Middle Earth projects: Gildor & Co.

[Freelancer]

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.

[Freelancer]

Add some air dry clay...

[Koyote]

A Wose by any other name...


Those Orcs never knew what hit em'

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….

[Freelancer]

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.


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 

[Freelancer]

Anyway, here is the finished forest for woses, hobbits and darker denizens......


and without the canopy..


Don't go into the Old Forest Fatty....

[Grumpy Gnome]

Great work!

[Pattus Magnus]

That forest looks amazing, great results!

[Bearwoodman]

That forest looks excellent, realistic, spooky and playable. 

[dadlamassu]

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.

[andyskinner]

Looks good!  Could you show the underside of the canopy?  Is it one piece?

thanks
andy

[Freelancer]

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.

[Freelancer]

Gildor Inglorian and the House of Finrod.... using Mirkwood rangers

[Grumpy Gnome]

They look great!

[Lord Blackheart]

That's some nice conversion work. I love the forest too.