Mirkwood Rangers (Part 2)

My second batch of Rangers is finished and very pleased with them I am too!

I asked for some advice on the net for taking photos and armed with a new app for my phone I think I have actually manged to do them justice!

Mirkwood Ranger

I have always love the world of Middle Earth created by Tolkien and the figures from the Hobbit movie are some of the best that GW was produced.  I loved the Mirkwood Rangers as soon as I saw them and finally picked up a box last week.

This the first of them I have painted up and a very nice figure he is too.

Ogres!

I picked up a unit of these ages ago on ebay, they were already built but needed a lot of cleaning up but they were cheap so money was saved!  I had already tried to paint the whole unit but I just could not get the skin to a level I was happy with.  

I tried again this week with just one of the unit and tried to put into practice everything I have learnt over the last year or so of painting and I ended up with the following result which I am very happy with as I have always struggled to paint skin on my figures to a level I was happy with.

Flesh Golem

One of the "boss" monsters, the Flesh Golem.  I am happy with how his skin turned out, I went for a couple of different colours to show how he has been put together from different body parts.

Them Bones, Them Bones...

 The Undead have risen in Castle Ravenloft!

These Skeletons were quite fun to do, a bit of drybrushing and lots of washes really captured the look of the old bones. The Zombies were done in a similar way and worked out just as well even if they are a bit dark.

With the Spiders I decided I need to add some colour to the horrors of the castle so they were painted in bright colours to add a contrast to what I had done so far.

Ravenloft

I picked up the Dungeons & Dragons boxed Game  "Castle Ravenloft" a couple of weeks ago, it comes with a huge amount of stuff and some rather nice figures to boot.  Alas they are soft plastic which makes them hard to clean up they do paint up rather nicely.

I have finished the rat swarms and Gargoyles and have the wolves done too though I need to texture their bases as I finished them in a plain plastic.

What you get in the box:

Progress so far:

He knows if you have been bad or good...

Another Reaper sculpt, this time their take on Krampus the demon in alpine folklore that punishes naughty children.  This was more a test for a the snow base than a hard paint job and it works quite well!

For those interested check out Krampus here on Wiki:

Krampus