Specially imported from Ludlow - Minas Tirith or Osgiliath masonry dislodged by Mordor catapults.
Cotswold Bookstore has closed. This blog is now, simply, my LOTR record.
Friday, 27 May 2016
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Warriors of Minas Tirith
That's the dozen Minas Tirith Warriors practically finished.
These are the poor fellows who were glued down before I remembered to lay the Minas Tirith road on their bases.
There's varnish to go on the armour and I may give a blue wash on one as an experiment.
I may also sprinkle a few rocks about illustrating Minas Tirith or Osgiliath under attack.

I was able to prise most of them out but you'll see a couple of them appear to be standing in holes in the road.
I tried sawing one off so he has no soles to his boots - there will be moans.
Monday, 23 May 2016
Theatlasheart
I don't think I've put this up here before. A good look round Hobbiton and Weta Workshps.
http://theatlasheart.com/2015/02/17/a-land-of-hobbits-where-to-indulge-in-lord-of-the-rings/
Hope you don't mind, Mimi.
http://theatlasheart.com/2015/02/17/a-land-of-hobbits-where-to-indulge-in-lord-of-the-rings/
Hope you don't mind, Mimi.
Friday, 20 May 2016
Riders Riding


Here are all six of the Riders of Rohan on horseback and fully kitted out with shields.
The Horses are painted with Scorched Brown (3) Rhinox Hide, Mounfang Brown and Codex Grey for the others.
Cloaks were Warboss Green highlighted with Scorpion Green.
Leatherwork used the above browns plus Calthan, Steel Legion Drab, Balor Brown and Doombull Brown.
Again I tried for the wide river look on some of them with grasslands and rocks.
The 'log' is a piece of root.
I tried for a wet area on one base by using gloss varnish but I think you need a larger area or a different colour underneath it.
I chickened out on making the grey a dapple.
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Riders - The real thing

Well, as these four no longer fall from a rearing rocking horse, they have been given the real thing.
I'm still tinkering with the base colour as, on a cloak, Warboss Green looks ok. On the base it looks dull.
I've tried for that same look of grasslands swept by swollen rivers when the mountain snows melt.
As you can see, they are not yet able to carry shields as well as remaining on horseback.
It will come.
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Riders of Rohan May 16

Saturday, 7 May 2016
Mordor Orcs
Ah! Those were the days. These Mordor Orcs came in a box of 24 for the same price that you are now conned out of for only 12.
I've gone against established wisdom on 'themeing' this batch as it's generally accepted that colours should be in a narrower range than I have used.
I let the bases establish the uniformity of the army which gives me greater freedom when painting.
Result - some of these guys have a splash of oranges and green, even yellow.
This also makes it easier to give each one a different look on the battle field.

I've given them a nice range of skin colours too.
The previous bases were painted Codex Grey, then washed with Badab Black. Here I achieved a similar result with a black coat and a Fortress grey dry brush.
I used less of my 'slate beach' this time as several of the previous group complained of turned ankles. One even tripped and grazed his knee.

I let the bases establish the uniformity of the army which gives me greater freedom when painting.
Result - some of these guys have a splash of oranges and green, even yellow.
This also makes it easier to give each one a different look on the battle field.

I've given them a nice range of skin colours too.
The previous bases were painted Codex Grey, then washed with Badab Black. Here I achieved a similar result with a black coat and a Fortress grey dry brush.
I used less of my 'slate beach' this time as several of the previous group complained of turned ankles. One even tripped and grazed his knee.
Sunday, 1 May 2016
Gandalf on Shadowfax

I used the DeAgostini painting guide in the 'Two Towers Edition'.
The base is as the Rohan bases as he was always to-ing and fro-ing across their grasslands.
I think he had Shadowfax out on a library ticket from King Theoden and had to keep darting back to renew.
This model was obviously spray-based in white and I had no trouble with paint peel back as I've had with black spray.
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