional Barrow Wight, but it has some damage and I'm not sure if I can fix it, so it's just the one for now. Luckily, the Middle Earth game doesn't have any requirements for unit size: you just have as many or as few models as you want and pay the points from them. It's a nice change from the squad limitations you have in Warhammer.

Sum Orkz

 I've been slowly working on some Orks, painting a couple here and there, and I've got a little group of Meks now. Two are from Gorkamorka and the middle one is from the current range.

And three boyz. Again, two are from Gorkamorka.

The filth of Isengard

While I wasn't posting for a while, I was happily working on my Middle Earth minis, and I finished this unit of Uruk-Hai of Saruman. 

These were pretty quick to do, and I used some of the techniques from painting my Black Legion cultists to get some effective looking cloth and metal. The most fun part was painting the White Hand of Saruman on the shields and faces.

 

 To lead them into battle is Lurtz, Uruk-Hai Captain. I made his base a little fancier by adding a shield of Gondor that has been buried in mud.

Back in yellow

Hey folks,it's been a while! I have been incredibly lax in updating this blog. I have been painting, so there are some things I can update you on. However, I will start with a model I finished yesterday. 

This is the second Armoured Sentinel for the Wings of Vrayax, this time equipped with a lascannon.  

The Wings of  Vrayax are nearly done: I just need to finish the squad of civilian militia and another infantry squad. Hopefully that won't take too long: I have a lot of projects on the go!

 

Here you can see the two Armoured Sentinels together to make a squadron!