Hey, all.

Been quite a long time since I posted anything. The whole Photobucket affair took the wind out of my sails for a while, and I didn't do too much painting for a while. Anyway, trying to get back into things.

Here's another slow-burning project centered around Bree.

These are some Bree-town guards. I imagine this to be a mainly ceremonial duty, largely involving standing round the Mayor at festivals and getting drunk afterwards. But as things get rougher in the North, they have had to become a bit more active lately.




The town watchers, on the other hand, are a bit more serious, standing guard at Bree's two gates during the day when they are open and ejecting any troublesome visitors from South-away.



The miniatures are Perrys, mainly from the HYW pikemen set. For Bree I'm trying to get a mix of late-medieval and Victorian aesthetics. I've kept the skin-tones rather darker than normal, since Breelanders are supposed to be swarthier than other Northern men. The three trees and the boar are inspired from LotRO, and some of them are based on actual NPCs in the game, like Second Watcher Heathstraw. Next up are some civilians.

Pictures aren't the best - I am still trying to figure out how to get the colors to show up properly. Any suggestions are welcome.

Nice to be part of the community again. Comments and criticisms are gratefully accepted.

Could also try scouring if the shire conversions, create your own poses and such. Add heads and stuff. Also, 3-D printing has wirked well for buildings for me. I do not do many conversions, but a decent printer could print body parts, too. I recomend Tinkercad, as they also offer printing services. Designing is free of charge, too! I like it so far, but would like to see them standing in some bree terrain facing some orcs and whatnot. Maybe Saruman, to show the beggining of the Scouring of the Shire. Great paint job, can't wait to see more!

Very nice, Bree is filling up with characterful models

I really like your Bree army, it is coming together nicely.
I also like how you give the impression of a non-professional army by mixing different "classes" of soldiers together.
The models are Perry Miniatures you said, are they plastic or metal?
And do you plan to play with them? If yes, which rules are you going to use?

Really cool idea. I am glad you are coming back to it. Your heraldry is very well done. This reminds me of third age total war's take on breeland. Have you taken any inspiration from there?

Loving these half-orcs! Very close to how I would imagine them from reading the books. They look properly evil, but still human enough.
Very inspiring!

No, I haven't. Never got that game. Is it worth playing?

I think so but only if you are a fan of older total war games and can put up with the bothers of modding. It is a full conversion mod made for Medieval II total war. Some of the pictures and art are still around if you do a search for them.

I really like the brigand with the longsword on the right. He looks like a proper gentleman robber.

That's a pretty nice farm !

Thanks for the call out I like doing outside pictures when the light is right - I usually get better picures in shade than full sun but I just like taking my hobby outside of my painting desk. Nice wattle fence - you might have gotten that idea from me - see my wip page 2. Yours look better painted.

The beehives are my favorite. The homemade trees turned out well, too.

Terrain tutorials please. Those fences and bee hives are amazing.