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Hi all. All commentary welcome and encouraged.

I will be updating this log simultaneously with my GCPS Warpath blog. It will chart my painting of various fantasy items from 6mm to 28mm.

Current projects:

1. 1/72 Lord of the rings
2. Kings of war elves
3. Kings of war undead
4. Kings of war salamanders
5. General 1/72nd fantasy

To begin, pictures of some newly painted knights of the citadel on foot. My camera on my phone is acting up and I don't know why. Sorry for the quality.







Yes I know my freehand is crap, but they are really tiny figures.

OK guys. So, here's the current brainstorm for 1/72nd armies/units plan:

Combined armies of the free people's of middle earth:

13th century knights = guards of the citadel
13th century knights with teutonic headswap and possible greenstuff capes = fountain court guard
Medievals with spears, swords, bows = warriors of Gondor
Scots = axemen of lossanarch
German cav = Rohan
Russian knights = Rohan kings household
El Cid Iberians = something Gondor

Combined forces of the dark Lord sauron

Dunlendings = alliance Cimmerians
Orcs and uruk hai = alliance sets
Armored trolls = alliance sets
Arabs = haradrim
Armored Muslim warriors = easterlings

General fantasy:

Republican Romans = basilean counts as, with God's and mythical creatures Elohi, etc
Cimmerians with a different paint scheme = varangur
Arcane legions stuff:
Romans = abyssal dwarves/frozen north scheme
Egyptians = undead, not empires of dust. This is because I'll mix in Caesar skeletons
Han = elves/ terracotta army
I've got ideas if a cross between alliance Amazon's and historical Greeks as trident realms with a blue skin paint scheme.

Full regiment of 16 guard of the citadel painted. I have to go pick up MDF unit bases tomorrow.



Furthermore, I dug out some of my untouched dark alliance half orcs. In addition to my pikemen, which I found out had paint peeling, are now in a paint stripping bath.






Once again I apologise for the bad pictures. My phone is good but I haven't properly researched cleaning yet. I also know I need to build a light box, but family needs come first.

Also, yes the belts are not fully picked out on the knights. I am looking to decide on whether to spend the time on detailing or just paint more troops.

Got a new hobby station to help organize the desk. Other projects taking up space on it but should be cleared soon.

That is a nice looking hobby place. Looks like you've got quite a few projects going there.

 amazingturtles wrote:
That is a nice looking hobby place. Looks like you've got quite a few projects going there.

I like to keep 3 or so open so I can flip between to prevent burnout.

Yeah, that's about how i do things too.

I do like the freehand on the shields. It's the white tree of gondor, right?

 amazingturtles wrote:
Yeah, that's about how i do things too.

I do like the freehand on the shields. It's the white tree of gondor, right?

It is a small scale attempt at the basic outline, yes.

Uruk hai. 15 basecoats and a unit mock up.

Purple uruks! Nice!

 Vermis wrote:
Purple uruks! Nice!

It's actually a mixture of purple and red, but yup. Quick scheme for the army

Cool project!

Hobbits at this scale will be tiny!

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Cool project!

Hobbits at this scale will be tiny!

EDC

I'm not planning a hobbit army, but that's a good point.

First "horde" of uruk hai is painted, awaiting some hobby time to begin the basing process.

State of the forces of the two towers, 1rst edition.



I've decided to do a bi-weekly update on the current state of my 1/72 project. Starting today with the forces of darkness.

Pictures above, we have 1 horde of pikemen painted awaiting basing, some warriors painted, and a crossbowmen troop in the midst of being based. The crossbowmen may or may not make it into the 2000 PT list. Either way, I will be batch painting bases in groups of 3 to save time.

Also pictured, my two ballistae arrived from eccentric Miniatures. With a little conversion they will fit right in.

Not pictured, I have two mumakil from harad being worked on. They are the basic elephant toys I mentioned earlier, with scratch built howdahs and greenstuff. I'm waiting on an order from the UK and a care package from a friend in Europe to add crew.

I'm also waiting on an order of more half orcs that will fill gaps in my 2k list. Other than that, I should only have to purchase one more set of pikemen to have 2k plus points up and running.

Somebody call for a phalanx?

Cool! Are those for use as kings of war with a lotr theme or the lotr game from GW?

 brushcommando wrote:
Cool! Are those for use as kings of war with a lotr theme or the lotr game from GW?

Kings of war


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Phase 1 on basing

And done sans the standard and drummer, which are on my painting table. Also crossbow troop.

State of the forces of the two towers, 2nd edition:

The army as I have it worked out is coming along. Cab have been started, progress on the mumakil, and most of the remaining infantry/cab for 2k are on the painting table.

I have a few infantry left to put on stands for painting, and I really only have to build the two ballistae and a couple hero conversions.

Pics as follows: howdah and other mumakil business, then saruman on a warg, then the current painting conga lineup.

And out of that painting queue 6 warg riders with thier mounts and 5 more pikemen are ready for basing. Getting closer to having 2k of darkness set to game with.

Picture of the warg cavalry

The warg cavalry look especially good, and I like how you're approaching the mumakil

 amazingturtles wrote:
The warg cavalry look especially good, and I like how you're approaching the mumakil

I appreciate the commentary. It is really helping me stay motivated!

excepting the fact that the uruk hai were sculpted from the designs used in the movies, I'm trying to stay close to the books. hence the 13th century knights as guards of the citadel.

Hey y'all,

So everything from that painting queue photo is painted and awaiting basing early next week as I'm spending the weekend with my wife.

Up to 179 minis painted this year so far

Unit bases are looking great, and I'm looking forward to see how you're going to bash that elephant.

179! that's impressive and I don't care what size they are.

 amazingturtles wrote:
179! that's impressive and I don't care what size they are.

I ordered counts as haradrim a week ago at 96 minis for $10 bucks.


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 Vermis wrote:
Unit bases are looking great, and I'm looking forward to see how you're going to bash that elephant.

Excepting haradrim for the howdah I'm planning on tackling him this week.

As you can see by the figures in the howdah, the haradrim have arrived....