And yet more Beornings

 Maybe I will get to grimbeorn at some point.  

More painted Beornings

Beornings non-warhammer

 

Werewolves-non GW

 Each one was completed in two hours.  Was going for speed.  

Fili and Kili

Mirkwood Palace Guard

 Base colors painted, highlighted and washed with dark shade.  

Aranarth

 

More Arnor

 

Arnor cav

 

Gorbag and Shagrat

 

Gandalf and Shadowfax

 

In search of a contrast diluent

I wanted to paint some of my mirkwood rangers with dark angels green, but it had dried out.  So, I went to my nearby Warhammer store and bought a pot of the contrast dark angels green (not a real color match BTW) and tested it on one of  the rangers.  I was pleasantly surprised at the effects.    At one point I needed a break from working on 60 mirkwood miniatures.  So, I, as others, thought about a way to make a contrast paint out of any regular paint since I liked the effect but already have 50+ bottles of paint.  I searched around the interwebs and tried some various diluents with some success.  Though none really had the viscosity of the contrast paints.  I had some extra matte gel from another project so I used some of that in a new diluent.  I used roughly 20% of the matte gel and then added water with a couple of drops of liquitex flow aid.  This is essentially what I dilute my paint with, except I use golden airbrush medium about 1:3 with water.  I do primer my minis dark gray with a zenithal white highlight normally but these are just white.  The results are below, 1:5 vallejo purple paint to either the water (left) or the new diluent (right).

And I also used some ink, one drop of blue and one drop of red inktensity from scale 75 and 10 drops of either water( arms) or new diluent (legs).

Not really going to comment on it other than it seems to work differently between the ink and the paint.

Yet more painted minis Rohan, Thranduil's Halls and Corsairs

 The Thranduil's Halls warrior is a test for color scheme.  Working on the mounted version now after trying this color scheme out.   Once I have finished those I will go back and work on my serpent guard.I painted 14 Rohan Royal Guard but I am not taking pics of all of them. 

Rohan Royal Guard

 This will double the number of Rohan Royal Guard that I can deploy (painted that is), the trick was matching the ones i painted over five years ago.  Some of the paint I originally used had either dried up or I ran out and there is no perfect match.  This was also the first time I airbrushed on a matte varnish.  Now working on the mounted versions.

Rangers and Dunedain with a special guest

 Looking at these pictures, it looks like the new light I installed in my office is a little brighter than the one I removed, I will have to figure something out for other pics.  Here are the finished models from the previous post.  With The Terror of Arnor as a side dish.  I just finished some 14 Rohan Royal Guard, once they are based I will post them.....but who am I kidding, once I get around to it I will post them.  Also have to get the mounted versions done.

Lockdown Progress

I, as many others, have made some progress on my enormous back log of unpainted miniatures.  I have painted some Infinity and some LoTR.  Also assembled a bunch of minis (gotta fill that back log back up!)and made some conversions for mounted Rangers of The North.  These conversions were made with Fireforge games mounted sargents.   One of the few minis that are close in scale to GW AND come with cloaks.  The heads are a little off of the Rangers of the North aesthetic but you will see how I compensated for that.  So expect some more posts in the coming weeks with finished models and back log refill.

Halbarad w/ Ranger of the North

This is the first time I have tried Non-Metal Metallic, do not think I will do that on the rest (13) rangers/grey company.  Been working on these minis for about 3 weeks, hope to finish the other 13 and 11 dunedein before the end of april.

Clash of Kings Charity tournament held for Chris Hobart in association with MERV

This has gone on for several years now and helps Chris in his outreach programs.

Tournament

Members tell me you need a facebook account to register.

Eves of Midlothian 800 points LoTR (Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game)

I really should update this more, I will be posting a battle report here in a couple of days.
Fred would be better at this than me.
Here is the army I played with:
Warband 1 18/18
Suladân the Serpent Lord with Horse;
6 Haradrim Warrior with Bow with poisoned arrows; Spear;
6 Haradrim Warrior with Spear;
6 Abrakhân Merchant Guard
---- Warband 2 11/12
Haradrim Chieftain with Horse;
1 Haradrim Warrior with Banner
3 Haradrim Raider
3 Serpent Guard
4 Abrakhân Merchant Guard
---- Warband 3 5/12
Râza, Fang of the Serpent
5 Haradrim Warrior with Bow with poisoned arrows; Spear;1 Haradrim Watcher of Karna with Bow with poisoned arrows;

--- Corsairs of Umbar ----
Warband 5/18
Dalamyr, Fleetmaster of Umbar
4 Corsair Reaver
1 Corsair Arbelaster
--- Warband 2 5/12
Corsair Bo'sun with Spear; Shield;
4 Corsair Reaver
1 Corsair Arbelaster

Over the course of the tournament I faced a numbers of armies, but I learned quickly a couple of things:
Abrakhan guard are great, Str 4 and chop go a long way in killing high Def. enemies.
Always remember the reaver special rule to get that +1 to wound, I forgot the entire tournament :(.
Keep Suladan close to your lines, his banner effect is great.  Same with Bo Sun.
I really need to spread my army and organize a bit better. 18 in one warband and 5 in another is not good.
The watcher is better without the bow IMHO.

Clash of kings Tournament with the DC Hobbit League

One of our members, Chris H, contacted Devin of the DC Hobbit League and in conjunction the two devised a tournament to highlight mighty heroes.  This involved the generation of unique scenarios (pdf) which centered around the king in your army.  This was a charity event held at our awesome FLGS Battlegrounds, which opened early and provided us with exclusive use of as many tables as we needed.  We had a total of 14 players so we took over their tabletop room which has 8 6x4 tables.  Good enough for us.  I brought 2 dozen donuts from Sugar Shack which originated here in Richmond and we started gaming about 10am.
My army list:
Warband 1
The Knight of Umbar with Fell Beast;
6 Haradrim Warrior with Spear;
6 Castellan of Umbar

Warband 2  
Suladân the Serpent Lord with Horse;
6 Serpent Guard
6 Castellan of Umbar

Warband 3
Haradrim Chieftain with Spear;
1 Haradrim Warrior with Banner;
11 Haradrim Warrior with Bow; Spear;

Warband 4  
Corsair Bo'sun with Spear;
1 Haradrim Warrior with Spear;
5 Haradrim Warrior with Bow; Spear;
5 Corsair Reaver

51 models, break at 25, 16 bows with poison as well as some poison with the serpent guard.

The first game was the Behind enemy lines scenario, I faced Cole, who brought an army led by Gulahvar with a cave troll, 3 spectres and 8 orcs in his leaders war band, then a shade and more orcs and the dwimmerlaik and black numenoreans.   Made the mistake of casting too much too close to the dwimmerlaik and my Knight of Umbar went poof.  I reduced his leaders war band to 2 and I put two wounds on gulahvar, which ended up being regenerated ( more on this later ).  we totally calculated points wrong in this game.  We stated he scored 4 for killing my king ( although Cole did not, my king lost all his will and dissipated) and I scored 2 for killing more than half his kings war band.  I should have scored 2 more since I wounded his king, but forgot.  Goes to show you, read the scenario and calculate the points correctly.
Second game was the scenario grudge match, I played Joel B who brought Elrond on horse, storm caller, captain and a mix of kings guard and regular high elves.  We started with about six or seven rounds of our kings slapping each other and not wounding, managing to remove both of our heroes mounts.  In the end Elrond removed all the fate on my king and the knight of Umber had to limp off the field. Which he did, earning me five points.  I was going to keep my kings war band back but decided to risk them in order to garner more points. I then managed to kill half Joel's king's war band earning me a further 3 points.  No one was broken so I ended with 8 points.
Third game was Regicide, I played Jacob brought the mouth of sauron( king) 6 black numenoreans, 6 morannons w/ shield and spear, a dragon with fly and breathe fire, the dwimmerlaik on fell beast and an unnamed wraith on horse.  This scenario really hurt me due to my king not being able to kill things and the two wraiths attempting to sap will my king ( and the dwimmerlaks special rule would have cost roughly 50% more will to resist).I kept the dwimmerlaik tied up in the middle with all my bowman, while chasing his king with my other units.  Jacob moved his king and favorites into the corner, I did the same in my corner.  His dragon chewed on some harad/numenoreans while I tried to chase his king with reavers and more numenoreans. Between the wraiths, the dragon and their terror a lot of my models were frozen in fear.  I finally managed to get his king trapped next to a building but with only 4-5 units, while he still had his full war band ( and his king acted as a banner).  He tried like hell to kill suladan, but never pulled it off.  I could win some fights but could not kill very well.  Ended up zero zero, no one broken and I lost only one kings favorite( black dart).
Now during this game we realized that Gulavhar should not have regenerated wounds from throwing a model, which means my fights with Gulavhar in my first game should have gone differently and I probably would have killed him.  Oh well.
My last game was against Alex ( I think, I was pretty burned out by this point ) who brought Durburz, Gundabad captain and shaman, the spider queen and a drums, spiders, marauders and goblins.  First thing I did was try and shoot the spiders and kill the spider queen.  Two turns and the knight of umber killed the spider queen, I then lost the knight of umber after rolling two 1's for a fate roll.  That did not cost me points though. I knew losing my king was not points worthy for me and used him aggressively.  His shaman got off earthquake which was very effective at killing, I will watch out for that one in later games.  So I killed his highest point, non king model with my king and it was more than half my kings cost, plus his king was still alive at the end, earning me 7 points.  I almost broke him, one more turn and I would have, but we ran out of time.
Overall I earned a 3rd place, not bad, probably could have been higher had I paid closer attention to the scenario victory points.
I will link to photos when Devin post them
Thanks for reading.