LOTR - The war with Angmar

[Suber]

How did I miss this thread??
Standing ovation!!

[Dr. Zombie]

I just vent through this thread. I cannot believe I have missed it until now. This is outstanding!

[Steam Flunky]

I just vent through this ........

I know i live in Germany but you dont need to write with a german accent 

[Dr. Zombie]

I know i live in Germany but you dont need to write with a german accent 

 

[Timbor]

Some really great stuff in here! I am not sure if it has been mentioned before, but your mountain background - where did you get it, and what are its dimensions? I have been looking to increase my stock of nice, epic photography backgrounds.

[FramFramson]

Ho ho, lovely!

[Steam Flunky]

Some really great stuff in here! I am not sure if it has been mentioned before, but your mountain background - where did you get it, and what are its dimensions? I have been looking to increase my stock of nice, epic photography backgrounds.

Thanks.
The background was a Skyrim poster that came with a computer magazine. (It looked like this - https://geoheritagescience.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/skyrim-mountains.jpg)
I cut the mountains off the bottom, glued them back on higher up to hide the warrior and other stuff, then painted a misty forest on at the bottom.
It is about 80cm x 30 cm which is a bit short. If it was longer i could place the figures further away from the background giving me more room to build scenes.

[Steam Flunky]

This set of photos i took last week before i started trying out taking photos outdoors (See my "Skirmish Warbands" thread). I will be posting the first of the outdoor 15mm pics soon.

T.A.1966 Angmar attacks
A force of orcs out of Angmar are intercepted by elves from Lorien at the bridge over the Lothduin river. The elves expected to stop them crossing but the orcs had a mammoth from the Northern Wastes leading the attack that easily pushed the elves aside.

Ok, a mammoth is not exactly canon Tolkien but i have bumped into a couple in Forodwaith in Lord of the Rings Online. Also i have replaced a lot of the orcs that i have used up to now with these from Khurasan as they are more like orcs discribed by Tolkien (i.e. not green gorillas). I decided on "sallow" skin colour, a sort of yellow-brown (that does look slightly green still).

Large 15mm/18mm scale (roughly 1:100)
Elves and orcs on wargs- Eureka 18mm fantasy miniatures
Orcs on foot - Khurusan Miniatures 15mm
Elf heros - Demonworld (Ral Partha Europe.)

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[OSHIROmodels]

Top notch work again 

cheers

James

[Barbarus]

Lovely!
This thread is awesome. I especially like the elves!

[Stéphane]

Great as usual.
The Khurazan's orcs are very great too. I've buy them this summer too.
But where come from your "mamouth"?

Stéphane

[Sunjester]

Fantastic! 

[Steam Flunky]

Great as usual.
The Khurazan's orcs are very great too. I've buy them this summer too.
But where come from your "mamouth"?

Stéphane

Hi Stéphane,
i am afraid i dont know who makes the mammoth as i bought it at a convention bring and buy. The head was nice but the rest of it was terrible. I cut off the old howdah, modeled a cover over the body and scratch-built a new howdah.
Mirliton and Battle Valour Games both do nice 15mm mammoths.

[Steam Flunky]

I thought some of you might be interested to see how i build the scenes for the photos.
This was what i built up for "Angmar Attacks". As you can see the terrain only looks good from low down on the right hand side from where i took the photos. From the side you can see every trick i used to make it look good.
The hills and background are built up higher on top of books and boxes, bushes and grass hide gaps.

[DeafNala]

Once more the photos are GORGEOUS & the behind the scenes peek at the set up is an inspiring source of ideas. VERY WELL DONE as always!