Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Rust Monster face reveal)

[Aerendar Valandil]

Ow, the orcs ar great!

[Elk101]

I'm really enjoying seeing these miniatures getting so nicely painted.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, both!

Another orc's joined the throng - and I found the chap with the open mouth and glaive; he'd been lurking among his more pallid brethren deep in the Cabinet of Shame. So the warband's now seven strong.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Nice stuff as always.  I like your painting style.  I did try to copy it with awful results 
My favourite is the cyclops orc.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Yes, the cyclops is a Citadel classic. My teenage speed-painted rendition of the same miniature is on page 4 of this thread.

Here's a brace of oldies: a CitadelFiend Factory goblin and a Grenadier dragon man.

[beefcake]

Love the dragon man. I've always wanted a bunch of them.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks! Yes, I'm keen to get a good few painted up - very useful RPG foes, I think.

The orc warband now has a half-orc to lead them: Agaroth the Unwashed:

[Hobgoblin]

On a whim, I ordered some 54mm orc toy soldiers from Russia. They arrived today, so I thought I'd better paint one up. The kids already have painting designs on two of the four that arrived, but I've earmarked one other for myself. These were very cheap - less than four quid before postage, so a pound each. I think they'll work very nicely as giants or ogres or trolls.

[Hobgoblin]

And here he is with some friends.

[beefcake]

Very nice. They work really well as ogres, giants or trolls don't they. Link please

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks! This is them.

[beefcake]

Thanks. I'm very tempted by the centaurs as well. Replace the hooves with claws and give it a different tail. Great dragon ogres.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Great painting (once again).  These could make nice armoured trolls in 28mm scale and I thought one figure from the Paladin's set could make a decent Morgoth with Grond.  One of the figures with a sword could have a wolf head attached (as a wolf-shaped helmet) could make a good Sauron.

[Elk101]

They work very well, particularly as an armoured troll type character. There's a slight LotR feel to them, no?

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all!

They work very well, particularly as an armoured troll type character. There's a slight LotR feel to them, no?

Yeah - though maybe more of a Silmarillion feel? For matching the Olog-hai/"hill trolls out of Gorgoroth" description, I don't think anyone has surpassed the Citadel efforts from the 80s:

"... came striding up, roaring like beasts, a great company of hill-trolls out of Gorgoroth. Taller and broader than Men they were, and they were clad only in close-fitting mesh of horny scales, or maybe that was their hideous hide; but they bore round bucklers huge and black and wielded heavy hammers in their knotted hands. Reckless they sprang into the pools and waded across, bellowing as they came."




But for Morgoth's armies - or the troll-bodyguard of Gothmog - I think these Russian chaps would fit the bill nicely. There's often a suggestion in Tolkien that evil technology (including monster-breeding) was more advanced in the earlier ages of Middle Earth. And there are couple of associations of trolls with giant orcs (the Appendix description of the Olog-hai and a line somewhere about how the Elves didn't really distinguish between trolls and orcs).