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Great to see you back Boundless
And who cares about pile of shame, if you have something new that's inspiring you,then go for it.

Cheers Graven and Syro. I'm enjoying the LotR stuff so far and just getting back into it after so long

I've very nearly finished my Mordor Troll and I have to say he's looking great. No tease pictures yet so instead I'd share a terrain project I just recently finished. This came together really quickly and the inspiration came when my stove top coffee pot's handle broke off. Instead of throwing it straight out I instantly got an idea for a little "gunk factory" as I call it and refused to throw it in the bin, much to the chagrin of The Warden.

I tried not to think too much about it. I cut a piece of hard styrene for the base, glued down the hull of the coffee pot and then opened my bits box and started slapping things down. Sprayed it black, and then painted just using heavy dry brushing and stippling.

Lovely weathering there, your rust is most impressive. Nice goop too.

Cheers Graven, friend gave me some tips for the weathering.

I've been ploughing ahead with my Pelennor Fields minis and finished off the Mordor Troll that came with the set. I'm very happy with this paint job. The skin was the biggest issue for me, to get that leathery troll feel, and he was sitting on my desk with just basecoats for a good week until the painting guide for him got released on the Duncan Rhodes Academy so that was a god send! Only thing I'm annoyed about now is the big leg seam. I usually don't mind those things as this is an old sculpt and I don't have any green stuff at hand(still packed away somewhere) but after putting in so much effort on the paintjob I feel I should have made an extra effort here. Anyway, lesson learned! I even started filing and properly mold removing the models I'm currently working on so it taught me a lesson if nothing else.

Now troll:


His good side:


And his bad side:

Yeah, Rhdoes's instagram is ace. When I have a really cruddy mould line like that I sometimes try to paint it as scar tissue, albeit with mixed success!

Small update this week. Finished off my old school durty bois. One on the far right was the original I did a year or so ago and I toned down the amount of nurgles rot on the new ones

Oh horridly retro. Glorious! Papa bless you!

I like seeing those older style plague marines, nice work on them

Those retro guys are great alright. I still have loads of metal models I need to cleanup and I can't wait to paint them in future.

More LotR stuff now. I picked up the new Witch King model last week and it's a really nice sculpt. Paints up really quick and nicely:


Also had my first game in over 2 and a half years with a friend from my old work gaming group. A shop opened up near us so we met up for some Middle Earth SBG. We had initially planned for a 500 point match but then opted to do a smaller 200 point one to get to grips with the rules, and I'm glad we did because it's been a while since we rolled some dice. Will hopefully have another bigger game soon and will take some proper pictures

Awesome that you are getting to game again!

Work really took over there for a while but Christmas code freezes are in full enforce so I can calm down a bit. Been working away slowly in the background but not much painting done with work and other things going on but I will be rectifying that over a nice long break.

I have 2 Deathguard vehicles base coated, 1 chaos spawn, 11 morannon orcs half done, gothmog and a large sector mechanicus terrain piece on my painting desk right now which I'll mostly(hopefully) finish over the break. I am finding now that I have a better space setup that having several different things on the go is better for me as I get bored very easily painting the same thing so after painting all the clothes of orcs I might jump onto a terrain piece, or something like a chaos spawn I can slap some contrast all over to get that lovely dopamine hit. Speaking of!

Here is one I finished a while back to test out some stuff. Basecoats on the spawn all done with contrast and I wanted to try wet blending which contrast is quite forgiving for:


I also wanted to look like this spawn had just come into being by bursting out of a poor marine who's bits are still hanging off:


The last thing I tried to do was make the eyes really buggy! Some of the dots are way too big so I need to work on the stippling, which is mostly just working on my own patience, but I'm happy with how they come out. Can't remember what exact greens I used but just stippled tiny dots and then covered with ard coat for a shine:

Loving your big bright choices , and good to see you back again!

Really like the black robes on the Witch king. You did a great job on that, He looks perfect.

Plans of painting catchup over the holiday break were critically scuppered as I was fully consumed by my new PS5, but I've been getting back on track over the last 2 weeks as I slowly polish off all the new games I have.

I still have 20ish models in WIP stage but put some effort in to finish off Gothmog to a bit of a higher standard than the other orcs. First time trying eyes, or eye in his case so at least he can't be cross eyed.


And I finally picked up some models from Mierce Miniatures. I picked up one of their miscast boxes for the Erainn army which was a lovely 250g of resin components for 20 quid. They are all quite sizeable and the miscasts, at least to my eyes, are so slight they're unnoticeable, especially on these style of minis. I've gathered some sticks and roots from the garden to complete the limbs. Looking forward to working on these: