More Misty Mountain Madness

Well managed to get the other 9 goblins done this week and yes they are still ugly buggers.  Very pleased with myself as I am usually rubbish at finish projects.  Next up some dwarfs and then maybe onto the Hobbit Goblin Town boxset!

From the Misty Mountians

Finished my first batch of Goblins from the Hobbit and what an ugly bunch they are too!  I loved these figures ever since I first saw them on the GW website as they are so different from the type of goblins we are used to seeing in fantasy ranges.

They were great fun to paint though I did take a lot of ideas from the excellent Tale of Painters blog.

I have another batch to do and will probably do some tweaking with the hair and sores etc to make them a bit different but overall I am happy with the result.

Display Bases

Finished three more display bases using the plastic ruins that come with one of the LoTR sets Games Workshop used to make.

Aragorn and Gimli

Had a blast painting up these two last week, really enjoyed the two figures.  There is something about the LoTR figures that makes them easy to paint, maybe because they are true to scale and not overblown like most fantasy miniatures.

Daughter of the Reik

A return to one of my favorite figure manufactures this week with Maika von Ostwald from Hasslefree.   A lovely sculpt full of character, the usual high standards from Hasslefree.  I have painted her in the colours of a Warhammer Empire Swordsman which seemed to be a nice fit.

More Rangers and a base

Finished my second batch of Mirkwood Rangers.

I also managed to buy some movement trays of ebay to use as display bases, in fact I got double the number I wanted due to mistake on my part!  that said they are nice bases designed to hold up to 5 figures on round bases.  

I have finished one as a test piece and am really pleased with it I am going to try and make a few more that require more modelling skill.

Defenders of Mirkwood

More Hobbit elves!

My first adventure with a figure cast in finecast and have to say it lives up to its nickname of "failcast".  I found it a truly awful material to work in, I struggled at times to make out the details on the figure so while I do like the pose of the Ranger Captain I am disappointed overall with the sculpt.

Luckily Legolas and Tauriel were cast in metal and plastic respectively and turned out nicely though if I was doing Tauriel again I would custom build a base for her to fit in with the other figures.