After I finished with He-Man, i want to focus mainly in The Lord of The rings ideas in order to produce enough figures to represent the bigger battles from the books and films (like for example Battle of Helms Deep, Isengard and Pellenor Fields but probably also including elves and dwarves for Battle of The Five Armies..)
i have not a clear plan (I know i want rohirrim, Gondor, main characters, mumakil and Harad troops s well as many orcs and uruk hai) and I will go slow, but i will try not to stop...
I used many common figures from several sets which are medieval-dark age-fantasy-bearded-barbarian-or-viking-with long capes-round shields- but also many which are unknown, you know where are they from?
colour scheme metal-green-brown works quite good and it is simple and allows to miz fine all these figs from different origins
By the way, some of them are also bad moulded copies by myself at home to increase the horse archer numbers
Im afraid i will be dispersed again with other projects in the middle (like Game of Thrones which is allways appealing me, you can relaize it in the immediate previous post!)
In principle I am a fan of strictly historical dioramas with a focus on accuracy even in minor details. But from time to time everybody needs a break, and so I always enjoy a nice fantasy of SciFi work. Like yours! The figures look really good, in particular those conversions are great! Concerning the last two pics, “I am Groot“ was the first thing that came to my mind …
Great to see these! I am horrible at drifting around among my projects and start new ones! I think I will finish some of them, but some will just continue to drift around.
As acollector of the GW LotR-range I am always interested in this topic. I like your idea and your way to create the main actors and armies from different producers and collections. So let them come and show us pictures.
I was also encouraged by Travellers excelent BAttle of Hydaspes project, where there are also a big group of big war real-life "oliphaunts"
Figure and structure still to finish, and actual crew not available yet (some moors will do the job), but I am pretty happy (even if maybe tusks ended a little exagerated)
Isn't there a risk that he tip forward with tusks like that? Other than that no concerns, just love and a lot of it!
You aré quite Right, I have still some doubts about that..The point is, i love a lot the look from the front,quite threatening.. Components aré not fixed still, I Could modify and place new tusks (maybe less vaste) if desired, but my problem is that I am not 100% sure about that (at least material is cheap and only 1h of work)
I like the result after "weathering" tusks and adding warpaints and painting all structures.. Crew will be rerady during weekend (some Hat andalusians...) So long tusks worry me no longer...Result ok for threatening poor human opponents
I love this project, great choice of figures. Your pachyderm and crew looks fabulous and so does the witch king.
Now some Haradrim warrior to crew the mumak, inlcuding Mahud drivers..(now lets play again: where are figures coming from:) also some original shots from Peter Jackson movies as inspiration..
I did not much on thi figure, that painting and beautiful armor is original from the Toy manufacturer Plastoy..the toy is now really difficult to find and not cheap actually.. even so, still 75% cheaper than Games Workshop)
I just made a first "archery nest" on the right side, I hope after painting it looks better; now it is not so nice next to the very good original decoration of the figure...
carlosfaro wrote: Now some Haradrim warrior to crew the mumak, inlcuding Mahud drivers..(now lets play again: where are figures coming from:)
I see a HaT Sumerian and is that a Caeser Egyptian beside him? I can guess which range of sets the Haradrim are from but I'd have to trawl through PSR to pick the individual sets.