GOTHMOG MOUNTED ON WARG CHIEFTAIN

To give my army a leader who both looked impressive and intimidating and could act as a force to be reckoned with, I chose Gothmog. Trouble is, I wasn’t satisfied with any of the individual models GW brought out for him, so I decided to make customize my own. As soon as the Warg Chieftain, or Alpha Warg model came out, I knew I had to have an Orc hero mounted on him. So that’s what I did. I've never seen it done before, so I'm actually quite proud of this one.

The model below is made up of the Warg Chieftain model and Gothmog Pelennor version, which comes with a different warg. The warg itself was made to look more dynamic by basing his already sculpted base on some slate from the garden, this gave it extra height and more balance.  A saddle and strap had to be made so Gothmog could sit comfortably on him. Finally after some green stuff around the joints and sawing a small section of mane off, he was ready. This is the result…

And just to show how intimidating he looks, I posed him next to an average height Osgiliath Veteran of mine. Huge.

And of course, no mounted model would be complete without the separate models. The warg acts quite nicely as a Wild Alpha Warg in certain scenarios.

THE FELLOWSHIP

One of the first things I wanted to paint after getting back into the hobby was the Fellowship I got in the Mines of Moria box. After 3 years of collecting orcs, I wanted to try my hands on something good. I was surprised I hadn’t lost my painting ability, and it didn’t take too long to familiarize myself with the tricks of the trade. Here’s the results.

This is my favourite model of Boromir. I love the dynamic pose GW have managed to get with him. Comparatively these are my least favourite Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli models. I’m always fond of the Gandalf models.

The hobbit models are great, and are great additions to any collection or scenario. My favourite hobbit from this set has to be Sam, with the string of sausages on his back, whilst wielding a frying pan! I painted Frodo with Sting, as I always wondered why GW never showed that very well when they painted him. He is after all going to be fighting orcs more often than not in a scenario. I even made a separate model for him when he's wearing the ring. I quite like this one.