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ah... i see.... puristic minis then... hmmm... then you have to add sme highlights then... i know, this is a bit tough....but i think the mini benefits from that then!

Yeah, I was planning on it, but when I was about to get round to it, it was the store's closing time

why do you always paint in the shop???

well, this time I was actually collecting Elladan and Elrohir from the store, and it didn't make much sense to go there, pick them up and go home.

plus I won't get distracted in the store

plus I won't get distracted in the store

that i strongly don´t see that way

well, I'm more likely of painting for a few minutes, then wander off, get hungry etc. and not get back to it, whereas in the store I kind of have to paint


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also, edited the article to be the actual blog with pictures ^^

at first i thought you described the store way^^ lol... i can´t leave the paintpots open or the brushes unattended... god knows the air would dry it all out... and then...where would i stand then...ha! wandering off... er... i got kids and a wife if i need to be dragged of my hobby^^

My store's fairly good when it comes to unattended stuff- nothing ever goes missing and even if it's been unattended for an hour, people will still ask whose it is and if they can move it.

tht´s not what i meant... if i would wander off and forget... well lets put it this way... i have one day found an open pot of black paint... and the last time i painted was probably two days prior...

ah, I'm quite good when it comes to that- well, in store I'd have all the paints right in front of me, and I'd pack up to go home, so even if I didn't notice, they'd be open for about 2-3 hours at the absolute most
at home, because I keep going back to it, I tend to leave them open ^^

LOL... i see now that painting at the shop has it´s advantages

^^

I'm going to have a game tomorrow at school, but I don't think my mum would be supportive to me bringing her expensive camera into school, so battle report will have to wait until I have a game at home ^^

at school....aha.... well... good luck mate!

and i worry about falling asleep there while others play games....what has the world coming too...*shakes head*

Well, if all goes well I'll play a game at home on monday, until then I'll try and make more painting progress ^^

good planning

Screw it, here's some low-light pics of the army so far (basecoated remaining Vault Wardens and Rangers and painted Elrohir)

neat looking,...due to the dark lighting situation not really much to be seen tho...

but the tag team poses of the heros looks good

and while at the GW shop i watched and overheard some of a game of LotR and that ther rules are...for every twelve fighters you need one hero? did i get that right´? so this is rather a skirmish game then... no big armies will happen then? or big armies= many heros ?

Yup, since war of the ring was released, this version is sometimes called skirmish- and yes, for every 12 models, you have to take a hero.

Personally I think it'd make more sense for every 18-24 or so- some horde armies end up paying the same amount of points on 12 men as they do for a basic hero.

Big games tend to last quite a while- normal game sizes are 500pts, which usually takes an hour or two- I'm building a 750pt list to ally with another 750pt list to have a 1500 point game, and that's going to take a whole day once finished

also, is it just me or does the lining of the cloaks look brighter than in the other picture?

P.S: the white stuff on their bases are gravel-type stuff (got in a huge bag for a quid- not even 10% empty yet and I've based dozens of models with it) which I've just finished painting a stoney colour and added some patches of grass to (which you can also see in a clear plastic bag in front of the paints (there's a much larger bag full of it with a hole in- that's the overflow bag which it falls into))

to fully understand the basing idea i think you should do a bigger base this way so we can really apreciate the ground !

and well... what mini count would that be then...

and as for the cloaks... well all due to the lightning i guess... what is to be seen in comparrision tho is that you did very neat touchups on the parts where different colors touch...sharp and crisp edges i say... tho you still need to do those highlights to really make them pop^^

Yeah, highlights are still on my to-do list, though I'd like to do them when I have all my cloaks painted, then I can just do one big mix and do them all at once as opposed to trying to replicate the same colour several times ^^

model count varies wildly, but normal troops are usually around 8 points and heroes anywhere between captains (50 or so) and leaders of armies (200 or so, even as far as 300-400), though usually heroes average out at 100 or so.

A typical 500 point list tends to comprise of 3-4 warbands of a dozen men each, though my army list is fairly elite, because although my core warriors are only slightly above average, the majority of my forces are more pricey, specialist models, like the vault warden teams or rangers of the north.

Yeah, highlights are still on my to-do list, though I'd like to do them when I have all my cloaks painted, then I can just do one big mix and do them all at once as opposed to trying to replicate the same colour several times ^^

brilliant idea! why have i never thought about that??? seriously... i am not doing them for i don´t think straight from the pot colors would serve as good highlights... darn... thanks for that obvious hint!

well so LotR seems only at first glanze a cheaper alternative to 40k innit?

It's quite similar in a sense, yes, and certainly cheaper, but there are a few key differences:
basic troops tend to be more difficult to kill (no rolls to hit or armour saves, but mostly you need 5's to wound and there's nothing really which can change that unless you're really strong.
also, shooting in LotR is terrible (as you'll see in my battle report I'm just editing together), though can be useful to thin numbers (I was just really unlucky)- just don't rely on it to take out scores of men at a time.
another big thing for me is that each model is individual- many times have I won and lost games by tying up three models at once with one man and sending others to complete the objective or kill a hero.

another big thing for me is that each model is individual- many times have I won and lost games by tying up three models at once with one man and sending others to complete the objective or kill a hero.

no wonder a game can last quite some hours then...

and if so... will you do something like platoon markings to keep the different platoons recognizable? i bet there is bound to be some rules about losing your hero and stuff...

Well, the warbands system is usually only just to make sure players take enough heroes- only in specific game modes do you have to deploy them together, and even then you can just move them separately afterwards.

aha... so no moral rolls and so forth?

there are "courage" tests when your army as a whole is "broken" (under 25% of the models), which is taken for each model every move phase- normal models are Courage 3 or 4. You roll two dice, and if the dice roll plus your model's courage adds up to 10 or more, you're fine. If not, it's removed.
also, a good thing about heroes is that any models within 6" of one can use it's courage if it's higher (so a normally cowardly orc could use a nearby captain's courage to keep him in the battle)

aha.... hmmm... no...no... i don´t need even more minis!!! argh^^

they're not as easy to convert as 40k (being mostly one or two parts each), but they're more interesting to paint! ^^

why so? more dynamic poses... not that compressed bodies because of gun wielding?

IF i ever would go down that road it would be goblins and orks by the way...^^

in 40k, because each model has individual heads, torsos, arms, legs and weapons, it's much easier to kitbash and pose- in lord of the rings, the models are already posed, so if you don't like the pose, tough.