Mapper - Metal Elves

Harfoot · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2015 5:15 pm

I like it alot, what did you use for the plant growth?

Mapper · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2015 5:35 pm

Thanks everyone, thought the arches were too even for a ruin as I first built it looking to see how it would look for a bridge, so I took a pair of pliers and broke the ends some.

Harfoot, the vegetation is some dried lichen off a tree in my yard.

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:57 pm

Looks good. I mentioned the fences before. Well done!

Mapper · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:40 am

My poor scouts, they keep getting pushed off the hobby table. I've been doing table top standard painting them using a lot of browns as I just want a dark horde with their blades showing.

But unfortunately I was watching Born of Hope on Youtube and got interested in the orc attack on the village in the trees so of course I had to get out the tree set I had got at the Model Train show. Which led to looking at my Rohan buildings and realizing that one building on the stone base wouldn't work.

Luckily I had based it so I could remove the building for storage so I just did another base.

But then I decided that since I was doing another base I might as well build another building, a little different with more overhang and beam support.

Put the trees together, a little different looking trees but I was drawn to randomness of the limbs and the peg support. Didn't do the standard webbing and foliage on top but went for doing the material straight on the limbs.

Here are the Uruk-Hai done so far attacking the village.

Now (hopefully) back to painting more scouts. And cleaning my camera lens to get the spots off...

Dr Grant · **Joined:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:50 pm **Posts:** 1339

I love the Rohan houses! That's a really great looking little village you've got there!

LAG · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:57 pm

Scenery looks proffesionali and very well made, i can only motivate u to work on your painting skills more.
Go Forward!!!

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:48 am

Some lovely work on show here.

Mapper · **Posted:** Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:50 pm

Weather got warm enough to finish painting and basing my Uruk Hai Scouts - 72 plastic plus Lurtz and 3 metal from Breaking of the Fellowship.

After leaving the village in ruins...

The Uruk Hai continued through the forest...

Where they were met by the deadly Ro... force

Romans ! ? Sorry, had to give my Romans some loving, they have been patiently waiting for me to finish my Germans for them to fight.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:52 pm

How many figures ?
To be honest there were never enough Uruk v Legionaire battles.....

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:01 pm

The trees looks nice. The new buildings look good too

MacGothmog · **Posted:** Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:06 pm

That lichen thing you used for the ruin looks fantastic. Perfect scale!

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2015 7:43 am

I just looked through your stuff and I have to say, I'm very impressed. Keep up the great work. How did you do those trees, by the way?

mdauben · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2015 5:53 pm

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

How many figures ?
To be honest there were never enough Uruk v Legionaire battles.....

Before the LOTR movies, I always pictured Byzantine Roman troops as the model for Gondor's army.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2015 6:06 pm

looks great, rohan is coming alive!

Mapper · **Posted:** Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:58 pm

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Always wanted to do a roman vs orc battle. I bought enough Wargames Factory Romans to make a Century worth of Romans - never really got how impressive that might be until I had built them and set them up.

Wah Wing - the trees are from a Oregon, USA store called Coastmans (www.coastmans.com) - tapered wood with pegs that have random holes drilled into the trunk and different size branches to glue on. The foliage is just Woodland Scenics clump foliage of different shades glued right onto the branches.

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2015 6:22 am

Thanks for the link. The trees look great but they seem to be a bit high in price for me personally.

Mapper · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2015 2:29 am

Wah Wing - if you were looking at the finished trees, I agree that they are expensive. The tree kits themselves I thought were reasonable. Edit - they have increased prices and reduced the number of trees in the kit since I bought mine. In an earlier email to the company I found that they were having trouble sourcing the branches themselves so maybe that is why the reduction in quantity and increase in price. (sounds somehow familiar)

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2015 1:02 pm

What have the Rohans ever done for us?

Defended the Westfold. Sanitation. Education.

Mapper · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2015 5:21 pm

While waiting for an mailorder to come in, I went through my bits box. Found some old warhammer crossbows and bolts bags so I thought I would build a mounted crossbow.

I keep the spruces from the figures I buy so took an old finecast spruce, added some liquid greenstuff to give it texture and very quickly made a mounted crossbow.

Now to decide which faction gets it. Figure on the bag looks dwarvish, scrape it off and I could use it for Gondor or my Romans.

Mapper · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2015 1:19 am

Moria Madness is in full swing here. Besides my Durin's Stone project driving me crazy - still working on that - I have gone full throttle on doing Balin's expedition to Moria.

Bought the Moria mold from Keebler Studios http://keeblerstudios.com/?product=moria-mold and have started pouring plaster and having my food dehydrator going to cure the bricks.

Have bought some dwarves from GW and from Ebay.

Have raided my bits box and have several orders in at Ebay for miscellaneous items to make custom molds of to supplement the keebler molds.

Someone on these forums had mentioned Victoria Miniatures http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/ where they had bought capes. Didn't need capes but since I hadn't heard of them I went there and ended up buying some gear/bits they sell. Bought some ammo pouches and other bags for the dwarves. The gas canister I converted to a bed roll and back pack. Liked how it looked so I have another order in to finish outfitting the expedition.

Pictures show the different type of columns the mold makes (just dry fitted now) and the packs on the dwarves.

Not pictured is my wife in her chair shaking her head.

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