Wednesday 16 February 2022

Mordor reinforcements


I have to admit that I neither play nor paint that much these days. I think it was late summer or autumn of last year when the dice were last rolled. On the painting side, it’s very infrequent and sporadic. Having said that, I did manage recently to knock out this troll, which I had converted some months back. 

For the palette, I ignored any film references and went to the original source, the books. Trolls are described as black skinned with red eyes, so that was my main aim. I did consider black armour too, but thought it might look too much against the skin, so settled on a dark metallic look. 

I have also cobbled together a unit that will play as linebreakers in games of Oathmark, if we ever return to it. These are troops that are heavily armoured and typically armed with double handed weapons. The models are old metal orcs that I picked up on a forum marketplace I think. They have been lying in my cupboard for a good while, I had intended to strip them and repaint them to fit in with my style, but in the end I glazed over a few washes to remove the zingy colours of the previous owner. They fit in well enough, the front and centre figure is the orc commander that I painted years ago. The rear rank is plastic Mordor orcs, armed with great weapons they make decent enough rear rank filler fodder. They will, of course, be useful in games of Erehwon, Rampant and other skirmish system.


Here’s a head on photo of the troll, you might be able to make out the red gleam of his eyes under that helmet. Let’s hope he gets to lumber on to a battlefield at some point.


7 comments:

demi_morgana said...

This is so badass! 😍
Looking at your LotR stuff I kinda regret I've never gave this game a chance. Those evil-doers look just so darn cool...

Marc said...

As much as I love LotR, I've never had any particular urge to game in that world. But seeing minis painted up like this makes me wonder...

Nord said...

Same here, at the time I was very wrapped up in WHFB and always considered LotR as lesser somehow. They were so cheap too, they were practically given away on eBay. If only…..but I am glad to have picked some up since and the sculpts really stand the test of time. I think many of them were made by the Perry twins, which explains a lot.

Michael Awdry said...

Stunning work!

Rodor said...

We're not big fans of GW's LotR miniatures, as they're modeled too closely to film rendering ... That said, your troll is a great example of how a miniature can be customized and brought back to the literary original. The armour and skin tone are very successful: would you give us some indication of how you achieved the burnished effect of the armour?

Paintsquig1980 said...

Perfect color palette! Those rusty metals look crazy good!

Pepe said...

Realy nice painting job!

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