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!
The Rangers of Shadow Deep campaign has a few scenarios that call for gnoll enemies. Initially I was going to replace them with orcs as I didn't have any fitting minis. Then I saw the sprues of the Frostgrave Gnolls kit from Northstar Miniatures - which wasn't easy to find, as practically every store page (except the one I linked) only showed the front cover of the box. I really dislike how it isn't standard practice yet to show the box content (and if possible every sprue) on the store page. I want to know what I am buying, and the box art, while beautiful, doesn't help me at all. As the Frostgrave kits are very modular and mostly interchangeable, I used the opportunity as an excuse to buy a few of the other multipart kits as well. I now have a nice selection of different bits that I can use for future projects. I also decided to challenge myself a bit and practice my batch painting. Usually I only paint 5 miniatures at a time when I work on larger groups or regiment...
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...
This is another project I did roughly two years ago. I was playing through the core book campaign of Rangers of Shadow Deep and needed a flesh golem for one of the scenarios. I had a few options in my pile of shame, but I chose this one since it was already primed and ready to go. It's also quite big and fits the theme really well. The fly-arm is probably one of the giant flies that the warband will encounter in a later scenario and I like to imagine that the gnoll shaman just stitched random parts together to see if it would work. I also got a better photo setup by buying a really cheap lightbox. The difference is enormous. Look at this lovingly disgusting model. It's one of the Gellerpox Infected from the Kill Team Rogue Trader box set from Games Workshop, and I absolutely love it. It has great details like the maggots and flies in the wounds, and the exaggerated features were a joy to paint. I've always been quite intimidated by large areas of skin. Stark highl...