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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Father Primus on 03 April 2024, 12:40:59 PM
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For me one of the most dramatic parts of Moddle-Earth history was decline and fall of Arnor and its sub-kingdoms. Partially because it was so poorly covered by Tolkien's books and leaves lot to our inagination.
I've started from kitbashed Arthedain household troops - here is a captain and a banner-bearer:
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Nicely done 8)
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Very nice, I like your take on this.
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Beautiful work! The banner is especially impressive.
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I like the style for those "early" Númenorian Kingdoms.
The conflicts of Arnor can provide some great gaming material.
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Let's add an orc captain and some wolves.
Each wolf has a tiny 1mm magnet drilled behind the mane to allow a steady rider mounting if neccessary.
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Fantastic! Love the Arthedain, and the orc looks absolutely brilliant as well- really fun dramatic basing :)
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More great work! I like what you did with the wolves, using the magnets to get double duty with each figure as a mount or as a figure on its own. The painting is excellent, too.
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Thanks, gentlemen!
Added an Arthedain noble (or some semi-independent northern prince) and a bunch of dunedain rangers + wandering dwarf ranger made of cut-down Victrix viking.
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As for me Victrix makes excellent dwarves lol
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Those look terrific! Great idea to cut them down!
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Those look terrific! Great idea to cut them down!
Thanks! Because of their knee-long dress they cut and glue really well.
Some quick-made rock outcrops
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Those modified minis do indeed make for excellent dwarves, great work!
What figures went into the making of the Arnorians? I've long enjoyed a late antiquity/early dark-age look for them - evoking the combination of a long history and current decay, while combining aesthetics balancing some rich decoration and practicality - so these nicely fit the bill.
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Those modified minis do indeed make for excellent dwarves, great work!
What figures went into the making of the Arnorians? I've long enjoyed a late antiquity/early dark-age look for them - evoking the combination of a long history and current decay, while combining aesthetics balancing some rich decoration and practicality - so these nicely fit the bill.
Thanks! Arnorians are made of Fireforge medieval russians + Gripping Beast dark age warriors + wargames factory persian shields and lots of other bits. Heads are from Gripping Beast dark age cavalry for they have nice fantasy look.
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Cheers - quite the chimeras they are then, but the pieces fit together wonderfully well. :)
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First infantry troops of the Witch-King.
I choose blue-greyish skintone to make northern orcs look more 'northern".
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Normally I'm on the receiving end of similar comments, but I can't seem to get the pictures showing, no matter which browser I try... :(
+++EDIT+++ My phone's browser seems to do the trick though... ??? Looking good, in an evil sort of way :D
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Thanks! Because of their knee-long dress they cut and glue really well.
late to this, did you just cut down the legs? or did you do the arms and bodies as well?
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late to this, did you just cut down the legs? or did you do the arms and bodies as well?
I cut legs and necks (virtually they have no necks now). Dwarfs have quite a long arms in my opinion so human arms are good enough as they are.
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Great project - well done!
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Really good work there. They have a very distinctive feel, with the skin tones and snowy basing, and I like it!
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What a great idea with those dwarfs! I initially didn't read properly and did think they looked very short for Victrix minis :D
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Those cut-down-vikings-as-dwarves are really excellent! :-*
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Those cut-down-vikings-as-dwarves are really excellent! :-*
Can only second this. Brilliant idea and excellently executed. I just might steal it down the line ;)
Lovely project that seems to be lots of fun. These are Oathmark Orks, right? I think I built a couple of those, too.
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Yes, these are Oathmark orc slaves - great miniatures.
I always liked the concept of Khazad-Dum Iron Guards - trading routs and posts dwarven guards fighting in "florentine" style with axe and sword. Converted mine from victrix vikings.
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Excellent job on those conversions and the painting!
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Did you cut off their legs and glued them back shorter?
Seamless job there, really came out great, I might steal this idea for future dwarf projects.
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Thanks!
Did you cut off their legs and glued them back shorter?
Seamless job there, really came out great, I might steal this idea for future dwarf projects.
Yes, I cut their legs to ankles, then glued with a plastic glue and strengthened with green or brown stuff. Also cut their neck to achieve more dwarf-ish look. Also enlarged their noses and occasionally beards.
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3d-printed ringwraith or maybe Witch-King himself!
Great miniatures from Bite the Bullet if a bit large for classic LOTR.
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I was lazy and painted these miniatures using only zenital drybrush (except the horse which I painted in standard "horse way".
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Inspired dwarf idea
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That Ringwraith turned out rather nicely.
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So cool to discover one more interpretation of LOTRO universe with minis. ARe you going to play a specific rule with them ?
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That Ringwraith turned out rather nicely.
Agreed, the blue highlights work really well.
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Excellent work on these, love the snow.
Also, the way you highlighted the cloak on the wraith really capture the character of the LotR movie ring wraiths too, excellent stuff!
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Lovely minis.
Great work all a round.
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Thanks, gentlemen!
Some 3d-printed trolls. It was a first time I used only drybrush + washes/contasts (except some minor details that were highlighted).
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I really like the way those trolls have turned out. The colours blend into each other seamlessly.
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Great trolls, it's so handy having a few 3d versions of the GW one for some variety in pose. What a great age we live in for the hobby.
Cheers
Matt
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Those look excellent! That technique gave a very good set of skin tones.
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Thought the Trolls were the 1/72 scale Dark Alliance brand.
They look fantastic.
Grimm
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Great trolls, it's so handy having a few 3d versions of the GW one for some variety in pose. What a great age we live in for the hobby.
Absolutely! 3d-printing makes our wargaming dreams real.
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Very Impressive
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Very impressive work, but that Ringwraith has me wondering - why do they always run around with tattered robes? Just because you're incorporeal, you can't enjoy nice things? lol
(Pretty sure the Witch-King himself is described at one point as having a shiny crown for his invisible head...)
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Very impressive work, but that Ringwraith has me wondering - why do they always run around with tattered robes? Just because you're incorporeal, you can't enjoy nice things? lol
(Pretty sure the Witch-King himself is described at one point as having a shiny crown for his invisible head...)
Maybe in Angmar local factories were unable to produce high-quality cloth - unlike their more industrialized Mordor colleagues :D
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The trolls turned out an absolute treat.
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Those trolls are great!
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Thanks!
Here is a unit I desired to collect quite a long ago - Shire borderers, rushing to the aid of doomed Arthedain.
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Main inspiration for this unit (and all this project honestly) was a marvelous fanfiction novel I read 4 years ago (not available in English unfortunately). One of its plotlines was centered on a group of said hobbit militiamen, wandering in a ravaged Arhedain and later in Angmar. Absolutely stunning fanfiction with some smart historical parallels written with great respect to Tolien's style.
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Nice unit of halflings. How do they compare size-wise with Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings figures? I am looking to add to my Hobbit militia but I am finding that everyone's idea of a halfling is different so I have yet to find any that scale well together.
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Nice unit of halflings. How do they compare size-wise with Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings figures? I am looking to add to my Hobbit militia but I am finding that everyone's idea of a halfling is different so I have yet to find any that scale well together.
Thanks! I don't have any original LOTR hobbits now but had some in the past. Looks like these are the same size but I reduced them 10-15% in editor. Looks like most halflings on the market are quite large!
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who is the maker then?
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who is the maker then?
Across the Realms
They make almost all miniatures needed for Scouring of the Shire. I used archers and heroes, but modified them a bit:
Added cloaks for winter feel and added bowstrings - 3d-printed bows are very fragile.
Also added a feathered hat to a bareheaded hobbit archer that smokes a pipe.
On the negative side: I found some details on the minis too thin. As I made them 10-15% smaller, they turned out less detailed than they should be. It is a problem with most 3d-minis.
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Lovely work with them, a nice job done!
Main inspiration for this unit (and all this project honestly) was a marvelous fanfiction novel I read 4 years ago (not available in English unfortunately). One of its plotlines was centered on a group of said hobbit militiamen, wandering in a ravaged Arhedain and later in Angmar. Absolutely stunning fanfiction with some smart historical parallels written with great respect to Tolien's style.
Which language is it? Just in case that I could read it :D
Nice unit of halflings. How do they compare size-wise with Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings figures? I am looking to add to my Hobbit militia but I am finding that everyone's idea of a halfling is different so I have yet to find any that scale well together.
Did you already take a look at the Wargames Atlantic Halflings?
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Lovely work with them, a nice job done!Which language is it? Just in case that I could read it :D
Did you already take a look at the Wargames Atlantic Halflings?
WA halflings are nice, but for me they are too heavily armored and late medieval in appearance.
Also I don't loke thin fragile weapons for which WA miniatures are notoriously famous.
Author of the novel - "Ingvall" Baranovsky lives in USA, but wrote his book in russian, mostly for the former USSR audience. As I understood he is quite a well-known person among russian-speaking Tolkien community.
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Great looking Hobbits, They all must be Tooks.
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Great looking Hobbits, They all must be Tooks.
Judging on their rough and menacing look, I suppose at least some of them are Bucklanders.
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Full unit of 10 Arnor infantry, or as I call them - Arthedain Pseudocomitatenses :D
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Idea was to show the degradation of kingdom's power and military - old and rugged recruits in colorful uniforms and rich but battered armor.
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They look really great!
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These are nice, are they Fireforge Byzantines with head swaps?
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These are nice, are they Fireforge Byzantines with head swaps?
Thanks!
They have Fireforge Byzantines bodies - hands. heads, weapons and shields are from different kits, mostly Gripping Beast and Wargames Factory.