Starting the Arnor Battle Company and kreepy Gribblies

Time was at a premium this week and thus I only finished one miniature. But I also prepared some more figures to paint in the coming weeks.

Pict 366: Warrior of Arnor

Pict 367: Warrior of Arnor

The miniature I painted this week is this Warrior of Arnor. He'll be a proof-of-concept to test out my colour scheme. It was a bit difficult to get to grips with the creative freedom for the livery - Tolkien didn't say mutch at all about them and so I was able to come up with my own. I used the established Númenor and Minas Tirith schemes and also used mainly black. To add in a splash of colour I went for a dark red - I really like the combination and use it in many of my armies such as my Noldorim. I experimented with this one as well and tried my hand at the woodstructure on the back of the shield. I like the effect I achived, but the surface should be really smooth - here I had to work on a moldline before adding the lines. The warrior was converted a little bit and got himself a single feather on his helmet to denote that he'll be one of the Sargents of my Battle Company.

Pict 368: Giant Spiders (eBob)

On the modelling front, I built three more Giant Spiders by eBob. Two out of the three went together really well, but the last one was a pain... I broke of five of the legs during posing it on it's rock - one of the legs even broke twice. But with patience, I got there in the end.
They'll see use as Mirkwood Spiders in SBG and I'll hopefully will get to use them with Dungeons and Dragons in the future as well. My group kinde fizzled out, but I'm to blame for that as well as the shortage of time to prepare adventures. But I hope to get back onto that horse as soon as the opportunity presents itself.