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Awesome diorama

Well done
Looking forward on some more LoTR mini's
grtz
Mark

Great diorama! Captures the scene very well! Look forward to more! I say osgiliath too. Flying nazgul? Or anything with the Uruk hai 'cause they're awesome

Awesome diorama- if you really wanted to put it up a notch you could include the downed Mumakil and Winged Beast there haha. Bit expensive though maybe..

Thanks guys!

ckig wrote:Great diorama! Captures the scene very well! Look forward to more! I say osgiliath too. Flying nazgul? Or anything with the Uruk hai 'cause they're awesome

Unfortunatly it won't feature 'Wraithses with wingses!' as I don't own that model. It's one of my all-time favourites in both its versions, the metal and the plastic one, and if I ever find myself with £35 spare I fully intend to grab one.

angelofvengeance wrote:Awesome diorama- if you really wanted to put it up a notch you could include the downed Mumakil there haha. Bit expensive though maybe..

Haha! I think that would probably merit its own diorama, probably with Legolas kicking ass on the back of it! Like the Nazgul on Fell Beast, it's on the 'one day I'll buy that' list... Hard to spend money on a game I'll never get to play, but then that didn't stop me with Infinity/Space Hulk/Deadzone...

Lighting's crap here today (English winter's on the way, I think) but if it clears up I'll get some pics of the Fellowship diorama and throw them up here.

 Paradigm wrote:
Thanks guys!

ckig wrote:Great diorama! Captures the scene very well! Look forward to more! I say osgiliath too. Flying nazgul? Or anything with the Uruk hai 'cause they're awesome

Unfortunatly it won't feature 'Wraithses with wingses!' as I don't own that model. It's one of my all-time favourites in both its versions, the metal and the plastic one, and if I ever find myself with £35 spare I fully intend to grab one.

angelofvengeance wrote:Awesome diorama- if you really wanted to put it up a notch you could include the downed Mumakil there haha. Bit expensive though maybe..

Haha! I think that would probably merit its own diorama, probably with Legolas kicking ass on the back of it! Like the Nazgul on Fell Beast, it's on the 'one day I'll buy that' list... Hard to spend money on a game I'll never get to play, but then that didn't stop me with Infinity/Space Hulk/Deadzone...

Lighting's crap here today (English winter's on the way, I think) but if it clears up I'll get some pics of the Fellowship diorama and throw them up here.

Could be worse, you could have thundersnow like we do in the upper midwest.

Update time!

Unfortunately, no LotR in this one, as I've got a bit sidetracked in last few days. On the plus side, I did find the last mini I may need for the Osgilliath diorama or another one I have in mind. The LotR stuff will be back, though, and soon. One month until the final Hobbit film, so I might try and get the rest of Thorin's Company painted up before then as well (god knows I've had them long enough!)

Anyway, the fruits of my sidetrackedness: The Blood Angels are Back!

First off, the High Chaplain Astorath the Grim, Redeemer of the Lost, and incidentally one of the coolest minis ever made!



Next up, the big guy, Dante, Lord of the Host, and honestly, one of the best aging models GW do. I think it was 3rd Ed this guy first appeared, but you wouldn't know by looking at it!



And finally, a Sanguinary Guard, standing alongside these two in his role of 'just some guy'!


That's all for today! As for what's up next, more LotR, more BA, and the world's most grimdark inquisitorial hover-chair (possibly). As ever, and comments and criticism are welcome!

With exception to the OTT amounts of scripture dangling from Astaroth the Grim's arse, I do like the model a lot. Very choppy

Nice job on Cmdr Dante too. Looks blingy but gritty at the same time.

Paradigm! I didn't know you had a blog, but I love it
That LOTR diorama is awesome! Such a great part in the book. Love all the stuff in general mate! Looking forward to more,
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Nice work! Love the armour on astorath

Cheers guys!

@LDP: great to see you drop in here, your own blog has been a huge source of inspiration over the years!

You paint your blood angels well, good work I think I could see playing BA if everyone got cool muscle-armor like Astorath

Nice work all round, I especially like the mask on your Rebs commander, reminds me of The Undertaker circa 1995:



The cleanup on the rebs can be a pain, but you have done great.

Those BA characters are beyond cool too, can never have too many jump packs.

I have had an Astorath model for about a year and a half that I haven't gotten around to painting because I'm not sure how I want to do it. You, sir, have done the model justice!

Some tidy space vamps there para.

Always liked the Dante model, it's one of the characters I'd love to true/tall scale kitbash one day.

Cheers chaps!

I've just put the finishing touches to something completely different that, light permitting, will be posted tomorrow some time. All I'll say is that it's scratch built, counts as, fairly big and is better at shooting his own guys than the enemy... Internet points for anyone who guesses before I post it!

Very good per usualy. Really liking astorath the grim

And now for something completely different...

Presenting Lord Inquisitor Aberforth Vetinari, Ordo Hereticus! Also on display is this year's =I=chair, featuring a vox amp for proclaiming, a Malta for purging and a crackling inbuilt fire, so you'll never be too busy to Burn the Witch!



I'll be the first to admit the paintjob is a little quick and dirty, and probably not helped by the crappy light, but this chap was all about the modelling. The whole thing was built from plasticard, sprue and bits, with a little GS for the legs and flames. The head I chose from a High Elf Silver Helm as it just had a wonderful look of disdain that fits the character. The vox-amp in his right was made from a Deathwind missile launcher and plasticard, the melta was taken from a SW Dread. Overall, I'm happy with how he came out; the painting is hardly my best, but I think the build is decent and he should be fun to use game as Karamazov.

That.. is a thing. The fireplace puts it in a weird place for me. Not necessarily out of character for 40k though probably.

Yeah, the whole thing is a love-it-or-hate-it mini, I guess. It's pretty ridiculous and over the top, so I'm hoping it'll go down well with 40k players, but for those who prefer sci-fi a little less impractical/more 'clean', I can see how it would look odd.

He probably gets along just fine with the likes of Coteaz and those other personalities I can't be bothered to remember. Just keep him away from my SUPER SRS hard scifi games kthxbai!




Nah it's definitely an interesting model, the floaty chair with guns and vox caster reminds me of like 3rd edition book artwork, but only if he had some cherubs or skulls trailing seals.

I did mean to add some skulls, but Shock Horror, I've actually run out!

But yes, the early 40k John Blanche style was what I was going for, lots of anachronistic/nonsensical/weird bits and bobs going on.

Fits in with 40k imo

And the Inquisition get all the wacky stuff

Rather a mixed bag in today's update!

First off, the second of my Sanguinary Guard:


Really quite happy with how the gold is coming out, and more pleased with the wings on this one.

And now, back to Middle Earth. Begin shameless self promotion:
In currently managing a LotR hobby competition down in subforum, so if anyone who has reads his fancies showing off any LotR stuff, old or new, that you might be sitting on, please do drop in there! With the new Hobbit movie inbound, there's no better time to get involved!
End shameless self promotion...

And here we have the Mouth of Sauron, evidently prior to his encounter with Aragon as he still had his head...


Quite a quick simple paintjob, mostly a fix up from the work I did on him a few years ago.

And the man himself, Aragorn, King of the West:


There's some pics of the on foot version in my gallery is you want to take a look, but thanks to the great black clouds we have here today they're a little indistinct. I'm off to try again once I've finished here, and I'll update if I can get some better ones.

Some Rohirrim I've painted up for a Battle Company (LotR with RPG elements) to be led by Eowyn:



And finally, a larger scale figure of the wizard Radagast. This was actually a toy from a few years ago, a single-colour statuette stocking filler type thing, but I gave him a lick of paint and he now makes a decent enough piece to put on a shelf.

That's it for now, as always any comments are welcome!

Nice stuff!

Loving the Mouth of Sauron's paintjob. I think he was a Black Numenorean wasn't he?

Cheers guys, and yes, he was a Black Numenorian (talk about races not getting enough attention in the movies, they're up there with the Easterlings)

Now with 400% more Aragorn!

 Paradigm wrote:

Some Rohirrim I've painted up for a Battle Company (LotR with RPG elements) to be led by Eowyn:

What are you going to do for the assault and devastator squads? (Sorry, 40k has warped my brain.)

Nice looking stuff.

Great looking stuff all round!

Dude Ive got a lot to catch up on. I like your Angels, the armor is very nice, especially the gold. Perfect shade, not too much bling. LOTR looks nice too. They arent my bag but are certainly nice models. I would pick up one or two if they weren't so expensive.

The Inquisitor is suitably Grimdarkingly wierd. Nice.