Guards of the Fountain Court

I've added some new troops to my Gondor line up. GotFC or Guards of the Fountain Court. These are some walking tanks that add some punch to my battle line. I didn't paint these, I got them off ebay in 2 different groups. But I did touch them up to give them a cohesive look and painted the bases to match the rest of my troops. I have more unpainted that I will do at a later date.

Next up to be painted will be some Heavy Metal from Dol Amroth

The Nine are abroad

Then he looked about him, as if the hedges might have ears. "Nazgul," Radagast whispered. "The Nine are abroad again, Gandalf. They have crossed the River secretly and are moving westward. They have taken the guise of riders in black."



In years past, before the evil that is Finecast walked the land, Games Workshop forged many fine figures in metal. But alas, that is no longer so. Finecast has risen up and cast a spell over Games Workshop. If one wishes to purchase these ancient artifacts, one must search far and wide.

I spent almost over a year searching for all Nine poses of the Ringwraiths. I picked up 5 to start, these were from the Attack at Weathertop set. These poses are the most common. The other 4 are harder to find. I've had them for a month or so, and just finished the last 4. So here you go.

The great thing about Ringwraiths is the paint up ridiculously easy. Paint black, metal bits and dry brush grey. Looking back at the pictures, they look better in real life. The grey highlights on the black robes doesn't show up well in the photographs.

Now I have to get mounted versions. There are only 3 poses for the mounted wraiths. I also need to get some of the named wraiths. I really like those figures as well.

Cheers, Xin

Random updates

It's been awhile since I posted. I've recently painted a random assortment of stuff that's been lying around for a long time.

First up is some LOTR figures

 I bought a random assortment of LOTR figures. Most with missing or broken parts, so I got it very cheap. This is a metal standard bearer. Cost was maybe $1. It had 2 broken legs. I pinned the bottom to the base, and I had an extra Rohan Horse that donated the other leg which also got pinned.

 The other 2 figures needed fixing as well. The one on the right I snapped off the spear right at the hand. I just drilled out the hand and pushed the spear in with some model glue. The figure on the left also had a broken spear when I bought it. Again, drilled out the hand and put in a brass rod with the spear point pounded out at the end with a hammer.

Here are Elrond, Glorfindel and Erestor. Glorfindel's sword blade snapped off during shipping from ebay. I cut off his hand, then took a sword, hand and wrist from one the plastic Elves in the Last Alliance set.

Here are 2 Reaper Bones Werewolves. I painted one a while ago just to see how the Bones line was. It was not bad. I didn't like painting on the white Bones so I primed it black. The 2nd one I did some minor repositioning of the left arm and torso. I cut and pinned them into a new position. Covered up the seems with some green stuff. I should have turned the head as well.

Here is the Reaper Figure Golgoth. This is a big guy. Lots of metal. I went with a simple paint scheme to match my GW skeletons that I will post below. Normally on GW bases I paint the edge green to match my table. In this case and the skeletons I wanted to be able to use in a dungeon as well, so I went with a brown and grey dry brush. Also I used a brown green static grass. It's not great in either setting, but I think it won't stand out in either setting, and that's what I'm going for. I'm like the bases to blend in with the table.

These are GW Vampire Counts Skeletons. I bought them when they first came out, I think 2007. They've sat on my shelf above my painting table since then. Since I am finishing up painting 3 sets of Dwarven Forge Game Tiles I started looking at my lack of dungeon crawl monsters. Once you get them together they paint up easy. Prime black, slather Brown everywhere, drybrush Bleached Bone and most of the figure is done. Paint some rusty armor bits, torn cloths and your good to go. The cool thing about GW sprues is the extra bits you get on the sprues.

Here is Golgoth and his minions ready to kill careless adventurers.

Cheers, Xin

Painted Sheep

I picked up some plastic sheep from Amazon. ERTL Sheep to be specific. It was like $10 for 25 I think.

If your going to have Vikings raid a village, they need some incentives!

Not the most exciting painting project I've ever done but I think they came out well and will dress up a village nicely. I did a real simple paint job, mounted them on MDF round bases and called it a day.

Again, not exciting but adds nicely to the tabletop.

Xin

The Desolation of Smaug Collectors Edition DVD

I've had the collectors edition DVD on pre-order for over a month. It arrived today. I was very excited to see the Dwarven Statue bookends. Sadly one of my Dwarves broke loose in shipping and the ax broke. So it's being returned to Target, and since Target didn't want to ship me a new one. I'm ordering another one off Amazon and it's $20 cheaper! So small delay but cheaper.

Here are a few pics with LOTR figures for scale.

These will look good painted like stone on the table top.

Xin

Dwarven Forge Kickstarter Final Days

The Kickstarter campaign is almost over. Once over it will be back to gaming as normal. But till then here are some pics I want to share.

You need to pledge for 2 sets to be able to buy any addons or get stretch goals.

Here are 2 sets

This is the stretch goals you get for FREE from buying 2 sets. The more Sets you get the more freebies you get.

Narrow Passage Add-On

Lava Cavern Add-On

Water Tile Add-On

 Shroom Add-On

 Elevation Add-On

Dungeon Tile Add-On. These pieces go with the Dungeon Tiles from the last KS

Narrow Passage Add-On for the Dungeon Tiles

And now for some action shots

Painting Dwarven Forge Dungeon Tiles

So here's some quick and easy steps to paint my Dungeon Tiles. My steps are basically taken from watching Stefan's video's. As are my color choices. Since I already have loads of paints, I didn't buy his paints, I wanted more tiles with my KS money! But this would work with any paints.

No paint on tile.  Note the shiny surface. This needs to be covered up or it can be seen in the final product. Also the paint tends to bead off this surface, So you need a thick paint.

I use this black as a primer. It covers the shiny areas well.

 Base coat done. Black

Next up is my Base Grey.

This is a heavy dry brush on covering most of the tile. But leaving the nooks and cranny's black.

 

  Next I pick some highlight stones, Just like Stefan does. It's a earthy grey/brown

 I paint 4 or 5 stones per piece.

 

Now a dry brush across the whole thing

 Dry Brush done. Not to heavy. But you want to get paint on every stone, to highlight the raised portions.

 The last step is a edge highlight.

I just use a very light dry brush to pick out the edges of each piece. I mean very light. Brush completely dry with hardly any paint on it at all. And that's it. Easy as pie.

Xin