[WMME] Middle Earth stuff...

[Angor]

Hi guys I have been keeping a log of Middle Earth Warmaster stuff on other sites. I wanted to host it here to show it to a more specialised crowd that might enjoy warmaster (on other forums saying you play warmaster is like confessing to the plague).

So here are a selection of bits I have been doing. I plan to keep it going as all my armies increase at a steady pace, I would love any C&C aswell as any ideas for other stuff to make. Im planning for a fairly comprehensive collection.

(Apologies if you have seen it before there will be new stuff soon!)




















There has been alot of progress since these pictures were uploaded, as soon as I have a good photographing session there will be updates aplenty! I hope you enjoy.

[jchaos79]

Looks very very good, neaty work.

I particulary like the rohan archers with the banner of the horse head.

Also the goblin base is very very original

looking forward to see more middle earth stuff

[Meister.Petz]

These miniatures look wonderful 
Great job!

[pw]

I've seen and admired these figures before. You've really captured the look of the LOTR characters (the hobbits and the Nazgul are my favourites). I think I'd have been tempted to base characters on coins/washers rather than on the raised bases but having seen these I'm not so sure as the larger bases really set them off nicely. It seems like 10mm scale is perfect to recreate the large battles in the books. It's like LOTR Apocalypse style. You should definately show us some more of this stuff.

[Angor]

jchaos79  - You should have seen the five or six attempts at that banner I tried befor... They were awful! I still think that even this one looks too cartoony.

Meister.Petz  - Thankyou.

pw - When I first started playing warmaster I would have scoffed at the idea of using warhammer bases instead of coins. Im not sure where if first changed over but they give the characters so much more presence on the battlefield! To me they feel more like tiny dioramas on these bases. As for big battles I am having alot of trouble sticking to one force for too long so I have about 100-500pts of several forces basically done but no army is complete.

Two new projects on the horizon that i need some help with is finding enough models to use as dragons, either winged, giant lizards or huge serpents. The other is I want to build forces for the army of the dead but after scouring Talkien lore I cannot find too much of a description of them... Any ideas of models to use? Hopefully on the cheap and I dont mind a slight lesser quality seeing as they will be painted with almost no deatail as ehereal wraiths.



Im really glad that some people enjoy these guys... They get too few actual games and sometimes it can be hard to keep painting stuff that you have to mkae the rules for aswell as find a chance to play with them.

[Lex]

The other is I want to build forces for the army of the dead but after scouring Talkien lore I cannot find too much of a description of them... Any ideas of models to use? Hopefully on the cheap and I dont mind a slight lesser quality seeing as they will be painted with almost no deatail as ehereal wraiths.

If you mean the guys that Aragorn picks up and brings on the Black Ship(s)....

there is little reference but if you go with the context of LotR set in a more or less medival setting, then the Army of the Death has been that (or rather Dead) for some time. Similar development paterns would then suggest a(ny) dark ages force, or even romans. As you say, it will be all in the "painting".

[pw]

Have you looked at the dragons in the Collector's Range on GW's online store? The Marauder Dragon and Venom Wyrm both look like decent sizes for WM. For something really impressive the Dragon Riders dragon is really nice. It'd be a very big 10mm dragon but it is nice and thin so t wouldn't look too gigantic (now I'm wishing I hadn't sold mine!).

[jchaos79]

Two new projects on the horizon that i need some help with is finding enough models to use as dragons, either winged, giant lizards or huge serpents.

I always love the Granadier range of dragons (now reaper miniatures) Some of them could be massive figures. http://www.cheddarmongers.org/prod/pic/Bossco101/Dragonsofthemonth/

They are nice, even granadier had a range of huge dragons, maybe could fit with Ankalagor the Black Dragon.

I post three pics of a granadier model to have a reference of the size (and yes... my smaug is blue.... do not question)

The other is I want to build forces for the army of the dead but after scouring Talkien lore I cannot find too much of a description of them... Any ideas of models to use? Hopefully on the cheap and I dont mind a slight lesser quality seeing as they will be painted with almost no deatail as ehereal wraiths.

I understood from the Tolkien book that they are ethereal wraiths, so the count vampire wraiths models could fit with this idea. Also pendraken FU14 Wraiths/Spirits are in the same line.

If you prefere a GW idea of the them (undead painted in blue and white), you could take the range of pendraken undeads because they have a very little gear (naked to the bone) and paint them blue? I dont know if they are going to be pretty, maybe. Also in this line the Tomb guard from GW in the count vampire army could be skeleton more "europeans" and "medieval" and could work as living undeads from the ancient middle age people.

[azrael71]

I have seen these before and they are very nice.
As for named dragons of middleearth if anyone finds a nice range then please post here.

[azrael71]

These might be useful.
http://www.mithril.ie/races/index_creatures.html
I think there was a post over on the last alliance site but it appears to be down.
Apparently they are of a simlar scale to smaug.

[yamaneko]

I bought a bunch of the Dennis Mize dragons from the Dark Sword Visions in Fantasy range.

LINK

They are the exact same size as the BoFA Smaug model, and the aesthetics are generally the same.

[Rolgan]

Not wanting to thread jack, but with the release of Steve Barber's Zulu figures:

http://www.sbarber-models.clara.net/main.html

I am considering a Far Harad contingent for WM-ME and am stumped as to what to use for Half-Trolls

So far all I can come up with is Pendraken's Troll Chief.  A "true" 15 mm Hairy Barbarian would work, any ideas.

And I'll echo the comments that Angor's banner work is very impressive and the WM-ME stuff is grand.

Anyone compare Kallistra to Copplestone?  My understanding is that they are both large 10's

~C

[Angor]

Thanks for the comments, especially the banners... They all took alot of repainting, sadly the detail is lost on the gaming board and at a close look is cartoony. But I am just complaining now.

Those are some awesome dragons, I have a good list of ones I want to use now and their new list needs to be properly playtested befor I can buy any. Oh and the dragon masters dragon is beautiful... I still plan on getting it for my chaos army as a character mount, its huge and I cant wait to use it!

One model I really like is for Glaurung, one of my favourite dragons. Its the Barbed razerdon from gamesworkshop. It has a suitably evil look and I think it will look great with a really dark colour scheme. Although... if anyone has any better suggestions I am defiatly open to them, this guy may be a little small and maybe a little too spikey.

LizardmenRazordon

For the army of the dead I still havent set my heart on any models in particular (probably something from Pendrakens dark ages era I imagine) I am already planning on using the warhammer spirit hosts for 'Evil spirits' in some of the Mordor lists.


I have always admired Steve Barbers sculpts from afar, they are awesome and now that there are some zulus I think I will have to venture to far harad aswell! Please if you have your own Middle Earth stuff feel free to add it to this plog.

[Stomm]

MY EIR are all Steve Barber models, and when Steve announced his Zulu War range yesterday, it certainly elicited an 'oooh' from me. One of my favourite films to paint to is of course Zulu, and I've got an in-progress Praetorian Guard army fro 40K that has been slowly painted since they first came out, and have always fancied the idea of sculpting and then casting some for an Epic army...

[Angor]

Hi gues this is just a quick update of some work in progress stuff...

A bunch of new toys arrived yesterday!




Saruman ready to order some new Uruks in to battle!



Thesea re just my old Uruks but rebased to work better as pikemen.



The fellowship, alot of them need a little work to neaten them up a bit, I still need to paint that damn elf Legolas aswell.



And some Dunlandings have had some paint too... The banner needs some work as its very dark and the boarder is a little wonky.