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I really dig those Uruk-Hai. Keep 'em coming!

Another part done for my Cerastus Knight Lancer.

The Lance! I went for a kind of cracking electrical look which I will also use on the shield. The banner on the bottom snapped off, so I will paint it later

Uruk Hai shaman finished.

Also the first bits to show from my preparations to work through the LOTR "Journey books" - 5 trees based on 40mm bases.

The shaman looks good. Which journey book has trees?

 JoshInJapan wrote:
The shaman looks good. Which journey book has trees?

Cheers!

It's the "Fellowship of the Ring" one, starts in the Shire, so the first terrain it directs you to make are some forests and hills. Then a river and Buckleberry ferry, a bit more challenging

Ah, the one that I don't have.

Nice work on the Nazgul, there - and the Uruks look great as well. I've got some Mordor Uruks on the go that I need to knuckle down and finish off. I just need to get inspired. You available to come over for a painting arvo? I'm sure that would motivate me to finish them off. I've got some trees, but getting a river sorted that would be large enough to need a ferry will be a task in itself. Long sheet of MDF, spakfilla for the river banks, spray paints for the base coat and resin/glosscoat to top it? A proper hardware store jobbie. Hm,.... I reckon I could actually pull that off.

Painting arvo sounds great, the 18 hour flight less so

The Journey Book river plans are only 8 inches wide, wooden base, shaped foam banks and filler for the water.

The Knights Lance is looking great, liking the electrical effect.

EDC

I have finished the last 3 Ringwraiths on foot to complete the 9. Will picture them all together once the bases are done.



Still got 9 on horses to do at some point!

Also, finished my 20 trees:



That takes my year's count to 96 - Hope to break the 100 mark before the end

The Ringwraiths look good. Using blue instead of black for their robes was an inspired choice.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
The Ringwraiths look good. Using blue instead of black for their robes was an inspired choice.

Thanks, v kind! In real life the blue isn't quite so vibrant (I blame my lack of photography skills ) but I am quite pleased...

Alongside my LOTR models, I am trying to get my various 40k armies finished off.

The last thing I needed to finish for my old-school Blood Angels was this Baal Predator:



Not how I would choose to paint it now, but I wanted it to fit in with the rest of the army. It was an eBay purchase when I got back into gaming a few years ago, and is quite badly glued together. Still, at least it's done, and therefore so is the army!

Takes me to 99 for the year, so close to hitting 100

Nice looking Baal, very old school.

EDC

Cheers, Dr Cheese

Next up, 3 Dunedain...

The Dunedain are done!



That takes me to 102, scraping over my 100 mini target

Nice use of earth tones--exactly what a Ranger would wear in the field.

Great work on the Dunedain. The Nazgul also look great - is that a blue-grey you've used for their highlights?

And that Predator.. I haven't seen one of those models for bloody years. Very cool old-school paint on the old-school model there, mate!

JoshInJapan wrote:Nice use of earth tones--exactly what a Ranger would wear in the field.

Azazelx wrote:Great work on the Dunedain. The Nazgul also look great - is that a blue-grey you've used for their highlights?

And that Predator.. I haven't seen one of those models for bloody years. Very cool old-school paint on the old-school model there, mate!

Thanks, chaps

Yes, it's a blue-grey highlight (stegadon scale) - I was going for an "otherworldly" look, it sort-of came off

A Merry Christmas to you, thanks for popping in here

In 2015 I painted 81 models, and my aim for 2016 was to smash that record.

Review of the year 2016

I started well, but had another 3 month ish break where I could not be arsed to paint anything at all..

Still, I broke last year's record and ended up with 102 models painted, based on my own semi-random scoring system

Mierce Norse infantry x 2
Mierce Norse ravenmen x 3

Ork boyz x 12
Ork Dreadnought x 1
Gretchin x 20

DZ Enforcer Peacekeeper x 1

DKOK command squad x 3

Imperial Knight(!)

Uruk Hai x 13
Uruk Hai Berserkers x 4
Uruk Hai shaman
Witch King on foot
Nazgul on foot x 8
Dunedain x 3

Blood Angels Baal Predator

Hill (Terrain) x 2
Trees (Terrain) x 20


2017 will start with trying to finish off my knight Lancer, and more LOTR models.

The first finished model for 2017!

Not anything I had planned to paint, but I found it half-done in my IG case, and it looked sad, so I finished it off



Making my 2017 total so far: 2

Nice work mate - both in beating 2015's score and the Russ - which looks very nice indeed!

Thanks, mate. Just spotted that I forgot to paint the vision blocks on the turret, so will have to get those done tonight

While I had my Imperial Guard green paints out, I got this Lascannon done.



It was originally planned to be part of a Praetorian army, but that's on the back-burner now, so I have left it with no crew glued on, will just stand dudes from the appropriate force on top at the back...

The weather is still no good for varnishing, so will go into the huge varnish and base backlog for now.

I like that gun. It doesn't look like the official GW Lascannon, though. Is it FW, or something else?

I got it from the "Curious Constructs" kickstarter a couple of years ago. Think you can still get them there or possibly from Zinge.

Originally came with not-Praetorian crew, they are shelved for now but will probably make a comeback at some point

Yeah, that's a sweet lascannon - both model and paint.

3 more Dunedain done (and in the ever-growing varnish and basing queue)



Photo is crap, sorry

Nice! Starting to rack up a good model count for 2017!

EDC

2 LOTR Barrow Wights done:



I tried to give the impression that the armour and weapons were real ancient artifacts from the barrows, but the wights themselves are purely spirits.