"Aye, I Could Do That."

"I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an Elf."

"What about side by side with a friend?"

"...Aye. I could do that."

Who doesn't love Gimli and Legolas? In an attempt to clear the decks before the Christmas loot arrives, I'm trying to tidy up some loose ends this week. Part of this was finishing off my little mini-fellowship. 

It actually turned out to be quite hard to find photo references for Gimli in his Fellowship outfit without the Elven cloak so I had to watch a couple of clips and take a best guess. 

In other Middle Earth news, I built up painted the last set of the Ruins of Osgiliath:

As I said in my previous post you simply cannot beat that for £40. The three sets easily create a setting for a 4x4 skirmish. Throw in some scatter and vegetation and you're done.

I am currently trying to resist the temptation to buy the Laketown House. The multipack is a touch more expensive, but you don't half get some scenery for your money. 

 As a final bit of housekeeping I based up the Dragon - the building of which is detailed exhaustively here - but when it was done, I found that that with dragon being green and the base also being earth tones, it needed something to make it pop.

Enter the snow effect I looked at earlier. 

As sort of scatter terrain, it breaks up with the green enough to do the job. There's still something missing here so I thick I'm going to have to come back to this one again.

And finally, you may recall that my Eldest son has adopted two orc warg riders as his favourite toys. So, as it's the season of goodwill, I've been keeping an eye on ebay.

12 second hand warg riders + 1 four-year boy = happiness:

So I guess I have those to paint up before Christmas. 

Dex Aie!

"God is with us!"

The cry of the Normans as they charged up Senlac Ridge in October 1066 under the Papal banner; and looking at this little lot you can imagine it is true. If I saw them charging toward me, I would be having fairly severe doubts about whose side the Almighty was on. 

The first unit. 

The second unit. 

All of them together. 

There's still 4 four on the sprues; you can't complain about the value of the conquest miniatures. 

There was also the casualty marker which I had a great deal of fun with: 

Before gore; the guts painted in honour of the Tauntaun. 

In other news, the Eldest continues to enjoy his Dungeon crawls and has developed a love of Warg Riders; so current work in progress:

Highlighting and detail left but I'll take care of that for him tomorrow.