Middle Earth - The Road goes ever on and on ... Back to Moria!!!

[mazk7130]

Hallo,

this is my first entry in this forum. I'm playing Wargames for more than 25 years and after a long period with Warhammer and 40K, I started with the LotR-Game in 2005 - actually I always played my Wargames in MiddleEarth, for the lecture of Tolkien`s books was the reason to buy my first blister of miniatures...
After some travels to ancient and dark-age Games (saga), I returned to LotR about two years ago and now I'm optimating my old warbands for the actual rules.

More than playing I like to build some Miniatures, and that's what You will see here: Modified, scratch-built or heavily converted miniatures for a MiddleEarth-setting.
Have fun and enjoy it...

[Grumpy Gnome]

Nice!

[trev]

Good intro.  Looking forward to the next post.

[mazk7130]

Chapter I: The Origins
Let's start with some history:
I started collecting my armies when I was just a poor student and money was rare. That's why I tryed to build my units in al low-budget way...
 
This was the state of my warbands, before I came back with the actual rules:

[Grumpy Gnome]

Great looking groups as well as settings for the photos.

[mazk7130]

I wanted the miniatures to be as cheap and effectively as possible. So I did some little weapon-swaps and self made standards:

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

Fantastic, love seeing all these Middle Earth projects being active!

[mmcv]

These are absolutely superb. I just randomly started getting a Tolkien urge a few weeks back, grabbing a few audiobooks and listening to a few youtube channels, and now I'm seeing all these amazing projects for the period.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of these!

[mazk7130]

Chapter II: Characters
I never really stopped paintig LotR-models, but I collected them just for fun, without using them in any wargames. This is why I have now some well known middle-earth-citizens to show:

[Little Odo]

You have some very nice miniatures that are well painted. The conversions are also very well done, and I really like your background terrain in the photos. Keep them coming.

Out of interest, in the Istari picture, where does the miniature for the wizard on the left come from?

[mazk7130]

Thanks ...

Out of interest, in the Istari picture, where does the miniature for the wizard on the left come from?

This is "Merlin" from FootsoreMiniatures as I've noticed right now.(https://footsoreminiatures.co.uk/collections/darkages20/products/lancelot-and-merlin).
I got this some years ago as special mini that was for free as part of an order...

[bc99]

Wow these are wonderful the freehand is great. I love your backdrops for your photographs did you just print out the photos and use them as a backdrop?

[Belgian]

Thanks for sharing these, they look really good and looking forward in seeing the next installements already!

[Hincmar]

Beautiful, inspirational paint jobs!

[mazk7130]

Thank You all for the feedback...

I love your backdrops for your photographs did you just print out the photos and use them as a backdrop?

Those are huge high-quality posters that were part of a GEO-calendar (I think GEO is the German variant for National Geographic...)

Of course I have some badcharacters as well: