Painting - GW Mordor Orcs

  This week's entry is twenty five GW Mordor orcs. They are a combination of plastic and metal and include two of the ooooold metal orc models from when the line was first started, now re-purposed as captains. 

First up, painted as Isengard orcs.

Painting - 12 Riders of Rohan

  My entry for this week continues my work on Rohan. This entry is 12 riders for last week's heroes to command.

They look pretty impressive all ranked up together.

These are the core of my Rohan force.

Painting - Rohan guards and heroes

  This week's entry is Rohan Royal Guards, captains and Eomer. I've had these models bouncing around for about 20 years, so it's good to get them painted and ready to play. 

Eomer, banner bearer, outrider and mounted captain.

(Painting) Lord of the Rings, wharg riders and Radagast

  This entry is six wharg riders to go with Sharku from last week. These are, technically, Hunter Orcs, which are Hobbit armies not Isengard, but GW had a gap in production of the normal whargs so I had to buy these.

Six of these dudes.

Painting - Challenge XV - Sharku

This is my first entry of the 15th Challenge. This is not the first thing I've painted since last spring, just the first that I've photographed and posted. 

Rhys picked this model out for me as my first model of the Challenge. I've wanted Sharku for years but could never find him in metal; only fine-crap (Finecast, a misnomer if there's ever been one). Last December ('22) I was in the UK and made it to Warhammer World and they had Sharku in metal. Problem solved.

Sharku, Champion of Orcthanc.

Hobby - Wargames Bingo - Another square

The only up-side to me painting the Rebel Speeder when I did is that I get to check off another box in the Hobby Bingo. In this case, I got the model and got it painted in 48 hours. That's probably a record for me, and this was a lot more model than I needed to check the box, but there you go.

Painting - Rebel Land Speeder for Star Wars Legions

This entry is a rebel land speeder for Star Wars Legion, from Fantasy Flight Games.

Painting - Giant Tarantulas for Rangers of Shadow Deep

This entry is more giant spiders for Rangers of Shadow Deep. These are from one of the Dungeons and Dragons board games that I bought years ago to ease Rhys into gaming.

Painting - Giant spiders for Rangers of Shadow Deep

This entry is six giant spiders from the Nolzur's line of D&D minis.

Painting - Abyssal Dwarves from Mantic

Here are three more models from Rhys' Abyssal Dwarf force for Kings of War. He got the starter army for his birthday, in December. I was able to get the unit of slave orcs painted before his birthday, but the task master and his "dog" had to stay hidden since he would have known what they were.

Painting - Zombie re-paints

I just finished off two re-paints of two pre-painted Wizkids D&D zombies. Rhys likes to buy the blind buy boxes of the D&D miniatures and sometimes he gives me the ones he doesn't want or thinks I need.

Painting - Fireforge zombies for Rangers of Shadow Deep

This post is six of the new zombies from Fireforge games. I got them as part of the kickstarter for their not-Stark fantasy army fighting undead.

Six zombies. That village had a rough day.

Painting - Thingol the "Barbarian" for Rangers of Shadow Deep

This post is Rob Stark's dire wolf from A Song of Ice and Fire by Cool Mini or Not. I got two of the starter set for less than half price each, so I have an extra wolf.

Thingol is a giant wolf with the stats of a barbarian.

Painting - Giant Flies for Rangers of Shadow Deep

This post is for another set of monsters for Rangers of Shadow Deep. This is five giant flies, key monsters for one of the scenarios, and guest stars in some others. I believe that I will force our rangers to traverse the stairs on every trip in and out of the deep, so these will always have a place on the table.

Five giant flies.

Gaming - Rangers of Shadow Deep - The first scenario

Last weekend the boys and I played our second game of Rangers of Shadow Deep, though we just played the first scenario a second time. We each had a ranger and two companions. There were a couple of times things got tense, but nine of us seemed to make short work of the zombies, rat swarms and giant bugs that had infested the village.

Starting positions

Painting - Giant Beetles - Reaper Bones for Rangers of Shadow Deep

Here's two giant beetles for Rangers of Shadow Deep. Again, like the rat swarm and giant ticks, these are stand ins for the giant rats, which I have just found.

Painting - Giant Ticks for Rangers of Shadow Deep (Reaper Bones)

This entry is two giant ticks from Reaper Miniatures Bones series. I painted these up for Rangers of Shadow Deep when I couldn't find my giant rat miniatures (GW Skaven), though I've now found both the giant rats and some ROUSs (Rodent's of Unusual Size) that I will get painted and on the table.

Painting - Han Solo for Star Wars Legion

Here's Han Solo, from Fantasy Flight Games, for Star Wars Legion. He's one of the commanders for the Rebel army (duh) and also a very nice model.

Background - Rangers of Shadow Deep

Arbach was called to the Captain's tent in the middle of the night. The Border Legion had been re-positioned to the Laurentian frontier after the fall of that kingdom to the Shadow Deep. The march had taken three weeks, followed by two more spent absorbing new recruits and learning the new area of operations.

Alledore. The town of Vikra is half way between the capital and the Laurentian border.

Gaming - Rangers of Shadow Deep

Last weekend the boys and I played our first game of Rangers of Shadow Deep (RoSD). This is a game from the author of Frostgrave, Joseph A. McCullough. The game came out in 2018, and I bought the rules, models and an expansion at that time, but the work on the basement meant that we couldn't get it on the table until now.