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Oops, and I forgot to list Thranduil in the list above:

The two humans look very good. Everything else is pretty dire.

Thranduil looks like he's wearing some kind of steam punk microphone eyelens hybrid thing. I don't remember that in the film!

And the pose is a giant WTF.

 Compel wrote:
Thranduil looks like he's wearing some kind of steam punk microphone eyelens hybrid thing. I don't remember that in the film!

It's the same as his weird crown/collar thing...just it can't be represented absolutely 100% correct on a model unless they go and make the crown its own piece that attaches to Thranduil's head. So it ends up having a little bit "sculpted" connecting it to the face.

It's a weird design that from the first time I saw it in "An Unexpected Journey" I thought it would be difficult to show on a model.

I like those Orcs. It's a shame they aren't a plastic kit though.

"Oh dear, I'm feeling a little faint!"

He is looking at Smaug attacking Thal.

He might have stood up too quickly...Thrandy is really bad, Beorn is quite bad, the rest meh. Some poor painting too, GW is clearly falling out of love with the license still.

I like most the models. Beorn the Bear is a bit whack, but the rest look good. But my goodness, the prices, GW are completely stupid, so much of The Hobbit stuff I've liked the miniatures but just cannot justify the insane prices.

I dont like any of this lot and I'm a fan of the previous models. The bear looks terrabad but I expect that's because it's CGI on the film and I doubt they had any good pictures to go on other than the big black bear from the book. In the movie pics he is rather chunkier and you can see he is bear 'like' but not a natural looking bear. the texture of the fur is duff too. It looks like something I would have done with greenstuff. Also I dislike that they are putting in another Beorn in 'man' form model when I bought the one that came out in December... Thranduil looks lousy but I would need to see the actual model to tell if its the paint job or not and yes that crown looks silly at that scale. I would have left off the bits that come round toward the eyes. The Gundabad orcs look rubbish. I am really surprised they aren't plastic and am sceptical because the third movie is out at Christmas and that will have the massive battle in it which I am sure will have GW trying to reinvigorate the LotR war game rather than the skirmish game.

I'm a huge Middle Earth fanboy, and especially the Hobbit. Wouldn't buy any of those miniatures.

The Hobbit has been a big disappointment for me. I really want to like it, and to be excited about the range again, but at the prices GW charges that is just impossible.

 Da Boss wrote:
I'm a huge Middle Earth fanboy, and especially the Hobbit. Wouldn't buy any of those miniatures.

The Hobbit has been a big disappointment for me. I really want to like it, and to be excited about the range again, but at the prices GW charges that is just impossible.

I agree I want to get these but the models just aren't worth it to me.
I actually think Beorn looks spot on to the movie and I like everything else in this release except the Beorn in Bear format.


@KrootHawk
As for it all being finecast I heard a little something from my local FLGS owner.....
He said that the Hobbit range will be getting taken over by Forge World in the near future possibly. I am not 100% sure if that means the old Lord of the Rings stuff though.

Just thought I would drop that in there. Also said something about Gamesworkshop switching all the Finecast stuff (in the Fantasy range and 40k range) to plastic kits...Kroothawk do you know if that is true (or a possible rumour) since you know alot about that haha

I rather like the Orks. If they were/are not crazy stupid expensive I might get some.

alphaecho wrote:
I do hope the bear looks better in the film than that model.

For the Orc armour though, if that's how WETA designed it then that's how GW have to reproduce it.

I remember for the LOTR releases, the Perrys said that each Rohan soldier model was a reproduction of an actual costume from the film.

I was at a staff meeting in notts when the perrys said they had met each rohan warrior personally and they wanted to capture that individuality figure wise. Then I saw plastics. Their really nice guys but I don't believe anything gw wise they say. Sorry. And to be fair I'm an ex uni mate of matt ward. Nice guy but a magic tcg power gamer to to core.

$40AUD for 3 of the Orcs, $30AUD for the unit leader, oh my lord. And $90 for Beorn? When there are dudes like Mierce around making something much cooler for less? Ahahahah no thanks GW.

Oh yeah wow, those prices are just hilarious.

I love that if you like Beorn and bought him at $40 already you now have to pay $90 to get the bear form with another human form thrown in just cos.

Thranduil in pre-combat warm up stretching pose, he doesn't want to pull a hamstring.

 edlowe wrote:

I was at a staff meeting in notts when the perrys said they had met each rohan warrior personally and they wanted to capture that individuality figure was.

Well, they were in the films and have turned up in cast photos if my memory is right. So its not exactly unlikely that they spent a bit chatting with the extras.

So, I haven't seen these movies, and I have to ask, what is that thing on the right, a bear? Because, uh... damn.

Going back a few pages to look at the models, and this one:



I find queerly pleasing. I can't really put my finger on it, but this model is delightful. I think it's my favorite that I have seen from these.

chiefbigredman wrote:KrootHawk
As for it all being finecast I heard a little something from my local FLGS owner.....
He said that the Hobbit range will be getting taken over by Forge World in the near future possibly. I am not 100% sure if that means the old Lord of the Rings stuff though.

I heard that rumour too, but these are officially declared Finecast products.

Ouze wrote:So, I haven't seen these movies, and I have to ask, what is that thing on the right, a bear? Because, uh... damn.

Beorn is a shapeshifter that can transform into something bear-like.

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As for it all being finecast I heard a little something from my local FLGS owner.....
He said that the Hobbit range will be getting taken over by Forge World in the near future possibly. I am not 100% sure if that means the old Lord of the Rings stuff though.

Just thought I would drop that in there.

Well I thought I would add this link in there (not sure that is is on this thread yet) It is the new 1 click bundle collections for the Lord of the Rings game (including Balin's Tomb which is essentially the old starter kit but not as many goblins in this one but the old one ran something like $60ish dollars if I recall??)
.....paying extra for the convience of

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCatsLarge.jsp?catId=cat970005a&rootCatGameStyle=athletic

I find it interesting that they did this. They may be trying to jolt sales or something of that nature?

Anyways here is the math on the Balin's tomb collection
This kit costs $180.25 Canadian but if you buy all the models separately it adds up to $173 Canadian if you purchase the non finecast version of the Fellowship.

I didn't feel like doing the math for the rest but I think it is probably similar line of no saving for the 1 click bundles.

 chiefbigredman wrote:
Well I thought I would add this link in there (not sure that is is on this thread yet) It is the new 1 click bundle collections for the Lord of the Rings game (including Balin's Tomb which is essentially the old starter kit but not as many goblins in this one but the old one ran something like $60ish dollars if I recall??)
.....paying extra for the convience of

To be fair, the Mines of Moria kit was a plastic Fellowship, they didn't look as good as a the metal fellowship of the same time.

But yeah, LOTR/Hobbit is painfully expensive now, a large part of the reason I started LOTR back in the Mines of Moria days was just how cheap it was. I haven't bought a single thing from The Hobbit range due to the extreme price even though I really like a lot of the models.

Wow, those new releases look especially awful. And those prices... GW's managed to outdo themselves with this one.

I think it's pretty plain to see that GW just don't give a crap about the Hobbit anymore.

 Kroothawk wrote:

Ouze wrote:So, I haven't seen these movies, and I have to ask, what is that thing on the right, a bear? Because, uh... damn.

Beorn is a shapeshifter that can transform into something bear-like.

Yeah, but I remember him looking cooler in the movie. He looked a hell of a lot more bear-like than the model does.

Courtesy of Google , screen cap from movie:



Concept art:



And then there's...that model. Looks more like one of those ugly wargs than a bear, really.

Seriously though, GW? Do better. This is a fething joke. For those prices you had damn well better make sure you're offering a good-quality sculpt and this isn't it.

So, anyway...where's that Smaug mini?