Warriors of Dale finished

Painting Challenge 2016: Results

Thanks everybody for participating and congratulations for the great entries.
Here're the final results

Galadriel - Luca Riva

Tauriel - Werner Kellens

Eowyn - Steven Beckett

A big thanks for the jury: +CorvusMiniatures +Randy Blood +D.M.S Dead Marsh Spectre +SBG Magazine

All entries

Ori

"That's why we need a burglar!"

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Tauriel, Mirkwood Exile

"It is our fight. It will not end here."

I finished Tauriel, Mirkwood Exile. She's my entry for our Painting Challenge.

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Radagast the Brown on Sleigh: 2nd in 2016 TLA Painting Competition

Radagast the Brown on Sleigh got the second place in the 2016 TLA Painting Competition.

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WIP Painting Challenge: Tauriel

WIP photos of my entry for our Painting Challenge: Tauriel, Mirkwood Exile

4 Warriors of Dale finished

I finished the first 4 Warriors of Dale. I really enjoyed painting them and I love the details on these plastics.

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Entry Painting Challenge: Tauriel

Here's my entry for our Painting Challenge: Tauriel, Mirkwood Exile

Radagast the Brown on Sleigh

I finished Radagast the Brown on Sleigh.

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Corvus' Miniatures

We’ve a great partnership with Corvus' Miniatures:

aaaah Corvus... Yesss. Miniatures need painting...  right? And for that our fellowship attracted the very best in a wide area. Corvus aka Gerrie supports our hobby by providing all important painting tips and tools on his website and vlog, judging services in our annual painting competition and even exclusive workshops for members.

http://www.corvusminiatures.com/

Some of his great Hobbit miniatures:

Oberonn

We’ve a great partnership with Oberonn:

Our local game store and structural sponsor. Oberonn provides us with a great place to fight our (miniature) battles, scenery and support in promoting the fellowship. Oberonn’s crew-of war has a high rate of availability and is more than happy to help with different gaming systems. They’re our third home (1=Home, 2=Middle Earth, 3=Oberonn ;-))

https://www.facebook.com/Oberonn-177938302399358/?fref=ts

http://www.oberonn.be/

Parva Mundi

We’ve a great partnership with Parva Mundi.

Parva Mundi creates and designs miniature landscapes and castles. As a club, we build scenery together with our other partner Oberonn (our local game store) and have the same goal as Parva Mundi and that is to build worlds for playing The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit Strategy Battle game.

So keep following our blog for future (scenery) updates and of course follow Parva Mundi: https://www.facebook.com/Parva-Mundi-559692587514085/

Here’re some creations from Parva Mundi

Desktop update November 2015

In November I finished Aragorn (Pelennor) and Gundabad Orcs, see photos below. And I mainly continued working on Radagast the Brown on Sleigh:

Gundabad Orcs

This week I finished the Gundabad Orcs (including captain). I initially bought these miniatures to expand my Azog's hunters army but when I opened the blisters, I really liked the models.

Games Workshop Specialist Games Studio - A new home for Hobbit LOTR SBG?

A great video from GBHL (James), summarizes everything nicely together!

Battle at the Mines of Oberonn report by Coen Uyl

Thanks Coen Uyl for the report! 
Source http://www.gwhobby.net/forum/index.php?topic=20740.0 (in Dutch)

Afgelopen weekend ben ik naar Belgisch Limburg afgedaald om daar mee te doen aan Battle at the mines of Oberonn. Een door The Fellowship of Miniatures georganiseerd 600 punten toernooi. Ik had Mordor bij mij met morannons, de Witch King en een warband orc trackers.

De eerste pot was tegen Jasper (Morbal hier op het forum). We wilden al tijden eens een keer tegen elkaar spelen en vandaag kwam het er eindelijk van. Jasper had een hele zwik aan hobbits o.l.v. Tom Bombadil en het scenario was Domination (5 objectives claimen met een meerderheid). Ik claimde meteen mijn 3e objective bovenop de toren.



De hobbit linie met rechts achterin een heel contingent boogschutters.

Painting Challenge 2015: all entries

Thanks everybody for entering the competition. We've less entries then last year but the level has gone up! Congratulations everybody!

(Random order)

• Pieter Commerman - Cave Drake

• Chris Cocklin - Troll

• Stefaan Fabri - Radagast the Brown on Great Eagle

• Manolo Cobano - Great Beast of Gorgoroth

• Dylan Cloosen - The Watcher in the Water

• Werner Kellens - Winged Nazgûl

For more pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/huSm1kh1H4uKakiq5

Counting the collection

My time as a student has come to an end. I moved out of my studio to our new apartment, my fiancee and me. I finally have a decent space to store all of my lotr stuff :D. I cataloged my entire collection just last year, but after a while I lost track, due to the lack of space and the rising amount of miniatures. All the moving and unboxing, together with a brand new built Ikea table made the perfect opportunity to catalogue the collection once again. I took some pictures of the process.

All my unboxed miniatures

 From the other side of the table:

Desktop update August 2015

In august I finished the Winged Nazgûl:

I also got some great birthday presents (thanks to my girlfriend and the children):

Gold... gold beyond measure... (first update smaug)

I started working on the big guy. It took me already 2 days to clean up and assemble him including all the greenstuffing. I kept him in 4 separate pieces (wings, base, body) to be able to paint him decently.

Afterwards, I started on the base. That took me another day and the pillars, the arkenstone and bilbo still need to be done. But I'm really satisfied with how the treasure is looking! It really is a fantastic miniature with amazing detail, and an almost perfect cast.