A miniature journey through Middle Earth

[Undercovergeek]

sounds perfect for you - do you know which force youve decided on?

[Bison]

Not yet. I actually need 2 or 3 but most like Rohan, Mordor, and something else.

[bob48]

Dwarves! Little stunty blokes with ginger beards, Scottish accents and huge choppers!

[Undercovergeek]

Jimmy crankie?

[bob48]

Och, aye laddie.

[Bison]

My precious...a whole lot of plastic goodness awaits me.

[bob48]

 

[Undercovergeek]

Excellent

[Bison]

Well I assembled 36 Morannon Orcs tonight. Generally, due to the fact the majority are a single piece clip and glue, it went quickly. There two casts that are a bit suspect.  They have large flat spaces one behind a shield and the other a spear that are simply a support and have no detail. They will pass the 3 foot for sure but my OCD was kicking in when I saw it.

I started to assemble the Rohan Horsemen but stopped for the night. I only did one horse but the base holes are hexagon and the horse's mounting peg is a much smaller circle. I hand drilled a new hole but I need a clear mind to figure out how I am actually going to secure the figure to the base. I have some wooden Litko bases and may end up using them instead not sure yet. I also need to get some green stuff. The seams on the horse are not the tightest fit and need to be filled.

[Undercovergeek]

I had the same with the Morghul knights - I used a craft knife to twist through the base from underneath and made a smaller hole and then glued in the peg- you’ll find the horse will end up with at least 3 legs on the base so glue on their hooves will secure it all to the base

[Bison]

I did notice a couple of hooves touching the ground. I am considering including the tufts of grass that came on the sprue as an anchor for one of the hooves.

Anyway, I have a secondary project in development as well. I have a 4x8 piece of MDF board which I will be using to create a 4x4 battle board and cut some bases for  terrain pieces. This is was originally for 40K but Space Marines are just going to have to duke it out on a generic field of grass and dirt.

[Undercovergeek]

Oh man - that sounds great

If you look for geek gaming on YouTube guy there called Luke makes some great boards

[Bison]

I have watched some of Geek Gaming videos in the past. He does nice work.

I also like a channel called Terrain Tutor. He is just enjoyable to listen to as he does the hobby. A lot of his buildings and scatter terrain is geared toward WW1/WW2 historical wargaming. However, the techniques and the landscape works for most any setting with modifications.

I need to pick up some 1" and 2" foam board, flocking, and trees to do some scatter terrain at some point.

[Undercovergeek]

Sounds like an article for ACD to me!!

[Bison]

I have put 8 of the horses together now. Fortunately, I picked up some super glue setting accelerator today. I am finding that only one of the horse sculpts really lends itself to putting three hooves on the ground. But I put extra glue into the hole underneath the base and they seem to be pretty solid even with only one leg glued down. The true test will come when the 6 year old are man handling them on the table.

Can you just ghostwrite the article for me?