The White Rider

They all gazed at him. His hair was white as snow... and gleaming white was his robe; the eyes under his deep brows were bright... power was in his hand. Between wonder, joy, and fear they stood and found no words to say.

At last Aragorn stirred. 'Gandalf!' he said. 'Beyond all hope you return to us in our need!'....

'Gandalf,' the old man repeated, as if recalling from old memory a long disused word. 'Yes, that was the name. I was Gandalf.'.... 

'Get up, my good Gimli! No blame to you, and no harm done to me. Indeed my friends, none of you have any weapon that could hurt me. Be merry! We meet again. At the turn of the tide. The great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.'....

[The] Dwarf looked up and laughed suddenly. 'Gandalf!' he said. 'But you are all in white!'

'Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf.

One of my main Christmas presents this year was the fabulous new sculpt of Gandalf the White from GW. As with Theoden this was so nice it was worth spending the extra time on.

Both the foot and mounted version were painted up from grey. I basecoated the cloak on both beige, so that there were different tones of white involved.

It think this was worth the effort expended.

Drums In The Deep

As promised, decent photos of Gandalf.


And yes, I know I stuffed up with eyes.

The cloak was done the same as Saruman, with a building up of glazes over traditional highlight to give a softer gradation of colour.


As I was on, I did the same thing with the Cave troll.





Oh, and I also tidied up the last bit of the TARDIS as well.

Bits and pieces

Starting on the various elements of the Middle Earth haul, I first considered the Witch King of Angmar. As much as I love the design aesthetic of the films, that bloody stupid mace was deeply annoying. So it was with quite a sigh of relief that I noted the one I had was broken off.

A rummage around the bits box turned up various swords and other bits and pieces but then I saw this.

It looks totally unsuitable. But I have a plan. 

So the snips and files came out...

And so did the glue. You can also see the greenstuff I used to smooth out the join on the left arm. 

While faffing on with that I also blocked in some colour on Gandalf and used a couple of glazes to add some shade and light to the various greys of his outfit. 

And then looked at the Cave Troll. One of the joys of large figures if you're as cack-handed as I am is that it's pretty much the only time one can indulge in some proper wet blending. 

I also finished off the Bloodbowl team so I can take pictures this weekend. All in all, a productive start to the weekend. 

Huzzah!