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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Freelancer on 29 August 2021, 03:19:21 AM

Title: Middle Earth projects: Gildor & Co.
Post by: Freelancer on 29 August 2021, 03:19:21 AM
I've been wanting to build one of these for ages. Finally got round to carving the foam and laying on the air dry clay.
(https://i.ibb.co/T01YJRG/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/X5Dj6pP)
Title: Re: Hobbit hole
Post by: Little Odo on 29 August 2021, 03:06:35 PM
That's a great start
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole
Post by: Freelancer on 30 August 2021, 08:10:07 AM
...and with some paint and flock, a hole for a Hobbit of modest to low income  ;)
(https://i.ibb.co/3CrLGWV/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rw71TMq)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole
Post by: Mick_in_Switzerland on 30 August 2021, 08:17:24 AM
Nicely done  :)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole
Post by: Spinal Tap on 30 August 2021, 08:47:44 AM
That is a very well put together piece; would also be useful in Burrows and Badgers.
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole
Post by: Freelancer on 30 August 2021, 10:38:26 AM
"I'd advise you to change the door shape if you want to avoid the IP lawyers."
(https://i.ibb.co/PNvmxws/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qd3yBkL)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole
Post by: Ultravanillasmurf on 30 August 2021, 11:52:03 AM
Nice job.
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole
Post by: Elk101 on 30 August 2021, 12:14:54 PM
Nicely done. It works well for Burrows and Badgers too.
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole
Post by: SBMiniaturesGuy on 31 August 2021, 03:45:09 PM
That's really well done, thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole
Post by: Freelancer on 01 September 2021, 09:56:17 AM
  Taking inspiration from Ingarsby73's use of Oathmark Tribals as Woses, I decide to make my own. The heads work well for Woses with their deeply set eyes. The six pack torso didn't look right so I used the same trick of shortening the torso and giving it more of a pot belly look. In the books Woses had bows, but in War of the Ring army lists they have blowguns, so I mad a mix of both.
(https://i.ibb.co/W6zdPxX/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/NsNkmVq)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole (+ Woses)
Post by: fred on 01 September 2021, 12:19:01 PM
Great looking hobbit hole

The Woses are coming on nicely too
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole (+ Woses)
Post by: Freelancer on 02 September 2021, 04:58:40 AM
A Wose by any other name...
(https://i.ibb.co/9NzJfGW/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/37Gw8kc)

Those Orcs never knew what hit em'
(https://i.ibb.co/SXXbHLb/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ccc0Rm0)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole (+ Woses)
Post by: Elk101 on 02 September 2021, 06:10:35 PM
The Woses look rather good. Nice idea.
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole (+ Woses)
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on 02 September 2021, 06:41:52 PM
Great work!
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole (+ Woses)
Post by: Little Odo on 03 September 2021, 08:05:54 AM
Agreed! They do look rather good!  :o
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole (+ Woses)
Post by: Freelancer on 04 September 2021, 07:55:54 AM
Although I have plenty of tree models, I thought I'd make some to build a forest base with a lift off canopy (so I could fit company bases inside). Starting with twisting some wire armatures.
(https://i.ibb.co/hCMqs9R/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cxvmJ3c)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole (+ Woses)
Post by: Freelancer on 07 September 2021, 02:17:09 AM
Add some air dry clay...
(https://i.ibb.co/XSLfyT3/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Fg3kst0)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Hobbit hole (+ Woses)
Post by: Koyote on 07 September 2021, 04:13:02 AM
Quote from: Freelancer on 02 September 2021, 04:58:40 AM
A Wose by any other name...
(https://i.ibb.co/9NzJfGW/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/37Gw8kc)

Those Orcs never knew what hit em'
(https://i.ibb.co/SXXbHLb/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ccc0Rm0)

You are my hero! I love the Wose. During my misspent youth, when I was still RPGing, we played MERP (using the I.C.E.expanded rules). One of my favorite characters was a particularly savage and fearsome Wose. Ah, memories….
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: Freelancer on 07 September 2021, 05:33:47 AM
Yeah, it was MERP that introduced me to Woses. I always figured Tolkien was inspired by Piltdown man, as it would have been topical at the time and hadn't been debunked as a fraud until after LOTR was published.
(https://i.ibb.co/SnX1Hjm/Piltdown.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)

Ironically the more recently discovered bones of the Flores Hobbits were a better fit with Woses, as they were short statured..... just not very British  ;)
(https://i.ibb.co/18hyvRF/wose.jpg) (https://ibb.co/KFR40VT)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: Freelancer on 07 September 2021, 05:47:47 AM
Anyway, here is the finished forest for woses, hobbits and darker denizens......
(https://i.ibb.co/SVFtMMy/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/MPFcttS)

and without the canopy..
(https://i.ibb.co/PDFb2NN/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Sf51kPP)

Don't go into the Old Forest Fatty....
(https://i.ibb.co/Bfh77p7/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/p1Hss7s)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on 07 September 2021, 06:17:33 AM
Great work!
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: Pattus Magnus on 07 September 2021, 06:32:12 AM
That forest looks amazing, great results!
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: Bearwoodman on 07 September 2021, 08:49:06 AM
That forest looks excellent, realistic, spooky and playable.  :?
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: dadlamassu on 07 September 2021, 08:54:32 AM
The forest looks dark and a bit threatening (as it should).  Also very much like the Woses - brought back memories of a few years ago when my grandson played a LOTR Strategy Game with the ones I had. He called them "People with Poison Peashooters" and the name stuck.
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: andyskinner on 07 September 2021, 09:06:28 PM
Looks good!  Could you show the underside of the canopy?  Is it one piece?

thanks
andy
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: Freelancer on 07 September 2021, 11:03:58 PM
The underside looks like a less fluffy version of the top side. It is one piece. I used plastic gutter guard mesh as the foundation and glued craft store dried moss to both sides of it as base foliage, the top side had model railroad lichen make the canopy more "leafy". Its a bit experimental, so we'll see how it holds up under transport and game play, but it seems to be doing the job.
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Old Forest
Post by: Freelancer on 21 September 2021, 05:46:12 AM
Gildor Inglorian and the House of Finrod.... using Mirkwood rangers
(https://i.ibb.co/bj08kYb/OLYMPUS-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nqG5F4P)
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Gildor & Co.
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on 21 September 2021, 10:18:41 AM
They look great!
Title: Re: Middle Earth projects: Gildor & Co.
Post by: Lord Blackheart on 23 September 2021, 08:39:13 AM
That's some nice conversion work. I love the forest too.