🎨Miniature painting (old work, 2000s to c. 2014, Games Workshop LOTR strategic battle game ✨⚔️ ): Miniature collection.
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Top shelf: Last Alliance diorama (LOTR), Fell Beast (LOTR, unfinished); second shelf: Warhammer Fantasy High Elves and Bretonnian knights; third shelf: LOTR miniatures; bottom shelf: LOTR Erebor Dwarves and Rohirrim miniatures.
Wizards & Warfare, fantasy miniature wargame by Peter Irving of the Leicester Wargames and Model Soldier Society (undated 1st ed, 1976 2nd ed and 1978 3rd ed shown). Earlier printings reference many names from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings -- Ents, Nazgul, Hobbits, Riders of Rohan -- later replaced with more generic terms, similar to early and later versions of Dungeons & Dragons.
The Dwarven adventurer is complete! I had a lot of fun with this one. I learned a lot of techniques on the way, which I hope to employ in all my future projects!
🎨Miniature painting (old work, mid-2000s, Games Workshop LOTR strategic battle game ✨⚔️ ): One of the most ambitious dioramas I've made to date, the confrontation between the Witch-king (here depicted as a standard Nazgul on Fell Beast) and Gandalf the White on Shadowfax, during the siege of Minas Tirith, with Pippin having just fallen at the side, and some Gondorians in the background. The Fell Beast is standing a bit precariously, so a couple of rocks are there to stabilize it xD
All the ones I would consider myself to have *finished* painting this year. There's a lot more, many just waiting for a bit of inking or for their bases to not be barren black plastic, but these ones will be sat in their cases with nothing more done to them. From the rudimentary rangers to the Hag Queen Drag Queen, Käärijä dog to... aah bollocks I forgot to put the sin eaters in the picture.
ANYWAY.
Is anyone else doing a minis roundup? I wanna see everyone else's. Whether it's one mini or multiple armies (dang that's impressive). Beginner or expert, big dragons or tiny little historicals, how'd your hobby year go? What's in store for the next one?
Some progress on the Dwarven adventurer! Really loving how this is turning out (and I'm not a huge fan of Dwarves)! Techniques really make a difference. I hope to make my next mini even better after learning more as I paint.