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Sunday 11 May 2014

Wargs!

It's been a while. Sorry for my lack of posts. Hobby stuff has been slow recently, although I've managed a few games of X Wing, including trying it out on Vassal. My Rebel Transport arrived on Friday. The model is fantastic and the rules look great. I managed to get an epic game at Garrison on Wednesday, although we were too ambitious about the game size and didn't finish it. However, the X Wing pilots are excellent.

In LOTR I've finished up Sharku and 9 warg riders. The metal warg riders are great sculpts, although there are loads of odd bits on their backs that I wasn't sure how to paint as I didn't know what they were!


My next project is the old metal orcs. These were amazing models and it is a real shame they have been discontinued. They have so much character and look like a right mob.


This coming weekend is the Triples show in Sheffield. I'll try and get some photos.


6 comments:

  1. Where in the world did you find the old metal orcs? I have been looking all over for those models. I suspect an annoyingly mundane answer like "ebay"...

    On another, but similar note, I believe that Sharku was just recently discontinued and is now officially OOP. They've actually discontinued a lot of old metal models (or "finecast", as some of them were transformed/transfigured into) I noticed when I did a truly autistic Excel-sheet with all my models and compared prices etc against the GW-homepage :I

    Anyways, the painting looks nice, although the image quality is nearing the quality of the pics I normally upload, hehe!

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    1. Thanks Llama. Sorry about the image quality, I forgot to wipe the lens on my phone. Doh!

      To answer your question about the orcs, yes they were collected over several years of eBay auctions. I'm still missing 2 of the poses, but it felt the right time to paint them.

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    2. Ah, it was the old bay of e:s, then!

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  2. Nice job. I have the Sharku set, and some metal orcs though all still in the to-do pile...

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    1. ...btw, I know what you mean about the backs of the riders - all kinds of weird looking stuff there...

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  3. Thanks Scott, also good to know it' snot just me who thinks they are a bit odd. I'm looking forward to seeing yours painted up. I guess it will be when you and Chris get to the Two Towers scenarios!

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