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 Post subject: Thomas' hobby
PostPosted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:01 am 
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Welcome all!

In this thread I will start documenting my hobby projects in a blog-like manner.


To get the ball rolling..

For a very long time I have aspired to build an army of warg riders. I was inspired by a similar army on The Last Alliance forums some years ago, but I plan to take mine to the next level by collecting/converting every single lotr model that has the option for a warg in its profile.

I plan to base them in an old desert battleground theme, with skulls, bones, old weapons etc.

Here is my current collection of warg riders:

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Here are the first 2 models I have completed (you may have seen them in the march 2015 hobby challenge thread!)

* Converted shaman using a BGIME conversion kit head, shaman hand, and warg rider base.

* Converted captain using some easterling gear, a urukhai helmet and a Wild Warg Chieftan

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Stay tuned...


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:53 am 
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Nice WiP, I would almost say that you like warg riders. Looking forward to see some more painted!
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I do like my wargs too, 30 unridden, 10 marauders, 9 warg riders, gothmog, shaman azog and bolg mounted too

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That is a lot of warg riders

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Nice unique theme army you are building. Like the bedrolls/packs you have added on the back of some of the figures. Looking forward to seeing more conversions and what you do to the bases.

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I am a huge fan of converting and have quite a few Warg Riders in my back log myself. I will enjoy seeing what else you come up with. I still have Uruk Scout Captains on Wargs which I enjoyed making and wished Uruks had received warg options (though who would use orcs on wargs after that right?). Anyway, good luck with the project.

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Here is a small update - Gothmog. I took the skeleton torso from a Pirates of the Caribbean toy I found lying around, the rest of it will probably end up on bases too.

edit: just noticed from the pics that the sand on the base has peeled a bit, I'll have to fix that up

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I am planning on painting a Gondor army up in the next few weeks. If all goes to plan there should be plenty of pictures!
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I painted these models to form a 800pt Minas Tirith army which I took to a couple of recent tournaments in Australia. I won the painting prize at one of them, so I'm pretty happy.

The converted Beregond model has a citadel guard body, Theoden's arm, and a head of unknown origin.


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wow! that is an awesome and very unique gondorian army. The colors go very well together, well done.
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Coming up 2 years since my last post. Time flies! Here is 300pts of Isengard I painted last year for a tournament. Banner is converted from a siege ballista crewman, and the crossbow spears are detachable. I'm currently working on more of the Isengard army (with a troll almost ready). Other projects include LoTR dwarves, and various terrain pieces.

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Some great collection here!! The gondor army with alternative color is really nice, red mantle looking really good.

Thumbs up also for isengard!
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Thanks for the kind words!

Just LOTRified an old Citadel ruined chaos tower, it will now form part of a Southern Gondor Board (a long-ruined and abandoned Gondorian city)

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Very cool, you should maybe take some pictures with mini's on it. Would be interesting to see how they scale to it.
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Great work on the ruined tower, fits in nicely with the LOTR setting.

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