Hey all
I decided to extend this by two months, as I originally intended to post just after the Seven Stones post. But then decided to space it out, rather than have several posts so close together, and go back to the post every other month after this.
So going back from March through to now:
Continuing with my Harad project, with preparation for the GT, I grabbed three of my old raiders and repainted them in the same style as my infantry.
Then I returned to my infantry again, getting another load sorted. These came from our local Phil, who was getting rid of them. And since I had used several of mine for the Seven Stones Project two years back, I restocked my own with them. I had more bows than spears, so converted a few.
As the GT loomed, I wanted to repaint the big killy thing in my army to better match my Easterlings aesthetic amongst my Grand Army of the South. I was much happier with the repaint compared to the job that I did 13~yrs ago.
Now for the easiest grey pile reducing job, I wanted an invisible Bilbo for my Assault on Ravenhill at the GT. So I got these bases and decorated them. I decided that the one that’s second from the left felt the most Bilboey, although the middle one also had the same vibe too.
I also wanted to have a Hobbit era Legolas without Orcrist, so dug out the one standing on his log. It’s an old paintjob that I remember being my last painted model for 2013, done on NYE before heading out for a party. But one that I didn’t feel stood the test of time, so I redid him. He was also my last model needed for the GT.
After the GT, we had a local teams event. For this I decided to just adapt my GT army a little. The first model that I needed for this was a Harad King. He ended up being pretty solid for me, nearly one shotting the enemy leader, Freca, in a surprise attack with a Heroic Combat.
Next up was one that I had been really looking forward to, Raza. He’s a really cool looking hero with an interesting rule.
The final models that I needed to do were the Abrakhan Merchant Guard. I felt so much happier with them afterwards as the old paintjob, like many others, just felt dated.
Then I went off to work on my Seven Stones contribution for a long while. But when that had finally been completed, we had a stream for BSIME, and up came Prince Imrahil as the theme. So went and found him out the pile and got him sorted out. I’m saving the mounted one for when I finally do my Fiefdoms army.
After this, I found myself at a bit of a loose end. And didn’t really know where to go. I did finally think of the pack of hobbits that a mate from outside the community had got for me, and decided to clear out all the hobbits that I had accumulated (not that many, fear not. Not enough to make an army.)
I began with the pack of shirriffs and lone militia. To wander off on a small tangent, this militia was the spare one that I didn’t need for our Middle Earth Traitors theme in Seven Stones last year. Not knowing what to do with him, I offered him to James, who didn’t need him either and threw him into the prestigious Seven Stones raffle. Wherein I promptly won him back. Unable to pass him on, I decided he must he fated to be with me and painted him up instead.
I then moved onto doing Farmer Maggot's dogs. Grip, I did as a Rottweiler, Fang as a Dobermann and Wolf as a sort of terrier. Maggot himself, I am saving for his upcoming stream.
We then had another EAHC event coming up, and in this I had the chance to bring a terrain piece that was themed to my army. The only thing I could think of to go with the Army of Erebor was the Throne of Erebor so I dug that out. This was a failed print that CJ had done and failed, so it was given away for free and shamelessly harvested by me.
The other terrain piece that I did, was a paintjob for out local community, doing up an elven fountain for our boards. I added some mix of 50:50 water and PVA glue to add a little pooled water inside of it.
The last job that I got done in this period, was when I finally decided on my next paint project. The Numenor army that I had been slowly accumulating through Christmas and people selling them off locally.
I decided to do an alternative scheme on them, based a little off the feel of the Rings of Power Numenor (bright colour, water focused and a hint of Sun worship.) It might be well off the vibe in ROP, but it’s what was coming to me.
I gave them bright baby blue capes to represent the sea, yellow undershirts to be the Sun and grey overcoats to represent the lack of ability to find a good alternative to mix those colours together without looking childish. 😆
I felt happy with the end look, and am now currently about ten models deep into the new army! Maybe next blog, I’ll have the finished force!
Until next time!
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