After a very busy week trying to frantically finish my Amon Hen terrain and a reasonable amount of Uruks, I managed to meet the deadline with 31 painted evil warriors (including Lurtz & four casualties) and apart from a couple of details, complete terrain. In the end, I had no time to detail the boats with backpacks, oars etc, and I did not paint the dying Boromir. Instead, I had the horn-blowing version, which prompted me to insert a small speaker and an iPod into the crypt, sounding the Horn of Gondor every five minutes or so. I will post work-in-progress photos tomorrow, but I won't keep you waiting any more for the pics of the finished piece. Without further ado, here you go - my version of Amon Hen, photographed at the model show (hence the people in the background):
I distributed the Fellowship models around the terrain - Frodo is running towards the boats near the shore.
...and Sam is not far behind Frodo running also towards the shore:
Boromir, Merry and Pippin fight with several Uruks nearby:
...while Gimli and Legolas slay enemies nearer the Seeing Seat around the ruins.
Aragorn has killed three Uruks next to the Seeing Seat.
This pic shows the cliff south of the Seeing Seat. I attached some screen shots from the film to the side panels for people not remembering the films by heart (e.g. the stairs go by quite fast in the movie).
The mid-section with the half-buried head:
Backside of the staircase:
Lurtz on the bridge, taking an aim at Boromir:
"Quick, Frodo, hide here" - a hobbit hidey-hole up the hill from the bridge:
...and the results of the show:
The first prize in the category "others" (Tampere model show has plenty of categories for car models, military models, and aircraft; two categories for figures, one for dioramas, one for ships, and one for anything else - which is where I put Amon Hen)... and the model was also voted by the visitors as Best of Show (a.k.a. grammatically incorrect "Peoples choice" award)! Hope you like it, too - more WIP photos tomorrow.
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It captures the movie perfectly, even down to the details such as the 'hobbit hidey-hole' 
I have followed this thread for quite a while, but never commented, as, to be honest, I have no words in my vocabulary to praise you and your work enough. That first place trophy and the 'people's choice' award are most well deserved 
Truly magnificent work you've done there! 
