Arise, arise, riders of Rohan! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered! A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor!
This is a project I did last year, and the rest of my Battle Company projects would sadly have to take a backseat to other things in my life. I hesitated in posting these minis on here because I'm not really proud of the result. The models are small, mono-pose, and riddled with manufacturing defects. I wasn't looking forward to painting them, and it shows in the rushed end result. It was one of those "Just get it done and table-ready" kind of projects. After giving it some thought, I especially want to post these kinds of projects in the future. Mistakes and unsatisfying results are part of the hobby, and I want to present my (relatively) unfiltered hobby experiences on this blog. Moria Starting Battle Company
This is a project I did last year, and the rest of my Battle Company projects would sadly have to take a backseat to other things in my life. The Lord of the Rings is by far the most influential franchise of my childhood. The books absolutely blew my mind as a child and made me realize how incredible reading can be. The movie trilogy is still my favorite to this day, and I regularly rewatch them each year. It's no wonder then that 'The Two Towers' box for the Lord of the Rings miniatures game was my entry into the tabletop hobby. I vividly remember standing in front of my (tiny) local Games Workshop and staring at the Uruk-Hai and Rohan miniatures in the window display. The box was insanely expensive for me at the time, but it was more than worth it, for it opened the door to this beautiful hobby. I wasn't yet aware that I was colorblind, so I didn't realize that it wasn't normal to not see the difference of the Scorched Brown Uruk-Hai skin on the Chaos Black pr...