Black Numenorean

Wow, I am on a roll now. Just finished this today, in under 24 hours. That's got to be a record for me. What a great model to paint too! Absolutely fantastic. I have the set in Finecast but I think I will be on the hunt for them in metal (this happened to be a metal one I came by). For those of you that are interested in the details, you will see I totally knocked off the base of similar miniature, a conversion and paint job by Shadow and Flame, although you will need to find your way through The Dead Marshes to find the miniature in question.

 I have added him to my CMON gallery, click HERE to cast a vote. I would greatly appreciate it!

Veterans of Osgiliath

Seems to be a fitting group of miniatures this close to Memorial Day. I had alot of fun painting these guys, especially freehanding in dents in the armor. Love these models. The bases are resin "Ancient Ruins" from the company Basicks. They are great. Very nice for these models.

Warrior of Rohan

Been a while since my last post. Here is my warrior of Rohan. I completed this for the April painting challenge over at the One-Ring. I was fortunate enough to tie for first place along with a very nice Bolg sculpt.

A few slight modifications to this one. I switched out the short recurve bow in favor of a warrior of Minas Tirith long bow. An idea I got from Bizzarwarstar.You can check out his Rohan conversions HERE. Great stuff. I also cut a shield in half, filed down the cloak and greenstuffed in the seam and a belt. A few little freehand designs and it was finished.

Needless to say I love painting Rohan!

Rohan and Isengard again

A quick update. I finally got a few things cleared off the table. A RoR repaint, a new RoR, and another Uruk Banner.

More for the Forces of Isengard

Some more Uruk's. Dave over at Shadow and Flame is doing an Ugluk conversion for me. Figured I had better get the original painted up.

Uruk Hai and Back Logs

Been busy working on a paper I was asked to write on black shales. Thanks to that deadline I haven't done much in the way of painting for a while. However, I made good progress on the paper yesterday and after a discussion with myself, me and myself agreed that I could take a break and photograph the the Uruk banner bearer I finished, oh.... maybe a couple weeks ago. Maybe not that long. Anyway here he is. I love these guys and I may pull out a few more banners to do. Plus, as if four aren't enough, I have Dave over at Shadow and Flame making me another. hahaha.  Without further ado, here he is (as always you can find this and more Isengard minions on the Isengard page):

Speaking of banners and more S&F conversions, I have been reading about back logs lately. Specifically, Garfy's post over on ToP. Got me thinking about my back log of miniatures. I figured I would pull out all the boxes, and with a bit of luck get them all put back after a photo. Here it is in all its splendor. The backlog comprises 99% GW material and as far as I know I have everything ever released. Occasionally one or two pop up that I don't have, but that is why on the 8th day your God created eBay. There is also some Ebob, Thomarillion, Knight Models, and of course MBM/S&F.

Well that was a nice little break, now to go back 390 million years to the Devonian and the Marcellus Shale, and write about pyrite spheres that are only five microns in diameter. Hopefully this back log will be one mini shorter in a couple weeks. At which point it will go from looking like the picture above, to looking like this:

Did you see the change? Dont worry, neither did I.

Later

Bard, Uruks, and Rohan

Haven't had much time for taking pictures so here are the last few things I have been working on

Bard the Bowman

Uruk-Hai Captain

Rohan Warrior

 

I put this up on CMON. I would greatly appreciate a vote and you can cast one by clicking HERE.