stitch's staff tournament army WIP

[experiment 626]

greeting, greetings man-things!

well, our yearly staff tourny is only 3 months away... for the first time ever, stitch will be playing LotR?!!

so, do i have a list yet? hell no... still, my plan is to have a solid center of easterlings supported by the much weaker orc hoards. (as the black numenoreans won't be out yet!)
however, for now i've started painting up my 1st phalanx of easterlings which consists of;
1 easterling captain w/halberd
1 banner bearer
4 easterlings w/sword & shield
14 easterlings w/sword, spear & shield
that should make a nice solid block which can fight in 3 ranks!

so here they are - pretty pictures!!!




























okay, so it's barely a start - but it is a start!!!
as i'm off today, i'm planning to spend the bulk of my time feverishly painting!

cheers!

[Captain Slow]

for the Horde! ><
no seriously, good luck stich, and as for the models, so far so good. i want more pics now! and you have an awesome pic of an armourcast titan in your photobucket account. i want one! i want a titan now! T_T damned pricey FW.....*Grumble*

[Lord Commander Erus]

I embedded the pics for you.

Looking good there, oh ravenous one!

[experiment 626]

Originally Posted by Lord Commander Erus

I embedded the pics for you.

Looking good there, oh ravenous one!

much-much, many thanks oh great and wise one! (sorry, i can't resist skaven speak!)

thanks-thanks for encouragement! now to think about how to base the buggers?!>.<

anyways, first lunch - then more painting! more photos will come as quickyl as it takes poor luc to snap & e-mail them to me!

cheers!

[Lord Commander Erus]

Good luck, good eats, and good painting!

[r4wr89]

ooooh pretty pictures, stitch ! lol. i'm not such a fan of LOTR [ONLY, mind you, because it takes time away from GW designers working on 40k, haha :P] but ihear the gaming system is really solid and i know some of those models are quite nice ! lookin good furry one :]

[Mart007]

You may not be a LoTR expert Stitch, but these mini's are looking sweet! good job! (i cant help with the list as I know nothing either!)

Keep it coming!

PS, the bases, could you do something to match the gravel they are standing on? That looks good

[Petey1016]

Here stitch have a Human to eat.

Well the army idea is a good one i play High elves when i can be arsed and wipe the floor with all but easterlings *stupid 3 rank *** ass phalanx rule*. The models are looking awesome as i would expect good luck with the tourney.

[experiment 626]

Originally Posted by Petey1016

Here stitch have a Human to eat.

*munches happily while spitting out the bones!*

Originally Posted by Petey1016

Well the army idea is a good one i play High elves when i can be arsed and wipe the floor with all but easterlings *stupid 3 rank *** ass phalanx rule*. The models are looking awesome as i would expect good luck with the tourney.

my main problems i'm having with designing my army list are;
a) getting everything i want!
b) the minas morgul allies lacking their scarier models! (sadly, the black numenoreans aren't out untill 2-4 weeks after the staff tourny!>.<) stupid early easter in march becuase it's a leap-year!!!
still, i've got 6 morgul stalkers and i'd like to include at least 4 of 'em as they're not only sweet models, but for orcs they're also dead scary!

anyways though, i've been thinking about dropping my phalanx a bit in size so i'll have 2 smaller ones of about only 15... i'll need a good 5 or so kataphraks hobbit armies are very popular! (stupid hobbits and their throwing of stones!)

i'll try and get a list up soon... hopefully within the next few weeks we'll have finally heard how many pts the lotr tourny will be too!

cheers!

[Petey1016]

Small hobbit things throwing stones! EAT them its true though minas morgul havnt got enough yet.

[experiment 626]

UPDATE!!!

okay, so we're all a bunch of lazy gits where i work... but luc finally e-mailed a few photos, sadly, his camera's acting up.
anyways, this is probably the most models i've recently painted and seen through to near-compleation!

Image of easterling army WIP 4 - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

sadly, i've had to drastically alter my list for a few reasons;
a) my original list called for a total of 67 models
b) the tournament's in 2 weeks!O.O
c) continants drift faster than i can paint!

so right now i've still got the following to compleat;
5x spear & shield easterlings
10x easterling archers
THE DARK LORD SAURON!!! *insert evil laugh*

hope you all enjoy!
cheers!

[hairyyahoo]

Originally Posted by experiment 626

UPDATE!!!


c) continants drift faster than i can paint!

oi...you stole my line! i know how you feel blue, i can't seem to help adding obscene levels of detail to everything i paint these days.

the easterlings are looking good. the gold in particular is very striking.

[Templar Mikeel]

Are you planning on basing them at all?

[experiment 626]

Originally Posted by hairyyahoo

oi...you stole my line! i know how you feel blue, i can't seem to help adding obscene levels of detail to everything i paint these days.

the easterlings are looking good. the gold in particular is very striking.

oops! sorry about that... (though not really!)

the gold is a real b*%!$ to paint though. mixing shining gold + mythril silver = a fate worse than death! the mythril is simply so strong that it's dead easy to over do it and then it's back to re-blending the previous highlight! (and there's 3 of 'em once the basecoat/ink wash/re-gold is done...)

this tediousness with the gold does mean however that the red is for once easier to paint and highlight, which i guess is a plus?!!

cheers!

[hairyyahoo]

yeah, mithril is a real bugger alright! used sparingly and it's really effective, over do it and it winds up a right mess.

[experiment 626]

Originally Posted by Templar Mikeel

Are you planning on basing them at all?

i plan to use the small & large slate from the 40k basing kit. i also have some yellow'ish flock to creat little patches of dead grass/weeds.
i'm going to try for a look similar to the grey'ish/ash-choked wasteland at the black gate in the films.

cheers!

[Templar Mikeel]

Originally Posted by experiment 626

i plan to use the small & large slate from the 40k basing kit. i also have some yellow'ish flock to creat little patches of dead grass/weeds.
i'm going to try for a look similar to the grey'ish/ash-choked wasteland at the black gate in the films.

cheers!

Sounds pretty cool! Hope you can pull if off, which I have no doubts you will.

[experiment 626]

got luc to take some more photos today... hopefully i'll have them up by the weekend.

also got the red fully done on the last remaining spear/shield warriors!

i'm thinking that my list migh be;
captain w/easterling halderd
easterling w/banner
8x sword/shield warriors
12x spear/shield warriors
2x kataphraks
dark lord sauron w/the one ring

okay, i'm a dirtball i know... but hell, it's the only way i'll have a fully painted army and my goal is to win 'best army'!

and, horror of horrors, 1 model is actually... BASED!!!

cheers!

[hairyyahoo]

Originally Posted by experiment 626

and, horror of horrors, 1 model is actually... BASED!!!

cheers!

dun dun duuuuuuuunn!!!!!
how does it look? did you go with the slate and yellow grass look?

[experiment 626]

Originally Posted by hairyyahoo

dun dun duuuuuuuunn!!!!!
how does it look? did you go with the slate and yellow grass look?

yep! i did indeed... the 40k urban basing kit was a great buy as it has the large & small slate.

i gave it all a wash of 60/40 brown ink/black ink wash and then overbrushed codex grey followed by a light drybrush of fortress grey with a bit of dark flesh mixed in... looks decently close to the terrain they had in the film.

luc is off tomorrow so i plan to bug the hell out of him today about e-mailing the newest photos!

cheers!