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Actually I just remembered I did start sealing my minis when I first started painting, you've jogged my memory. I think my World Eaters are, with everything kept in boxes I forget what I've painted sometimes lol.

 GiraffeX wrote:
Actually I just remembered I did start sealing my minis when I first started painting, you've jogged my memory. I think my World Eaters are, with everything kept in boxes I forget what I've painted sometimes lol.

I think everyone does at some point though mate.

The last (currently) painted "proper" model from my Moria army - aside from extra models that will be roped in like my GW Orc & Goblin War Machines, and other monsters from Reaper Bones and such. The first Moria Troll from GW's Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring range. I painted this guy using GW's studio model a general guide, and somewhat followed their scheme and style of blending between the flesh tones and the blackened skin, as well as the flesh between the cracks. Since I followed their scheme it's most likely a fair bit brighter than the actual movie CGI model, but hey.



I added a couple of resin "orc" skulls and a femur from some blister I bought in the mid-90's, along with a Moria Goblin Shield. I'll need to push-mould some replacements!



Aside from obvious uses in LotR games, he's going to act as a Troll Bruiser (hero) to start with in Kings of War. Later on when I've got the other Moria Cave trolls painted, he'll simply become one of a unit, and eventually Buhrdur, the Hill Troll Chieftain will take over the Bruiser role in the army.



The model was painted as a Christmas gift for Marouda back in sometime ..around 2003-5. He's pretty much lived on shelves ever since. I'll get some WIP Moria army shots up soon. Hopefully this weekend.

Loving the Cave Troll

The skin tones on him are fantastic. That's something I really struggle with and I'm a little jealous of how good and "realistic" you've made this look.

 squall018 wrote:
The skin tones on him are fantastic. That's something I really struggle with and I'm a little jealous of how good and "realistic" you've made this look.

You should check out the GW tutorial on painting the Maggoth Lords. Duncan Rhodes shows you a pretty good technique for skin tones.

Cave troll looks good, nice work!

I really like the look of the LotR trolls. Something far more realistic about them than a lot of companies ever achieve.

I have two Cave Troll models myself: one from the Mines of Moria boxed set, and one metal one with a spear. I painted the one from the Moria set (badly, as it was one of the first miniatures I ever painted in my life), but I'm thinking of either stripping it or going back and painting over my original bad paint job. Honestly, the Cave Troll was one of the coolest monsters in the LOTR movies, and yours is pretty well done Azazelx!

Thanks Gents. I'll be doing my Skull Pass-era O&G trolls in a similar kind of colour scheme. I think the LotR ones are more realistic looking than Warhammer ones because (particularly with 4th, 5th, etc edition) the WHFB ones became cartoon/comic characters while LotR as a film had to look more feasable and "realistic".

Just compare Wolverine (or any of the X-Men) or Hawkeye or any of the other Avengers in the movies to the traditional comics.



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 angelofvengeance wrote:

 squall018 wrote:
The skin tones on him are fantastic. That's something I really struggle with and I'm a little jealous of how good and "realistic" you've made this look.

You should check out the GW tutorial on painting the Maggoth Lords. Duncan Rhodes shows you a pretty good technique for skin tones.

Linky?

Here you go

Thanks, mate!

Those GW tutorials are pretty good.

Great looking troll by the way. Great blending in the skin tones.

Thank you. Hopefully I'll get to the others before too long. I'm going to hold them off for a reward though - so after I finish the 11 sprues of plastic Moria gobs.

Another blast from the past today. Well, not that long ago in some ways and a long bloody time in another.

These scenery pieces, more of the Grendel stuff I picked up in the mid-1990's sat like so many others in storage for pretty much 20 years until 2013, when I finally got them out and finished them. Sometime around the 8th of August when I finally tallied up a bunch of stuff finished in the weeks before then.



As with so many of these old scenic pieces, they're still available in Scotia Grendel's website: 10010 - Skull Fountains. Amusingly the description on the webstore suggests that to make them particularly evil, you can paint the water as blood(!) I don't think painting the liquid as water ever actually occurred to me. The paint was the usual greys for stone without any additional brown weathering along with an attempt for a kind of brushed-steel look with a minimal amount of rust, provided by my early experiments with MIG enamel washes. The blood was painted via a mix of GW and Vallejo reds and a touch of orange, with clear red and gloss varnish added after the rest of the pieces were matt sprayed.



As you can see, they're drop-moulded and so the back side of them are completely flat and lacking in detail. You can butt them up against a wall, or either side of a dungeon archway or whatever. If you want something less dungeon-ey and more wargame table-y that's free-standing, I guess you can always butt them up together like I have above.

Those are pretty awesome. How big are they again? Like a 28mm model sized or something significantly larger?
Nevermind, I looked. Pretty decent size, fairly imposing. Good stuff!

You need to do a group shot making a dungeon or tabletop set up of some of the awesome terrain pieces you have featured. Maybe with a few choice units/models manoeuvring around them....

Good points, guys. I'll do a bigger diorama/group shot kinda thing down the line, but in the meantime here's a much simpler version to show scale of these fountains.

Very nice!

They do look very nice, Khorne will be impressed.

Those are fancy. Nice array of Fantasy models too!

I like those fountains a lot, and putting them together makes a great wargame, rather than dungeon, piece of terrain.

Cheers for the tutorial as well AOV.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
I like those fountains a lot, and putting them together makes a great wargame, rather than dungeon, piece of terrain.

Cheers for the tutorial as well AOV.

Should find it useful for stuff like Dragon Ogres Thraxas...

A couple of months ago I ordered a bunch of "Fir Bolg" Skeletons from Brigade Models, originally produced and still sold for the "Celtos" skirmish miniatures wargame. Roughly two weeks later, which translates to two months ago now, they arrived and I reviewed them. As I've said in the past, I've got a real soft spot for one-piece metal skeletons. There are some other lovely models out there, but many of them are very fragile - and I prefer more sturdy models for wargaming, especially with some of my Ham-Handed friends.

Now, I've finished painting the first unit of them - or the first 12 out of the 59 models I purchased, at least.



The colour scheme is pretty simple and in keeping with the rest of the army - Red and Black, Iron and Brass, Rust and Verdigris, Cadmium-Red wood - and Bone. The tabards and cloth have simply been quartered with the cloth colours to keep it simple. One each of the three sculpts for your perusal. I purchased four of each in order to set up 12 on a 100mm x 80mm base which will represent a Regiment in Kings of War.



The group shot showing all of the 12 I bought. Since we're just talking about duplicate models, I thought it more interesting to skip showcasing each individual duplicated sculpt. With a recent game of KoW against Marouda's Undead showing how effective Horde-sized units are, I'm tempted to buy another set of these guys for her - and some of the other Regiment-sized groups as well!



Based like this, the models work very nicely as a KoW regiment - Tournament-approved as well as I've checked with Daedle. Beyond that they're very easily popped off the regiment base for use in Role-playing or any other tabletop or board game. Maybe even Celtos! More poses would be ideal, but these will still work nicely enough on the table. Overall, I think these are great models - very much fit for purpose, and I'm very happy with them.

They look fantastic. Really like the bone you have achieved. Makes me want to hide my Tomb Kings under the bed.....

The basing is nice. May steal it for my High Elves (is it painted sand and flock?).

Nice! A whole unit with scythes is pretty unique, and looks fearsome!

Thanks Archer! Your TK look kickarse, and you paint entire armies in the time it seems it takes me to do a single unit, so there's also that. What was that about backlogs in the other thread the other day?
The basing is simply sand of a couple of different grain/coarseness sizes. Painted and drybrushed with a little bit of static flock, also drybrushed just to take the super-bright edge off it.

Thanks Para. They'll play as Revenants with 2-handed weapons in KoW. I don't particularly look forward to facing them across the table, actually...

Those Skellies look particularly reapy

Nice work as always Azazel.

They do look nice. Great stuff

Looking very good Azazelx!

Can't shake the feeling though that the warscythes are a bit too big, especially the wooden shaft. *shrug* the rest of the models look fine!

You know Az, I have a huge man shed I can certainly help store some of your *ahem* excess mini's? :-)

everything is looking sweet dude!