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It would be lovely to see some LOTR minis placed on it :3

That looks amazing. Way to go. I have to agree with Lunahound that it would look even more awesome with some LOTR minis on it showing the epic battle.

Awesome work, that looks incredible.

Agree that it's massively better than the terrain I was making at your age, it's not often that someone your age makes something that looks this amazing.

Big thumbs up from the squig!

Agree with Luna

Please line up some Elves on the ramparts + Gimli just so you can see the top of his helmet- no, you know that's not what I mean!

That's amazing, when I was looking at the original pictures I thought one was a screenshot form the film.

Awesome.

hehe, cheers folks. I will try and get some pictures up with Helm's Deep armed to teeth with it's defenders etc... but I'll probably only do it when I have another battle with it at my local gaming club.

That's really well done for someone who doesn't plan things out hehehe Seriously though, well done!

that really looks like helms deep! its pretty cool!

Instant goo!!!! That is so fething sexy

That looks great, good job!

Can i buy that from you!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

I've begun work on the Helm's Deep yet again and am deeping it out to the smallest details. I want the interior of the castle to look lived in and used, so hopefully it will resemble the real thing that little bit more. Grain bags, spear racks, barrels of arrows and plenty of other accessories are getting put into the castle. I'm struggling for idea's a little though. I also gave the door a quick repaint yesterday, so that looks a little brighter.

Question: What other accessories should I have inside the castle?

That is awesome. Truly awesome.

I like your chicken

Hi RW Great model. I have a 7ft castle, but it's not LOTR! So, I wonder is it for sale? Please contact me at j.s.hart@sky.com Thanks Hercules

Яîηgwяâith wrote:Well I thought I'd show you one of my oldest terrain projects. It was my first thing I ever built, and certainly the biggest so far. Started building this at 12 and been at it ever since.( I'm 15 now) I'm often very busy so I don't find much time to work on it, but this is it so far. Tell me your views, comments and criticisms. I'm not one for planning things out, which isn't great because I've often ran into problems whilst building it. I'll give you a few stages;

Constructed of foamboard, as you can see. It's pretty big already here taking up much of the floor.

Excuse the horrible painting ^^

Work In Progress picture, making the mountain









Sorry, killer chicken in the background there ^^


This is a really enjoyable board to play on, and I plan on making more big projects in the future. I'm likely to sell this one, for space is running out . It does make great fun for scenarios, and when you have whole armies breaching the walls & all, it's well good!

You are a legend! I would kill to play on that with all my Isengard!

We were lucky to have a beautiful day up here, so we took the decision to take the battle outside. Since the castle is so big it was difficult to find a big enough table (and not to mention get the thing out the door), but that was soon resolved and we took out the ping-pong table which fit perfectly. Keep in mind this is my first battle report, so go easy on me. I'm afraid that we were not able to finish the battle after starting rather late, which was a real pity... but on the upside it can allow you to ponder what might have happened. This battle was a 6 man operation with 2 people commanding the good forces inside Helm's Deep, and the other calling the charge of Rohirm (which happen to be Gondor models) The defenders consisted of 1550 points while the foes of Isengard had 2250 points. The three of them had a portion of army to command and then later all received reinforcements. The rules were mostly based on Onxy's rules with a few tweaks. Although next time I think I would have changed some bits. Here below we have the photo before starting and the setting up.











Under the shade of a the gazebo the battle begun! ... .... well after the refreshments anyway (thats me in the black hoodie)










The first casualties took place on both sides. The volley of elven arrows flew towards the enemy taking out half a dozen Uruk-hai with some help of the Rohan archers, who had more difficulty on their 4+



The cavalry charge that took place in the same phase had more difficulty needing all 6's to wound anything. Immediately three riders fell taking heavy damage while only killing 2 people in the charge.





The Uruk siege crew got ever nearer with those nasty bombs and the elves were preparing for hand to hand combat.



A few phases later caused more problem for the cavalry, although taking out most of their foot troops that troll took no effect to charging. The troll held it's ground swinging it's great sword keeping off any attackers. Funnily enough to two Uruk-hai archers held off such a fight, killing 2 of my riders and causing chaos.



Finally some reinforcements had arrived after desperately needing backup. Saruman had heard of their trouble, and he himself made his way with extra uruk's and warg riders.



After four turns, the two balista crew's who had been constantly firing at the main gate still hadn't been able to get through! They arrived with even more reinforcements and trolls to finally take out that gate. Even the battering ram crew had fallen after being dropped.



The Elves prepared for combat and the ladders were finally up. Isengard now had the advantage here once they moved up the wall with that strength 4. Any spare elves frantically shot at the bomb crew, but fail. Not all hope had been lost, when the bomb didn't go off and was a dud. With a breath of relief all was not safe, 1 bomb still remained a threat.



The next phase the bomb successfully blew up on a 6, causing a catastrophic explosion. 6 elves died in the explosion, with 3 remaining on the ground recovering from the shock. This now meant the elves forces had been split apart , losing casualties. The door was prepared to brace while the Uruk-hai and trolls raced up the rampart.





The doors were later breached, but with the troll. After the whole time the two siege engines and battling ram only got to batter points on the door which was very surprising to all of us. The uruk-hai reinforcements finished off the last of the remaining cavalry charge and moved onto the wall. What was left of the elves retreated as far as they could into the outer ring while uruk-hai swamped the deeping wall. The trolls at the door smashed through the Rohan defenders at the door. It later got two wounds and fell the very next turn. I'm afraid that's where we left, so it's a little of a cliff hanger. Isengard had very heavy casualties the first wave, and all that was left was a troll. The good forces retreated back and the rest is up to your imagination.

On that table I bet the battle raged back and forth from one side to the other *groan*

Sorry just had to get it out of the way

Looks fantastic and I love the breached section.
Well done

That thing is Huuuge! Very Impressive! Well done!

Nice peace of terrain like it a lot as i live about five mints from where the real one was amazing how close you got keep up excellent work

nice work that man!

Seriously, seriously awesome!! Havent played LOTR for a long while however after seeing this beauty I am seriously tempted to buy myself some armoured wood elves and Haldir

Wow! Ive seen a full Helms deep model before... at gamesday i believe... or somewhere similar... but I actually prefer this one!
Great Job!

ARE YOU SERIOUS? ARE YOU SERIOUS?

WOW! How much time total has it taken to build this so far? How many people?

Amazing. So, one question. How much?

Thanks guys for appreciating my work! Good to hear I'm getting some of you back into the LotR side of things, we'll have a big boost of models once 'The Hobbit' is released. For the time it took, it took around a year on & off on my own. Andy you lived beside the actually Helm's Deep they built?! That's so cool, is there any signs of the thing left? It was such a shame that they cleared everything away after - especially Edoras!

Ring

This is a thing of pure, utter beauty.

Thank you for giving me the honour for observing such o wonder of creation.

Added a youtube HD video so you get a more 'live-action' view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOCHn7FXJGo&feature=channel_video_title
I've just started my own channel & am uploading various terrain I've made for both 40k and LotR. If you like my channel a subs always welcome!

May I ask how you did the stone walkways?