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 Azazelx wrote:
Yeah, sadly the Harlequin ones only have the three sculpts. If/when I come across a decent looking skelly archer in the future, I'm sure it'll replace that one.

Bones are made of a type of (generally quite flexible) white PVC. Some of the figures are actually very nice, but these skeletons aren't really anything special. There's a Bone Giant I've started on that's pretty cool, and both a much nicer and more impressive sculpt made out of the same stuff.

That bone giant is rapid!! really want one now!

Being part of the Undead army, at best it'll be allied to my own force, and more than likely I'll spend more time facing it across the table. So choosing the LOG profile has more of a potential downside to me personally than upside. Ideally something in between LOG (18 attacks, CS2) and GOG (8 attacks, CS3) would be best, but with those as the only options that don't require profile-tweaking. it'd probably be the regiment.

It'd also be totally rules-kosher for the LOGs - an allied regiment of Large Infantry (proxied by the Giant model) as opposed to an allied Monster (the Giant or GOG) without a regiment to make it legal.


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 Januine wrote:

That bone giant is rapid!! really want one now!

Only fifteen bucks and it's yours. A shoo-in for Wargamers used to GW prices, or even prices from any of the other Mini manufacturers.

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/undead%20giant/latest/77116

 Azazelx wrote:
Being part of the Undead army, at best it'll be allied to my own force, and more than likely I'll spend more time facing it across the table. So choosing the LOG profile has more of a potential downside to me personally than upside. Ideally something in between LOG (18 attacks, CS2) and GOG (8 attacks, CS3) would be best, but with those as the only options that don't require profile-tweaking. it'd probably be the regiment.

It'd also be totally rules-kosher for the LOS - an allied regiment of Large Infantry (proxied by the Giant model) as opposed to an allied Monster (the Giant or GOG) without a regiment to make it legal.


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 Januine wrote:

That bone giant is rapid!! really want one now!

Only fifteen bucks and it's yours. A shoo-in for Wargamers.

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/undead%20giant/latest/77116

Holy feth that's cheap! WOnder will they ship to Korea!

From memory, Reaper have free worldwide shipping for US$100+ (and charge for lesser orders). I've ordered direct from them before to here in Australia (free shipping used to be US$100) so I don't see any reason they wouldn't ship to Korea.

yep,

Do you offer free shipping for some orders?

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 Azazelx wrote:
From memory, Reaper have free worldwide shipping for US$100+ (and charge for lesser orders). I've ordered direct from them before to here in Australia (free shipping used to be US$100) so I don't see any reason they wouldn't ship to Korea.

yep,

Do you offer free shipping for some orders?

Yes! We offer free USPS shipping to any US or Canadian destination on orders valued at $35 USD or more.
We also offer free USPS shipping worldwide on any consumer order over 70 Euros, 60 Pounds, and $100 AUD.
Please be aware that the customer is responsible for any local import fees or tariffs regardless of shipping cost.
International retailers and distributors are responsible for their actual shipping costs.
You can choose to ship UPS, but free shipping will not apply.
All of our packages originate from our factory in Denton, TX, regardless of destination.

Yeah - just having a peep at their website now. Gonna order up that bone giant. For $15!! I mean if the shipping is another $20 - its still a pretty nice deal given the size and sculpt

It might be worth poking around to see if there's anything else you'd like - it it's enough to get you close to or over that free shipping threshold and it's stuff you like anyway...

What are you working on besides DV and Eldar?

At minute that's it. Working my way through the DV boxed set and have a WS waiting and all of the new Harlie stuff as well. I'm wanting to pick up an IG sentinal for a wee diorama soon as well. and some DE helions n reavers too. After the sentinal, I'm banning myself from buying stuff for a while.....well, maybe after the helions.....and whatever I order from Reaper...

Nothing too exciting today - but since I'm showing off what I finish... and this week I've finished this unit of Moria Goblins from LotR. I'm working to finish the sword & shield armed batch now. I just need to find their shields, or even some replacement shields since the original ones got lost in a move...





I’m really taking this desk-clearing, model-finishing thing seriously this year, I’m rather happy to say. Results!

Looks like solid work. Runty little things, huh? I think I prefer them to the older(current?) GW-WHFB style.

They're pretty much a separate race and style to all of GW's offerings. The only thing they really have in common as far as "evil fantasy races" go are the shared origin from Tolkien's books and the name.

Well, they're LotR goblins right? I know they're separate from WHFB goblins. I just thought the runty scavengery look was really appropriate for what they are. And I prefer it. If they weren't metal (they're metal right?) I'd want a horde of them to serve as goblins

They are actually in plastic, and you can get them dirt cheap on ebay as (after appearing in so many starter sets/older kits) they are everywhere!

Oh..my. I should stay hidden in my cave...

Moria goblins?

Yep, those are the ones. Not to be confused with the newer 'Goblin Town' Goblins, which are based on the Hobbit aesthetic and are completely different (and far worse, to my mind. These original ones are tiny, but very nice minis en masse)

love some of the Reaper goblins - though some of them are more cute than dangerous. Just wanna pat them on the head rather than run them through ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

 GrimDork wrote:
Well, they're LotR goblins right? I know they're separate from WHFB goblins. I just thought the runty scavengery look was really appropriate for what they are. And I prefer it. If they weren't metal (they're metal right?) I'd want a horde of them to serve as goblins

Oh yeah - I just mean that they're as different as goblins and ...gremlins or orgu, or whatever. Or kinda that Orcs ain't Orcs, while (excepting the model proportions) Gimli could still be Gotrek's cousin. I liked the look of the films as well. And yes, as Para has pointed out, they're plastic, and there's a plethora of very cheap sprues out there. I recommend picking a couple up and seeing how you like 'em.

I like the look of the GW LoTR Goblins. They have a menace to them that lacks in the Warhammer range of models.

Having picked up a lot of the same LotR models that you just painted, your blog is a nice inspiration for me

Nice work!

Another unit I've just finished, these guys were supposed to be one of those projects that takes a week, at the most. That of course was sometime between 6 months and a year ago. I honestly can't recall since they've basically been a half-finished fixture of my painting table for a long time now. One of the big hold-ups that became a mental block (and then a wall) was my plan to convert one of their number into a Standard bearer for Kings of War. It took long enough to settle on a colour scheme for the unit - I went with red to get a look that is distinctive from the Warriors of Minas Tirith, especially as I find the stock GW scheme rather boring, even if it does fit in well with the WoMT.



I chose Red for two reasons - since the unit is considered an Elite unit in the GW SBG (despite the background talking of the men of Lossarnach being farmers and such) - and obviously these guys aren't dressed as a levy of farmers, in their fine plate over the chain. The second is because I'm reserving Blue for the substantial number of Dol Amroth guys I'll have when the army is finished, and Green for the small "Arnor" contingent, who will either be renamed for another of the Third Age Fiefdoms when not used in scenario play, or will be a "made up" unit of WoMT guard that represents their former kinsmen by wearing their traditional uniform. I might do something in Yellow/Mustard, but I'm not really a fan of that colour as a unit colour on models for whatever reason. It works for me more as an accent. So while I've been reliably informed this week by BA with his pretty thorough knowledge of Tolkien that red probably wouldn't have been used by Gondorians, I'm going with a combination of artistic licence, the rule of cool (I think they look good) and the fact that they were already painted(!)



I did briefly consider using some form of Tartan for the sashes on these guys, but with the Clansmen of Lamedor also in my painting queue, I decided that I've already got enough figures to make me sick of painting Tartan without starting early here.
Now take a good look at the next picture.



Did you look? The red line on the under-surcoat of the leftmost guy being thicker than the others really does bother me for some reason. Did you even notice it?

Anyway, with the upcoming KoW rules having done away with Standards and Musicians in units as things that have their own rules (since in 1E they were overpriced and pretty much just cancelled each other out) and now just going with "model them however you like", It helped to motivate me to just get these guys off the paint desk and onto the gaming table. I might do a standard bearer for them sometime down the line, but it's not a priority for the moment.



Oh, and the reason that the second and third ranks don't have any static flock/grass on their bases is simple. I ran out of Matt Varnish, so they've got a coat of satin for the time being while I wait for a couple of new cans of anti-shine I ordered to come in. The front rank was finished first, and got some of the Matt before it expired. I'll try to get a whole-army shot featuring the Gondor units I've shown off so far sometime soon. I'm working on some unit leaders for the WoMT Spear and Bowmen that I'm really struggling to get done, and I really want to get those finished first, so hopefully we'll have the army shots soon.

Another unit done! Hooray!

They look great! Good job varying the look of mono-pose minis!

Yeah, they do look good. And looks like you've done what you can with the poses.

 Archer wrote:
I like the look of the GW LoTR Goblins. They have a menace to them that lacks in the Warhammer range of models.

Yeah, the Moria ones look like an evil, nasty race whist the GW goblins look more mischievous - or cartoony-evil. That's why I tend to think of them as entirely separate things, that just share a name. Because they're so very different. Ditto for the orcs!

 ckig wrote:
Having picked up a lot of the same LotR models that you just painted, your blog is a nice inspiration for me
Nice work!

Thank you! Always a pleasure to help inspire others in their painting.


And as for the mono-pose ranks of Axemen - yeah - it's an issue. I tried to vary their paint a little and make it look like they're each doing the jobs for the guys in the first/second/third rank about to receive a charge with the middle guys about to counter-strike and the rear guys preparing for the same. At least the Clansmen of Lamedon have poses that can be mixed up a lot more, even though they still only have three variants.

First up, I'm not the one who converted these - I picked them up on eBay from someone who was clearing out a lot of Warhammer stuff, and didn't realise that they were conversions until much later when I was trying to work out what they were so I could sort out a standard bearer. The torsos, shield arms and heads appear to be from Grave Guard, the horses are the long-serving "Skeleton Army" horses and could have come from almost any kit of the last 25 years, which just leaves the Glaives/Lances and legs. Unarmoured Skeleton Legs could be off any number of kits, and I suspect that the glaives come from another current kit, though I've got no idea which one.

As is often the case, when I started painting these guys I had great progress for the first week or so, getting a lot of them done. Unfortunately, I then decided that I should build that standard for the unit to paint at the same time for consistency, at which point the entire project stalled out for 6 months. Last week it was their turn to be finished and gotten off the desk. I'll sort out the standard bearer later.



They were originally mounted (and I was painting them) on standard 25x50mm GW cav bases, but partway through I decided to cut them off and stick them on 40mm rounds. Makes it easier to call them a larger unit in KoW, and also allows us to use them as (slightly over the top) Oathbreakers/Army of the Dead in LotR SBG.



The're a little plainer than they should be, since I'm still waiting on my cans of matt varnish that I ordered 2 weeks ago. I called the place on Friday and it turned out that they never got ordered because the guy who took my order has been sick (for 2 weeks?) and the other guy didn't know what the note was about, despite my name and phone number being on it. (Now that's service!) So he ordered them on Friday and hopefully they'll have them inside another week or so. Once the varnish is done, I can add some tufts and flock, which will distinguish them from their bases a lot more.

I stuck to the Undead Army Palette that we're using for these guys - bone, black, red, bronze and steel, with subtle touches of blue-green verdigris where appropriate. As I said, they look a little plain to me right now, but getting some green onto their bases will help a lot.



This guy's shield was a real headache for me. The metal spike-shaped brace going right down the middle made the black background incredibly plain looking and making it pretty much impossible to freehand something interesting onto the shield. I thought of halving the shield - red and black but it seemed a bit weak for the unit leader. I then decided to try and incorporate the spike into the design and freehanded a femur snapped in half by the spike but I was unhappy with it. Then inspiration struck, and decided to use it as a nose guard on a helm, with an undead face underneath. While the spike still looks a little big, this worked well enough that I'm happy with the final result.

I'll show these guys off again later on. Once the standard bearer is built and painted (and they're all flocked). Until then, these guys are done and can be used in games.

Cool stuff! The freehand skull is stunning!

I am very jealous of your freehand skills there. I do like how the newer undear look on the old horses though. Very nice.

That shield is excellent!

Yeah the skull on the shield looks excellent, I think its fits in fine with the spike in the middle.

Thanks guys, I'm pretty happy with how they came out, and especially the shield. I'll have to work out something appropriate for their standard, but at least I've got some time before it's a hugely high priority.

Like others said, great work on the freehand! They all look good actually

Are you converting one to be the standard or making a new one from scratch. Look forward to it though, especially if its got more of that freehand stuff

I'll be building a new one from scratch. I've got a few of the old-school horses, and a box of the Grave Guard somewhere (I think). I'll have to figure out where to scavenge some rider legs from, as well as work out a nice ragged standard. It's highly likely that I'll freehand the design on it.