Lord of The Rings Middle-Earth Battle Companies Easterlings

I am currently a member of two Wargaming Clubs.  Odin's Nights (aka The Secret Wargamer's Society - most of my twitter pics are from them) on Sydney's North Shore and Company of Dice whose HQ has been changing a bit but is also based in West Ryde.  The West Ryde Chapter is hoping to get some LOTR/Middle-Earth Battle Companies going. 

A while ago I picked up some neglected and damaged Easterlings for very very cheap.  They were dusty, assembled poorly and in need of some love.  I gave them some love and they will be the start of my Battle Company.  I think this will be a great way to get into LOTR Miniature Battles!

I hate painting true metallics, it is something I have never mastered so the technique I used was as follows:

Prime Black
Drybrush Vallejo Gun Metal
Drybrush Vallejo Silver
Drybrush Vallejo Old Gold
Drybrush Vallejo Gold
Wash Secret Weapon Armour Wash
Pick out the odd edge with Vallejo Gold

This lads didnt take to long, about 3 x 1 hour sessions.  Pretty happy with the results, basing was probably the longest stage.

LOTR Middle-Earth Battle Company - Easterlings

I need a tad more mat varnish on them

Easterling Archers

Easterlings Sword and Board, will probably make one of these chaps the leader

Easterling Spears

Preparing for a Frostgrave Campaign

For those of you who have been following along on twitter, I have been busy with Frostgrave lately.  These are my latest offerings.  Two Soldiers Painted up for a future Warband, Three more Cultists completed, Three 3D Printed Treasure tokens and a piece of CD Terrain with 3D Printed trees.

More CD Terrain is in the works and I am printing off a load of ruins to make up a table! It's all happening.

I have a bit of a Frostgrave bug at the moment!

Stay tuned for more.

A Frostgrave Soldier and a Cultist square up over lots of treasure

Two Plastic Frostgrave Soldiers - Excellent Miniatures

Three Plastic Frostgrave Cultists - I like them nice and bright

CD Terrain - A great way to use technology from yester-year.

Games Workshop Skeleton Regiment - Old School Skeletons

I am quite critical of Games Workshop, especially with Age of Sigmar... but more of this later.

A very good friend of mine parted with some of his Old School Games Workshop Skeletons and handed them on to me as they were unlikely to ever see paint.  I am a big fan of these older looking skeletons by Games Workshop.  They are big, chunky, full of character and easy to paint.  Awesome!

I just finished painting up the first 20.  I have another regiment of these chaps that I will model up differently.  The way I painted them is as follows:

Prime Black
Airbrush AK701 Grau
Drybrush Ivory
Drybrush White
Army Painter Quick Shade Strong Tone
Pick out details.

Pretty simple and very effective.

Games Workshop Skeleton Regiment.  They look great Ranked up.

Command Figures, Drummer, Standard Bearer, Boss Skelly

You can come up with some great poses with these miniatures