Treebeard

My brother got me Treebeard for my birthday, so I painted him up over the last week. Came up really nicely, I'm enjoying having more materials for basing, still very new to it but I like the little splashes of colour.

I think I'll go back and rebase my old ents (now that's entertainment) now so that they match =)

Rangers of Gondor

Random eBay purchase of six rangers that hadn't been well painted. I just re-sprayed them (even though some detail was lost) and repainted them, pretty happy with the results =)

It was one of those weird things where I was reading The Two Towers and just got up to the bit where Frodo, Sam and Gollum meet Faramir and his rangers, so it was perfect timing to paint them. They're described as being wrapped in green cloaks with green masks etc. so they're painted in greens, browns and greys to blend in with the grey rocks and the like.

And now I have 30 primed and ready to go elves for my son's battle company (and friends) so that's probably going to be a big project!

The only difficulty so far has been in getting wood elves with spears. I don't really want to buy a box of 70 of them, but it's really hard to find any on eBay too. So for now he's just going to have to make do with Galadhrim warriors.

Birdie num num

We wanted to get some ravens for the dwarven battle company, but I couldn't find any good ones anywhere. Then I was watching my favourite youtube channel (Ontario Strategy Battle Game League OSBGL)and Don mentioned that the razorwing flock would work well for his Dunlending army.

I figured that they would just as well work for individual birds too. My son thought that since we are Australian that the birds should be themed more appropriately. So with a bit of painting and greenstuff we now have a magpie, hawk and cockatoo.

The cockie is for the elves...

The hawk for humans...

And the maggie for the dwarves...

So that was a fun little project for the weekend!