Warriors of Minas Tirith

 Trying to find a better 'Osgiliath look' with the bases of Minas Tirith Warriors, I bought some plasticard designed as brickwork for railway modellers, from the Cheltenham Model Shop.

The size discs required for the tops of bases is a little less that the diameter of a pound coin.

The card glues with plastic glue (I suppose it would, being plastic) and then the troops have to parade without their slot.

I cut them off with cutters and then cut and filed the bottom of their boots to glue them on the tiled roads of Osgiliath.

The surface of the card seems ok with paint as long as it's not thinned down too much.

A coat of Codex and a wash with Badab with a drybrush of Fortress Grey after glueing on some rubble from the ruins.


Plus a few weeds popping up, here and there.

Let the Orcs do the weeding when they arrive!

Knights of Minas Tirith

Here I've tried for the battered roads of Osgilliath with heaps of rubble and chunks of ruin littering the place.

I don't know where Faramir has galloped off to but he should be along soon.

These metal riders were tricky to glue on.


Again, Lilliput came to the rescue.

A lump of it beneath the bum works wonders.

As for those bendy weapons!

Warg Riders

To offset the cavalry component of a good army, the bad guys only really have Warg Riders until later in the book (film).

I've tried to retain some of the 'mane' on some thinking the flat featureless backs rather poor.

Perhaps Lilliput applied would improve things?

I tried for the look of the area round the deer park in Queenstown where they ambushed the refugees on their way to Helm's Deep.

Again I think manufactured rocks are an improvement on the real thing.

Riders of Rohan - Green Troop

 Now that the black horse with the poorly ankle has been rested awhile, he's fit for the fray again.




I have some more Riders of Rohan that will arrive in the field eventually so I'll arrange for fewer of them to be leaping over rocks, bushes and logs.

The log is actually an Ent's arm.



 The 'rock' under the black horse is Lilliput.

In many cases it looks better than a stone though cat-litter makes realistic smaller rocks.

OK. Perhaps not in this case.

I could do with a mounted leader now.

Ents

 Here's the second Ent.


Just as annoying to put together but fun to paint.


The legs have been swapped over, perhaps that's why he's a trifle knock-kneed.


Either that or too much 6X Ent water.


The left arm has become the right with a few mods and a number of extra branches have been added.


He's a charmer, don't you think?

However, the rock he's holding is pathetic and the pose is poor.

I think I'll make my own, next time, with Lilliput or Green Stuff overlaid on felt-tip pen cases.






The little touch added to the new Ent was Heather's idea.

I also removed one of the beef steak fungus.