Converting Historical Dark Ages Figures to Silmarillion Elves UPDATE 7.5.18

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Andy, love the elf.  I will also be following this closely.
Balrogs without wings are hard.  My Reaper Bugbear as a Balrog is possibly a little small.

I had wondered about these:
Reaper Fire Demon.  He does come with wings...




But the box shows that they are not attached and maybe some greenstuff magic would be finr to cover where the wings go.




This guy doesn't look evil enough, but perhaps with some green stuff and a different paint job could do the job.

[Darathar]

Sweet conversion and paint job here, the cloak looks good too.

[arget8]

Beautiful work Andy! The cloak looks great and so does the rest of him!

Also, for dwarves you have both the new Oathmark ones and the ones from Conqueror Miniatures. The latter being sculpted by Colin Patten, so they would match up well with any Gripping Beast, Warlord/Saxon, or Footsore stuff you get.

I'm thinking of starting my own Tolkien inspired Middle Earth figures using my leftover stuff from Dux Brit. I'm going to end up having a bunch of Goths (Men of the North/Rohirrim), Romans (Gondor/Elves), and Saxons (Evil men/Dunlendings). It seems like a great way to use up spare figures!

Gunnar

[Plynkes]

My take on the First Age Balrogs isn't that they would be less bad-ass than the one in Lord of the Rings. They were much more bad-ass, and he was the puny, cowardly runt that slunk off to hide under a mountain when things got rough.

The way I see the First Age is that everything was more bad-ass: the bad guys, the good guys, the heroes, the monsters - everything. And the Third Age is a pale shadow of it (or maybe it's just that the events of the First Age have grown in the telling).

But that's just me.

Loving the thread, by the way.

[tin shed gamer]

I've been sitting on the side-lines watching with interest,and enjoying your progress.
One option could be to use the earlier Citadel Balrog.As its wing joints are easily filled in.This one's a battered old casting but it should give you the idea.
( besides it seems quite  fitting to represent an earlier age with an earlier interpretation.)

Mark.

[guitarheroandy]

Thanks for all the positive responses. I've been busy converting some more Elves. Most of these are based on West Wind Arthurian models with West Wind Saxon helmet heads or GW Galadhrim heads. Most already have cloaks so I've sculpted some long tunics, added hair and tidied joins, etc with Greenstuff. The helmet plumes are GW Warhammer High Elf archer plumes or Oathmark Elf plumes.

I'm really looking forward to getting some paint on them...

[Severian]

Nicely done! Using Roman-Britons for Noldorin elves is a cracking idea.

Looking forward to seeing these painted.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Nicely done! Using Roman-Britons for Noldorin elves is a cracking idea.

Looking forward to seeing these painted.

Noldoro-Britons or Romano-Noldor?
Again, nice work.
These just might be my favourite elves.

[tin shed gamer]

Very interested to see how these turn out.

[OSHIROmodels]

Lovely conversions. Simple yet extremely effective 

[mweaver]

That's working rather well.  Excellent idea.

-Michael

[Sunjester]

Those look soooo good!

[guitarheroandy]

A few more conversions. This time, Artizan Miniatures Romano-British. I'm SO glad I didn't EBAY my GW Galadhrim Guards, as their heads fit these guys perfectly!





That's 2 x reduced model unit elite foot units and one full heavy foot unit now ready for painting! I intend to get started on those this week, so watch this space!

[Hupp n at em]

Wow that is amazing work!  Excited to see more!

[**GS**]

I just joined the fan club!

Great idea and fantastic work!

Cheers
GS