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  • The Hobbit – Goblins

    The Hobbit – Goblins

    After I painted my first Goblin from the Goblin King Box by GW, Finarfin showed his colorful versions of the Goblins. This was an eye opener for me. Before that point I headed for darker and dirtier versions than those which could be seen in the movie. Personally I did not like the Games Workshop paint job as I found them to clean and to light. Finarfin showed the quality of the miniature design by simply adding Orc colors – and I mean Tolkien orc colors.

    These four version were painted by me recently because Glorfunzel and me played a game of LotR SAGA with lists from Frank Becker. This is really a fun to play and so those miniatures came again in my mind.

    The Hobbit - Goblins - Miniatures by Games Workshop painted by Tankred

    The Hobbit - Goblins - Miniatures by Games Workshop painted by Tankred

  • Fighting Uruk-hai Multibase for WotR or Impetus

    Fighting Uruk-hai Multibase for WotR or Impetus

    Uruk-hai Multibase painted by Tankred

    Uruk-hai Multibase painted by Tankred

    Uruk-hai Multibase painted by Tankred

    Uruk-hai Multibase painted by Tankred Uruk-hai Multibase painted by Tankred

    Currently I have a lot of fun to rebase some of my oldest miniatures with War of the Ring sized Multibases. I am sure that my technic will shock some players of WotR since I cannot remove the captain nor the banner bearer. However I don´t care about that. There will be Markers for this. For sure I will be able to put some single based miniatures, Saruman for instance, on the multibase.

    Far more important for me is, that I can collect from now on little battle scenes or dioramas. I always intendet to have a collection like this. I will be able to play skirmish in future as well since I own enough LotR miniatures.

    With this third Multibase I tried to model a rock or a tiny hill on the base in order to have the great Captain model, which I really like a lot, and the brand new banner bearer on top of that hill. The banner bearer was modified by me since I prefer paper made banners, as they look more realistic. The new model from the new Uruk-hai command is absolutely stunning since the pose looks very dramatic and realistic. The banner bearer walks up to a rock, which I did not use. But it profed perfect to be used on that hill. I painted this one yesterday whereas the other models date back to the year 2003 or 2004.

    A very simple conversion was a Uruk-hai killed by an Rohan spear. I simply drilled a hole in it and glued a spear on the model. However this simple conversion made a stunning effect.

    On this multibase I tried to have some of the Uruk-hai feet in the air to depict a dynamic state of an attack. These models were sculpted so good, that their look is really great when combined in a diorama.

  • Impetus phantasticus and War of the Ring Multibases

    Impetus phantasticus and War of the Ring Multibases

    Rohan infantry multibase

    Currently I am working on Multibases for my Rohan and Isengart armies in order to have a nicer look when playing War of the Ring or Impetus Phantasticus. I always had the idea that wargaming in Middle Earth should be done with a couple of Dioramas with battle scenes. Therefore I rebased some of my oldest miniatures in Impetus style, but in the size of War of the Ring bases, which only differs by some millimetres.

    The idea of using the relatively new gaming system Impetus for gaming in Middle Earth was inspired by this article at Geek Tactica. I had two test games with the rules and I am very pleased with the fast and interesting gameplay. I really hope to have more games like this in the future, since War of the Ring has some severe problems with duells and magic which are not the most interesting aspects of wargaming for me. However I do want to play more than one systems with these miniatures.

    Rebasing off the fat GW bases to the 1 mm thin plastic card with some additional rare earth magnets opened my eyes. Yes, this is the way I want to go in the future. I am thinking of interesting scenes and situations. For sure I will combine some bases with round flat based magnet bases in order to have some of the models variable for War of the Ring.

    Huge banners are absolutely important for me. I designed a triangular variant of the well known Rohan banner elements and built my own one only using paper and glue. The banner staff was made with Perry steel lances.

    In the last picture you can see how scenic basing goes together with my variant of flat magnet basing with WotR multibases. Since you only need one of these for the formation and I rarely use more than 16 Models in a Skirmish army of the same type this will work good for me when playing LotR, WotR and Impetus.

  • Finished army: My Easterlings

    Finished army: My Easterlings

    Tankred´s LotR Easterling army

    This image in bigger size.

    It´s done, finally. I painted a War of the Ring army for really a long time, now I am really fed up with Easterlings having painted the last Hero Options for this army of Middle Earth. I want to start with this family picture, later on I will write an documentation article on this army on our LotR page. However I am quite happy with the result although I cannot stand the GW plastic bases anymore. The company bases are even worse, therefore I built my own multibasing system.

    Now I can play War of the Ring. I did play twice with this army and was defeated in a really hard way. The magic bullshit with War of the Ring really drives me crazy. Moreover the heroic duell is broken, too. However in this army I have the means to use both, a third Ringwraith was recommended to me. But to be honest, I prefer to play with friends and a few magic (the gathering).

  • Barrows

    Barrows

    For our yearly German Lord of the Rings gaming Event on the Kauzenburg I decided this year to show up with a scenario from the Fellowship Hobby book – Fog on the barrow heights. Having painted all miniatures of the beautiful barrow height box, I decided to paint a barrow, which I bought via EBOB´s webshop. The centerpiece, which was excellent designed should be accompanied by more barrows.

    I decided to build some by myself. The building was quite easy, since I used some boards, a lot of modelling clay and real stone. I tried some special effect coming from the model train universe: I did hide a smoke generator in the last barrow. The effect came out quite nice, but the oil smells and the model is covered with oil. So it is noth worth the effort I think. Good idea, but not very practical.

    For applying the grass I used a Noch Grass Master, static grass comes out excellent with that kind of tools. The painting was nothing special.

    The design of the wood pieces proofed to be very good for LotR games, since the hills inside the wood make more of the trees and they block line of sight. For sure this will be the way to model 28mm woods in the future.

  • Rohan outriders for War of the Ring

    Rohan outriders for War of the Ring

    I never mentioned the war (of the Ring) on unfinished armies, although I am a passionate fan of LotR. Currently I am revisiting Rohan and Isengard. In 2003 I started with both armies and built up an 500 Points LotR Skirmish army. Rohan got in the game weaker and weaker and I was not able to play them well, although a polish Rohan army did win the Grand Tournament in Nottingham 2009. However I wasn´t that successful with rohan. However I always loved that army and War of the Ring was an excellent excuse to reboot the armycreation of Rohan. What I did not like about WotR was the height of the company bases. Therefore I built a flat version only using magnet bases, metal sheet and a multibase that I designed  using polyacryl profiles and sand. With this master I made resin bases and glued them to the metal sheet. The result works excellent although the height seems a little bit higher on the picture than in reality. More Eorlingas to come…