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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Hammers on May 23, 2016, 01:11:04 PM
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Since my fancy for fantasy is not wide but deep I have chosen to post some of my latest work in a separate thread.
From my latest LPL10 thread and inspired by Tom, Burt and William, I give you some relatives of their's , also originating from the Ettenmoors:
Janice, The Mothertroll
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/JaniceTheTroll.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/JaniceTheTrollII.jpg)
[Zvezda plastic, converted]
Udo
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/UdoTheTrollI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/UdoTheTrollII.jpg)
[Gamezone, converted]
Lemmy
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/LemmyTheTrollI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/LemmyTheTrollII.jpg)
[Reaper, converted]
Ozzy
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/OzzyTheTrollI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/OzzyTheTrollII.jpg)
[Reaper, converted]
Axl
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/AxlTheTrollI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/AxlTheTrollII.jpg)
[Gamezone, converted]
Chalky Willy
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/ChalkyWhiteTheTrollI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/ChalkyWhiteTheTrollII.jpg)
[Hasslefree, converted]
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Really like the mottled skin tone you've used on the first Trolls. Almost looks like an organic camo pattern. Great contrast to Chalky Willy! Haha
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Balls to the wall lol lol lol lol
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Excellentskin tones and Todgertasti. On chalky😜
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Thank you. Glad you like them. Violence and nudity, ya know...
These are for a The Hobbit project I am building with Can O'Beer and Fivers, the Little Hammers and the neighbour's kids (lets call them Titania and Oberon henceforth). They are all much into the critters in the book and they like dwarves, so I will be posting some more soon. There collection to this set was however "Ewwww.... Gross..." But they liked coming up with names and backstories to this brood. Udo has a chain pierced through his Achilles heel and Ozzy an iron collar, which set them off...
The pics are a bit much enlarges so I think I will reshoot against a brown background and scale them down to 600p. I find that brush strokes and little errors become too evident if the picture are blown up much beyond real size. Chalky Willy seems to have developed a bad eczema in the diaper region, for example.
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/FiveDwarvesAndWagonI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/FiveDwarvesAndWagonII.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/DwarfIII.jpg)
[Various plastic GW LotR and tH dwarves, wagon ? Grenadier perhaps]
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Fantastic stuff, love that first female Troll :)
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GandalfI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GandalfII.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GandalfIII.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GandalfIV.jpg)
Lovely model, this cart.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GandalfV.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GandalfVI.jpg)
[Metal GW LotR]
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/BewareOfTrolls.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/BewareOfTrollsII.jpg)
[GW Warhammer plastic bit, no clue from which kit]
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/ArwenI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/ArwenII.jpg)
[Metal GW LotR]
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Gildor Inglorion, Halbarad and Dunadan ranger
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RangersOfTheNorthI.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RangersOfTheNorthII.jpg)
[Metal GW LotR, Dark Sword 'Jon Snow']
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RangersOfTheNorthIII.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RangersOfTheNorthIV.jpg)
[Metal and plastic GW LotR]
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RangersOfTheNorthV.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RangersOfTheNorthVI.jpg)
[Metal GW LotR]
Halbarad, Arathorn and ranger
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RangersOfTheNorthVII.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RangersOfTheNorthVIII.jpg)
[Metal GW LotR]
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That is a great collection of miniatures and I really like the 'gritty' paint jobs that you have given them. Looking forward to seeing more...many more
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It's all great but I really love the piebald skin patterns of the trolls- they look amazing (especially the one with half a horse).
who makes the Trolls?
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That is a great collection of miniatures and I really like the 'gritty' paint jobs that you have given them. Looking forward to seeing more...many more
Believe me, is not intentional. :) One year off the hobby and I have to basically guess where the paint should go.
I have recently overcome my vanity and aquired these, and it improves things dramatically.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/Goggles.jpg)
The rangers were painted before the acquisition, the trolls after.
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It's all great but I really love the piebald skin patterns of the trolls- they look amazing (especially the one with half a horse).
who makes the Trolls?
It says under the images.
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It's all great but I really love the piebald skin patterns of the trolls- they look amazing (especially the one with half a horse).
who makes the Trolls?
As I look at the photographs I realize they look a bit like they are wearing SS cammo-smock autumn pattern.
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After reading 'The Hobbit' there was a strong movement in "Villa Morannonn" (my home) to make something to reenact within. As we have ample supply of gnarled twigs in the maple hedge which surrounds our garden, so we turned them into the Mirkwood, an imaginary place now deeply rooted in the minds of young Fivers, CanO'Beer (my sons) and their like-minded friends Titania and Oberon (the neighbors' kids).
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/MirkwoodI.jpg)
Udo the Troll spying for something edible in the putrid woodland swamp.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/MirkwoodII.jpg)
A wicked spider sucking the last juices out of a once mighty stag. (Fivers painted the spider).
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/MirkwoodIII.jpg)
Chalky Willy the Troll coming to deal with the issues of a three shadowing his patio in the garden of his neighbour.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/MirkwoodIV.jpg)
Gandalf the Grey running a stash of Longbottom towards the Lonely Mountain.
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That's a splendid little scene :-* :-* :-*
cheers
James
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Love the colours on your fine fellows, but holy cripes that swamp terrain!
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It is not a little scene, the piece measures about 40 by 50 cms, embracing a swamp, the Enchanted River, a rush, a path a spiders nest and a ford.
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the piece measures about 40 by 50 cms,
Amateur ;D
;)
cheers
James
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Very epic scene, I've used the hot glue web effect on a project myself and it's very effective. (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=75865.0 if you want to see a black/white paint job instead of clear)
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Very epic scene, I've used the hot glue web effect on a project myself and it's very effective. (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=75865.0 if you want to see a black/white paint job instead of clear)
Well done that man. Unfortunately hot glue filaments do not hold up well to the teeth of time. I will have to restore them using some other method, like fishing line.
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Amateur ;D
;)
cheers
James
Yes, well... But you know how it is: professional endeavours attract no end of vulgar types.
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Yes, well... But you know how it is: professional endeavours attract no end of vulgar types.
lol lol
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Love those pics!
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Great stuff!
The miniatures all look great and the Mirkwood looks amazing.
Top drawer.
:-* :-*
(Now I wish again that I had gotten one of those carts for Gandy to trot about in).
Oh, and ignore the Cumbrian Troll.
He is just jealous that he is only allowed to build with straight edges.
;D ;D ;D
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Twig diorama is crazy-good. (And the minis) How much re-arranging did you do to get the final composition? And then how much 'basing' did you do? Quite a bit, obviously! But was it a slog or did it all fall into place? (Figuratively as well as literally)
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Some great stuff in this thread! I'm a big fan of the Lord of the Rings books, movies and game so I always enjoy seeing what people have painted up.
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A couple of more shots, showing the complete layout.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/MirkwoodV.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/MirkwoodVI.jpg)
I have not decided what to do about a canopy. Available techniques may not improve looks.
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Nice work Peder. Your passion for this adventure in miniature really shows.
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Nice work Peder. Your passion for this adventure in miniature really shows.
Yes. And my absentmindedness. We left the piece outside in pouring rain overnight... Sometimes I'd like to shoot myself. :(
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Yes. And my absentmindedness. We left the piece outside in pouring rain overnight... Sometimes I'd like to shoot myself. :(
Noooooo! :o it's a lovely piece and I really hope it's recoverable .
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Oh dear! I hope the scenic piece is okay.
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"We"? You like eating raw fish? Oh you're Swedish? Never mind. :D
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As I made known publicly in another post (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=3577.msg1604567#msg1604567), I some time ago was lucky enough to, for a steal, be offered a Games Workshop Rohan Settlement box from a man tired of life. So I pounced!
This is my first build out of a multitude of possibilities:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/RohanFarm.jpg)
Let me just from the get go state that these kits are the shit! Better than any plastic terrain piece I have ever built. I am often hesitant to praise GW, but credit were credit's due.
Two of this plastic injection mould comes together to create one basic unit, like a thatched cottage, with plenty of details architectural pieces to spare. You can, by combining basic "building blocks" (walls, vestibules, extensions...) create all kinds of buildings, from a simple pigs pen to a great hall. As they are made from hard plastic, they of course lend themselves to custom extensions and modifications with whatever profile polystyrene sheet and scrap bitz you have at hand.
I think I have about 10 frames left from which I plan to make a full settlement, iron age style, with stables, smithy, armoury, bingo hall, strip club....
Can you tell I am having fun? Well, I am. And as I am that kind of person, the fluff of just what and where this settlement is just keeps pouring out as I tinker. More to come about that later...
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I’ve used and am using the Laketown Village for a similar building adventure: the GW ME buildings are extremely versatile kits. Am looking forward to seeing what more you do. 8)
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I’ve used and am using the Laketown Village for a similar building adventure: the GW ME buildings are extremely versatile kits. Am looking forward to seeing what more you do. 8)
Yes, I have seen them and they are great looking. I have three sets myself, and sometime in the future plan to do a smallish Laketown board on water. You know, poured resin and such,,,
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Oh, I forgot to say I have umpteen lenghts of pallisades with watchtowers to match. They are also very nice, but pallisades are not really had to scratch build so I would not purchase them if I had not gotten them in a good deal like this.
These palisades need some tinkering with anyway, or you'll have a very loooong straight wall of timber across your gaming board.
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They look great, an awful let better than a lot of the other kits I've seen.
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Lovely work on the Rohan building 8)
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And here is the Farrier's Smithy.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/RohanHouseKit/FarriersSmithy/FarrierSign.jpg)
The farrier is *in*.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/RohanHouseKit/FarriersSmithy/ForgeCloseup.jpg)
All the accoutrements of the smithy.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/RohanHouseKit/FarriersSmithy/ForgeCloseup2.jpg)
Wideshot of the farriers yard.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/RohanHouseKit/FarriersSmithy/FarrierWithCustomers.jpg)
The farriers with today's customers. The knight and farrier is a Mithril Miniatures set. I did the knight in my usual Riders of Rohan color scheme.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/RohanHouseKit/FarriersSmithy/SmithyAbove.jpg)
The layout of the farrier's yard.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/RohanHouseKit/FarriersSmithy/SmithyFromBack.jpg)
The bulk of the kiln and chimney, seen from the back.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/RohanHouseKit/FarriersSmithy/SmithyFromSide.jpg)
An angle which shows some more tools.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/Workbench/RohanHouseKit/FarriersSmithy/ShackPerspective.jpg)
The farriers shack, the part built from GWS Rohan house kit.
If you are interested in the build process I have done a writeup here (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=129938.msg1646618#msg1646618).
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Stunning 8)
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Outstanding! Will you make me one please? ;)
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Outstanding! Will you make me one please? ;)
Thanks And no thanks! Making miniature lumber frames like this is quite time consuming. As is painting little fiddly tools.
Instead I will build and paint a Royal stud farm, I think. All to for my own gratification.
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That's excellent. The turf roof is a brilliant idea.
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Superb Peder :-*
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That is delightful work :-*
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Beautiful work Peder. Attention to detail is superb.
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Lots to love in this thread but that Rohan buildings really take the spotlight for me. Brilliant work!
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Great thread,never knew it existed. The trolls are brilliant!
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/TheodenKing.jpg)
Hail Theoden King!
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Very nice!
I assume the actor Bill Hill is left handed? As JRRT never mentions such a thing.
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Very nice!
I assume the actor Bill Hill is left handed? As JRRT never mentions such a thing.
Didn't even think of that. In that fanstastic scene when he rides down the line of he loyal riders, chopping the spearheads off (to even the odds for the other side, surely, very sportsmanlike) he obviously uses his right hand.
https://youtu.be/POdknqszMDY (https://youtu.be/POdknqszMDY)
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A great scene in the film,always get a lump in my throat. Incidentally he just taps the spears with the flat of the blade,acknowledgment,and respect(and not a little rousing)for what is about to come.
Do you notice most have their shields slung?
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A great scene in the film,always get a lump in my throat. Incidentally he just taps the spears with the flat of the blade,acknowledgment,and respect(and not a little rousing)for what is about to come.
Do you notice most have their shields slung?
Yes, I was just joking. :)
The shields, yes. I suppose it has more to do with practical film making concerns. I am curious how they were used with late Dark Age/Early Medieval cavalry.
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Indeed.
A bit slow I’m afraid re. joke...And as for the shields,it’s actually pretty easy once you have learnt control with one hand,ahem ;)
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Stunning work on the Farriers Yard :-* :-*
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Stunning work on the Farriers Yard :-* :-*
Most kind.
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Wonderful stuff Peder :-*
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Wonderful stuff Peder :-*
Thankyou, thankyou
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I know, Im a bit late, but Im in love with that smithy! Childhood memories hit me like a lightning bolt. I immediately thought on the desire, I felt as I saw the first Lego Castle Blacksmith Shop:
https://brickset.com/sets/6040-1/Blacksmith-Shop
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Late? I just posted it! :)
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Pffff! 'Ride to ruin and the world's end' was Eomer's line. His exploits at the Pelennor Fields made him one of my favourite characters (after Sam, of course). But old Petey dumped all the stuff he did that made him cool and gave his best lines to other people. <sulking>
Lovely job, H. Good man.
The arrival of the Rohirrim is I think my favourite part in the entire trilogy. This passage:
"Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.
And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.”
Reading that as a teenager I think I put the book down, stunned. What a way to end a chapter.
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Well, well, well, what have we here...
The completed build from this build thread (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130135.new#new):
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanWell/RohanWell01.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanWell/RohanWell02.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanWell/RohanWell03.jpg)
They lady with the jug is from Perry Miniature, WotR range. I have painted a whole bunch of civilians for Rohan, most of them from Perry Miniatures WotR and Crusades ranges. They work very well with the GW LotR miniatures as the Perry twins did most of them (at least early on).
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Dammit! I love it.
You cleverdick you with that illusory depth. I'd cal that damned successful experiment. The paperlace was a brilliant idea too!
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Dammit! I love it.
You cleverdick you with that illusory depth. I'd cal that damned successful experiment. The paperlace was a brilliant idea too!
Thank you! :)
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That is delightfully clever :-*
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Entirely fabulous, you damned ingenious Swede. What a great piece of modelling :-*
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Nice :-* The little details always make it for me :)
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Fantastic piece of scenery - very well executed. Looking forward to seeing more. A lot more!
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Very kind of you to say, thank you.
I am mulling over what to do next. The King’s game keeper’s cottage? The Arsenal?
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Very nicely done. :-*
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Simply stunning :-*
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Very nicely done. :-*
Simply stunning :-*
Thank you, both. :)
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Cracking piece of scenery.
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Cracking piece of scenery.
Thank you. :)
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A fantastic addition to your middle earth table.
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that is a great effect on your well, well done !
Brian
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that is a great effect on your well, well done !
Brian
Thank you, lots of potential puns in this project. :)
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As a little change of pace I have clobbered together a "pilot" half-orc of Saruman, the inspiration whichof comes from that excellent bit in "Unfinished Tales", Part III, chapter 5: "The battle of the Fords of Isen". For those of you not familiar with it, Unfinished Tales is a posthumously released golem of a book, put together by Christopher Tolken from various in depth background material written by Prof. J.R.R. Tolken as extensions or explanations of The Silmarillon, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings.
This chapter details all the going-ons and strategies of Saruman the White during the War of the Ring. It is particularly good for those gaming with Rohan and Isengard, as it has a lot of information of the troop types the White Wizard deployed and how they were used.
One cadre of brutes, of particular interest to me and which is not part of the Peter Jackson interpretations, nor GW's, are the half-orc elite soldier which Saruman sent forth with the specific purpose to end the line of Eorl the Young, and thus topple the Eorlingas rein over Rohan. These soldiers are described in the following manner, in the section where Theodred, son of Theoden, defends the ford of Isen against the Isengard troops shortly before the Battle of the Hornburg:
As soon as the enemy had gained possession of the eastern end of the Fords there appeared a company of men or Orc-men (evidently dispatched for the purpose), ferocious, mail-clad, and armed with axes. They hastened to the eyot and assailed it from both sides. At the same time Grimbold on the west bank was attacked by Saruman's forces on that side of the Isen. As he looked eastward, dismayed by the sounds of battle and the hideous Orc-cries of victory, he saw the axe-men driving Théodred's men from the shores of the eyot towards the low knoll in its centre, and he heard Théodred's great voice cryingTo me, Eorlingas! At once Grimbold, taking a few men that stood near him, ran back to the eyot. So fierce was his onset from the rear of the attackers that Grimbold, a man of great strength and stature, clove his way through, till with two others he reached Théodred standing at bay on the knoll. Too late. As he came to his side Théodred fell, hewn down by a great Orc-man. Grimbold slew him and stood over the body of Théodred, thinking him dead; and there he would himself soon have died, but for the coming of Elfhelm.
Pretty exciting stuff. These axemen, large, determined and specially trained, sound to me like the viking shield breakers of yore and I would bet a fair amount that J.R.R.T, being a professor in Anglo-Saxon, had them in mind when he wrote this essay. Tactically, the twohanded, bearded haftaxe, or daneaxe, was exactly what they used to break up a shield wall.
So, inspired by all the plastic orc-conversions which seem to be going on at the moment, and for the purpose of creating such a unit for my Isengard horde I have purchased Victrix' excellent Anglo-Saxon Huscarl sprues...
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0782/9619/products/Saxons-Huscarles-Tool-Layout-V1-Front.jpg?v=1595183089)
I would say Victrix is well now for it's quality sprues. Nice dynamic poses, fine detail, very little flash.
Standing side by side, the Victrix lot is, if not taller still slightly larger than the GW Middle Earth scale. On the other hand these half orcs are supposed to be brutes so that works in my favour.
Beside longaxe and mailcoat, there are some clues to how these might be armed. In the the The Two Towers, chapter 1 "The departure of Boromir" we read:
They were armed with short broad-bladed swords, not with the curved scimitars usual with Orcs: and they had bows of yew, in length and shape like the bows of Men. Upon their shields they bore a strange device: a small white hand in the centre of a black field; on the front of their iron helms was set an S-rune, wrought of some white metal.
Obviously Saruman's top orcs hade better equipment and little vanity trade marks of the wizard, so it is reasonable to believe that his other storm troopers had something similar.
This is what I came up with:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Isengard/Half-OrcOfSaruman1.jpg)
The body and limbs are straightup Victrix Saxon Huscarl, the head is Oathmark goblin, except the helmet which is also Victrix. I think the tall helmet looks good on him, like a part of a guards unit. Also the shape makes it distinct from the Rohan, more rounded helm design. I don't know if it is noticeable, but I managed find a way to without too much hassle cut a *tiny* C (Cirth ...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Isengard/Cirth_c_rune.jpg)
...for 'S' as in Saruman to glue on the helm's nose guard. The skin tones off orcs have been discussed at lenght, and I decided for this half-breed to go for sallow. I used the Foundry Mediterranean skin triad, mixed with yellow ochre and desert yellow, and added depth and five-o-clock shadow with dark brown and black washes.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Isengard/Half-OrcOfSaruman2.jpg)
I wanted something in their garb to make them stand out so I have given him a white tunic given as a mark of honor by Saruman. The chainmail, as is very common in plastic miniature, is note quite as fine and i scale as it should be. I think it look so good anyway. The shield buckle prevents painting the White Hand heraldry smack dab in the middle as per canon, but I think this off-center hand looks OK to.
All in all I am quite content with this first trial model. I may try to make the hands look bigger, they are a bit dainty. I would also like to add a short sword, which by the description in the quote above sounds like a roman short stabbing sword, gladius.
And finally a couple of action photos to sex things up a bit, and to get a sense of size between the GW and Victrix product:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Isengard/Half-OrcOfSaruman4.jpg)
It is a rubbish shield on the rohirrim, I know. It is an experiment with a running boar shield motiv which did not turn out well. I shall replace it.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Isengard/Half-OrcOfSaruman5.jpg)
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That orc turned out really well.
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He’s great 8)
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Great work yet again mate.
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That's cool. I've thought about using Victrix minis as dunlendings.
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Love the Orc Peder, nice work.
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Nice work Peder on the Orc although I think Saruman might come to regret issuing him with a white tunic...just think of the size of the laundry under Isengard ;)
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He’s vet nicely done 8)
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Nice work Peder on the Orc although I think Saruman might come to regret issuing him with a white tunic...just think of the size of the laundry under Isengard ;)
Yes, I shall have to scratchbuild a Isengard dry cleaners manned by slave orcs ("no receipt, no returns!").
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Great kit bash, he works really well, very convincing. :)
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...or did I get that quote right? Anyway, I caught your attention, didn't I?
I have had these giant eagles of various brands perching on my lead pile for a while, three from GameZone being the latest arrivals. As the lead guano has been building up I thought it was high time to give them a lick of paint. Quite a quick paintjob, to be honest, involving a basecoat of VanDyke brown, a dark brown wash and then s few passes with the drybrush (these round makeup applicators really are a wonder). and details painted in in yellow, black, golden brown and tan.
An action shot to start with...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle1.jpg)
As you can see a couple of them are quite a bit smaller, the Grenadier ones, old purchases, but the are still quite nice so I thought I'd add them as fledglings.
One of the bigger ones...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle2.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle3.jpg)
..is one of the *excellent* sculpts from GameZone and quite a joy to paint.
Another one from the same company...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle4.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle5.jpg)
..is just as much a beut. Very dynamic poses...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle6.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle7.jpg)
...even though the mold for the wings have been reused between the three sculpts. A closeup of the eagles head tells you a bit of the quality of the sculpts.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle8.jpg)
Compare this with the Games Workshop Gwaihir...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle9.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle10.jpg)
Not a shit sculpt but a bit wooden.
As for the Grenadier eagles...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle11.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle12.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/GiantEagles/GreatEagle13.jpg)
A bit dinged up as they have suffered at the bottom of the lead pile for a while but still came OK, if I may say so myself.
Now, as for the playability of these supercharged birdies, I have little experience. Seems like a scenario could be very one sided with all these six in play.
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You’ve fluffed up your piccies mate :)
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You’ve fluffed up your piccies mate :)
Half expected. Tried linking to my onedrive. Must change permissons.
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Ok. Looking forward to seeing them :)
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Should be OK now, I think.
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Well worth the wait 8)
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They are delightful
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:-* :-* :-*
Those are a bit nice
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Splendid Peder :-*
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Those duckies are very nice! :-* :-* :-*
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Very nice. The gamezone ones look great.
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Superb!
That action shot is wonderful!
:-* :-*
I like all of them in their own way but do see what you mean about the GW Gwahir, very much the 'Driving Miss Daisy' of the bunch.
;)
I have to ask: Is that one of those 'moss mats' that you have created that lush valley out of?
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Superb!
That action shot is wonderful!
:-* :-*
I like all of them in their own way but do see what you mean about the GW Gwahir, very much the 'Driving Miss Daisy' of the bunch.
;)
I have to ask: Is that one of those 'moss mats' that you have created that lush valley out of?
”Driving miss Daisy”, good’n… lol
The matt is indeed a mossmat from Wish and the purpose is for window display and such. It is sn item which has been talked about quite bit in the online wargames terrain making community the last couple of years.
It is dirt cheap, covers roughly 1 by 1,5 meters and comes in a few variants, ground color bring the variable while tufts are constants. I believe mine is #2.
I find it particularly useful for glamour shots like this although you have to fiddle with the color balance a bit because of all the green reflecting.
It sheds like a bastard but there are several videos out there on how to pimp it and make it more stable.
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Thanks all for the kind words.
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Magnificent work!
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The eagles look great - very effective an a nice variety of poses. :-*
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”Driving miss Daisy”, good’n… lol
The matt is indeed a mossmat from Wish and the purpose is for window display and such. It is sn item which has been talked about quite bit in the online wargames terrain making community the last couple of years.
It is dirt cheap, covers roughly 1 by 1,5 meters and comes in a few variants, ground color bring the variable while tufts are constants. I believe mine is #2.
I find it particularly useful for glamour shots like this although you have to fiddle with the color balance a bit because of all the green reflecting.
It sheds like a bastard but there are several videos out there on how to pimp it and make it more stable.
Thanks, Peder.
:)
Enquiries shall be made as it works very well.
;)
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Nice air force, there - there were a couple of nice ones in the GW Warhammer Wood Elf range too, I believe, back in the nineties, not to mention the war hawks which were the size of Grenadier Eagles, from what I can see.
Really cool stuff 8)
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Gaining some experience in how to paint dragons. (I have quite a big one which has beens sitting glaring at me with fiery eyes from a shelf, I have been hesitating to put a brush to it for quite a while) This is a Uruloki, a wingless fire dragon of the First Age, from Mithril Miniatures.
I do not think giant lizards are Chris Tubbs's forte but this one has a certain charm.
It has a fairly simple colour scheme of tan and deep green, a wash a dark green ink and a quick dry brush of metallic bronze green. After that all scales and spines were picked out individually in several thin hilights.
I should have painted a Turin Turambar figure for the staged shot but couldn't be bothered.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Dragons/Uruloki1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Dragons/Uruloki3.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Dragons/Uruloki2.jpg)
I think I read somewhere that the huge spines shooting out from it's back are supposed to be proto wings, not quite fully developed in this breeding at the hatchery in Angband.
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He looks good,and a proper dragon head to boot! I know what you mean about the painting,I have a Ral Parthia resin dragon languishing in the toy room which is going on 30 years(the dragon),not the room lol
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These are all great interpretations (and conversions and painting) of Middle Earth’s denizens. I was particularly interested in your half orc. Tolkien always left tantalisingly vague mentions of the mixed races (like the half trolls). I had always interpreted orc men to be Urukhai, while half orcs and goblin men were the less successful breedings amongst the Dunlendings (the ones Peter Jackson gave snaggle toothed tusks to).
I eagerly bought GWs Half Trolls, although I suspect in the book they are just Tolkiens racist description of the men of Far Africa Harad.
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Great looking dragon
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I love the old school style dragon - and the eagles too. I have a Griffin to paint and cannot decide how to do the feathers and wings, but your relatively simple colour scheme is very effective.
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Those trolls on page 1 are AMAZING!! :-* :o Excellent idea and wonderful brushwork!
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I love the old school style dragon - and the eagles too. I have a Griffin to paint and cannot decide how to do the feathers and wings, but your relatively simple colour scheme is very effective.
Tolkien’s own illustration of a great eagle is based on a European golden eagle. So I checked my book of birds and took it from there. Black-brown plumage with golden brown hilites, especially the head and wing base which is much brighter than the rest. Talons and beak have som bright yellow markings.
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Lovely brushwork Peder on the Eagles and Dragon.
Just like the movies with the Eagles in LOTR series - quite striking!
The colour scheme on the Dragon is quite effective against the contrast of the terrain.
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Some Copplestone-Oathmark halflings I whipped up just because sometime one gets a craving to paint something Copplestone, doesn't one?
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Halflings/HalflingMarshWardens.jpg)
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...and some dwarves, for the same reason. I really love these (Copplestone sculpts for Oathmark) here in the role as Firebeards of the Blue Mountains.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Dwarves/Dwarf1.jpg)
Lord Fræg
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Dwarves/Dwarf2.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Dwarves/Dwarf3.jpg)
Jari, captain
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Dwarves/Dwarf4.jpg)
Sif, Champion
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Dwarves/Dwarf5.jpg)
Andvari,Swordsmith
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I can totally relate to having an urge to paint something sculpted by Copplestone. I haven’t indulged recently, unfortunately.
I like your halflings and dwarves, the painting and basing suits them really well.
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I have a batch of elves, Grenadier, Copplestone-made, which have been sitting unfinished in my pile-of-shame since the mid-90s. I've been looking at them now and then and altough I really don't have any real wargaming plans for them I've always thought I should finish them. I've always been quite happy with the shield designs. Also I did these halfling recently, and these elves are sort of a tie-in.
They are very much a tough up job from my 90's painting standard; some flaking paint restored here, a shadow or highlight added there... I spared the shield design, obvioulsy.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Elves/SpearelvesOfHouseTuor.jpg)
The banner design is inspired by Professor Tolkien's own. For those of you into the lore there are obvious ties to the leves of the Gondolin House of Tuor there. I have a bag of tiny coloured rhinestones (purchased to create Frostgrave treasures) which i expereimneted attaching to the banner. It did not look good so I added that swirly art noveau design instead.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Elves/TuorSigil.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Elves/ElfOfHouseTuorCloseup.jpg)
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Beautiful work and photography!
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I like those a lot! Great choice of palette, and those older high elf figures are brilliant!
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Highly inspirational stuff, as always! :o
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Lovely, especially the banner!
Those sculpts certainly catch the feel of Middle Earth to me*.
:-* :-*
*Although you must have been in kindergarten when you first painted them, young man.
:)
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Lovely work on those shields and banner Hammers :-*
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Nice of you to say., folks.
Part of the inspiration for completeing these come from Graham Green of Wargames in Middle Earth. He has done fantastic work on the elves and men of the First Age as described in the Silmarillion.
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Just found this thread… :o
Those eagles are stunning!
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Lovely thread, those halflings on the previous page really pop. I have to ask as well, what are you using as your grass mat/backdrop for these pictures? The photos are great and the grass itself looks really good. is it something you made yourself?
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Lovely thread, those halflings on the previous page really pop. I have to ask as well, what are you using as your grass mat/backdrop for these pictures? The photos are great and the grass itself looks really good. is it something you made yourself?
It's from Wish, sheds like a bastard, so it needs prepping.
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Everything sort of started with this rather attractive miniature for GW's MESBG Rohan range, titled "The Kings Huntsman"...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_2.jpg)
I don't recall any mentioning in the Middle Earth canon about such a character but it seems appropriate there should be one. GW has given him some special characterisitscs for the game, anyway.
Well, as I am working on a Rohan setlement (see other builds in this thread) I thought this chap needs somewhere to go about his royal charter.
And so it started...
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Nice figure ;D
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The lodge of the King's Huntsman is based of the GW's Rohan house kit (which I have talked about and praised before).
I have added several little mods, embelishments and altercations to it to make it look like a game wardens den and unique to other buildings made from the same kit.
For example I made stag horns which I afixed to the top of the gables insted of the ubiquitous horse heads.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_34.jpg)
Also I made my own door posts from paper lace to create unique carved portalwith a saxon/norse flair to the abode.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_41.jpg)
By lucky coincidence the top carving turned out to, sort of, look like a row of wild boar running.
After my usual silver grey/green door/golden thatch reatment the lodge tured out like this...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_23.jpg)
Several more details were added, like the result of a fowling expedition (pheasant, grouse, mallards) and a tusked boar head trophy above the door.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_20.jpg)
On another wall I sculpted a couple of hides as if they were nailed there after tanning.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_21.jpg)
I also found a bear trap in my bit box.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_22.jpg)
It really is a lot of fun to add little stories to my builds.
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My thoughts always meander as I do terrain and in my take on Rohan the King's Huntsman is in charge of the training of the yeoman archers of Horse-mark. For this reason I wanted to make a couple of archery butts to place by the Huntsmans lodge,
I found some suitable 2mm cotton steak string which I wet with Modge Podge...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_36.jpg)
...and then pulled it through som golden yellow static grass, trying to achieve the look of twined straw used in classic butts.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_37.jpg)
I superglued the end of the string to a tootpick and carefully spun it in a tight spiral, about 20mm in diameter.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_38.jpg)
When the butts where dry, I painted them in straw colors with a red center and glued them to stands made from tooth picks. I have a pretty good idea what they are supposed to look as we have a very active medieval archery guild where I live.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_8.jpg)
Below are a couple of bowmen in training, one with an arrow in his Rohan ass.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_3.jpg)
[Calymore Casting]
Finally, an action shot with the King's Huntsman exercicing a new batch of greenhorns (Larry, Moe and Shemp) which is turning in to a bit of a vaudeville act as they (Larry, Moe) have gotten confused about on which butt they are supposed to shoot (not Shemps).
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_7.jpg)
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A few of you know me by now and perhaps recognice that I have a tendency to go bananas with details. I suppose this project is not an exception.
The King's huntsman must of course be the one who bleeds, skins, cuts and matures the game meats for the table of Theoden King.
Obviously this had to be representet somehow near the lodge.
I took a GW skelettal horse, got rid of the legs and with the help of wire and green stuff clad it in muscle and fat. I found a few other plastic bitz, like a small plastic deer and a couple of loins on hooks (I am guessing from some GW Warhammer ogre kit) which I hung on a rack made from brass wire soldered together and textured with liquid GS.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_39.jpg)
I made a boar spear to, while I was at it.
I also prepared a table, like a butchers block, on which to place knives and cuts. In my bitz box I found stag horns from a plastic wood elf kit which I glued to a plastic horse skull.
The GW Rohan hose kit comes with a plastic barrel, which I cut in two to make a couple of tubs. I mean, all the blood and offal needs to go somewhere right? I knew those guts from a zombie kit would come usefull one day...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_40.jpg)
And here is the butchers rack painted...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_5.jpg)
...and the table. A brace of coneys from Mirliton to the left. The knives are from various kits. I have plenty, the difficulty was to restrain myself...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_6.jpg)
...but I could not resist painting the boar spear, eventhough I do not know where to put it.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_18.jpg)
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Obvioulsy, there need to be hounds for the royal hunt. I had stag or wolf hounds in mind, painting these.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_25.jpg)
Looking at them now I wish I made a kennel for them. And some stout mastif-like boar hounds. And a miniature to represent the Master of Hounds.
Oh well, maybe later.
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The details may be over the top, but in a very good way! That lodge will look lived in, in a way that most wargame terrain never does. It kind of reminds me a bit of a thread on the post-apoc board from a few years ago (I think by Koyote), showing an old hangar/ survivor camp that was super detailed. This is similarly awesome.
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The base for the huntsmans lodge was cut from 10mm plywood and bevelled at the edges. I wanted cellars on the grounds in where the huntsman cures his meats so I built a mound ut of XLS. The masonry wall of the cellar and the paving in fron of it was irregular pieces of 5mm XLS sheet. These were textured and covered with a layer of glalc.
I then covered the base with a generous layer of Celluclay (tinted with woodstain, my method for this is previously described) and some sand sprinkled here and there on top of it. As you can see I left the outline of the lodge bare in case I get a hankering to do an interior in the future.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_32.jpg)
When dry I did the grass. I used sheets of tall grass, grass tufts (6 and 18 mm) and my home made mix of sand, pebbles, static grass and flock, which I use consistently for all Rohan projects.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_1.jpg)
And here's the result:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_26.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_27.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_29.jpg)
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The details may be over the top, but in a very good way! That lodge will look lived in, in a way that most wargame terrain never does. It kind of reminds me a bit of a thread on the post-apoc board from a few years ago (I think by Koyote), showing an old hangar/ survivor camp that was super detailed. This is similarly awesome.
Thank you.
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If you've seen my other projects exhibited here on LAF, you know I am a bit of a miniature naturalist. I OBVIOUSLY had to paint the quarry which Theoden King and his hunt sets out to skewer.
Like a solitary but mighty red stag...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_10.jpg)
...a rangle of fallow deer...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_11.jpg)
...the elusive white hart of the Firien wood...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_24.jpg)
...a sounder of boars of the Everholt...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_9.jpg)
...a bevy of pheasants...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_12.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_31.jpg)
...and finally a vice of coneys.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_14.jpg)
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Very cool. Nicely observed painting hammers.
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While I was at it I painted other varmints surely to be found in the lands of Mark under the blessing of Theoden King:
Ermine, polecat, weasel and marten...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_13.jpg)
...beaver, blue heron and otter...
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_30.jpg)
... and finaly the mighty headgehog (let's call him Sebastian).
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_16.jpg)
As you can tell I have had quite a colleton of various animals (I have a habit of checking for anmals to add when I order fromvarious suppliers) and I am glad to hav had an opportunity to paint them. Only made a small dent in the lead pile, still plenty left.
How in the hell I will use them I do not know, but I am sure i will find some way to weasel them into the gameplay. :)
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(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Rohan/RohanHuntsmansLodge/HuntsmansLodge_4.jpg)
I have a few more raptors I could paint, so perhaps a aviary for Theoden King would not be out of place.
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This really is first-rate old-school Hammering.
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Excellent work on the scatter terrain and figures. Details like that really make a table stand out.
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Wow! Great stuff mate. Especially the game dressing bits. Not something you see every day. It is these kinds of details that make world building tables. 👏🏻
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Thanks, gents. A bit of imagination gone wild. I see a few of the money shots have not loaded. I will have to amend that tomorrow.
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I seem to have missed this thread lately.
Impressive work there. I love the lodge and all the accessories that go with it. Very clever work on the butchered animals.
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This really is first-rate old-school Hammering.
Thanks mate.
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Images and spelling corrected.
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:o :o
Amazing stuff, Hammers! Love those pheasants. Love the hobbit hole & cottage combo (that ground work!). Love it all!
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So now I know what a sounder of boars and a vice of coneys are. 8)
Inspiring, cool, and also educational :D
Brilliant little collection there.
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So now I know what a sounder of boars and a vice of coneys are. 8)
Inspiring, cool, and also educational :D
Brilliant little collection there.
Me to, lovely aspect of the English language. :)
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Great ideas and execution, thanks for sharing!
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I really love the shading and painting on the wooden house. Great detail there
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Very cool. I've loved catching up on this thread. The building setup is espcially nice.
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I really love the shading and painting on the wooden house. Great detail there
Thank you. The paint scheme is not of my own composition, I went with a online tutorial I thought looked good. I am however considering brightening the green of the doors an making another light pass with a white highlight.
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Absolutely love the animals!
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I got hold of some rejected miniatures a while ago, among them where these GW MESBG corsairs of Umbar. I have always found Umbar a very intriguing place of TA Midlde Earth so I wanted to explore this by painting the miniatures. I find the GW corsairs verging a bit to much on the Caribbean 17th century pirates, I firmly believe they should be more akin to those of the barbary coast which plagued the trades of the Mediterranean. With that in thought I did this:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Umbar/UmbarCorsairAdmiralBallistaCaptain1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Umbar/UmbarCorsairAdmiralBallistaCaptain2.jpg)
Below is a Umbar "mood board", a very useful tool which a fill with a color pallet, simples sketches, patterns and designs. As you can see I did a tattoo sketch of a octopus with it's tentacles curling around the admirals face and head.
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Umbar/UmbarCorsairMoodBoard.jpg)
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Glad to see this is still very much an ongoing project of yours :)
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I like those a lot :)
Are you going to do a sailing vessel or two? :D
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I like those a lot :)
Are you going to do a sailing vessel or two? :D
I would very much like to. A huge dromon with chained slave rowers.
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Perfect :D
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I love the interpretation of the corsairs- we’d better get to see the tattooed admiral soon!
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Great job Peder :-*
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Hammers what a splendiferous threat. The octohead looks quite menacing. Nicely done.
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Just spent a pleasant 30 minutes going through this thread from page 1. Such amazing work in both terrain and miniatures.
Your attention to detail is outstanding; I will try to apply myself more to this aspect in the future.
Thank you for the inspiration.
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Same. What an inspirational thread, especially the buildings. I love the thought that's gone into each piece. The hunting lodge and critters (including a white hart!) is especially beautiful.
I agree with you that Tolkien was more than likely influenced by the Barbary Corsairs when he created the Corsairs of Umbar (especially given their location in the not-Mediterranean of Middle-earth). Although, I think as a kid I maybe imagined them as the pirates from Asterix! Fingers crossed that there's a ship for these scallywags in the offing.
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Just spent a pleasant 30 minutes going through this thread from page 1. Such amazing work in both terrain and miniatures.
Your attention to detail is outstanding; I will try to apply myself more to this aspect in the future.
Thank you for the inspiration.
You are most kind for saying so. There's more coming.
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Same. What an inspirational thread, especially the buildings. I love the thought that's gone into each piece. The hunting lodge and critters (including a white hart!) is especially beautiful.
I agree with you that Tolkien was more than likely influenced by the Barbary Corsairs when he created the Corsairs of Umbar (especially given their location in the not-Mediterranean of Middle-earth). Although, I think as a kid I maybe imagined them as the pirates from Asterix! Fingers crossed that there's a ship for these scallywags in the offing.
Thank you.
A huge Umbarean, black sail'd corsair dromon with oodles of slave manned oars beset by Gondorian war cogs brimming with Pelargir and Linhir marines is an old wargames dream scenario of mine. Being a navy man myself, I have researched the topic quite a bit.
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Cool stuff.
I always imagined the Gondor navy as Byzantine Dromons.
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I dromunds are specifically mentioned in the Lord of the Rings, being the ships of the corsairs. Gondor would most likely have some such galley types of ships to.
Going all nerd boy on you, the Numenorean Alcarondas, the flag ship of Ar-Pharazon seems to have been primarily a sailing ship.
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A huge Umbarean, black sail'd corsair dromon with oodles of slave manned oars beset by Gondorian war cogs brimming with Pelargir and Linhir marines is an old wargames dream scenario of mine. Being a navy man myself, I have researched the topic quite a bit.
Now that would be truly epic! Fingers crossed that it can become a reality.
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Apart from the barbary coast corsair era I always assumed the Vandal Kingdom a thousand years earlier was a huge inspiration to Tolkien.
Vandals, Alans and local berbers gone viking, raiding even Rome from their base in Carthage. That stuff personally pushes all my nerd buttons.
It's pretty hard to find information on that though but I imagine my corsairs as Numidians and moorish berbers in late roman/byzantine gear and ships.
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Apart from the barbary coast corsair era I always assumed the Vandal Kingdom a thousand years earlier was a huge inspiration to Tolkien.
Vandals, Alans and local berbers gone viking, raiding even Rome from their base in Carthage. That stuff personally pushes all my nerd buttons.
It's pretty hard to find information on that though but I imagine my corsairs as Numidians and moorish berbers in late roman/byzantine gear and ships.
Interesting. I see the upper strata of Umbar society, admirals, captains of the larger vessels from Umbar, leaders of important merchant houses, as men of mixed Numenorean decent gone native. Dromunds are manned by mercenary marines in light armour and are rowed by slaves of mixed origin.
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The whole band of raiders:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/FarHaradMahudRaiders1.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/FarHaradMahudRaiders2.jpg)
King, mounted and on foot:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudKingLeftSide.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudKingRightSide.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudKingUnmountedFront.jpg)
Chieftain:
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudChieftainLeftSide.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudChieftainRightSide.jpg)
Raiders. Some of them converted, with spears added
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudRaider1Left.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudRaider1Right.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudRaider2Left.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudRaider2Right.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudRaider3Left.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudRaider3Right.jpg)
A mamuk mahout, unseated
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MumakilMahudFront.jpg)
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MumakilMahudSide.jpg)
Far Harad mood board
(http://www.adventuregaming.tsome.com/MiddleEarth/Harad/Mahud/MahudMoodBoard.JPG)
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Lovely work- the animal skins are particularly impressive, I know I couldn’t those pull off lol
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Top work Hammers, they are delightful :-*
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Brilliant! 👍
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Yep, those are superb.
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Those raiders are fantuastik! :-*
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You've hit a rich seam of form lately it seems, H.
I can't say I like the design of those Haradrim (they look like they're from some kind of Middle Earth Mad Max movie), but your treatment of them is magnificent.
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That’s some beautiful painting!
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You've hit a rich seam of form lately it seems, H.
I can't say I like the design of those Haradrim (they look like they're from some kind of Middle Earth Mad Max movie), but your treatment of them is magnificent.
I really like them. Very remote and exotic.
I do have a problem with some of the decisions Peter Jackson made about human races under the sway of Sauron; they were not to be based on any recogniceable culture of our age. This is of course something GW picked up on.
The stories that Tolkien wrote is a a mythicak pre-history with a distinct Nort Western European point of view. I don't find the stories racist even if xenophobia cetainly is expressed in the stories.
It is quite obvious that corsairs of Umbar took inspiration fron the barbary states of North Africa, the haradrim from moors and saracens of North Africa and the Middle East, and the tall, black skinned men are sub-Saharan Africans.
You've got to ask yourself what's more offensive: to be depicted as fighting for the wrong side or to be not be represented in any way at all.
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Great job on those desert dwellers!
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I really like them. Very remote and exotic.
I do have a problem with some of the decisions Peter Jackson made about human races under the sway of Sauron; they were not to be based on any recogniceable culture of our age. This is of course something GW picked up on.
The stories that Tolkien wrote is a a mythicak pre-history with a distinct Nort Western European point of view. I don't find the stories racist even if xenophobia cetainly is expressed in the stories.
It is quite obvious that corsairs of Umbar took inspiration fron the barbary states of North Africa, the haradrim from moors and saracens of North Africa and the Middle East, and the tall, black skinned men are sub-Saharan Africans.
You've got to ask yourself what's more offensive: to be depicted as fighting for the wrong side or to be not be represented in any way at all.
For the Easterlings and the Haradrim I would have been happy with either a look based on historical peoples, or something more culturally sensitive that wasn't directly inspired by such. That aspect of it wasn't something I ever really gave a thought to. But for me the key was that the designs needed to be good, whichever path they chose. And I think they failed at that rather badly. I always felt like they'd barged in from some other fantasy movie that had a completely different design aesthetic. They simply didn't fit.
Anyway, that's enough moaning about Jackson's Tolkien from me. Even though I loved his LoTR trilogy, I occasionally find myself nitpicking the details that irk me. It's a bad habit. :)