These past two weeks I managed to finish the last few miniatures I needed for the armies I'm going to bring to the national Middle-earth SBG championship this coming weekend. I also painted some more miniatures for the Hassassin Sectorial of my Haqqislam army.
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| Pict 717: Rangers of the North Army |
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| Pict 718: Hunter Orc Army |
Here are the two armies I decided upon for this coming weekend: the Dúnedain led by Aragorn and Halbarad, both on horseback, Halbarad with the Banner of Arwen Evenstar. I really like how they all look together as a group an look forward to getting to shoot some evil-doers.
The evil army again is a variation on the hunter orc theme - Bolg, Fimbul, Yazneg and Narzug leading a host of two attack orcs on foot. Only thing I'm missing is a banner and maybe a hornblower. I missed the latter during a game trying them out against Mirkwoodelves lead by Thranduil, who made them all terrifying. The orcs have such a low morale that I wasn't able to charge into batte and had to get picked apart one by one...
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| Pict 719: Halbarad (Banner, Horse) |
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| Pict 720: Halbarad (Banner, Horse) |
This guy really came together nicely. The banner looks very much imposing (I don't quite kow how he can manage to stay atop his horse with any wind, but never mind that). And with him done I now have paited all the miniatures I own for the Rangers of the North armylist and I look forward to using him in some games!
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| Pict 721: Arnor Bannerbearer and Captain |
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| Pict 722: Arnor Bannerbearer and Captain |
Whilst paiting Halbarad on foot, I also managed to finish these two models that were missing for my Arnor force. Since I primarily built them for Battle Companies it's not really a force, but nevertheless these two will now bolster my ranks. I had
started to paint them when I painted the Rangers of the North but didn't finish them until now. It's always a good feeling to
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| Pict 723: Hassassin Fiday, Hassassin Muyib |
And here are some more Hassassin miniatures – I decided upon this sectorial for the secod escalation league I'm part of. I somehow managed to win both of my first games and now find myself on top of the table. That pits me against the two best players in the league and I'm sure after that I'll find myself back at the lower end of the table again. The Muyib with Spitfire already did some amazing work while the Fiday pretty much only let herself shot in the back by Senor Massacre who had picked up a Multi Sniper from a panoply.
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| Pict 724: Ghulam Infantry (WIP) |
Lastly a quick WIP of some more Haqqislam miniatures. The Ghulam with Panzerfaust will likely be used as a Daylami with the same loadout to destroy some high armoured targets. The other Ghulam will be a gift to my friend who is organising the league as a birthday present – he wanted to get some linetroops of every army to use as impersonation markers with his aliens and that to me sounded like a great idea!
I just realised that Rangers were the (high?) men of Arnor and weren't invented by D&D originally, although you could use these in either game :) They look great and sexy Hassassins too!
ReplyDeleteThanks! "Yeah, those Rangers are strange folk for sure. Older than one might think."
DeleteHow did you mount up the Halbarad metal model? It is amazing
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's simply the foot model with the right arm slightly repositioned and a big part between the legs cut away. I then put him on Bandobras' horse and filled in the gaps with putty (mainly cloth - that's easiest to sculpt). You can see a picture of the step before the putty in the post before this one from 18/08/2019!
DeleteCheers, I bagged the model on Ebay earlier and Google led me here, very inspiring!
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