A third Mordor Troll Chieftain

Over the last two weeks, I mainly worked on a Black Gate of Mordor army that I took to a tournament last weekend. I finished a third Mordor Troll Chieftain, a Orc Taskmaster and a Morannon Orc Banner bearer. Afterwards, I turned back to Legions Imperialis finishing my Mastodons and converting some more Predators.

Pict 1674: Black Gate Reinforcements

Pict 1675: Mordor Troll Chieftain

Pict 1676: Mordor Troll Chieftain

The lynchpin of my tournament army were three Mordor Troll Chieftains. This third one is not converted as opposed to the other two. Whily I simply repeated my colour scheme from a few years back, I'm really happy with the way this one came out. I added another layer of highlights to the armour, which doea help it look less bland and I'm tempted to do the same with the first two.
The trio was quite the menace once they got into close combat. But since I did not have to much practice with them beforehand, I made some errors placing them. They and the Morannon Orcs were often in each others way. Nevertheless, they were great fun to use!

Pict 1677: Morannon Orc Banner and Mordor Orc Taskmaster

The other two finished miniatures of this army are the Orc Taskmaster (Where there's a whip, there's a way!) and the Morannon Orc with Banner. While not that exciting, they both provide important buffs to army, even if I only ever profited from the Taskmasters ability once. But he did manage to kill a Mirkwood Elf by using his whip as a throwing weapon whilst charging, so I'm really quite happy with him!

Pict 1678: Morannon Orcs (WIP)

The Morannons themselves are not quite done, but I got them to a place where I could put them on the table and not feel bad about it. They have their base colours and a wash applied to them. And as you can see, I have already done their bases. The danger is that I'm now not incentivised to acutally finish them! I will try and finish the details and highlights on them in smaller batches in between other projects. If I can get that done until the end of the year, I'll be happy.

Pict 1679: Legions Imperialis Blood Angels Mastodons

Pict 1680: Legions Imperialis Blood Angels Mastodons

Pict 1681: Legions Imperialis Blood Angels Mastodon Conversion

Switching back to Legions Imperialis, I finished up these two Mastodons. I'm really looking forward to using them in a game sometime soon. I only have four bases of Terminators to fill the converted one. So I might just use them to drive around Leviathans instead.

Pict 1682: Legions Imperialis Scimitar Jetbikes (WIP)

I also started to work on my Legions Imperialis Jetbikes to finally add some Vanguard choices to my painted pile. So far, they are still missing the metals to complete the base colours. I think they and the washes should go on rather fast. As I have leared by now, the highlighting will take a bit longer, but I hope to have them finished by mid-december to immediatly put them onto the battlefield!

Pict 1683: Legions Imperialis Predator Destructor Conversions

Lastly I also converted some more Predators for my Legions Imperialis collection. This time in the Destructor configuration with the additional pintle mounted Heavy Bolters. They should provide some good anti-infatry dakka. I used the bits I had left over from the other Predators, a set of Deimos pattern Rhinos and some plastic card. They are not perfect, for example I did not cover up the door details and simply glued the sponsons into side hulls. But once painted up, I'm sure they will look the part. The one pintle marine with the banner will be my Predator Commander and the HQ choice for my armoured company. I magnetised the cuppola to make transporting the miniature easier.