Glaurung - a wingless dragon for Middle-earth

[James Morris]

Over the last few months, I've been working on my own version of Tolkien's Glaurung.  Using a Schleich plastic toy as a base and Tolkien's illustration as a guide, I've managed to come with something that I'm happy with.  Within a few hours of the paint being dry, he led my Orc host into battle in his first game and got taken down by Elven archery in Turn 4!  There's a full description and plenty more pictures on the blog, but here's a few highlights, including Tolkien's illustration.

Full blog entry is here: https://mogsymakes.net/2021/10/27/glaurung-the-first-dragon-of-middle-earth/

[fred]

A great result - and as is the way with a newly painted unit, it seems to attract the enemy arrows and swords!

Also well done in seeing past the very odd original paint job to recognise the potential of the model.

[OSHIROmodels]

Looks great 

[Onebigriver]

Great conversion

[Westfalia Chris]

Looks much better without those wings. Also, a nice job making the gold work on a creature - I always found this to be very tricky.

[Severian]

Excellent work - and a very convincing Glaurung. The colour scheme is great.

[Hobgoblin]

Fantastic! He really looks the part!

[Cubs]

Lovely stuff, he's a beaut.

[Vanvlak]

Great job, the starting model is unrecognizable in the end product - even the tail is much better now.
Lovely model 

[BZ]

Thats a great and cost-effective conversion!

[gamer Mac]

Great job

[A Lot of Gaul]

Love it! Very nicely done. 

[Emir of Askaristan]

Very nice indeed

[Blackwolf]

Excellent work!

[Elk101]

You've made a lovely job of that and it really does work with the source artwork.